Marvel Rivals has been on a roll lately, with a massively successful Season 1. The update brought with it multiple additions, including bug fixes and optimizations – along with a total of 4 new heroes.
The Fantastic Four joined Marvel Rivals in their entirety for Season 1, and developer Netease Games still has a lot more planned for the future of the game. One probable character could, however, tip the scales for Wolverine of all characters – assuming that their interaction is implemented properly.
Fan imagines Ant-Man in Marvel Rivals
As detailed within a Reddit post on the r/marvelrivals subreddit, Ant-Man could be a very cool addition to Marvel Rivals.This concept comes courtesy of user u/LOOWEEpsd, who has also graciously shared concept art and gameplay stills of the Avenger in action.
This is how I imagine Ant-Man in Marvel Rivals!
byu/LOOWEEpsd inmarvelrivals
Of particular interest here, would be Ant-Man’s usage of his powers. After all, the Avenger can shrink down or enlarge himself to gain a tactical advantage during battles, and this could lead to some curious interactions.
For example, shrinking down would allow Ant-Man to avoid incoming fire, and slip by unnoticed – at the expense of being stomped on by the enemy team. Conversely, on account of Ant-Man going full Godzilla mode, he would have a lot more physical strength and DPS – at the extreme cost of mobility (and being a large scale target).
Admittedly, while impressive, the concept might need a few more tweaks to be implemented in the full retail version of the game – after all, the character must be balanced accordingly so as to not be extremely over or under powered.
A great way to deal with this might be to ‘lock’ the character in giant form – where they cannot receive heals or contest in any way possible. Regardless, it’s a fun little concept, and how Netease Games could include the character remains up for speculation.
Teaming up with Ant-Man could make Wolverine a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield
Character team ups are quite popular in Marvel Rivals, and a shared ultimate with Wolverine might give both characters the edge they need. A great way to have these characters interact with each other, would be to have Ant-Man launch Wolverine at insane throwing speeds toward the target.
This ‘fastball special’ would have Wolverine lunging, claws out at the enemy with successive rapid strikes – thereby dealing a ton of damage in the process. This would be a lot similar to the interaction between Hulk and Wolverine currently, but Netease has to (obviously) make a few tweaks in order to differentiate between the two moves.
An easy way to deal with this would be to have the team-up have an actual advantage, (given how useless the throw with Hulk currently is) so that players use it a lot more often. To be clear, Wolverine is already pretty deadly on his own, it is just that his team ups are a lot less useful than they should really be.
With Ant-Man though, things could change – but only if Netease takes a more tactical approach. The team up needs to be a lot more seamless, and provide buffs to Wolverine in the process – making him even more of a threat than the Weapon X project made him out to be.
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