In Marvel Rivals, you can be the best player in the lobby, but sometimes, that’s not enough. This can happen with any of the three roles in the game. That’s why teamwork matters in hero-shooters. No role and character is a better example of this than the tank The Thing, whose effectiveness depends entirely on proper team support.
As a frontline tank, The Thing can initiate fights, disrupt enemy formations, and protect allies. However, without backup, he becomes an easy target. And that’s something we need to remember about the game. No amount of personal skill can make up for bad teamwork. So remember that in your games!
The Thing teaches us a good lesson in Marvel Rivals
The Thing is designed to be a frontline tank who initiates fights, disrupts enemy positioning, and protects his teammates. But one thing we need to remember is that his entire playstyle is dependent on having teammates who understand their roles. And that is exactly what a Reddit user recently posted about.
The Thing is extremely useless if your team refuses to push up with you
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The Thing’s Yancy Street Charge ability lets him speed right into the frontline of fights. You can knock enemies and disrupt their positioning to make an opening for your team to take advantage. And that is exactly where things can go wrong. As u/No_Willingness_9961 says, “The Thing is extremely useless if your team refuses to push up with you.”
The problem isn’t that The Thing is weak, it’s that without support, he has no escape and becomes an easy target for the enemy team. Tanking in Marvel Rivals is a thankless job when teammates don’t understand their role. Many players complain that players often ignore the objectives and leave their tanks to fight alone.
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Reddit user u/firesaiyan12 chimed in on the discussion, saying “I shouldn’t be the only one trying to get on the objective regardless of what class I play.” Without a team that coordinates, even the best tanks become liabilities rather than assets. A tank alone is just a bigger target, especially in Marvel Rivals.
It’s not a solo game people, pay attention to your team!
This also leads into the fact that one of the biggest problems in Marvel Rivals is that too many players treat it like a deathmatch rather than an objective-based shooter. And this is especially true in how players pick team compositions. A lot of people just pick DPS heroes and often cause team comps to be unbalanced.
We get that the developers at NetEase don’t want to add a dedicated role queue to prioritize player fun, but this also kinda makes it un-fun in a way. Unlike other tanks like Venom or Hulk with better sustain, The Thing works better near teammates. If you want to help a The Thing player out, other members of the Fantastic Four like Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman are actually pretty good.
One of the unwritten rules of Marvel Rivals is understanding your role. Players who ignore teamwork ruin matches, no matter how skilled they are. You might not know it but that could be you. So the next time you queue up, don’t just focus on your own plays, look at the bigger picture. Because in Marvel Rivals even the best player is nothing without their team.
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