‘Marvel Rivals’ Is Making Ultron a Lean, Mean, Healing Machine

Marvel Rivals has had a bit of a support problem in its latest season. Amid the glitz and glamor of Emma Frost’s arrival and the Hellfire Gala, the hero shooter’s sophomore season aimed to try and reign in a meta that had seen the game’s cast of strategists—the healing and support heroes in the game’s riff on the classic Tank/Healer/DPS triangle—become dominantly powerful, with balance updates that saw support characters face longer cooldowns, smaller health pools, and even a rebalancing of how the game weighted support contributions to end-of-match rewards. That and the general hero-shooter-reputation of support players feeling undervalued by their teams caused a lot of ire (and even calls for a strike), to the point that developer NetEase began reverting some of the tweaks it made. But while those have somewhat calmed the ire of angsty strategist mains, it seems like they’re getting a big bone thrown to them with Rivals‘ latest addition, Ultron, a strategist who seemingly asks: aren ... Read full article.