Marvel Rivals Fans Hate Season 1.5’s Iron Man Buffs

Marvel Rivals has now entered Season 1.5, which means we’re all getting used to the new buffs, nerfs, and heroes that will have undoubtedly shaken up the game’s meta considerably. We already know that healer ults have been nerfed pretty dramatically, hopefully in an attempt to kneecap the triple support meta, but a lot of players are now seeing how existing characters have been tweaked.

One such character that seems to be causing a lot more bother than usual is Iron Man. Before the balance update, Iron Man saw minimal use outside of his team-up with Hulk, so NetEase decided to give him a damage boost to try and coax more players into picking him. With Human Torch looking like a better Iron Man in almost every way, he needed something to stop his pick rate tanking.

Marvel Rivals Fans Hate Season 1.5’s Iron Man Buffs

Unfortunately, just like with Moon Knight before him, NetEase appears to have gone too far in the opposite direction. One of Iron Man’s biggest buffs this season was to his Unibeam, which now does a whopping 190 damage per second when boosted, and 140 raw. To put that into perspective, his Gamma Unibeam with the Hulk team-up – which was considered busted enough to ban Hulk in almost every ranked match – did 220 damage.

With his buff, he’s brought closer to his team-up damage output, and a lot of players seem to be really struggling with him now. A thread was made on the Marvel Rivals subreddit by a user called Ilikehotdogs1 (same), who claims that they’re now “insta banning Iron Man every match” due to the “obscene” damage from his Unibeam.

A lot of other players then chime in with their complaints, mostly aimed at the duration of the beam and how thick it is, meaning it’s difficult to miss. Essentially, an Iron Man can fly into your backline, delete everything in mere seconds with a single charge of the Unibeam, and then fly out again. Others are saying that NetEase should have just buffed his missiles and left his Unibeam alone.

Of course, this could just be the adjustment phase, with many having underestimated Iron Man as a threat. You just need to pick a counter to deal with him, and you do have a lot of people in the replies suggesting hard counters like Hela, Punisher, and Spider-Man. We’ll have to wait and see how players adapt, and if he’s still kind of busted a few weeks from now, he may find himself in ban jail until Season 2.

Third-Person Shooter

Action

Multiplayer

Released

December 6, 2024

ESRB

T For Teen // Violence

Developer(s)

NetEase Games

Publisher(s)

NetEase Games