It can be difficult to get into a game like Marvel Rivals when everyone else has already had a full season to catch up, choose which heroes suit your playstyle, and learn how to best deploy the attacks at your disposal. Okay, though, a newbie with a friend on Reddit has apparently found a way to help himself learn the ropes: by drafting handwritten game manuals for the characters.
To be fair, I understand. You are aware that you have a lot to learn so that you don’t get fooled by some weirdo who is playing as Thomas the Tank Engine and that is technically just a mod that makes Jeff the Land Shark do a very trained cosplay, so do everything the preparation you can.
That seems to be the mindset of a friend of r/marvelrivals user KaijuBlaze, who has put together a “playbook” to help them remember the steps they’ve been told to take to not suck at playing Venom. It’s clearly a piece that belongs in the Louvre, with little pictures to help you remember the six steps your companions informed you make up the ideal Venom assault.
“The idea is that he doesn’t play these types of games and doesn’t know anything about Marvel, so we’re going to make SUPER simple guides to help him get used to how the characters are supposed to operate,” KaijuBlaze explained. Pretty.
As you can see below, the plan is more or less as follows: get in, dive like Ralph Wiggum did through The Simpsons’ front window that time when he was a brick for a frantic arrival, activate cellular corrosion, “attack until health is low”, then press E and get your ass out of there. Cure, rinse, repeat.
Naturally, Rivals regulars were quick to suggest some minor improvements to this plan. “I rarely swing because you can wall run and just dive right off the wall,” one wrote, “whereas if you get close and everyone spins there’s a good chance they can do over 2k damage in less than 8 seconds.” “. The playbook was duly updated.
One of the players on the subreddit even decided to give the instructions an in-game test to make sure this newbie was on the right track. They pretty much followed every step to the T, aside from the three they didn’t, and ended up jumping off a ledge to their deaths, because it’s fun and also because, listen to KaijuBlaze’s friend, you’re not. You risk being killed by the enemy if you have already died to gravity. The more you know.
I don’t know about you, but I think if these hand-drawn playbooks start working well in Rivals, NetEase may have to ban taking out paper and pencils as strictly as they recently did with keyboard and mouse adapters. Unfair hardware advantage, you know, the ability to draw.
