You’re in Marvel Rivals, soaring through the battlefield, dishing out damage, setting up plays, and then suddenly, boom! A Venom slams into you like a freight train, suffocating your escape routes and making sure your character’s lifespan is measured in milliseconds. You blink, and you’re back in the spawn room, rethinking all your life choices.
Venom, right now, is the king of dive tanks. He’s the only true, full-fledged, high-mobility meat shield who thrives on jumping into fights and making everyone’s life miserable. But let’s be real, this symbiote menace needs some competition. The game needs another dive tank to mix things up, and who better than the tentacled terror himself, Doctor Otto Octavius?
But before we talk about Otto’s reign of terror, let’s not forget another Spider-Man nemesis who could shake up Marvel Rivals, Norman Osborn, aka Green Goblin. While Doc Ock would be a chaotic, in-your-face dive tank, Goblin would be more of a mobile strategist, hovering on his glider and raining destruction from above.
What’s better to counter Spider-Man in Marvel Rivals?
Picture a floating menace who lobs explosive pumpkin bombs that both heal allies and damage enemies, a support/damage hybrid with serious playmaking potential. His EMP Blast could shut down melee fighters like Spider-Man or Black Panther, while his Back to Formula ultimate would turn the battlefield into a chemical-fueled warzone, boosting his team’s speed, health, and damage.
Where Doc Ock dives straight into fights, Goblin hovers around, controlling engagements and setting up devastating combos as a strategist. So why would Doc Ock be the better option? And, why would he be a dive tank?
At first glance, you might think, “Wait a minute, isn’t Doctor Octopus more of a strategist, a planner?” Sure, in the comics, he’s the brains behind countless evil plots. But in Marvel Rivals? This guy should be an absolute wrecking machine.
Think about it, his mechanical arms give him insane movement potential, letting him zip around the battlefield like a nightmare spider with an attitude problem. High mobility? Check. Heavy-hitting melee attacks? Double-check. The ability to disrupt enemy formations and separate them like an overzealous bouncer at a villain nightclub? Triple-check.
His kit practically builds itself. He could have a grapple mechanic, letting him launch his arms to pull himself to surfaces or, better yet, enemies. Imagine a tanky hero that can literally fling themselves into a fight, grab a squishy DPS, and ruin their entire day before they even process what’s happening. Pure chaos.
And his ultimate? Oh, we’re talking tentacle mayhem. Picture this: Doc Ock slams his four mechanical arms into the ground, creating a zone of death that stuns enemies in place and then proceeds to wail on them with a barrage of high-speed tentacle strikes. Your team mops up the remains while you sit back and admire your handiwork.
Doctor Octopus would make the perfect Venom counterpart
The best part? He wouldn’t just be another dive tank, he’d be an anti-dive tank too. Venom dives in? Boom. Doc Ock snatches him mid-air and tosses him away like yesterday’s trash.
Spidey trying to be sneaky? Whap! A tentacle says no. Black Panther leaping in for a kill? Denied. This guy could be the perfect counter to high-mobility threats, punishing overaggressive divers while still being able to brawl in the frontlines himself.
And let’s talk damage. Doc Ock wouldn’t just be soaking up hits, his tentacles would hit like trucks, each strike feeling like a full-on “get out of my face” moment. Add in some AOE crowd control and we have ourselves a menace that makes every DPS player reconsider their life choices.
If Marvel Rivals really wants to balance the tank lineup and give Venom some competition, they need to let Otto Octavius cook. Because if there’s anyone who deserves to be a dive tank god, it’s the guy with four extra fists and zero patience for superheroes.
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