Why Marvel Rivals' Anti-Venom Skin Probably Sets a Sad Precedent

Marvel Rivals dabbles in simple color palette swaps for some of its characters' skins, but many of the costumes are completely unique—not even considering all the MVP cutscenes, emotes, and sprays that usually come with the package. Some skins also drastically change the way a character looks, taking into account that they still function as they would normally. Marvel RivalsSkin Mr. The Knight for Moon Knight, for example, usually doesn't have a cape, but he needed to have one so players could glide, since that's one of the character's main abilities.

Likewise, while the MVPs for Captain America's Captain Gladiator or Iron Fist's Sword Master skins have an ax and a sword, these weapons are not actually included in their moveset and are merely props for victory movies should the players achieve MVP status. .

In theory, color swaps would be a harmless means of additional skins. In fact, swapping the white palette for Storm and swapping the red palette for Star-Lord is substantial and visually striking. Unfortunately, some palette swaps have already mentioned the unsatisfying notion that some characters will be represented as a skin and not their own roster addition. Marvel Rivals thankfully he clarified that Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy would only be their own characters and not skins if they were to be considered, and even though Venom has an Anti-Venom costume suggests that certain variants of the character may still be overpowered regardless , how different they are. or are paramount.

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The Anti-Venom costume from Marvel Rivals lacks the potential the roster character could have had

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Anti-Venom makes sense as a pro skin Marvel RivalsVenom and if the abilities of the symbiote were not different, there would be no problem at all that the white and black suit is colored. It would be weird to have another Eddie Brock character just for Anti-Venom, for example.

However, since Anti-Venom has healing properties rather than outright venom, it would be nice to see Anti-Venom designed as Marvel Rivals A strategist who could potentially heal or buff teammates while draining health from enemies.

Indeed, Anti-Venom is known for draining Spider-Man's radioactivity and leaving him helpless, and if Marvel Rivals designed by Anti-Venom similarly, it would be fascinating to see him neutralize enemy abilities or put them on cooldown, leaving them defenseless and with strategies destroyed. It would be especially overpowered if a well-timed Anti-Venom Ultimate could even defuse an enemy Ultimate in circle to secure last-minute points, all while Anti-Venom continues to heal teammates around him.

Marvel Rivals hopefully focuses on more symbiote characters

he said that Marvel Rivals has endless characters waiting in line for adaptation, and a healing iteration of Venom lacking his own costume potential is hardly a hill to die on. Of course, anyone who adores the various symbiote characters like Toxin, Scorn, Scream, or even Venom 2099 will likely be disappointed as it's unlikely he'll ever join the roster in the future since Anti-Venom is a skin and not. your own figure with a distinctive kit.

Cletus Kasady's Carnage is the only symbiote character whose roster acceptance is on the table due to the blood red fiend's popularity, with Knull only having the faintest glimmer of hope of joining the roster due to his importance in Venom and Marvel Rivals” overarching narrative. Meanwhile, it was surprising that Klyntar was one of them Marvel RivalsFirst maps and it will be interesting to see if his inclusion so soon is meant to tease that a lot more symbiotes are on the way or not.