Marvel Rivals launched last week, and as fans flock to the game in drovesthey also find out who their favorite characters are and their favorite characters on the hero chart. Right now, the game feels like it's in a straight up prepaid state be a real chaotic shooter that is still not mitigated by months of balance. Right now, there aren't many characters as unruly as Jeff the Land Shark, the strategic hero who, at first glance, is just a silly little guy. But, like Marvel Rivals players have learned, this happy man is one of the biggest threats in the game, and god, I hope NetEase keeps it like this forever.
Jeff is a “strategist,” the Marvel Rivals equal to a support hero. Most of the time he sprays water from his mouth at teammates and leaves healing bubbles around the battlefield for players to walk through and recover some of their HP. However, it is his last feature that has become a hindrance to most players. “It's Jeff!” creates a large waterfall on the battlefield, which Jeff circles before consuming any player within the area of effect. From here, he can do one of several things. He can chew on them as he swims around, doing minor damage over time. He can uproot them, destroy them. Or, he can do what most players have learned and send them off the side of the map.
At first, my experience with Hungry Jeffs was that players would swallow several opponents and then throw them off the map and into a chasm. As Star-Lord's main star, this usually wasn't a big deal, because I could just fly back to safety. However, as more players have used this strategy, Jeff's players have wised up and realized that they get more value diving off the side of the map themselves while the enemies still trapped than they will by simply plucking them out and threatening them to return. to safety. It has become such a stupid strategy that it seems every Jeff player is using it, and everyone else wants the blood of the land shark.
Although that is the most common strategy now, sometimes there is no hole nearby, and some players are using Jeff's real head as a way to throw a team off goal or to set up other devastating attacks. , such as grouping several enemies together. them into Scarlet Witch's true exploding head. Regardless of the strategy Jeff's players use, the character's destructive power compared to his cute, boring demeanor has made him the center of so many jokes in the vertical gaming community. days after launch.
We still don't know how NetEase will break even Marvel Rivals in the future, but there's a part of me that hopes this fake, non-deceptive hero shooter and “unfair,” “toxic” nonsense like Jeff finally stays in the game. In the end, it depends on what the studio wants for the game. Does he want Marvel Rivals is it going to be a great sense of fun or is it to appeal to the casual gamer who doesn't break a sweat and just wants to pit their superhero toys against each other? The latter is better for me at this point, and Jeff the Land Shark's rampage is one of the best examples of it.
