Marvel Rivals now lets Storm's ultimate turn into a raging, fiery tornado when teaming up with Human Torch - and I've never been so thankful to have hero ban

The Fantastic Four seen in Marvel Rivals' Season 1 'Eternal Night Falls' trailer.
(Image credit: NetEase Games / Marvel Games)

Human Torch and The Thing have just touched down in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Rivals, fully completing its Fantastic Four collection, but a new team-up ability between Johnny Storm and Storm Storm h🐬as me absolutely shaking to join a ranked match.

Season one, part two just dropped for all players, making good on the developer's promise to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:add new chara🍷cters every month and a ha✃lf with Duelist Human Torch (AKA Johnny Storm) and Vanguard The Thing (AKA Mr. Clobberin' Time) now part of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Rivals characters lineup.

Johnny seems like a pretty fun aerial hero, able to fly around the map like Iron Man and blast fireballs with his primary fire. Of course, the rest of his moveset is also themed around pyromancy. He can shoot a massive fiery blob that explodes and damages enemies around its blast radius, he can do a superhero landing onto the ground to hurt a nearby enemy, he can create static fire tornadoes, and, in one of the most creative moves in the entire game, he can link four torches together to create a steaming square that'll damage any enemies inside it. (A nightmare for domination matches that dip into overtime.)

It's those fiery tornadoes that promise to turn Storm int꧂o even more of a flying nightmare, too, though. You see, Storm's ultimate ability, Omega Hurricane, summons a huge gust of wind around the X-Men icon, and when you then b꧅ump into a friendly fire tornado leftover from a Human Torch, well, it swells into a massive, hellish hurricane and that can even out damage the healing that any strategist can dish out.

I'm not the only one who's shaking at their desks, either, but competitive players at Diamond rank and above can take advantage of the handy💟 hero ban feature, at least, and banish one of the two troublemakers.

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In fairness, the Storm and Storm c♒ombo shouldn't penetrate the meta too much. Building a team around two flying damage-dealers is a pretty big commitment, so I don't think the game's competitive balance will be shaken dramatically, especially after a few weeks when Human Torch and The Thing seem like old news.

That aside, I kind of love how Marvel Rivals is incorporating some of the elemental combos I miss so much from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:magic-slinging battle roya✃le Spellbreak (RIP). More, please!

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