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Does anyone else feel like Moon Knight should’ve been a tank and played completely differently in rivals?
Moon Knights entire fighting philosophy is about how there isn’t a punch he’d rather dodge than just tank it. Plus the dude (especially in Houston’s run) is a complete brick house.
Marc's entire fighting style is "I'm going to take every single hit thrown my way before beating you with a pair of sticks to or past the brink of death, because the pain reminds me that I'm alive and even if you kill me it's not going to stick."
Moon Knight's entire schtick is that he's a facetank in the purest form.
In Rivals his gameplay is pretty much based almost entirely on the random bullshit go meme, which isn't surprising with some of MK's dialogue and lore in Rivals.
I’m actually so sad about that, a lot of the other characters have some pretty deep cut references in their movesets or dialogue or something, and MK’s entire thing has absolutely no basis in actual comics.
Every other characters is based either on their comic counterpart or their movie counterpart. Even ones that are heavily changed (like Cap being a 2099) are still recognizable as who they're supposed to be.
And then there's Marc, who was written with coke, memes, and a skim through a wiki page.
Well, that’s literally one comic (2006: 13) with a one time illustrator. It’s easily among my favorites, but not particularly representative of Marc’s appearance compared to Moench, Finch, or Cappucchio.
Hahah! I admit to have modded it some to fill in those side panels with cloth in my game, as I felt like the transparent side panels were a bit too much.
I wish they would put his melee kit from the bloodhunt mode in his regular kit. Have him be able to switch between the two. Newer heroes have a bunch of shit anyways so I don’t think updating old ones to keep up would hurt the balance much
I’ve always said he should’ve been in between tank and dps, like mister fantastic. A really squishy tank that gets a lot of overshield from attacking. His whole thing is that he’s willing to take a beating and he’ll never give up. That sounds like a tank to me. At the very least he should’ve at least been mostly melee. He rarely uses the moonerangs, 99% of the time it’s the sticks
I get why he is the way he is, gameplay-wise. The Crescent Darts are part of his toolkit in the comics, and in a hero shooter as chaotic as Rivals range matters. Also, they probably didn't want him to play too much like Iron Fist.
Maybe if they'd left his primary weapon as the Crescent Darts, and his secondary was a punch-kick-truncheon combo. And allow his grapnel hook to hit enemies, stun them, and pull MK into them with a flying kick?
As a Moon Knight fanatic and a tank main by heart, yes, but it makes sense he's a dps even if there's ways to make a tank kit work AND have him be consistent to his comic depiction. He's durable but not supernaturally so. I'm not goimg to get my panties twisted that he isn't a tank even if I would have liked him to be in my wildest fantasy.
However, yes, he needed to play dramatically differently than what we got. They are attempting to make an improvement in the vampire mode by giving him a melee attack, but it's still not quite the same.
I would’ve accepted him as a brawl too, I still have him lord’d, but ever since I’ve picked up Cap, Iron Fist, and Daredevil;I haven’t been able to shake the thought of tank knight.
They saw one meme about him and decided “fuck his character, we’re just gonna make him a big ol meme”. Everything down to his play style and even voice lines are based on his memes.
Tank, not really. Played completely different? Absolutely. I wish he had the same voice actor doing different intonations for each identity. I also wish he was a stealthy melee hero.
I've been ranting about how THIS VERY THING should've been how moon knight was implemented. I just swap around Jake andatc in roles, but idc, it's moon knight in other roles.
Making Moon Knight of all people a poke character is weird. His whole thing is that he fights like an animal in CQC and will often just eat attacks to get free shots in.
Moon knight? Yes. He’s a tank. In the videogame they can add some of their own lore, like that Khonshu gave him extra resistance powers or something like that.
The problem is, Moon Knight rivals isn’t the original Moon Knight, he’s Meme Knight.
Very off topic, but does anyone know how to collect the Jed Mackay Moon Knight comic run? When I search how it comes up with different answers but this is the list I made:
-Moon Knight vol 1 The midnight mission
-Moon Knight vol 2 Too Tough to Die
-Moon Knight vol 3 Halfway to Sanity
-Moon Knight vol 4 Road to Ruin
-Moonknight vol 5 The Last Days of the Moon Knight
-Moonknight vol 6 Vengeance of The Moon Knight
-Moon Knight vol 6 Fist of Konshu
Is this right? Again, very off topic but im genuinely confused.
Moon Knight in general easily could have been a duel or even triple role hero, given his split personalities. And yes, I find it weird that we largely play Marc like a little sneaky coward who can't take a punch. He should AT LEAST be brawl DPS.
I don't hate his gameplay in Rivals, and I still play him more close to my team anyway, rather than flanking all the time. But people will tell me this is the wrong way to play him and it can be frustrating to be so weak against dive.
I do regularly get MVP with him though so, it's working for me at least. But I do wish he was brawl still at the very least.
Nah, I like his pseudo turret character playstyle. It reminds me of his west coast avengers era where he had all those egyptian trinkets.
My only complain is that his ankhs should be designed to be place preemptively and make him a more brawly character instead of a long range poke
Yes, I want this, but if we can't get it, at LEAST make it so when your wearing the Mr knight skin, he says one for Marc, one for Jake, and one for me on his triple voice line over his normal
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u/ZwistPariah Jun 30 '26
A tank ? No.
A duelist 100% BUT. His gameplay should have been a loooot different.
He should have been a brawler not turret man.