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Marvel Rivals Fans Think Magneto's Ultimate Is Actually Broken

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By Joshua Robertson

Published Jan 28, 2025, 6:00PM EST

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Marvel Rivals players think Magneto's ultimate may have a buggy hitbox, as it has been shown to phase through certain characters.
This could be down to the ball's hitbox not growing along with the ball itself when it absorbs damage, or it's just a bit broken and needs to be tweaked.
Either way, best to aim it at the ground rather than a character for now to avoid any potential whoopsies.

Marvel Rivals is equal parts brilliant and janky. You have incredibly creative and inventive abilities, like Doctor Strange's portal - which players have been using to torment The Punisher, wipe entire teams, and redirect an Iron Man's ultimate - while you also have incredibly busted and broken ultimates like Moon Knight's, which do way too much damage and can delete you in a fraction of a millisecond.

Sometimes, Marvel Rivals is a little janky in ways you might not even notice. For example, one player recently discovered that Magneto's ultimate appears to be a little bit buggy too, as it turns out the ball that you throw seems to have a bit of a wonky hitbox.

Marvel Rivals Fans Think Magneto's Ultimate Is Actually Broken

Reddit user Wet_Birthday_Card was the one to uncover this little issue, who dived into practice mode for some tests after missing a couple of Magneto ults that "looked super weird in-game". What they found is that the ball that Magneto conjures up can actually phase straight through a character, as this player demonstrated with Luna Snow in the video above.

How Magneto's ultimate actually works is that the ball absorbs all damage from projectiles in a given area, which Magneto then throws back as a large ball. This ball doesn't actually deal any damage, but when it explodes on contact, it generates a large magical field that actually does deal damage, with said field growing in size depending on how much damage Magneto absorbs. That's why you're usually better off aiming at the floor next to an opponent rather than at them directly.

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By Zo J. Osik

To visually demonstrate this, Magneto's ball that he holds above his head grows larger, but it seems as though the hitbox of the ball doesn't grow alongside it. That means it's possible it could look like Magneto's ult phases through characters when it should realistically hit them if the hitbox was accurate. At least, that's what the problem appears to look like - either that or the ball is just straight-up bugged.

Couple that with the fairly dodgy third-person perspective issues in Marvel Rivals, and that could explain why you're missing your Magneto ults. You're probably better off flinging that thing at the ground for now, and hope that NetEase tweaks something in the game's next major balance update.