Marvel Rivals players have discovered the Human Torch's weakest feature—his incredibly underwhelming Lord icon: 'They just flipped him sideways'

Human Torch Marvel Rivals
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The Human Torch and The Thing are the two latest heroes set to arrive in Marvel Rivals in the second half of Season 1. Players will be able to check out these two members of the Fantastic Four for themselves when they get added to the game tomorrow, but despite Human Torch having one of the most OP abilities in the game, players are pretty underwhelmed by one of his main cosmetics.

"Is this seriously [the] Human Torch Lord icon," mylosstoyourgain says. "I'm praying his kill banner is gonna be heat (no pun intended), but all they did was slightly turn his head 50 degrees. I don’t wanna complain too much, though, because the devs are cooking with everything else."

"I love the game, but the Lord icons are just lazy asset flips with a yellowish glow around them," a player says. "It just screams “last minute” thing they put into the mastery rewards because they took stuff like sprays and banners out to put in the battle pass and store." It's true that some of the rewards in Marvel Rivals aren't that great. But the developers did announce recently that they'll be making some changes to the battle pass so it's easier to get currency for skins, it won't make Johnny's Lord icon any cooler, but it's something.

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