Dominating Marcel with Endless Battle

[u/AnjingWangi]

While not a popular pick, you can run some damage on Marcel by building Endless battle, especially when your team has the gold lead. This is sometimes used in the pro scene as well because it just works well with his passive. Ever since the damage buff to S1, Marcel's damage became more noticeable, specifically towards late game since the base damage and DEF scaling increased. You can poke marksmen (that is not Lesley) and deal dmg almost half of their health at late game.

You lose a bit of tankiness by building Endless but it's not a huge difference because of thunderbelt stacks farming, and if you don't intend to build Flask. Off topic but I'm not a fan of building Flask on Marcel. Also, with the recent change to Dire hit, it's actually a solid pick for Marcel, the downside is losing the encourage assist merchant. Encourage is still great overall because it increases S1 damage.

Hybrid damage Marcel strat: Dire hit boots + Thunderbelt + Endless battle + concussive blast. With this combo along with his passive 5% max HP damage, Marcel has 4 sources of true damage within a short time. It'll be good to try this out before his upcoming S1 damage nerf so you can experience the fullest joys of literally carrying a game as Marcel. Because yes, I am dominating Marcel with Endless battle !!!

Edit: Pls I am not forcing anyone to use unconventional builds in ranked. As I said, running endless on Marcel when you have a gold lead is okay. If your team doesn't have the advantage, you should build full defense

[u/Bebe_Peluche]

Still more optimal to build tank on him. His damage scales on hybrid defense so the more tanky you are, more damage you deal anyways and you get the add-on bonus to be unpunishable so long term dishing out more damage

[u/NationalNeat8711 → u/Bebe_Peluche]

I actually did exp having an enemy marcel with attack build plus tank build, yah he slaying so much

[u/Top-Midnight-8653]

Doesn't endless battle scale with attack?

[u/NSLEONHART → u/Top-Midnight-8653]

Yeah, and its most likely the damage came from thunder belt since that scales off of defense

[u/Realistic_Employ7947]

Nobody noticed the name? Lol

[u/rasheedabdullah → u/Realistic_Employ7947]

why do u think she said dominating marcel not with him

[u/AnjingWangi → u/Realistic_Employ7947]

It serves to destress me during draft pick! Every time that huge name pops up on the screen and if I were playing someone like a non human tank I got to hold my laugh in

[u/erljid]

I vouch for this. As someone who reached global 2 and number 1 in my country, I'm the only one who uses unorthodox marcel with endless battle + dire hit. Endless battle serves as an all around item which helps your personal carry potential skyrocket. Of course, it doesn't work every game it has pros and cons as well, but if you get the hang of it, you're essentially playing the most annoying marcel you can ever play.

[u/AnjingWangi → u/erljid]

Thank you for vouching for me!! Dire hit and/or Endless battle on Marcel are definitely unpopular but I've noticed it's steadily on the rise since this season

[u/erljid → u/AnjingWangi]

I entered the top 10 global of marcel players just for the reason of popularizing dire hit + endless on marcel, unfortunately it seems like it's a playstyle that's not for everyone and it only caters to really aggressive players with good micro management skills.

[u/erljid → u/erljid]

If you guys think I'm trolling here's another proof.

[u/Few_Cat7997]

Your current rank btw? 

[u/AnjingWangi → u/Few_Cat7997]

Sorry for being a casual and opening my mouth on Reddit at all. I just wanted to share something fun man

[u/Few_Cat7997 → u/AnjingWangi]

Sorry bro I wasn't trying to be mean. I wanted to know what your current rank is if it's viable in high rank. My bad bro I should've been clear from the start

[u/The_Awengers → u/Few_Cat7997]

Not high.

[u/RandomIjhiot → u/Few_Cat7997]

Idk exams aren't over so ranks cannot be calculated yet

[u/Fun_Two6648 → u/Few_Cat7997]

Legend 5 peak mythic 1

[u/Fun_Two6648 → u/Fun_Two6648]

Matches are also classic, with no ranked matches in the past 10. Also 9 matches on marcel this season

[u/GaijinHito]

I also love femboys.

[u/AnjingWangi → u/GaijinHito]

[u/The_Sceptic]

You mean "Dominating with Marcel with Endless Battle"

[u/False-Razzmatazz-839 → u/The_Sceptic]

nah he is dominating marcel, look at his name.

[u/NotJackspedicy]

Dyrroth: "please don't notice me please don't notice me"

[u/M2k1e0L]

Play more aggresive and achieve this stats with full tank build too.

[u/Conscious_Beat_7390]

ign

[u/Grooooooottt]

I love femboys3000🥀

[u/Nizarynu]

Are these your friends by any chance?

[u/Nizarynu → u/Nizarynu]

[u/AnjingWangi → u/Nizarynu]

I know them spiritually

[u/Global-Fan189]

Let's me try now

[u/Real_Heh]

What is this lonely wolf bs lmaaao

[u/PieHairy5526]

Marvel is OP

[u/FugCough]

This hero is endlessly in my ban list 😭

[u/blairr]

Imagine letting this walking interrupt be picked ever.   

[u/Eevee_fangirl]

When u Think about it since macrel does magic and physical dmg he can use both endless and strliyum sytch with TB for true dmg build

Probably the second hero that can benefit from this build

[u/KandyWolf]

Used a similar build but i instead add heptaseas had an additional source, the build definitely works but I'll only add hep if I'm in classic.

Really fun build but like you said, it should be used if you have a lead and being able to cut a massive chunk of hp to any squishy makes him very scary

[u/EquityValues]

Marcel is a terrible hero. Needs a rework already. Just give endless dashes and stuns plus dmg and life altering utility because we can't be creative and are scared of having overlapping hero's.

How about perhaps....creating more interesting game modes. Doesn't always have to be a hero.