The final part is here, everyone! It’s been a long ride and an absolute pleasure to share my experience on the matter, and I hope that all of you reading this will see the desired success. We went through basic, advanced, and expert matters on the technical side of things, but now I will address the factor that makes or breaks it in any game, to round up this article series on how to get to Infinite Rank in Marvel Snap.
As the title says, this is about your mind and the mental game. This indeed can be the end of you or can bring you to the top. Even if you have all the talent and tools, without a clear mind, it won’t mean anything. Here’s what you can do to improve your Mental Game, not just in Marvel Snap, but in a lot of different games as well.
How to Improve your Mental Game in Marvel Snap
Here’s the obligatory Table of Contents, if you wound up here out of order from somewhere and want to visit the older entries to this series:
Even though I have some minor experience with sports psychology, I am for certain reasons obliged to emphasize that I am not a certified professional in the area. I am just sharing my personal experience which helped me reach my end goal in this game. Take it with a grain of salt.
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We’ll dedicate this sub-article to adjectives that start with the letter “C”, since C is 100 in Roman numerals, the rank I want all of you to attain.
Sometimes, you will end up in a lock at a certain rank. You will have an equal win and loss of your Cubes and you will know that you are stagnating. This has happened to me too many times during this run. One hour of sitting at the same rank, then making miraculous progress toward the next bracket, and then getting locked again. Be patient. Do not let impatience get to you, because that leads to bad and desperate Snaps out of the desire to forcefully get out of your current place. Well, you’re getting out of your place alright, but perhaps not in the direction you wanted to. So, it’s sometimes better to stay where you are, rather than drop a rank (or two). Be especially calm and collected in the Match that might bring you to the next bracket (and grant you five free ranks as a “protection”). Winning that one may bring a lot of confidence and a lot of players rush recklessly to finally grab a hold of it, but then get disappointed when they lose eight cubes and drop down a rank because they got blindsided by a potential Turn 6 counterplay. Take it easy, and trust the process. If your deck has at least about 45% win rate statistically, with proper Snapping and Retreating, and maintaining a clear mind, you will reach the high ranks eventually. The season is long. There is time. Unless you’re Kang who keeps rewinding it.
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Set realistic goals. Do not overburden yourself. Yes, you can grind from 30 to Infinite in a week, but why would you demolish yourself like this? Take your time. If you move one or two ranks every day consistently, you reach Infinite in 40 days or less (due to the ranking protection update which gives you five ranks instead of one). Does that sound better than putting pressure on you along the lines of “I must reach Infinite fast, I must win every match, I don’t have time to push to Infinity until the end of the season…“?
In recent sports history, for example, the name “Novak Djokovic” comes up when mental fortitude is talked about. Now, this individual has been a real wild rascal in his youth, but eventually, through enormous work, and self-improvement, he reached the heights of being regarded as one of the greatest players in tennis history, game-wise, and statistics-wise. If you can take anything from him, take the ability to not fear even when your back is against the wall. He has won quite a few titles whilesaving match pointsagainst himself. Where others would crumble and falter, he prospered. You lost a match? There’s always the next one, and the one after that. Do not get haunted by the ghosts of your past. Keep pushing forward, to the future, and infinity! After all, it’s just a quick-paced (mobile) card game, not the end of the world or your livelihood if you lose a match.
I wholeheartedly hope that this article series was helpful to you and I hope that I’ll see you in the Infinite Rank. If you see significant success, please share the article with your Marvel Snap friends.
Nikola has been a Staff Writer at Prima Games since May 2022. He has been gaming since being able to hold an Amiga 500 joystick on his own, back in the early 90s (when gaming was really good!). Nikola has helped organize dozens of gaming events and tournaments and has been professionally attached to gaming since 2009.
