Moon Knight’s Ultimate Is a Lunar Scam, and I’m Still Not Over It

I have a confession to make: I no longer trust the moon. In Marvel Rivals, Moon Knight is supposed to be a dramatic Duelist with a cool voice line and a fair warning before his ultimate, but every time I hear 'The Moon Haunts You,' my soul leaves my body, books a one-way trip to the respawn screen, and files a complaint with the nearest celestial body. The moon, it turns out, has terrible timing and a questionable understanding of personal space. 😅

Here’s the short version: Moon Knight’s ultimate is bugged. According to a sharp-eyed player who tested it in practice mode, the ability is not doing the 75 damage in a 5-meter radius that NetEase claims. It is doing 150 damage. Yes, double. The player’s best guess is that each talon is producing two area-of-effect fields: one field does the advertised 75 damage in a 5-meter radius, and a second field does another 75 damage with a range closer to 10 meters. That is not a moon. That is a lunar tax audit.

Look, I am not saying I am salty, but I have been deleted by this thing while playing a tank and I have questions. A tank! I was walking around with a health bar the size of a small country, feeling immortal, and then the moon said hello. The next thing I knew, my screen was gray and my confidence was gone. I always wondered how a supposed 75 damage managed to shred a tank that fast. Now I know: it was not 75. It was 75 plus a surprise sequel.

The voice line makes it worse. Heroes like Scarlet Witch or Iron Man give you a long, theatrical warning before their ultimate goes off. You have time to run, hide, cloak, or do that panicked little dance where you press every button and hope one of them is invulnerability. Moon Knight, however, gives you approximately zero time. In many cases, players hear only 'THE...' before they are already dead. The moon does not haunt you. It jumps you in a parking lot.

There is also the truly cursed scenario where Moon Knight dies as the ultimate goes off. In that case, there is no voice line at all. The ultimate just happens. You do not get a warning. You do not get a chance to react. You get a sudden case of being horizontal. I respect the commitment to chaos, but I also would like to press a button before my health bar evaporates. 🙃

The community reaction has been a mix of laughter and pain, which is basically the standard emotional weather report for any online shooter. Some players cracked jokes about the moon really haunting them. Others were less amused, because a bug like this ruins the chance to avoid an ultimate and knocks them out of a fight they might have won with a little more time to react. Some people assumed Moon Knight had simply been buffed too much and become overpowered. It is almost a relief to learn that this is a bug and not just the developers deciding that the moon deserved a raise.

Here is my highly scientific survival guide for the current Moon Knight experience:

• If you hear 'The Moon Haunts You,' do not finish your sentence. Do not check your cooldowns. Do not admire the scenery. Move. 🏃

• If you are playing a tank, remember that your health bar is not a personality trait. The moon does not care.

• If Moon Knight dies mid-ult and you hear nothing, assume the moon is already inside the building.

• If you survive, celebrate loudly. You have beaten astronomy.

In 2026, we have seen plenty of patches, hotfixes, and balance changes in Marvel Rivals, but this particular Moon Knight mess remains a perfect example of why players dissect every frame and every damage number. A bug that doubles an ultimate’s damage is not a small oopsie. It changes fights, it warps matches, and it makes one hero feel less like a tactical pick and more like a celestial jumpscare. NetEase, I love you, but please give the moon a calendar and a megaphone. Start the voice line a little earlier, fix the double damage field, and let me lose fights because I made bad choices, not because the night sky decided to bully me. 🌙