Marvel Rivals player hits Grandmaster rank without dealing a single point of damage, all while role-playing Rocket Raccoon: "It honestly just kinda happened"

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Twitch streamer dinglederg may well be the biggest Rocket Raccoon fan in the Marvel Rivals community. While focusing entirely on the furry hero's healing and supportive abilities, and without dealing a single point of damage, they managed to hit Grandmaster rank in the hotly competitive shooter. In the middle of an interview with GamesRadar+ earlier today, January 21, dinglederg – or NoDamageRocket on Twitter – hit Grandmaster 2.

In a post to the Marvel Rivals subreddit on January 19, dinglederg shared the stats behind their pacifist rank climb. Trace sessions with other heroes aside, they hit Grandmaster 3 after 18.6 hours of Rocket support, which consisted of 108 matches, 71 wins, over 2.9 million points of healing, and zero damage dealt. Zip. Nada. No KOs, no critical hits, just pure healing. And yes, their tracked account stats do match up.

If you're wondering why they still have an accuracy rating, that's because "I still need to shoot ankhs, Loki clones and enemy Rocket beacons," as dinglederg explained in a Reddit reply. "They don't count as damage though." And if you're asking, as I was, why their total account record shows 32 damage dealt with Rocket, dinglederg says "that was a casual game. An enemy was getting revived by the beacon and it counted into damage! In Competitive I still do 0 damage though!" Here again, the stats don't lie.

Two big questions come up whenever players create their own mountains just so they can have the privilege of climbing them: how and why? The how is actually fairly simple here. Rocket Raccoon's kit is almost entirely support-based. In fact, he's arguably the only Marvel Rivals hero who could pull off a no-damage run without throwing matches straight off a cliff.

That said, dinglederg's limited play style has still sparked understandable discussions about getting carried by teammates, which is inevitable to some degree when you're actively avoiding dealing damage. Supports are great, but they need someone to support. Someone