Hulk specifically has such a huge skill expression in rivals because he can do anything, but he doesn’t excel at anything. Magneto is known as the all around tank, and hulk is extremely similar to that, he’s just harder to get value out of, and I hate easy characters and love anything that takes a ton of skill to get value out of. Here are a list of things, some more or less niche, that hulk can do
• Dive vulnerable poke characters
• protect the team from divers
• distance himself and his team from brawlers
• cancel ultimates
• block ultimates with shield
• body block damage with his ultimate and his transformations
• juggle stun characters
• tackle flyers and anyone in the air
• super mobile bunny hops and jumps
• wall cling to hide and get angles
Some of the creative ways I’ve used the hulk
• I’ve countered a punisher ult by jumping past him to make him look at me, bubbling and jumping back to my team, then using my transformation and health bar to just block the rest of the damage an escape.
• I’ve had Thor/Thing knock someone into the air and then kidnapped them
• ran away from an enemy on high ground just to air stun them when they come down from the high ground to follow me
• juggled healers out of their ult
• juggled characters off the map
• used my ult to stop the team from pushing forward during a healer/dps ult by distracting/tanking (basically like magneto)
• stunned strange at the last second of a Wanda ult so he couldn’t block his team (we wiped)
• completely negate ults like magik, DD, iron fist by stunning them and grabbing them with hulk ult
• frame perfect team bubble to counter Wanda’s portal ult
The hulk is the most fun and unique character in the game, and no matter how many op 20 ability dps they release, nothing is as good as using less moves and more brain to dominate.