DPS Blames Teammates (Shocker): Warn vs Aramori Explained

Every Marvel Rivals esports fan is familiar with the infamous “for the vibes” beef, where a Black Widow player wouldn’t swap off and arguably lost young pro Kingsman a massive prize pool. Months later, a worthy successor to the drama has arrived. Canadian player Warn sparked controversy by allegedly refusing to switch off Squirrel Girl in a major tournament, proceeding to blame his teammates for the loss. Let’s review an explainer of the beef, teammate Aramori’s response, and what it means for Marvel Rivals.

What is the Marvel Rivals World Championship?

Since the title’s launch in 2024, one of Marvel Rivals‘ main ambitions has been to promote its esports circuit. The game has skyrocketed in popularity, especially since it catered to frustrated Overwatch fans by streamlining common competitive issues. The Marvel Rivals Creator World Championship brings together popular content creators from around the world to compete in a structured format, meshing entertainment with traditional tournaments. In the event, pros play side by side with influencers and streamers. The event features 72 streamers representing 12 regions. Even more importantly, it includes a 300,000 USD prize pool. This amount is a massive investment for a game so early in its competitive life cycle.

The Team Canada Creator Showmatch: Warn vs Aramori

The 2026 Marvel Rivals Creator World Championship kicked off on June 26, 2026. Over a dozen teams participated, and Team Canada had some big names. The roster included well-known Overwatch streamer and ex-pro xQc and pro player aramori, who is signed to Sentinels, has won two A-tier tournaments, and participated in Marvel Rivals Ignite 2025. In addition, Twitch streamer Warn, who has nearly 300,000 followers, joined. It’s important context in this situation that Warn is mainly an Overwatch streamer and has more experience in that game than Marvel Rivals.

The team sorted out roles before the matchup began. xQc is known as one of the strongest Tank players from his time in Overwatch, so he reprised that position. Aramori typically plays Strategist/Support, so she also stayed in the role. Warn’s main was DPS/Duelist, which naturally fit well with the roster.

The tourney began with a Swiss Stage. Team Canada faced off against Team USA, Team Brazil, and Americas United. However, things took a turn: Team Canada lost every matchup, ending with a 0-6 record and elimination. Whatever way you flip it, the team cohesion was lacking, and every team member was performing poorly.

Warn Won’t Swap Off Squirrel Girl

Notably, Warn stayed Squirrel Girl through most of the tournament. Squirrel Girl is known as one of the game’s worst characters. According to rivalstracker.com, she has the fourth-lowest win rate in the game overall at just 44.92%. Her Ultimate is extremely easy to break and avoid. This means it is ineffective in crucial team fights. Her abilities are also quite weak, and she cannot create the same impact as other Duelists who can close distances quicker or pack more damage.

Aramori and other teammates reportedly asked Warn to swap off the character several times during the tournament, claiming he refused. At one point, Warn did try out Ultron, which seemed to work better for the team, and also briefly went Punisher and Namor, but ultimately swapped back. Squirrel Girl and Namor are Warn’s two mains, and he has won tournaments playing as Squirrel Girl before. Regardless, several teammates (and community members) were frustrated about the situation and wondered if it contributed to the loss.

Warn’s Viral Clip: “I Don’t Actually Know if the Problem Was Us”

After the matchup, Warn shared a few words with his Twitch followers. Looking over the list of tournament participants, he said, “Aramori, Dokibird, FanFan … wait a minute … [other players] were in this tournament too? And none of them were on my team?”

Warn doubled down after his statement, telling viewers he and xQc had won previous comp games they’d played together. “That’s weird. That’s f—ing weird,” he continued. “I don’t actually know if the problem was us. […] I think we just discovered something new. But let’s not get into it, okay, I’ll let the audience decide. I’m just saying.” At the end, Warn acknowledged: “I didn’t play good by any means.”

The streamer posted on X.com apologizing for his performance: “That was a tough one, sorry guys for lacking experience!! Tried to make comfort picks work and costed [sic].” He wrote that “there wasn’t much time between team formations and tourney, meaning not much time to learn/practice other characters. Gave it my best.”

Later, Warn followed up: “Just to clarify, I only had a few days from the moment I was invited to the actual tournament. It was pitched as creator tournament, so I accepted. Like always. Every day off stream I practiced my mains (Squirrel and Namor) and tried to pick up Cyclops (he got banned nonstop).”

Aramori Responds

SEN Aramori quickly took to X.com to reply, saying, “we suggested ultron, you picked it, we played well, and you said “no this it too easy im going back to squirrel girl […] like theres obviously tournament issues but yes some of the blame is on you as well.” Aramori wrote that Marvel Rivals is “not a hard game” and continued: “yes there were other issues on our team, i myself made silly mistakes.. but.. yes having a hero pool of sg and namor is really really hard for a team to work around and is on you dude.”

Aramori also replied to a clip of Warn offering to try triple support: “youre saying you can fill AFTER WE ARE ALREADY OUT OF THE TOURNAMENT. of course im tilted bro LOL WHAT ITS 300K!!!! my bad next time ill tell you its not your fault for picking squirrel girl over and over. […] its okay to be an OTP and not swap, but expect people to be (reasonably) upset about it. and the way he’s just “trying” the hero to be performative about having effort is insane to me.”

Warn did not reply to Aramori’s statement, but said to another commenter, “Aramori was NOT the captain. Numerous times xQc (our captain) said to stay Squirrel Girl, so I did. Furthermore, I’ve played in tournaments on Squirrel only before and won so it was what I was most comfortable on and should absolutely be a priority.”

Another commenter emphasized how Warn’s decision held weight due to the event’s prize pool. “Bro, its a $300,000 prize pool. Stop making excuses. MOST PEOPLE in your position would’ve taken advantage of the situation better. Continuing to make excuses only makes you look worse than you already did.” Warn restated, “I have won multiple 6 digit prize pools on Squirrel Girl only. Throwing around a number doesn’t change that fact.”

Slightly later, Warn seemed to backtrack, saying, “They intentionally added me as a sandbag to our team. […] that much was obvious. To sit there and pretend that my underperformance is a surprise sucks”

“For the Vibes” Part 2?

Aramori made several more statements on her personal account. She noted the community’s backlash, saying, “If I’m silent, I’m a quiet pushover who can’t lead. If I take charge and lead, I’m a b—. Can’t win.” She also drew comparisons to another infamous Marvel Rivals beef: In January 2026, young streamer and player Kingsman was removed from a tournament for asking his teammate Zazzastack to swap off Black Widow when she was performing poorly. Zazza claimed she was “playing for the vibes.” The event went viral, causing massive discourse. This loss particularly stung since Zazza’s decision had arguably cost Kingsman a share of the six-digit prize pool, which could have seriously helped him as a young esports player. Ultimately, the Marvel Rivals community came together and supported Kingsman, whose followers spiked after the incident.

Aramori made a direct parallel, saying she “got zazza’d”. She questioned if the Rivals community would have the same reaction to her situation: “yes there were other issues, yes 100000%, MYSELF INCLUDED, but I dont want to sit here and let [Warn] act like “woe is me she was so mean.” I GOT ZAZZA’D IN A TOURNAMENT 10X THE PRIZEPOOL AS BASIM. BRO OMG KINGSMAN WAS SO MUCH MEANER AND GOT A BAJILLION FOLLOWERS.”

Aramori reposted one community member who called the situation “Zaza: Squirrel Girl Edition.” In the clip, Warn plays Ultron while complaining and saying he’s a “snooze fest.” He repeatedly says, “Once again, I don’t really give a f— … I just want to play Squirrel Girl.”

Community Reactions

The Marvel Rivals community seems to largely side with Aramori. Rank 1 Overwatch player Mace spoke out in support, saying to Warn:

“With all due respect, if i was offered to play in a 300k dollar tournament on tank in Overwatch I would Instantly start practicing any and all heroes my team needed for me to win. You’re a champion hitscan player in Overwatch and you couldn’t spend 30 minutes in the practice range picking up our hitscans which are objectively easier than Overwatch?”

Overwatch creator Flats simply commented on how quickly the drama blew up: “Holy hell what is happening…”

Necros, one of Overwatch’s most well-known DPS players wrote: “As a captain for one of the teams in this tournament, listening to this genuinely INFURIATES me. How annoying to have one of your players just outright refuse to listen and constantly b— and moan about the hero they’re assigned to play when you’re trying to come up with team comps.”

VALORANT Game Changers player and Rank 1 Invisible Woman @Ravenval16 also chimed in, saying “its so sad like literally just look at how aramori is being treated right now in her replies for wanting to try to win the tournament.” Raven also noted the situation’s similarity to Kingsman’s dilemma earlier in the year.

One particularly funny commenter noted that their ranked teammates aren’t too different. “He really is a dps player at heart, blaming everybody but himself.”

However, several netizens thought Aramori had taken things too far. In a post nearing 5,000 likes, @MollyThaMasta said: “I used to respect Aramori for being such a vocal woman pro player in a male dominated scene, but this behavior is deadass just mean and cruel. I’m a collegiate player, and I would never even DREAM of sh– talking my teammates on Twitter. So unprofessional and needlessly cruel”

Warn Apologizes

On June 28, a day after the discourse, Warn returned to X.com with an apology message. The streamer wrote:

“I’d like to apologize to Aramori, Doki and Fanfan for any escalation that clip may have caused, it wasn’t my intention and I hope you guys can find some peace in knowing that. Wishing the rivals community better tournaments ahead with NO drama (there will be).”

Warn continued, “let’s set something straight, that out of context clip has nothing to do with them being women and they’re all incredible players. I was using that argument to prove myself and xqc could HANG with them despite our lack of playtime. Sorry for fueling the wrong crowd, f— incels.”

At the end of the posts, Warn stated he would be blocking some users and noted, “I’m not a rivals streamer and thus don’t really care for your harassment, just flicking it away. My community has no interest in pursuing this pointless drama and neither do I.“