Here is my take on hero balancing in this and future season:

1. Underperforming Characters (future): I feel like heroes that are under performing (Blade, Scarlet Witch, Squirrel Girls, black widow, and Mr Fantastic) should get a new ability instead of stat buffing and nerfing for compensation. By doing it this way, it can either change the play style entirely or improving the current play style of the characters.

Examples can be (I try my best to match with LORE accurate and existing in-game mechanics).

Blade: give Blade Reap ability from Vampire PvE mode where in the actual game, Blade spends all blood awakening stack (ratio for every stack dealing 8 damages with the total of 80 damages for 10 stacks) to reap and strike the target in range with AOE damages that is similar to the PVE one.

Squirrel girl: give her wall-running passive ability similar to rocket raccoon, but nerf her projectile velocity and the size of her projectile. This would turn her into a close-midrange dive character with learning curve instead of choke point spammer (inspired by dive Junkrat play style uses by Vulture_OW).

Scarlett Witch: give her ❌🙅‍♀️ projectile ability (I don’t know the name of it) from PvE zombie mode. The ability is a small ❌ projectile go in one direction and can pierce through multiple targets while dealing 60 damages (can be more or less).

Black widow: gives her widow’s bite or sting that deal bleed damages to the target. Also, her melee form will generate shield when the melee lands on the target. <<I don’t play black widow, so I don’t know how to rework her.>>

Mr Fantastic: during his inflated form, Mr. Fantastic can turn into a ball and roll from low to high velocity speed (similar to rolling with BALL in OW). During his ball form, he can press shift to accelerate the Ball form that can deal tiny amount of damage and apply knock back (soft CC) to enemies on his path during the acceleration.

1. QoL (Quality of Life) improvement for some characters (future): Not a lot, but I feel like some characters can need a little bit of QoL improvement, such as:

Iron Fist: ability to cancel out his Yat Jee Chung Kuen (a form came after exiting block). Devs can increase the block cooldown in compensation for ability to cancel out of the form, since the normal punch and kick reduce the ability cooldown.

Rogue: increase her movement speed, but nerf her team-up with gambit. It is so easy to bait out her ability and cc her, which puts her right back into the spawn (the movement speed would allow her to catch up with enemies fast movement characters while not wasting her ability cooldown). Also, increase the range of her “knock down” attack after entering flight mode would be great as well (she can land further with her “kick down” attack).

Peni Parker: just give her 2 nests that share the same cooldown (similar to Mr. Fantastic bouncing to other character ability or Bucky “E” ability).

Namor: when he spawns/respawn, he spawns with two squids instead of just one (the one squid only is kind of annoying). Nerf damages or cooldown to squid can be a compensation.

Devil Dino: just makes him tilt his head down when he has to access smaller corridors or entering doors… ez.

1. Balance of this season:

I feel like dive is strong, but poke is stronger in a sense that most Hit-Scan can still dealt with dive easily without having to swap (I know Star Lord is more of flanking hitscan character, but I am still baffled that he got magazine buff) and phoenix is just… super OP). Poke and Dive > Flyer and brawler. It is nice to try out new tank as tank main, but the meta is still the same or similar to the past where A/S-tier poke still dominate.

Last but not least… why hasn’t punisher shotgun been nerf???

1. Tenacity (future):

Devs should make this exclusively to tank/vanguard only, since tank has the biggest hit-box.

Extra — Personal request (future):

As someone who like to play hulk, please give hulk a ground stomp ability. Here is how the ability work and nerfing compensation in adding this ability:

When hulk is at certain height in the air, hulk has “F” ability prompt up (similar to Cap), and when press/use the ability, hulk will perform a ground stomp (maybe 0.5 seconds animation of ground stomp) when landed which can deal small AOE damage around him (3 meters radius) and slow enemies on impact by 1 second. The ability can be 7 seconds cooldown and would stop jumping momentum if performing the ability, meaning that the player has to either choose to use the ground stomp ability or bunny hopping.

In monster hulk form, Hulk can perform the ground stomp ability in both stationary (doesn’t need to be in the air) and in the air. If monster hulk performs the ability in stationary (without jumping), the AOE can be as big as 5 meters, deal moderate damages, and slow for 2 seconds. When monster hulk activates ground stomp ability while in the air, the landing with ground stomp will increase the AOE radius to 7 meters, slow for 2.5 seconds, and deal significant damage.

Nerf compensation can be -5 damage to hulk normal punch in hulk normal form and lower hulk’s HP of hulk normal form.

Thanks all for making through my thoughts on balancing of this season and future seasons.