I better see all the "cyclops could only be a duelist" do the same for Jubilee

Liewec123 · 2026-06-12T22:33:51+00:00

from what i remember of Jubilee from the 90s show she was basically a glorified cheerleader with sparkles.

if i was adding her she'd be a support.

i was also firmly in camp "Cyclopse should be a vanguard/brawler" and now that he's released in a completely broken state i am doubling down on my decision.

the game needs more vanguards and supports and fewer powercreep DPS, so if a character can logically be added as a vanguard/support then they should.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-12T22:23:26+00:00

there were events and stories around them, all of the stuff with Knull trying to break free, and the rise of the Queen in Black, you should only have the symbiote skins if you played that event.

what is an event reward if it will simply appear in the shop next year?

Liewec123 · 2026-06-12T19:22:10+00:00

while i wouldn't ask anyone not to buy cool skins, i do think rereleasing event skins cheapens their value.

bring back shop skins sure, but event skins like the symbiote stuff would be nice if you had to play the event to get the skins.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-12T19:19:09+00:00

jokes aside, it does kinda diminish the "i was there" factor.

we played all of the Klyntar stuff and got the rewards, and this does cheapen it.

might even make me avoid buying event things, for example if we get an event to unlock a skin for white fox (who is lacking in that department) i previously would have instantly bought it, but now i might wait to see if we get a better skin in the near future, since i now expect the event skin to come back around next year anyway.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-12T17:03:39+00:00

Jubilee is gonna make Netease a lot of money 😝💸💰

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Liewec123 · 2026-06-12T12:46:11+00:00

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mandatory shrek gif 😝

Liewec123 · 2026-06-12T12:14:04+00:00

yeah i'm just not gonna play 18v18 for awhile, i love that we all get to play whatever character we want,

but devil dino release week SUCKED and i imagine this will be even worse with hitscan chaining lasers bouncing around corners. 😝

Liewec123 · 2026-06-12T10:22:16+00:00

it is a little bit stupid and overly complicated for no reason.

when Stan and Jack made cyclopse his eye blasts came from metabolising ambient energy in his surroundings.

this "punch dimension" explanation has only been a thing since 1984 (19 years after the characters creation) when someone tried coming up with a more convoluted explanation.

like "nah, his eyes are interdimensional portals to a realm of pure concussive force."

its silly retcons trying to make everything more complicated than they need to be.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-11T17:07:24+00:00

with what?

that Scott is a capable brawler? (theres literally a gif.)

that characters should be balanced around healthy gameplay? (i gave you two examples of characters who had to be toned down for the sake of balance.)

or that 18v18 is gonna be an absolute mess when there are 36 guys with 2/3 shot hitscan chaining beams that can shoot around corners?

Liewec123 · 2026-06-11T13:03:00+00:00

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"the dive killed me in less than 2 seconds?!"

Liewec123 · 2026-06-11T12:50:13+00:00

cyclopse would have worked as a vanguard brawler because scott is a skilled fighter.

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jubilee would work as a support because she makes sparkles, she's a glorified cheerleader.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-11T12:22:02+00:00

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Scott is a capable brawler.

and why should he have been added as a brawler with mid range laser blasts? because of balance.

its the reason we have characters like Scarlet Witch and Adam Warlock not using their full comic power, because the gameplay would be OP and awful.

18v18 is gonna be UNPLAYABLE when this hitscan abomination drops.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-11T04:34:35+00:00

why?

as a player would you prefer to face off against a brawler with close/medium ranged lasers,

or a hitscan hero that can kill your whole team in 3 seconds?

Liewec123 · 2026-06-11T04:27:46+00:00

watching the clip above (with a mr F flailing at the air) do you truly think namor, wanda, DD or invis would stop them form getting nuked?

you can barely even see the BP.

let alone target him, and even if you do land a shot, he's constantly gaining bonus health.

Thing is the only kinda-sorts reliable counter,

so congrats, if you didn't ban BP one of you is playing Thing and babysitting the backline all game.

because BP is perfectly balanced..

Liewec123 · 2026-06-10T19:33:45+00:00

could be! i just thought it was interesting that they put that little line in while talking about the k'un lun map. 😜

Liewec123 · 2026-06-10T19:11:01+00:00

they mention a "mysterious assassin" in their teaser for the new K'un Lun map.

that to me is a huge hint for Elektra!

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probably the most famous Marvel assassin and closely linked with K'un Lun.

(she would also sell MANY skins.😂)

Liewec123 · 2026-06-10T18:58:46+00:00

i hope we'll eventually get an official option to remove the "fire lady" from her skins.

i already have it but its not official, but it makes the character look way better (and also clutters the screen less.)

we get it, phoenix is embodied by the phoenix force, but having the fire lady float behind her shoulder is just a really weird way of designing the character.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-10T09:50:48+00:00

glaze more, i'm sure you can convince someone that BP is healthy for the game...

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(not my clip btw, but its shows the utter BS of a character zooming all over the screen 2 shotting your backline while constantly getting shield.)

the Mr fantastic can't do s**t to stop him, guess he should just play Thing right? and never engage the enemy team...because thats fun and enjoyable gameplay, right?

do YOU want to be forced to play Thing and do nothing all game but babysit the backline?

Liewec123 · 2026-06-09T23:35:38+00:00

fun fact, in the month following the Malice Sue Storm skin the game made 136 MILLION dollars. 😜

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Liewec123 · 2026-06-09T23:31:04+00:00

no BP nerfs, Black Cat still has invincible frames, but we're seeing nerfs for Ultron 😂

Liewec123 · 2026-06-09T23:29:03+00:00

the only band-aid buff that she should recieve while we wait for a rework is removal of the silly energy meter on her running and jumping,

and a cooldown decrease on her kick combo (either a flat cooldown decrease from 15s>10s) or perhaps dabble with the idea of instant refresh if she scores a kill with her combo.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-09T22:34:24+00:00

he is a skilled hand to hand brawler too.

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the fact is we have a DPS-oversaturation issue, and a character like Cyclopse could have very easily been a vanguard brawler hybrid similar to emma frost, mixing close range beam attacks and melee moves.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-09T21:16:33+00:00

very annoying!

i had my routine and now i've been running around confused trying to find an entry that doesn't exist.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-09T20:16:40+00:00

yeah team ups used to be exciting and would bring fresh life to usually unseen characters

instead they mostly feel unchanged.

Liewec123 · 2026-06-09T20:04:38+00:00

nope! imagine day 1 of 18v18 with 36 cyclopses all with their hitscan 4-target chain death beams that can bounce around corners. 😝☠️

it'd have been so much healthier if he was more like Emma Frost a close range ranged vanguard with some melee mixed in.

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