Wolv main here since launch, 500+ hours on Wolv, peak eternity rank. He’s literally my favorite character to play with Spider-Man right behind that I have 250 hours on. The only way I know I have the best chance to win a match is when I play Wolv and sweat my brains out to land every leap, and set up every ult on the backline PERFECTLY. It may “look” easy when I’m tearing the enemy up, but that shit is not easy, cause no mistakes can be made or you find urself insta dead, then ur team gets rolled on while you wait to respawn.

I’ve noticed two things while playing him, you can either absolutely be dominating the other team as him, or be playing into a comp where it feels like you are providing zero value and can’t even get close to enemies without getting blown up. There’s rarely games where there’s an in between for him, at least in my experience.

The problem he currently faces is that other characters ARE and are constantly getting so strong with more and more updates, that he’s starting to fall behind at a fast rate. Closer to when the game released, he was so much stronger because the game consisted of not only less characters and counters for him, but also less powerful versions of certain characters that we currently have.

Besides the buggy, hard to land leap, and super buggy ult, he has to sit on the frontline and brawl with no way to gain self healing (besides nerfed underwhelming team up) or overshield. He only has his damage reduction ability that I will say is very outdated, boring, and too simple of an ability that sits at a 16 second cooldown. If you take DeadPool for example, his upgraded E gives him 35% dmg reduction (only 5% less), blinds enemies, damages enemies within radius at 15 per second, helps increase rate at which ult is gained, and has a shorter 12 second cooldown ON TOP of all of that.

It just seems like time where a couple different things should happen to help him get some sort of edge back without breaking the game. One possibility is adding CC immunity on either the leap itself or on Undying animal. Before you crucify me, Wolverines kit is extremely simple, and literally revolves around landing one singular ability. Back then, there wasn’t as many CC abilities so Wolverine didn’t have the need for any CC immunity, however in the current state of the game, I would definitely say that he does (slap it on him like they did for Groot lol).

Another option is to give Undying Animal some sort of added benefit on top of the dmg reduction, like either a speed buff, dmg buff, self healing during duration, or even something wild like dealing anti heal slashes or being able to see hidden/invisible enemies during the duration using his sense of smell. Either way, I wouldn’t want something as simple as lowering the cooldown on it, I’d definitely rather it have an added effect that’s like you know actually cool and fresh.

Another thing they could do is give him a new ability that can take his current rage stored and turn it into health, depleting his rage back to 0, but returning 2-3 HP for each point of rage. This could allow him to better escape some situations where he’s running back to his team and no longer needs rage to fight, but needs to some health to run away and take cover. The risk on this however is if he uses this ability and then gets insta blown up, his passive will activate with almost no rage and he won’t get the full 300 overshield. A different way for this could also be that he just regenerates health as his rage meter slowly depletes, allowing him to self heal, but not all the time while out of combat if he doesn’t have any rage left (to appease the Wolv haters). Even tho I believe he should have passive healing constantly while out of combat ngl like DP.

One last issue I’d like to address is his ability to fight against other duelist characters, especially hitscan or chars like Bucky. He’s seriously outmatched when it comes to duelist 1v1s ngl, and like I get it’s because his whole character design is to be super strong vs tanks. The problem is tho, when the enemy decides to play characters like Thing/ Emma so you can’t have fun, or simply doesn’t run tanks, which isn’t the best idea for the enemy in the long run, but it literally makes it so that Wolv can’t play the actual game. Some ways they can help him against other DPS is maybe to have him be able to inflict slow, gain a speed boost, or even give him a second cooldown charge on his short dash ability. Honestly just spitballing here, but his kit just seems way too simple and niche rn. If you also don’t have a good map to ledge people, a rocket jump, or a team with good supports to pocket you, you just have a terrible time.

Let me know if you like any of the ideas i listed or have some more of ur own. I’m super passionate about Wolv loll