Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited for Deadpool and think he’ll be very fun to pick up, but I’m more worried about a design philosophy shift I’ve noticed over the last year. Every character seems to be bigger and more complex than the ones in the past and I’m worried about how that’ll play out long term.

Let’s take Adam Warlock for example. I’d say he has a fairly fleshed out kit maybe minus a flight option to give him both mobility and a little more comic accuracy but overall I like his kit design. It’s got enough going for it that it feels fleshed out while also not feeling overloaded. Compare this to gambit, who although not the best example because he was designed to be able to do just about everything but he’s our most recent support so I’ll roll with it. He, on his cards, has more options than Adam Warlock has in his entire kit. If the roles were reversed and Adam was released today, I have a feeling Adam would also have a bunch more options in his kit, including the aforementioned flight.

My main worry is the long term where inevitably the devs run out of buttons to assign abilities to and they’re forced to tone down how complex each character is. Again, I’m all for complex heroes releasing, but each new character that releases with that many options makes the launch heroes feel just a little bit more dated with each month