There are several really bad characters in the game, which ones do you think should be improved, and how?
Here’s my own list:
Beast
Better than before but still not good. His blue is finally useful but green does way too small damage for that cost, especially since you need to collect blue first to make green better. His yellow is just…well, bad. Healing? It’s seldom useful since you NERFED the whole healing concept, so please rethink this. In the comics, Beast is strong, agile, fast and downright dangerous, but in the game he does what? Heal people? Get protect tiles from blue and yellow? No, please. In all essence, he’s a stronger but less lethal version of Wolverine, without regeneration.
Iron Man Model 40
One of the oldest characters and he has never been especially good. His abilities cost way too much and do way too little damage. Sure, you get extra AP but you can collect 13 red or 20 blue faster than you can collect 8-14 yellow, then wait for a good enough board (no matchable yellow tiles) to activate it, then wait for the countdowns to resolve and then wait for the stun to wear off. One idea would be to skip the countdown tiles entirely and just let him stun himself, but even then, his other abilities are just too costly and weak. Red should have higher damage or lower cost, and no AP drain. Blue should have higher damage or way lower cost, and no AP drain. Yellow should be less costly overall and faster overall. Here’s an idea to work with: 5 ![]()
costs 14 AP, deals 5000 damage, no AP drain. 5 ![]()
costs 16 AP, deals 4000 damage to all enemies, no AP drain. 5 ![]()
costs 9 AP, stuns for 2 turn, and instantly generates 4 red, 4 blue, and 3 of all other colors (with lower levels generating less colors and less AP).
Quicksilver
Where’s the “quick” in this character? He feels downright slow, since his abilities are costly and do little damage. I’m not opposed to “little damage”, since Quicksilver doesn’t have any real offensive powers or even super strength, but he should definitely be speedy and be able to mess up the board in several interesting ways. Maybe I just need to use him more with Invisible Woman but having to use another character to make Quicksilver good sounds very strange, why can’t he be good on his own? This character just needs a rework.
She-Hulk
Her blue is way worse since she lost the ability to change countdown tiles. Bring it back, we need it against goons and other things!
Bullseye (2-star)
The guy might be a “one-trick pony” by “just” being able to throw stuff, but he is lethal whenever he does it. How does his black ability reflect that now? It doesn’t. It’s super costly and doesn’t even do any real damage when it resolves. I understand his current black power was created with the different environment tiles in mind (some environment abilities created critical tiles), but he wasn’t useful even then and you removed the environment abilities entirely, so what’s the big idea of him having a costly ability that doesn’t really do anything? You just HAVE to combine him with other characters to make him at least somewhat useful now, but still. This character needs a lot of reworking to be useful again.
Bag-Man
If you gotta have a “joke” character (I thought Deadpool was such a thing?), at least make him somewhat useful and being able to create strange situations on the board or do other weird stuff, but the current version is just barely useful against goons. Barely. And that’s it. Back to the drawing board, please. Why even bother to have a character that no player wants to use?
Black Widow (1-star)
Too costly AP steal (especially compared to OBW, who does exactly the same thing, with a 35% discount) and since she’s a deadly assassin, she really needs a third ability, especially since she’s super squishy (level 50 would make her a little more useful).
Yelena Belova
Extra damage to that stun and AP steal is nice, but it’s WAY too costly compared to what it actually does. Please fix. Yelena could also use a third ability to further reflect that she’s a lethal assassin.
Hawkeye
A really cool character in the comics, a really worthless character in the game. Way too squishy and desperately needs a third ability. This character definitely deserves a better fate. The 2-star Hawkeye has average health or even above average (definitely higher than OBW and a few other characters), so why does the 1-star have less health than 1-star Black Widow?