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Before everyone comes and downvotes me, I’m not saying that an overinflated kit makes him broken. But it does make him hard to balance with small things such as numbers and cooldown adjustments.

The biggest complaint I’ve seen from a lot of recent daredevil posts is black cat and how she’s broken. But why? What makes her broken?

Black cat has

1. The best mobility of any dive except Spiderman
2. CC
3. Wallhacks
4. An anti CC ability
5. Fast ult charge with aoe/brawl style ability (cat’s whip)
6. Incredibly fast time to kill.
7. Overshield

That’s a lot to have to manage as someone fighting a black cat. And a lot of daredevil players recognize this and have called it out. Which is funny because before black cat’s release, daredevil was black cat. Like almost 1-1.

Daredevil had

1. The best mobility of any dive except Spiderman. (Now third best). Not one of only three characters that can permanently latch on walls. Previously only two.
2. CC, the only dive except Spiderman with a hard CC. Which also doubles as a grapple whenever he wants it to.
3. Permanent wallhacks which don’t go to his team like cat, but can’t be removed.
4. Anti CC. His parry works as a reflect not just a parry. And works against all forms of CC. Even things that don’t make sense at all like Emma’s telepathic crush ability. (I forget the name of it)
5. Fast ult charge due to an aoe brawl type ability. He has devil’s throw which is an aoe ability that can’t miss if you throw it at the ground and will hit multiple enemies.
6. One of the best time to kills in the game. At least previously, I don’t know how his new nerfs have affected his combos.
7. Overshield.

Daredevil and cat both have the same core issue. They have so many different options in their kit that by comparison it makes other characters fall short. Take iron fist for example. You can parry, you can run on walls but not latch on them. And you can manually gain overshield. That’s it. Super slow time to kill, no wallhacks, no utility outside of his parry which he needs to do serious damage. Same for Magik. No parry, no mobility outside of her dash which she needs for combos, no hard CC. She has overshield and some I-frames with good ttk on unaware or solo targets. That’s it.

The community has a bias towards black cat because she’s brand new. She’s been in games for less than a month. Daredevil has had these problems for months now. And due to power creep, it won’t be long before there’s a new character who does everything better than black cat, the same way she does everything better than daredevil.

These kits are the real problem of marvel rivals. Phoenix does everything Hela does. Except better, with two movement abilities and punishes teams for being grouped together.

Elsa does everything Bucky does. Except more damage. Can pierce through enemies. Way more mobility.

The list goes on. Almost every single season, the devs release a character which they give everything in their kit. And rarely do they manage to keep it balanced.