Marvel Rivals is a bit of a genius trick, really. The concept of making a hero shooter, well, about super heroes? Downright savvy. Comic books are famous for having dozens upon dozens of characters with entire wardrobes of bespoke outfits pre-created—not to mention their powers lend themselves well to the 'three-to-four abilities plus an ultimate' design. That's like, most of your conceptualisation work done already.
But with that dearth of concepts come some real stinkers. While there are plenty of 'weird superpowers' lists on the internet, I got really curious about the hyper-specific criteria of 'this would be bad fodder for a hero shooter'. Most of these characters are absolute wimps, true, but I'm more interested in how their abilities are utterly unworkable from a game design standpoint.
