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Catherine Lewis

As Marvel Rivals adds even more DPS characters to its roster, dev reminds players that the team "wanted to move away" from Overwatch's traditional Tank, Support, and Damage roles

Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Iron Man and the Hulk in the upcoming PS5 game, Marvel Rivals. .

As Marvel Rivals unveils five more characters to bring its launch roster up to 33 heroes, some shooter fans are worried that the list might be a tad too saturated with DPS characters. However, the devs seem confident that that's not the case, because DPS, Tank, and Support roles aren't being integrated in the same, traditional sort of way in the first place.

As Eurogamer reports, Marvel Rivals' launch trailer has confirmed the addition of five new faces – Black Widow, Iron Fist, Squirrel Girl, Wolverine, and Cloak and Dagger (as one character). Although Marvel Games and NetEase Games haven't confirmed the roles for all of them, we know that at least two (Iron Fist and Squirrel Girl) are Duelists, which is, in a basic sense, the hero shooter's equivalent of a DPS character. This also brings the number of Duelists in the game up to at least 16, which is rather a lot compared to just six known Strategists (Support) and eight known Vanguard (Tank) characters. 

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