Should the Black Panthers (OG, BPCW) and the Wolverines (OG, WX, X23) counter miss/untouchable?
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With the talks of a Black Panther Civil War buff circulating, and Wolverine badly needing one, I was thinking that this is an ability that they should have. We know that Weapon X is the buffed version of OG Wolvie, but it would be nice to see some changes to the yellow suited one lol
Both have enhanced abilities that allows them to sense things. Wolverine from his mutant DNA, Black Panther from the heart shaped herb.
I think this simple addition would benefit them a lot. For the Black Panthers, it would align with their "nature" and add more value to them. For the Wolverines, it would make them the only Mutants (I think? Correct me if I'm wrong) who can counter miss, therefore making them updated and more valuable.
Thoughts?
Both have enhanced abilities that allows them to sense things. Wolverine from his mutant DNA, Black Panther from the heart shaped herb.
I think this simple addition would benefit them a lot. For the Black Panthers, it would align with their "nature" and add more value to them. For the Wolverines, it would make them the only Mutants (I think? Correct me if I'm wrong) who can counter miss, therefore making them updated and more valuable.
Thoughts?
Should the Black Panthers (OG, BPCW) and the Wolverines (OG, WX, X23) counter miss/untouchable? 42 votes
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His heightened sense mean he can find thing, but it doesn't mean his hit is accurate.
I always see Wolverine more of aggressive than accurate.
If we are talking about Mutant that could be a miss counter, I would go with Psylock, since she is psychic.
She could do with a tune up and while Kabam at it maybe update her look too, seem a bit boring right now.
In addition Black Panther should inflict rupture vs bleed immune
Also, I’m pretty sure in the cartoon in question Wolverine says he smells the ozone given off by the security system, not the actual infrared beams because smelling infrared beams is not a thing that can happen because light does not give off an odor by itself to smell. And being able to smell invisible things is not specific to Wolverine, because scent molecules are, for the most part, not visible to the naked eye. Everyone smells invisible things.
Miss is a game mechanic, not a physics property. Some things you miss because they are invisible, like Hood. Some things you miss because they are intangible, like Viv Vision. Some things you miss because they psychically prevent you from detecting them, like Stryfe. And Mysterious confuses attackers with Illusions, causing them to sometimes attack an illusion instead of the real Mysterio. When you give a champion the ability to counter miss, they are going to, in general, counter the entire basket of miss abilities, many of which will not be consistent with their miss justification. There must be a game design or game balance reason for giving a champion miss countering abilities beyond “it makes sense” because it won’t make sense conceptually all the time.
Bullseye doesn’t miss in MCOC because Bullseye is the guy that doesn’t miss. In the comics he can’t hit intangible things or block psychic abilities (last I checked), so he would still miss those things. But in MCOC, he hits all of them because he is The Guy That Doesn’t Miss. Wolverine is not.specifically known as someone who never misses. He’s not demonstrated to be able to hit what others can’t hit. Seeing through disguises, sensing when someone is actually in the room, that sort of thing is definitely in his wheelhouse. But hitting what normally can’t be hit is not.
In the Night of the Sentinel's episode pt. 1, he references "ozone" because that was Beast's response to Rogue when she asked what causes mutations. Beast mentioned a number of things, and one of them was "ozone depletion". Wolverine was up in a tree, listening to their conversation.
In Night of the Sentinel's Pt. 2 during the X-Men's break-in at the Mutant Registration Agency, Wolverine stopped them from walking into into the motion sensor saying "Hold it...electronic beams". Beast then asks him if he could detect infared spectrum, Wolverine said "I can smell them"..then points to his nose and says "Ozone"..repeating what Beast said in Ep 1. And in other words..he was crediting his mutant DNA for that ability.
If he can smell, or sense, what can't be seen, then surely that can somehow be applied to his character in the game.
But they aren't.
If they were building the game from scratch right now, I think there would be a Phase mechanic (Viv, Ghost, Kitty) and a completely separate Miss mechanic for Invisibility/Illusions (Hood, Stryfe, Invisible Woman, Mysterio); and you'd need enhanced senses to counter one; and some kind of esoteric energy attacks to counter the other.
However, that's not something Kabam are likely to spend time and energy on, any time soon.
Accuracy and Precision, require mental focus, calm, calculation.
When I think of Wolverine, I think wild, emotion, instinct, reactive, aggressive. These are qualities that I would think cloud Accuracy and Precision.
So Wolverine can find somebody, but once he start fighting, he lose those focus and go into instinct fight more.
Maybe this is too much thought into a fiction comic character 🤣🤣🤣.
But hey if Kabam would tune up Wolverine, I won't be complaining 🤣
Miss also isn't just invisibility, it's intangibility, which smelling someone wouldn't fix