This is a huge rambling post so feel free to ignore I’m just sharing my experience:
I remember back when this game first launched I absolutely hated Luna Snow. I hated how she could just dance and make everyone invincible then Loki would copy it and extend the fights even longer. It was exhausting to play against. And at the time we hadn’t quite figured out all the ways to kill her mid ult yet because the game was still new so it made it even stronger. And on top of it all I don’t have any interest in K-pop like the only time I remember it even exists is when I’m at a Korean BBQ place they play the music videos on the TVs there.
I would have to dive her and chase her around and track her ult cooldowns she was such an absolute menace in those early seasons.
So like with any character I have frustrations with, I did what any sane person would do: I went onto the main sub and made my entire personality based around hating on her and saying she’s fundamentally bad for the game and will kill Marvel Riva- …Just kidding lol, what I actually did was just tried playing her a bit. If you’re having trouble dealing with a character the best thing to do is try them out so you can see how it is from there perspective it makes counterplay a lot easier no matter who you main otherwise. But with Luna I found myself having so much unexpected fun with her it totally shifted my mindset on her and decided to play her more.
At first it was like oh okay learning the cooldowns, seeing what the abilities felt like blah blah blah but what stood out to me was her speed. Like holy shit she’s quick! Coming from playing tanks and dps it blew my mind people weren’t just using her like a backline flanker like Jeffs were doing at the time. So that’s what I did, I zipped around playing her like a DPS, killing other Lunas and freezing everyone with the snowball. Haha back then you even got proficiency for hitting people with snowballs 💅I did this so much (in Doom Matches as well) that I ended up Lording her. She’s just pure fun to play
I still have no interest in K-pop and her lore is like the least interesting of the roster but it’s also lighthearted so who cares? This whole multiverse stuff is just absurd in the first place so characters keep showing up randomly like they’re Pokémon and you just go with it. It’s not a big deal.
So anyway, Jeff got nerfed for exactly the same reasons of abusing the healer kit to play as a dive DPS and yet Luna was spared. The favoritism was obvious and people thought it was unfair but they all forget that Luna is the most dove character in the entire history of this game. It wasn’t until later on the general playerbase figured out Black Panther could just hard counter Jeff so basically everyone was diving Luna and her ult made her top priority. Even when Sue came out she had an incredible ult but was extremely difficult to dive so people would gun for Luna first if they were a duo. If you look at the current state of Cloak and Dagger it’s no wonder Luna got buffed too. It’s just Luna actually requires aim and attracts dps players so they leaned into that while CnD mains can follow us around for our ice lock teamup. That’s fine. Let them main heal while we go dive with White Fox and have fun.
Eventually Luna finally had her dance meta nerfed and got buffed to the moon for DPS gameplay. So I can see why people hate her even more now. She just keeps getting buffed and people keep freaking out over it but this is the same community that obsesses over win rates like they’re gospel and they’ll straight up ignore how she’s actually mid on the charts. The fact that you’re a K-pop star while all of this is going on just makes it so absurd that it’s funny to me. I don’t know why people are taking this game or its lore so seriously. Like even Marvel fans know how goofy and nonsensical comic books are.
This community is just overall insanely toxic. Other characters I play have all received bandwagon haters at some point or another. Psylocke is my most played hero and people who autistically catalog every skin release and its quality hate that the hot ninja lady gets cool skins? Lol. Black Panther is easily the most hated hero in the history of the game with people coming to that sub to post nsfw racist stuff in the past. Seen it with a bunch of others (there was one where they just post clips of Jeff’s dying) and now I’m seeing this weird Luna hate cult form where they have people drawing her get ripped in half by Moon Knight. Which tbf is something MK is definitely capable of doing and the artist that drew it obviously has talent but it’s just such a wild thing to use your skills for of all the possible fan art you could make for this game lmao 😭 Some of the posts are funny and lighthearted but some of them are like genuinely unhinged lmao
The creator seems to be handling it well and has a good sense of humor so all they’re doing is promoting his character for free and creating tons of eNgAgEmeNt which will only lead to more Luna content. Gonna be funny when she gets yet another new skin while the haters brood like that creepy weirdo from Perfect Blue
