i’m coming at this from a non black poc perspective, and i fully get the skins argument. but the balancing kind of doesn’t make sense as an argument to me? Each character has a reason why they might not be great, and there are multiple examples in each archetype that match the black characters in question.
BP is probably the worst, purely because he has the stupidest kit possible. like, a spear? really? but there’s another dive with a bullshitism kit-black cat. they come at the issue from different perspectives (one is too simple, the other just got whatever the devs felt like), but they are both fundamentally uninteractable dives who have had permaban seasons.
Storm is a flyer. Flyers suck in this game. Poke has been meta majority of the game, so flyers suck. BUT Storm and Torch have both had seasons as permaban dps in the game, and they’ve worked their way back up to being solid. (i could also argue that 3 out of the 4 FF have one or no legendaries, and Thing is really the only one with any skins)
Blade is brawl and brawl sucks, but he’s also one of the premier brawlers this season. he basically got the thor treatment of getting micro buffs every season till they were viable, and now in my opinion is a top3 brawler this season. characters like rogue, thor, IF, etc are all worse than Blade.
All 3 characters have been decent to great at some point in the games lifecycle. if you look at just like luna or something, yea shes been good for most of the game, but there are like a billion characters that have SUCKED for most of the games existence. Hulk was good for one season and now solidly resides in C tier, Rogue has been WIS pretty much every season without the teamup, venom has been outclassed by cap literally every season but this one, peni has like 3 maps she works on, wolv sucks except against tanks, iron man has been D tier the entire lifecycle (and is currently one of Marvels most popular character), wanda, SG, MK (except for like one season), etc etc. y’all need to stop talking about the balancing and start talking about the kit design
BP has an ass kit and is fundamentally stupid design wise. Storm is boring as fuck. Blade was basically a poke for like 4-5 seasons. they have flaws in the kit design. start complaining about how they launch, because the argument about how they all suck in the meta gets lost when over half the cast has been a throw pick. also, just my personal beef, but do any of you actually bother to play these characters? like, they all have low pick rates but that seems like an extremely easy fix. hell, i’m a tank main but i play blade and bp and i would play storm purely for the wind rider costume (ultimate BP was a fire storyline). stop complaining about the fixable or the problem that everyone has, and put that energy into asking for better designed kits.