Some heroes were definitely influenced by Paladins

[Blackmore]

I know everyone has pointed out the Overwatch ones, but some are definitely Paladins influenced. Loki is Ying, Psylocke is Skye, and I know a bunch of people say Tracer but Starlord feels closer to Lex. That being said I'm probably the only one who noticed because nobody plays Paladins.

[HelloMrDino]

as someone whose favorite game is overwatch but has played hundreds of hours of paladins....starlord is tracer/reaper from overwatch....ya kinda lex but more like the overwatch characters

[Bokxen]

Jeff is Moji and I main both

[Mochan]

Yeah the game borrows heavily from its two senpai.

[-Kira42-]

And Psylocke has Koga's ultimate. What a game with their own idea.

[Shuyin178]

Or, what if, the characters from Overwatch and Paladins are influenced by Marvel characters and how they operate from their comics and past video games?
Didn't think of that one did you?

[Roland's 2nd]

As a Resonance Ying 'main' (I play like 36 characters but she was easily my best) I guess I should try Loki.

Originally posted by Blackmore:

I know everyone has pointed out the Overwatch ones, but some are definitely Paladins influenced. Loki is Ying, Psylocke is Skye, and I know a bunch of people say Tracer but Starlord feels closer to Lex. That being said I'm probably the only one who noticed because nobody plays Paladins.

I haven't played Psylocke or Starlord but I've fought them and the Psy=Skye argument I can kinda see, but facing Starlord feels nothing like Lex.

After they nerfed Skye's Preparation, Lex quickly became my best flank and he always felt impactful and deadly, whereas Starlord is an annoyance at most.

[Purrsuasive]

Originally posted by Shuyin178:

Or, what if, the characters from Overwatch and Paladins are influenced by Marvel characters and how they operate from their comics and past video games?
Didn't think of that one did you?

given the level of similarities to the heroes' mechanics in overwatch and paladins, that feels like a major stretch. it's not a bad game just because it takes influence/borrows! i really like it

[Blackmore]

Originally posted by Roland's 2nd:

I haven't played Psylocke or Starlord but I've fought them and the Psy=Skye argument I can kinda see, but facing Starlord feels nothing like Lex.

After they nerfed Skye's Preparation, Lex quickly became my best flank and he always felt impactful and deadly, whereas Starlord is an annoyance at most.

Yeah it was kinda a stretch. Mostly said it because Starlord kept getting compared to Tracer, but other than the guns they aren't really alike. Especially in the difficulty; Tracer's one of the frailest and most difficult hero to play in OW and Starlord's pretty simple.

The Lex comparison mostly came because they're both flankers with low skill floors and also have the twin pistols and auto-aim abilities. They also have a dodge move that reloads their weapons (well, in Lex's case it's a card you can equip to make the slide generate ammo).

[Midnight]

Considering that hero shooter genre DNA is heavily mixed with MOBAs (and MMOs) and how many characters are out there you could probably piece any hero kit imaginable together from different games at this point.

And some of it is just general character kit design. We got the usual builder spender, stance dance, primer etc. archetypes. This stuff is universal because it's time tested and works.

[M.M.M.]

Rocket Raccoon = Pip
Magneto = a very, very slow and weak Torvald (They should seriously consider having separate cooldowns for his ally shield and self shield abilities).

[Raynn von Valancius]

Originally posted by M.M.M.:

Rocket Raccoon = Pip
Magneto = a very, very slow and weak Torvald (They should seriously consider having separate cooldowns for his ally shield and self shield abilities).

The 'slow' tag could be applied to many of the characters here, imo. The lack of gap closers and evasion moves is felt across multiple characters in Rivals and not in the other two titles.