Marvel Rivals' latest cash-grab addition Black Cat doesn't just join the roster on April 17 for Season 7.5—she nukes whatever was left of balance with a bloated kit that screams 'power creep on steroids.' This feline felon comes packing a dash with two charges that deals damage on contact while building her Fortune resource, plus a grappling hook to farm more of that micro-economy bullshit mid-fight. Then she pops open a shop wheel with her Gilded Saint to straight-up buy extra abilities like invisibility, portals, cleanses, or team-wide stealth portals. It's not a hero, it's a fucking vending machine with claws.

Players are already calling it 'close enough, welcome back Thanos' because her percentage-based ultimate slashes and CC-immune Phantom Pursuit dashes feel like they ripped pages from the Mad Titan's playbook while tacking on a MOBA shop for good measure. Reddit's losing its mind over the complexity creep—new heroes every month burying the launch roster while this overstuffed Duelist laughs with six purchasable spells on top of her base four plus ult. X is flooded with the same: kits overstuffed, Deadpool's stance-swapping had nothing on this market mechanic.

NetEase keeps pumping these later-season heroes loaded with every toy in the workshop to sell the fantasy, but it's killing the game faster than a bad gacha pull. Old mains are getting powercrept into oblivion, triple support runs wild, and now we've got a cat burglar who can buy her way out of any bad luck. This isn't evolution—it's a bloated obituary for fair matchmaking. Highguard died quicker than this meta will last.