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3 theme hits and misses from AMG

 

Will Shick and Will Pagani always say that theme is the most important part when designing a character. And I fully agree with that. I think of the 206 characters currently in the game they have a hit quote of above 90%. Today I want to focus on characters that are good on the table and either fail to represent the character on the board or do an especially good job at it:
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Classic Iron Man is a very good 3 threat Backpoint sitter. He's tough, offers good control and even good damage potential for his threat level. What he isn't, is a character that you'd feel behaves like Iron Man does when you see him in the Comics, Animated series or MCU. 



The Realisation of Ant-Man is absolutely fantastic. He may not sit at the very top of the power curve but he's good at his job and much more important: he's super fun to play because he does exactly what you'd expect Ant-Man to do. Constantly changing size and zooming around the battlefield. Outstanding design. 


Being affiliated in my two most played Affiliations (Asgard and Guardians) Bill is my most played model in the game by quite a margin. And there's absolutely zero argument about his strength in the game and it's not like his design failed completely. It's basically just that you'd imagine him being more damage focused from how he acts in the comics. That said, please don't ever change anything about him AMG 🙏😅 (and chance happening to him would probably tone his unparalleled Durability most likely). 


Bills biggest competitor for the title of best overall 4 threat Shang-Chi plays like a Martial Arts movie which is exactly what he should feel like. Arguments about him being a bit too good at what he does aside his design is absolutely fantastic. 


Hulk is probably the best model in the game threat for threat. His design is probably very much based on the version we see in the (Will Shick recommended) Avengers Assemble animated series*, where's very in control of his actions and emotions. Because the MCP version also feels very much like that and not so much like the ones I know of recent comic runs. 

*You should watch it if you have the time and haven't already. Much better representation of the characters and storylines than any MCU film really. 



Is this whole article just an excuse to gush more about how my favorite character in Marvel has been designed for the game absolutely perfectly? Yes of course. But I'm just so happy about it. Is Rich here at the very top of the curve for 5s? No not really but he's a strong one nevertheless and a very good affiliated choice for the Guardians while playing exactly as you'd imagine he would. Fantastic work on AMGs part once again. 

So as I said at the beginning theme misses from AMG are few and far apart with them also often coming from earlier in the games life cycle where they hadn't as much experience with it as they do now. 

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Cheers from Germany 🍻 




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