Honestly on the whole tracer thing...
There’s a couple of reasons why I don’t want the character in smash. And they don’t have anything to do with the overwatch community, and i don’t have anything against the game personally (never played it, eventually will.)
But...if we’re going to add a character from blizzard, then it absolutely needs to be like a generic WoW character avatar, or one of the main characters from the Warcraft series. WoW is what truly brought blizzard where they are, it’s what led the way through the mmorpg revolution(and ultimately might even have been what killed it...). You can’t discuss an mmorpg without discussing WoW, it created so many of the things that still exist for the genre. If smash is about legendary fighters/characters coming together from big name companies, you just can’t add a blizzard character that isn’t from Warcraft imo, it just wouldn’t feel right. And WoW would also represent a genre that isn’t actually repped in smash yet.
Another reason I don’t feel an overwatch character should be in is cuz....if we’re gonna add a team based fps character, I feel TF2 should get that honor, much for the exact same reasons as a WoW character. TF2 is kinda what pushed the team based fps genre where it’s at, and it was the inspiration for overwatch, so i feel a tf2 character would just be more deserving.
Now, I wanna point out, I really don’t want ANY of those characters in smash, even despite me being a huge fan of WoW over the years.(excited beyond excited cuz of classic) because there’s a ton of other characters, both Nintendo first party, and third party, who are waaaaaaay more deserving. But if I have to choose between an overwatch character, or a WoW or tf2 rep, well, sorry overwatch.
