Cahalith

Those are some wood rank takes. Balance is the simplest answer. For example, Storms attack has piercing, meaning it can fire through shields as well as through multiple enemies, plus she is a flyer. Reloading is meant to give players a moment of reprieve from her onslaught. Groot can effectively triple his damage with good wall placement, so again, it gives the enemy a moment to breath. Look at the characters who don't need to reload. Their primary fire does less overall damage than characters that do need to reload.

Do people really have that hard of time telling the characters apart? Their abilities look completely different. As soonas any of them use a primary fire, you will know which one is which.

Unless it just got patched, when I tested how Invisible Womans passive reacted to characters abilities, Squirrel Girls ult still chased after her. Interestingly, stepping on Peni Parkers nest webs will not cause the drones to come after you, but her mines will still explode.

There was a list of like 10 leaked characters out before these additional 5. The issue with these is it gets people thinking the characters are coming soon. Most of these might not make an appearance till next year.

Ultron and Mr. Fantastic are the next 2 coming out as people have data mined their abilities within the game. Thing will be the third, followed by (in no specific order) Blade, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, Emma Frost, and Jean Grey/Phoenix.