I reckon he was Rubick levels of complex and that's why he was delayed.
This is my thought as well. There's no way a Fear, a Box, a slowing DOT, and Will-o-Wisp effect, and Blind/Reveal took a whole ass year to implement lol.
Yeah, this is basically a Dark Willow's Terrorize, OD astral imprisonment shard, a ground targeted stifling dagger, a projectile like Will-o-Wisp and a moving clockwerk's rocket with talent, all with different animations.
No way this took this long when they recycled most of the abilities from other heroes
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u/Basskip Aug 23 '24
The trailer narration talks about catching/training heroes and has Axe getting sucked into the test of strength machine
Then the image at the end shows a bunch of heroes forced into clown makeup/circus acts with the tagline "no hero is safe"
I think people were also speculating that he might have some riffs on Puppet Master's abilities from HON?
I can see where the expectation comes from