History YMMV / DisneyHeroesBattleMode

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: In the Campaign modes, checking the enemy character stats at the results screen reveals that all of their skills are equal to their level. The problem? For the player, the blue (3rd) and purple (4th) skills are capped at 20 and 40 levels below the character level respectively. This doesn't have too much of an impact on skills that merely have a success rate dependent on skill level relative to target level, but on skills that outright increase stats it results in a massive increase.[[labelnote:example]] For a Mr. Incredible at level 100, assuming all skills are at max level. For the player, his blue skill increases his basic attack by around 1.5k when at half health and his purple skill increases his health by around 50k. For the computer, the increase is 3k and 208k respectively. Which explains his immense health.[[/labelnote]]

*** On that note, Mr. Big & Koslov were certainly an unexpected addition, considering Mr. Big a rather minor character in the movie, and Koslov [[NamedInTheAdaptation didn't even have a name]]. And that's not even considering how unviable for combat they would seem to be.

** While most of the Animated Canon characters are from either recent releases or beloved classics, there are some more obscure picks in there like ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' and ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' in particular, while {{Cult Classic}}s, were notorious flops that almost ''never'' get referenced by Disney.

** In regards to characters pulled from Disney's live-action movies, not many players felt that there was much else for the roster to go outside of continuing to draw from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' and ''Franchise/{{TRON}}'' (Disney's two most popular live-action properties and, for the longest time, the only two live-action film series characters were drawn from), so it turned a lot of heads when the eponymous character of ''Film/TheRocketeer'', one of Disney's lesser-known live-action films, was added to the roster.

*** [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast The Beast]] definitely qualifies as this as his Super allows him to rapidly attack while being unable to be KO'd while ''also'' healing himself with each critical hit (which happens to be ''every'' hit he deals.)

** In regards to characters pulled from Disney's live-action movies, not many players felt that there was much else for the roster to go outside of continuing to draw from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' and ''Franchise/{{TRON}}'' (Disney's two most popular live-action properties and, for the longest time, the only two live-action film series characters were drawn from), so it turned a lot of heads when the eponymous character of ''Film/TheRocketeer'' was added to the roster.

* ThatOneSidequest: Any Friendship Campaigns involving Miguel or Joy are a lot harder to get started due to neither of them dealing damage on their own. Consequently, whoever they're paired with has to do all of the heavy lifting to get through the first five levels where it's just the two of them. It eases up a bit in subsequent chapters where auxiliary heroes become available, but it's still an uphill struggle. Joy and Olaf's campaign, in particular, is widely considered to be one of the most frustrating friendship campaign of the game, as even with all of their stats maxed out and their best Friendship Disks they will still struggle to get past the first several stages due to Olaf only dealing immense amounts of damage under specific circumstances along with Joy's aforementioned inability to damage enemies on her own. It's especially frustrating as the disk you get from this campaign is generally regarded to be Joy's most useful one (due to it increasing the defense of all allies five times at the start of every battle). So notably difficult was their Friendship campaign that when items meant to alleviate campaign difficulty were introduced in patch 2.4, they were demonstrated in the patch notes using Joy and Olaf's campaign.

*** Most characters (including many of the ones listed above) get hit by PowerCreep and hit the low end of the spectrum over time as stronger and better heroes get added, but [[WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective Basil]] was unlucky enough to get hit by this right out of the gate for reasons that came down entirely onto his overall design as a character rather than his ability to stack up to the current meta. He is a character based around inflicting the "Study" status upon characters (i.e. making them more vulnerable to normal damage for a period of time), but whereas most characters with this capability inflict this status on all characters at once, Basil can only do this to a few characters at a time, making him much less useful than other Study-based characters. Most of his skills are rather poorly designed as well: His White Skill targets the enemy with the least HP and Studies them for three seconds. In theory it was likely meant to be sort of a finishing move, but in play it just feels like wasted move that could have easily racked up damage on the enemy with the ''most'' HP instead, on top of the absolutely pitiful length of the Study and being useless if the targeted character is immune to normal damage (i.e. Brutes) or invincible. His Blue Skill has a ridiculously long cooldown time (a whopping ''fifteen'' seconds when most characters' other skill cooldowns don't last any longer than ten), ensuring that it'll get used maybe twice per wave at best. The coupe de grace is his Purple skill, which grants him energy whenever an enemy is studied (including by himself) and ensures that he will be stuck using his white skill over and over again and be unable to use his other skills (especially his Blue skill). All of this is bad enough on its own, but the prevalence of Bunsen & Beaker a couple months later would doom him to bottom tier[[note]]they counter him perfectly by being immune to studies for the first 10 seconds of each wave and the nature of Beaker's clones allow them to absorb Basil's White Skill with no damage done to Bunsen[[/note]] His Friendship Disks make him marginally better, but not enough for players to not regard Basil as a terribly designed character who is in ''desperate'' need of a design overhaul.

*** Most characters (including many of the ones listed above) get hit by PowerCreep and hit the low end of the spectrum over time as stronger and better heroes get added, but [[WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective Basil]] was unlucky enough to get hit by this right out of the gate for reasons that came down entirely onto his overall design as a character rather than his ability to stack up to the current meta. He is a character based around inflicting the "Study" status upon characters (i.e. making them more vulnerable to normal damage for a period of time), but whereas most characters with this capability inflict this status on all characters at once, Basil can only do this to a few characters at a time, making him much less useful than other Study-based characters. Most of his skills are rather poorly designed as well: His White Skill targets the enemy with the least HP and Studies them for three seconds. In theory it was likely meant to be sort of a finishing move, but in play it just feels like wasted move that could have easily racked up damage on the enemy with the ''most'' HP instead, on top of the absolutely pitiful length of the Study and being useless if the targeted character is immune to normal damage (i.e. Brutes) or invincible. His Blue Skill has a ridiculously long cooldown time (a whopping ''fifteen'' seconds when most characters' other skill cooldowns don't last any longer than ten), ensuring that it'll get used maybe twice per wave at best. The coupe de grace is his Purple skill, which grants him energy whenever an enemy is studied (including by himself) and ensures that he will be stuck using his white skill over and over again and be unable to use his other skills (especially his Blue skill). His Friendship Disks make him marginally better, but not enough for players to not regard Basil as a terribly designed character who is in ''desperate'' need of a design overhaul.

** While most of the Animated Canon characters are from either recent releases or beloved classics, there are some more obscure picks in there like ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' in particular, while a CultClassic, was a notorious flop that almost ''never'' gets referenced by Disney.
** It's highly unlikely anyone expected any of Franchise/TheMuppets to be in the game, due to the playable roster having up to then stuck almost exclusively to characters from Disney Animated Canon or Pixar movies (with a few characters from live-action Disney movies sprinkled in). Even more surprising is that Kermit the Frog wasn't even among the initially available characters. (A Dev Q&A stated that Kermit was in development before being cut due to issues with his walking animation; but they're open to trying again and [[https://discourse.disneyheroesgame.com/t/live-chat-7-3/1119904/96 may take a user's suggestion to make him stationary]].)

* UnderusedGameMechanic: Character costumes. Despite being an interesting way to represent each character's history and having a unique collectable item (thread pieces) involved in unlocking them, the concept has been mostly abandoned since 2019 and [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]], the one character to get a major design change since then, was merely updated to her use ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2'' appearance without a way to actually choose her original design since then.

** Of all the ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' characters in the game besides Nick and Judy, Chief Bogo is one of the major supporting characters, and Finnick, while still very minor, is a [[EnsembleDarkhorse huge fan-favorite]] and Nick's partner-in-crime. Yax on the other hand is a joke character from a joke scene, and even his one major contribution to the movie's plot is presented as a joke. He's also technically one of the most NSFW characters from [[Creator/{{Disney}} a company notorious for making most of its products family-friendly]], due to the fact that he's a straight-up nudist, though he does get some leeway because...[[AnimalsLackAttributes y'know]]. What's more, while him getting in at all would still be a surprise, he was part of the ''launch roster'', meaning he got in over all of the other, more popular characters that would be added in later on.

*** Upon his debut, the [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Cheshire Cat]] quickly became infamous for how utterly busted his damage output was. Not only do his Head Stand and Head Toss abilities deal a ludicrous amount of damage (to the point where, despite being designated as a Control hero, the Cat actually deals more damage than the designated Damage heroes), despite being [[GlassCannon relatively frail]] he can easily [[HealThyself heal himself]] back to full health with his A Good Laugh skill, and his red skill actually allows him to hurt anyone who attacks him by sapping their energy, meaning he's extremely difficult to kill too. All of this makes for a hero who can easily one-shot most of the cast one-on-one while taking very little damage in return, and by far one of the best heroes in the game ''period''.

** Messages about Arena and Coliseum merges and splits can be seen as just mailbox clutter that says the same things every time and requiring two separate presses to dismiss. At least in the lower ranks or with less active players, they show up ''very'' often, as long as the player avoids tapping either the Arena or Coliseum on the main screen. The Collect All button even failed when it was introduced if these messages are all a player had in the mailbox. Similarly, notifications about the Heist mode used to clutter the chat window.

** Messages about Arena and Coliseum merges and splits can be seen as just mailbox clutter that says the same things every time and requiring two separate presses to dismiss. At least in the lower ranks or with less active players, they show up ''very'' often. The Collect All button even failed when it was introduced if these messages are all a player had in the mailbox. Similarly, notifications about the Heist mode used to clutter the chat window.

*** Upon his debut, the [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Cheshire Cat]] quickly became infamous for how utterly busted his damage output was. Not only do his Head Stand and Head Toss abilities deal a ludicrous amount of damage (to the point where, despite being designated as a Control hero, the Cat actually deals more damage than the designated Damage heroes). And while he's [[GlassCannon relatively frail]], he can easily [[HealThyself heal himself]] back to full health with his A Good Laugh skill, and his red skill actually allows him to hurt anyone who attacks him by sapping their energy, meaning he's extremely difficult to kill too. All of this makes for a hero who can easily one-shot most of the cast one-on-one while taking very little damage in return, and by far one of the best heroes in the game ''period''.

*** While PowerCreep has caused most of the starter heroes (with the possible exceptions of most of the Incredibles) [[CantCatchUp to be left in the dust]] as more characters are brought in, none have been as adversely affected as [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} Yax]], who is near-universally considered to be the worst character in the game, due to being good for healing all allies at once [[CripplingOverspecialization and not much else]]. His attacking ability is mediocre at best, [[SquishyWizard he absolutely cannot take a hit]], and many other characters that you unlock later can do the things that Yax can do much, much better. All this makes for [[MasterOfNone an utterly awful character who isn't good at anything and not even his one niche cannot salvage him completely]]. Once you have a better support hero like Violet, Joy, Miguel, or Mickey Mouse, you'll likely have no need whatsoever to go back to using Yax.

** Expect whoever is considered to be the latest top-tier character(s) to fill out many a [=PvP=] team. Early on, Quorra, Olaf, and Sully were considered a must for anyone's team, and Randall was an especially infamous case of this right after his debut in the game.

*** [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Randall]] managed the impressive feat of topping even ''Jafar'' (who was already infamously OP as noted above) in the sheer amount of "overpowered" complaints, and once you've had to face him in a fight, it isn't hard to see where the complaints come from. As would be expected from him, most of Randall's moves and skills are based around his camouflage abilities, and when he's invisible he is untargetable and takes less damage overall. And he can be ungraded to be invisible ''at the start of every battle'' as early as his Green Skill. His Purple Skill also enables him to revive with a chunk of health while also invisible once per battle, and his ability to inflict the Scare status on enemies and deal extra damage to them puts those of Mike and Sully's to shame. Combine all of this with his Red Skill[[labelnote:*]]that increases his speed when invisible and makes him turn invisible whenever he takes a certain amount of damage in one hit[[/labelnote]] and two very powerful Friendship Disks[[labelnote:*]]Yzma's makes Randall's first few basic attacks deal True damage and eliminates buffs from the enemies he attacks while Gaston's grants Randall a health boost and invincibility for 7 seconds after he uses his White Skill[[/labelnote]], and you get a character who wins in pretty much ''every'' aspect no matter what mode he's used in. Randall turned the game's meta completely upside down due to how (when fully upgraded) he is able to solo a fully-upgraded team of six with little issue and basically turned the Arena into more of a "who-has-the-strongest-Randall" contest. It says a lot that a user on the game's [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] noted for compiling tier-lists for all the characters in the game [[https://www.reddit.com/r/DisneyHeroesMobile/comments/dyl8qq/hero_tier_list_pvp_patch_114_red2_level_145/ not only still ranked Randall as a top tier character]] a month after his release into the game but, when asked, also noted that they would have put Randall in his own tier above everyone else (not unlike Meta Knight in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'') if they had wanted to. Attempts to nerf Randall in subsequent patches did little to dethrone him as king of the game's meta until Friendship Disks (Magica's Megavolt disk) and characters (such as Jumba and the Cheshire Cat) designed with the express purpose of countering Randall and other invisible enemies (but mostly Randall) debuted in the game, and even then he is still considered one of the best characters in the game bar-none. Even [=PerBlue=] themselves gave a nod to Randall's infamy by having one challenge require winning a certain number of battles ''without using him''.

* ThatOneSidequest: Any Friendship Campaigns involving Miguel or Joy are a lot harder to get started due to neither of them dealing damage on their own. Consequently, whoever they're paired with has to do all of the heavy lifting to get through the first five levels where it's just the two of them. It eases up a bit in subsequent chapters where auxiliary heroes become available, but it's still an uphill struggle. Joy and Olaf's campaign, in particular, is widely considered to be one of the most frustrating friendship campaign of the game, as even with all of their stats maxed out and their best Friendship Disks they will still struggle to get past the first several stages due to Olaf only dealing immense amounts of damage under specific circumstances along with Joy's aforementioned inability to damage enemies on her own. It's especially frustrating as the disk you get from this campaign is generally regarded to be Joy's most useful one (due to it increasing the defense of all allies five times at the start of every battle).

*** Friendship missions to gain memories no longer required multiple heroes in order to run, only the two involved in the friendship (meaning no longer having to wait for other missions to complete in order to run another because one character is already busy with one). Missions also automatically restart (so long as you can stay on top of claiming the rewards from them), no longer require valuable badge bits to run, and will always be successful regardless of your characters' levels (though they ''will'' take a significantly shorter amount of time to complete the further leveled up they are).

** High: In general, many characters debut in the game in ridiculously powerful states with few existing characters who can reliably counter them, with later characters often being designed to counter them (or at least their more annoying abilities). That being said, a few characters stand out among the rest:

** After getting her moveset overhauled as part of a Hero Refresh, The Queen of Hearts went from being not too terribly difficult to deal with in Friendship Campaigns to being an utter nuisance due to her reworked Blue Skill being all too capable of [[CycleOfHurting stun-locking]] the front-most character until either the clock runs out or she and any remaining enemies finish your character off if not all of the characters used in the campaign are powered up enough to KO her quickly. She can especially be a pest in the Friendship Campaigns involving Pooh due to her {{no sell}}ing the slowing effects of Pooh's honey and usually being paired off with a character capable of stuns and/or charms like Gaston who can stall out Pooh and his allies long enough for the Queen's Blue Skill to activate and stun-lock the poor bear to kingdom come.

*** [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Randall]] managed the impressive feat of topping even ''Jafar'' (who was already infamously OP as noted above) in the sheer amount of "overpowered" complaints, and once you've had to face him in a fight, it isn't hard to see where the complaints come from. As would be expected from him, most of Randall's moves and skills are based around his camouflage abilities, and when he's invisible he is untargetable and takes less damage overall. And he can be ungraded to be invisible ''at the start of every battle'' as early as his Green Skill. His Purple Skill also enables him to revive with a chunk of health while also invisible once per battle, and his ability to inflict the Scare status on enemies and deal extra damage to them puts those of Mike and Sully's to shame. Combine all of this with his Red Skill[[labelnote:*]]that increases his speed when invisible and makes him turn invisible whenever he takes a certain amount of damage in one hit[[/labelnote]] and two very powerful Friendship Disks[[labelnote:*]]Yzma's makes Randall's first few basic attacks deal True damage and eliminates buffs from the enemies he attacks while Gaston's grants Randall a health boost and invincibility for 7 seconds after he uses his White Skill[[/labelnote]], and you get a character who wins in pretty much ''every'' aspect no matter what mode he's used in. Randall turned the game's meta completely upside down due to how (when fully upgraded) he is able to solo a fully-upgraded team of six with little issue and basically turned the Arena into more of a "who-has-the-strongest-Randall" contest. It says a lot that a user on the game's [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] noted for compiling tier-lists for all the characters in the game [[https://www.reddit.com/r/DisneyHeroesMobile/comments/dyl8qq/hero_tier_list_pvp_patch_114_red2_level_145/ not only still ranked Randall as a top tier character]] a month after his release into the game but, when asked, also noted that they would have put Randall in his own tier above everyone else (not unlike Meta Knight in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'') if they had wanted to. Attempts to nerf Randall in subsequent patches did little to dethrone him as king of the game's meta until Friendship Disks (Magica's Megavolt disk) and characters (such as Jumba and the Cheshire Cat) designed with the express purpose of countering Randall and other invisible enemies (but mostly Randall) debuted in the game, and even then he is still considered one of the best characters in the game bar-none.

*** Rex is yet another character ruined by PowerCreep, and is now seen as another candidate for worst character in the game, let alone worst Tank class hero. Not only have other, far better characters essentially made him obsolete (with his only niche being dealing increased damage to shields), but as is, his ability to damage enemies has not been scaled to match that of more recent heroes and is thus absolutely ''pitiful'' compared to even other early characters. This was only highlighted more when other pre-''Toy Story 4'' characters like Woody and Jessie were buffed via Hero Refresh or being given their Red Skills.

** If you are running multiple friendship missions at once and end up missing a component for one or more of them if/when you go to start them over, the game will not let you restart ''any'' of the missions unless/until all components for all of the missions you are running are available. If you have no means to get the missing component at that moment, you will either have to spend gems or, more annoyingly, the game will cancel out of the restart mission dialog and you will have to manually restart all of your other friendship missions because of the one mission you couldn't restart.