>>22766287they grow sidewise instead of lengthwise in this regard, new characters obviously have flashier designs and skills and they do sometimes have special movement abilities that make exploring easier but they never explicitly make other characters obsolete on purpose by adding a character that has the same skills or does the same thing but better, new characters might make some older overpowered team compositions less overpowered by just having new mechanics and unexplored synergies but still if you know what you're doing you will complete all combat challenges without any problem with any characters both old and new and even 5 years later the most used 4 star supports are from the 1.0 version of the game