As a Thing and Rogue main and an overall brawl(and dive) main I want to say that rogue definitely needs buffs. The thing literally does what rogue does but way better and WAY easier. He’s a way better brawler he’s THE brawl tank, he can dive better since he has Battle blitz allowing him to jump right at an enemy while instantly delivering a Haymaker that does a minimum of 100 damage (since Battle blitz inflicts a 20% vulnerability debuff) on top of that he gets up to 100 bonus health per Haymaker (depending on the health of the enemy) he has 2 charges of these leaps so he can stuck to you like glue and if the situation beats crazy he has Yancy Street Dash street dash, a FULLY cc immune u unstoppable movement ability that instantly gives him 200 bonus health not only can he use it as an escape but he can us it to go from diving the enemy backlines to peeling for his own in immediately since the end of the dash has a grounded affect or he can use Yancy Street Dash as an engagement tool and use Embattled Leap to disengage giving his team damage reduction in the process. Because of his Haymaker even with no cooldown (his cooldown are also faster than rogues) he’s still able to actually do things like brawl his Haymaker pierces allowing him to damage multiple people at once and charging his ult insanely fast (he also has a better ult) on top of keeping him feeing tanking because of the bonus health he doesn’t need cooldowns to simply brawl and be a brawl character.
(To summarize, The Thing is wayyyy better than Rogue)
Now to Rogue, things I see as reasonable buffs (other than cooldown reductions or giving her ways to reduce her cooldowns because we always say this) I’d give her what I thought she was gonna have in the first place and that’s life steal they could’ve gave her a mechanic like Junker Queen from overwatch where her ability inflect a debuff that damages the enemy while healing rogue I mean it would make sense for her character and make her allot more tanky you could apply it to her primary fire. Maybe replace her block with some other type of damage reduction rn rogue is THE ONLY tank other than Angela that has to give up offensive pressure for damage reduction other tanks either have a shield that they place down allowing them to attack while it’s up like Emma and Groot or a bubble like Mag and hulk or just flat out damage reduction like The Thing, atleast with Angelas you’re CC immune and the damage charges ALL of her attacks and not just one singular ability that is on a 6 second cooldown and the shield can held way longer.
As a Thing Main who’s been playing the character religiously since he dropped I do believe that Rogue should be better than the thing harder character should be better than easier characters because if they aren’t what would be the point of paying them over the easier characters. Tbh I don’t even know what they wanted Rogue she has all the downsides of both brawl and dive but she doesn’t have the benefits of either, she doesn’t have the sustain or pressure of a brawl character but she doesn’t have good enough mobility or damage of a dive character 🧍🏾♂️