There's a difference, however, between "showing moves that don't seem to make sense, but pay off later" and "not showing the moves at all, and just pulling a resolution out of your Djalla"
Perfect example: Season 1. The People are invading. The Golden City is in peril (over a handful of guys, but I digress).
The Panther reveals a never-before-seen ability to summon the spirits of the dead with the help of Manifold. In
theory this could be explained by his KOTD powers... but those hadn't been mentioned in the volume yet either, and there's no way to point a new reader at the earlier story.
Or, in Season 2: The final boss comes out of nowhere. There's literally NO evidence he's involved in the mystery of who is behind the Originators until he shows up.
And now, in Season 3... the fleet is defeated with a suicide weapon that we never even heard mention of until this very issue. It's not even T'Challa's plan, since (AFAWK) he doesn't even KNOW about it... he's too busy battling ghosts because some spectral old biddy told him he had to.
Great hidden strategy that: Do whatever the women tell him to do: