Analysis: Why We Should Buff More Than Nerf (KI is featured!)

[DEClimax]

IMO a better way to look at it isn’t buffs > nerfs, but rather:

Changes that create more meaningful decisions and more variety of strategies > changes that reduce the number of meaningful decisions and variety of strategies

@Infilament

If I recall correctly, the true meter positive combo forced you to use a team that was so terrible in neutral that if you got hit, you probably deserved to lose the game. I also seem to remember that if you ever landed a hit, you could snap and change the order and scre.w everything up, or if you killed Firebrand, you left the opponent with a weak neutral character with no neutral assist to help them out. So yeah, this was technically possible but I think the team had so many flaws that there was no point in doing it, especially considering other teams could kill a character in one touch and put on a multi-layered mixup effective enough to kill incoming characters and still play good neutral when it didn’t work.

The team was firebrand / repulsor iron man / harmonizer morrigan. Some weird gimmick teams do work–ryanLV’s and kusoru’s come to mind–but that wasn’t one of them. It was especially bad because the video showing the team was called “game breaking concept” and it turned out to be old, recycled tech bolted onto a near-unplayable team for the sake of showing off how it’s technically possible to wipe out a team off one touch. I think it never made it above a 50% like-to-dislike ratio because so many people realized how dumb it was.