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Or just like, learn the spacing. If you dash back from the door and launch the special most of the time they're going to stay on it even if they're right at the far edge

1. The SP1 covers a large portion of the stage meaning that you will be highly likely to knock the opponent far from the Green Door even if you space yourself away from him.

2. Intercepting the opponent when you want them to has always been a reliable feature.

3. You are nearly guaranteed to lose out of some of the Green Door Degeneration trying to space yourself perfectly from the Door to try and knock the opponent into the Door with your special attacks.

4. Actually having the opponent be predictable has always been a reliable feature too.

5. The Green Door visual is inconsistent as I have noted there are some "dead spots" at or near the edge where the opponent would seem to be over the Green Door when actually they're not, a dormant Root icon would easily fix that as it would clarify

6. The Leaders damage can be rather inconsistent due to all these above factors. Granted you will use him not for the Green Door damage but his Spectres, Withers and Power Dissolve but at that point why would you have the Green Door if the kit tends to keep the opponent off it. Adding a root will make him far more consistent.

Don't patronise me with the "or and" and pretend like The Leader is perfect as is, he has his place but this is more about fixing his mildly contradictory style of play. If you play Leader you would understand that is more or less something he would be better with than without.

To points 1 and 6, honestly I barely use Leader’s sp1. Leader already deals twice the damage the opponent would Regen if you maintain max stacks of Spectres, which is easy even without sp1. The Vitality is pretty short and in any matchup with Regen where you’d theoretically care about it, either the Regen is strong enough that the opponent is gonna die very soon and Vitality is overkill or it’s weak enough that you’re better off playing Leader normally and just treating the Regen reversal as is as supplementary damage. I think the sp1 having such large pushback is actually a good part of Leader’s overall kit; it’s a good way to get yourself out of the corner and back onto the Green Door on offense, and on defense it makes it difficult to push Leader back to the wall where you can simply ignore the threat of the Green Door’s Degen.

I just feel like petitioning for Root for Leader isn’t worth the trouble. It’s a strict buff sure, but why bother? In your main post you brought up how Ibom got Inequity counter added in, but that was an actually sizable buff that significantly raised his ceiling in PvP modes. Adding a Root to Leader’s specials would barely increase his ceiling if at all, and it honestly doesn’t lower the skill floor as much as you seem to think it will either because the Green Door damage just isn’t something Leader needs to optimize; in matchups where you care about using sp1 or sp2, the Green Door damage is supplementary. As it currently is you probably will lose out on a few ticks of Degen from the Door trying to space around his sp1 or sp2, but missing out on those few ticks barely matters in a lot of circumstances. I just think that if I wanted to buff Leader that I’d have several different things I’d like to see touched before even considering adding Root.