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I tend to agree with this. I'm sure this is a hot take but I feel like the overall general power level of a characters is pretty apparent after a couple weeks of internal testing. I know the game is huge and there are always going to be weird interactions where certain ability/nodes interactions can really buff a characters strength beyond intention, but, personally, I think they can easily determine with a large degree of accuracy the general strength of a champion and the necessity of a buff/nerf pre-release.

if they nerf karolina thats genuinely dumb

Lots to unpack here as per usual:

1. You say that but you were the first to whine and cry when the WoW Abs Man fight was absolutely busted last year lmfao hypocrite much? Of course Serpent being a busted defender doesn't hurt you cause you're a casual player, but if you were actually competitive even if just a little you would not be saying that. Why don't you try climbing up to Arcane or Quantum for once and then tell us what your experience is with all these bs defenders with unavoidable damage?
2. You can design strong defenders and nobody will call them broken. Strong defenders: Photon, Thanos, Kindred, Red Skull, Dust, Onslaught, Arcade, Korg, Thing. BS defenders: Serpent, Bullseye, Capt. Britain, Dark Phoenix, Zola, Yelena, Nico, Domino, Attuma
3. Good luck learning how to counter the bs defenders mentioned in the video because newsflash if you don't have a champ who's straight up immune to their specific type of chip damage or who can prevent that chip damage by countering their abilities which you can't play around with pure skill only, you ain't countering **** you're just dead no matter how good you are. This wasn't a problem back when Attuma and Domino were the only ones but these days half the Meta defenders are bs defenders and they keep creating more. Chip damage is the laziest most mediocre way to create a hard defenders cause you can't do **** to stop that chip damage unless you drafted a hard counter.
4. The only way you look at issues is "hi I'm a noob so I speak from the perspective of a casual noob".

Sure, if you completely ignore gladiator, northstar, arcade, shocker, sandman, Spider Punk, gorr, mantis, viv vision, shuri and attuma. Patriot is also way better after his buff and nowhere close to a dud

Even if you don't class all of them as meaningful, the idea that they're outweighed by nerfs is simply not in line with reality. The nerfs we've had with the rebalance programme are absorbing and Zemo on defense, Bullseye on defense, and spider woman. At a certain point you have to acknowledge that you're simply not talking about reality

I like his style so far. Got an ascended 6* and he’s been fun. At this stage, fun is what I’m looking for since I am mediocre at everything in this game. I can’t get an edge if I was showered with OP champs.

another reason I just explored classic. I am 100% focusing on unit acquisition… still got all the units, kept recoils on, saved 70 units by not flipping them off and on, and blitzed arena milestones while I explored over multiple days.