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Battleground Meta doesn't need to oscillate between being a nuke meta or being an unplayable meta.

With the amount of strong defenders today, it's enough to have as little interference from nodes as possible in the fight.

You just need to do something extremely simple. You can make an intercept meta where intercepting gives a 20% damage bonus. It doesn't need to be 300%. When you set something that high it becomes frustrating, because you're forced to use the mechanic when there are fights where this isn't possible. Then you manage to have a perfect fight and lose the match because your defender is weaker.

Or you have the ideal fight and the AI ​​doesn't cooperate.

Let's take this meta as an example:

Attackers no longer deal increased damage on defense.

Instead of defenders dealing 300%, they deal 30% damage.

What does this imply? Good players who don't parry much will come out with more health and benefit from taking risks. The guy who wants to play it safe by parrying can parry, knowing that he'll lose more health.

There are other possibilities: When you parry a special, you gain 100% perfect block until the end of the special, after the perfect block expires, you get a 30% fury bonus.
Here's the thing: You can play normally by giving dexterity, but the guy who knows the timing to parry and wants to benefit from it will benefit from taking the risk. You can introduce complexity to the fight by simply giving the option to choose, instead of dictating how we should play.
But no, instead we are in a meta where Serpent drops SP2 and you take less damage if you receive the special than if you block.