I leave him out because I would rather stick another good option in his place rather than only have a deck of 29. I have a deep enough roster that I’m not sticking in a bad option to replace him, I’ve got 30 champs that I am happy to have show up in my draft.
You ask a question in your last paragraph that I think gets to the heart of this (I’m not quoting your whole previous answer for the sake of not cluttering the thread). You ask “why artificially limit the meta,” which shows a misunderstanding of the core concept. The entire objective of any meta is to impose limits. Any meta that doesn’t do that is pointless. Those limits can take multiple forms. Safeguard with Force it Will is a hard limiter, you need red number damage to get around it. Red Scare is a soft limiter, it encourages using champions from a specific pool, but doesn’t punish you if you don’t.
If not for the hard limits, anybody could unga bunga through with whatever champion is currently hitting for a billion damage per eye contact with the opponent (it’s Hercules, I’m talking about Hercules). And the soft limit encourages creative thinking and ranking.
Limits are good. Kabam is exploring using boosts rather than punishments, and I think that’s cool.
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You ask a question in your last paragraph that I think gets to the heart of this (I’m not quoting your whole previous answer for the sake of not cluttering the thread). You ask “why artificially limit the meta,” which shows a misunderstanding of the core concept. The entire objective of any meta is to impose limits. Any meta that doesn’t do that is pointless. Those limits can take multiple forms. Safeguard with Force it Will is a hard limiter, you need red number damage to get around it. Red Scare is a soft limiter, it encourages using champions from a specific pool, but doesn’t punish you if you don’t.
If not for the hard limits, anybody could unga bunga through with whatever champion is currently hitting for a billion damage per eye contact with the opponent (it’s Hercules, I’m talking about Hercules). And the soft limit encourages creative thinking and ranking.
Limits are good. Kabam is exploring using boosts rather than punishments, and I think that’s cool.