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Should Galan get rebalanced/fixed?
Bartolomeo
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Guys, do You think that Galan requires to be balanced up/fixed/nerfed? Is he really that groundbreaking? Only place that he is instantly cut out are the battlegrounds. He hasn't been blacklisted in AW.
Me, as many others I suppose, opened over 20 featured 6* crystals yesterday and I took him straight up to rank 4 sig 200. He is honestly a beast but is he really such a gamebreaking champion that should require to get slaughtered?
Give me Your opinion, I wanna hear as many thoughts as possible.
Me, as many others I suppose, opened over 20 featured 6* crystals yesterday and I took him straight up to rank 4 sig 200. He is honestly a beast but is he really such a gamebreaking champion that should require to get slaughtered?
Give me Your opinion, I wanna hear as many thoughts as possible.
Should Galan get rebalanced/fixed? 116 votes
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No
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That's why I won't R4 Galan until they confirm he's safe from rebalancing.
That being said, at the end of the day, they're going off of the data and from what I've read here, no one has made extensive threads going off of how he's the new go-to for everything over Hercules, CGR, Doom or Kitty, so I like his chances to remain the same. He's definitely a damage dealer but he's not being regarded as the standard.
However, I have seen some absolutely insane takedowns with him that outrival most of what I've seen with other champions. If we look at some other champions from this year, Scorpion can deal insane amounts of damage as well, but he needs both synergies and a long ramp-up for that. Rintrah, meanwhile, can also deal absolutely insane damage but the biggest numbers are reliant on his abysmally low crit chance so it's far from game-breaking. Quicksilver's damage is hidden behind a long ramp-up as well.
What seems to set Galan apart is that he has very quick access to match-ending damage. We have other champions like that as well, but they have their obvious counters. If you try to take CGR or Hulkling against a mystic, chances are that you're going to get nullified to hell and back, only to then get clapped hard. However, Galan is immune to most natural counters. He is kind of similar to Peni Parker in that way - another champion who came out and just flat-out denied most available ways to counter her - but the obvious difference is that Peni has quite a long ramp-up before being able to access her own really high burst damage potential.
We'll see what happens. I wouldn't be shocked if he was balanced down a bit. I don't think his max potential needs to be nerfed, but perhaps the super quick access to fight-ending damage could be looked at. Without having tested him myself, it's quite difficult to say whether he would be a more well-balanced champion by requiring a slightly longer ramp-up; but given what I've seen of him, I at least suspect that that would be the case.
1. His huge burst of damage in short fights isn't new in the cosmic class (CGR)
2. To achieve those record time fights, it requires the opponent to have armor up generation or some kind of consistent power drain that triggers his sig.
3. Any fight thats longer in duration than battlegroundss or AW, he is basically outclassed by other top tier cosmics (CGR, Hulkling, Hyperion, and obviously Hercules)
4. Despite his unique immunities to nullification, he has no otherwise immunity to DOT effects (This does limit fights he can take compared to other cosmics)
Conclusion: If he does get rebalanced in terms of nerfing the burst damage, he must get compensated for some sort of damage buff in mid to long duration fights, otherwise you simply have better options for short duration fights (CGR) and long duration fights (Herc) in the cosmic class.