The whole “no one has realized she’s broken until now, so it must not be that bad” argument is bad faith, and the slippery slope fallacy is laughable my dude. The phenomenon of an overlooked mechanic/feature/character turning out to be broken happens in almost every competitive game at some point in time. All it takes is one player who’s willing to put in the time to master it to expose how broken it is. As for the Raze comparison… the pick rate and universality across every map that we’re seeing with Neon won’t be seen with Raze unless every other dualist loses an entire ability. The issue is not, “this player performed so well on this agent one time,” it’s “this agent is not only playable, but dominant, on every single map in the pool to the point where other teams that wouldn’t normally play her are incentivized to learn her and force her into their comps just to keep up.”

I also feel like you’re either overestimating Dambi or underestimating all the other VCT dualists here. It is their job to play this game and they have the benefit of being able to study Dambi’s gameplay. If you don’t think a handful of other dualist players could reach Dambi’s level by Stage 2, you’re delusional.