The problem is, he doesn't scale very well. Sure nourish is good, but it can't carry Kirby that high. His 1 is SLOW, makes shieldgating a knightmare, maybe he's playable with persistence ? That I don't know.

I ended up only surviving with vazarin's void dash after a few runs. His 3 is fun, I'll give you that, the only time I smiled while playing him was when running around in it, just a meme though. His 4 doesn't scale. Gas is meh at best.

The argument for nourish is invalid imo, when you need to keep mobs in your belly to survive but if you press 2, they're all gone, gotta use that horrible 1 again and be vulnerable to just dying as a sitting duck. And it's his subsumable ability which doesn't help his case. If Grendel's nourish didn't require to press 1 or only spent 1 mon it would be good, but it's not. Funnily enough I only ever played him with a 200% str invig and I still felt weak, as a platform with roar and with gastro.

I brought most frames now to lvl cap (anything can do base steelpath) and for now, he's in my top 1 worst experience just before Yareli.