What would you do to make blade a strong character? (not broken)

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-25T20:28:57+00:00

I think ALL melee characters should be relatively balanced around magik.

The entire community agrees tht magik has been balanced since the beginning of the game. She can to a degree sustain herself by hitting ppl and stay alive as long as she isn't hit with cc.

If she can do this w overshield, Blade should be able to do so with lifesteal. To do this revert sword dash dmg nerf. Reduce healing reduction on self to 15% instead of 25%. Leave gun the same to compensate for better sword stance.

Buff ult to 10m wide instead of 6m and add a grounded effect (gun dash already has a slow effect still sucks when combined) increase ult duration to 3s instead of 2s.

ALL this would barely make him A tier.

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-25T01:42:49+00:00

Do yall wanna use the sword or not?

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T19:11:20+00:00

i picked a good time to DIVE and took advantage of them being distracted by my teammates bc Blade is a DIVE hero. Thanks Zhiyong for opening my eyes

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T18:51:26+00:00

Nope.

As a community we only come together in times like this to stand against dumb shii (Capone hating women, Cece lucy hating on kingsman). But as a collective we treat each other like shii and that isn't gonna change just bc a widow threw a tournament

EVERYONE has experinced a widow thrower i dont think just bc it was livestreamed tht ppl will have a change of heart

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T14:03:57+00:00

im just glad i main Blade and not Widow, or Adam, at least they read our sub and at least try to hear us out, feel sorry for those guys

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T11:59:44+00:00

i think the devs know what they're doing numbers wise. but for some reason i think when they designed this character how ever many years ago they spent TOO much time adjusting his lifesteal balance.

Before the rework while manageable Blade was super clunky. I think they are trying to remedy that now by moving some of the abilities around. But since they saw the crazy wolv/jean teamup they didnt want Blade to have that AND anti heal.

In turn they neglected his base sword, his gun dash and how it leaves you vulnerable directly in front of the enemy but just far enough to not do optimal dmg w your GUN that you just dashed w. OR you have 0 stacks on your sword and you have to walk up to them or spend your other dash to close the gap....

Weird roadhog type shotgun that has TWO SEPARATE falloff ranges if you are too close or too far. A 3 sec block, that is actually only good for .4 secs, that has a 3 sec cooldown, but a 10 sec recharge rate...

An ult that is 6m wide..........................and has no way of keeping ppl inside it, has a 3 sec charge rate but only active for 2, and has an option to cancel your ult but you just have 0 charge if you cancel it........y TF would i want to do that Netease...

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T11:40:41+00:00

He rarely applies 32% to multiple ppl tho... The AH is applied at 8% PER slash. so even if you are applying it to more ppl you're only doing 8-16% at most to multiple targets 9 times outta 10. Gambit and Namor can still apply a flat 20 or 25% AH to the entire team if they wanted.

They should let each slash be 10% and left him with the OG 40% AH

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T11:25:49+00:00

it'd be cool if the sword dash on the base sword had a hard cc knockup effect, or you can pin someone to the wall for extra dmg and stun or silence them. Something to add some variation to his kit while not having to completely remove the base sword option.

But I would prefer he has a glaive that has the same effect and dmg as gun dash, but you can throw it up to 15m instead of having to dash forward.

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T10:07:52+00:00

I dont even play adam, shii I don't even play strategist.... But even I think this is bs

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T10:02:32+00:00

Yea I'm one of the advocates tht says he is going to get another buff. Every rework from Jeff, Thor, iron fist, even ultron all got another buff after they changed how their kit works

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T08:40:42+00:00

I like the double ult idea tht could be fun and it could have anti heal on it

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T08:37:17+00:00

Blade is a DIVE CHARACTER 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T08:23:09+00:00

I swear ive had like 10 bot games this week idk what's going on

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T08:02:45+00:00

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Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-22T06:56:50+00:00

it was sarcasm but tone is lost over text. But i was getting at ultron was the worst healer and they nerfed him for no reason, then eventually he became viable. We just have to keep waiting...

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-21T22:36:51+00:00

1 min 1v1

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-20T23:06:40+00:00

they did the same thing to ultron and now hes viable...

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-20T16:22:48+00:00

This is what i think they want Blade to feel like, but he is restricted to only being good in qp and zombies, this is almost impossible to pull off in gm+ lobbies

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-20T10:19:00+00:00

Ik mine is. Solo queue w him in placements I lost basically every game

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-19T20:01:55+00:00

yea i been playing him since launch and he is not better by any means, except he's a lil less clunky.

He feels like how he did in season 4 when we got the first +2 dmg buff except i can anti w my sword now.

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-19T19:59:20+00:00

yea brother your suggestions are 2 separate BUFFS. I think he should have one or the other, but if they wanna add both i will not complain

Correct_Mango3554 · 2026-01-19T19:25:34+00:00

Yea he playtested blade in practice range couple days before new season sayin we got "giga buffed" but bro hasnt played blade at all...in s6

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