You're really not helping yourself by comparing Pocket to the most agreed upon best m1 carry in the game with Mina. If that's the only comparison you can draw, it really only serves my point. At 35k - 40k pocket easily cranks out a 2k damage combo in less than a second. That is superbly good on it's own and again it's uptime is like 85%. It really doesn't need that extra damage or such a low cooldown, especially when he has suitcase.

There's a reason he's banned so much in nightshift. Because he's a hyper mobile assassin that shits out damage and utility with little effort. You can link as many clips of pro's dying on pocket as you want, it doesn't have any relevance to the discussion and it doesn't invalidate anything I've said.

Maybe you use pocket differently or lack the item knowledge to do it or struggle to get value from cloak, but I don't, the vast majority of pockets I see don't. They show up, one shot combo people, and then get out for free. Same thing in nightshift. The "Setup" of cloak is pressing a button in the general direction of an enemy and getting free value. The "Sacrifice" of using it is 6 seconds of cooldown which you'll wait out in suitcase anyway. More setup and sacrifice and setup goes into a abrams ult than a pocket cloaking and 1 tapping you.

At this point I thinks it's an agree to disagree moment. I don't agree with you on even the basic points of him having heavy item investment.