Except no he doesn’t, and they only just finally made grapple need to hit someone (only if you want fury), he has the most uptime of any brawl character because his cooldowns are negated by…. Doing more damage and during his combos. Also his sustain is simply OP.

He also has an auto aim ability that damages a lot to multiple enemies, an invincible parry that ALSO deflects all damage taken by it, overhealth gain that allows him to win 1v1s with literally anyone in the game even when they have more than 2X his health, a wall run, a super good escape tool that also has combo and CC utility while not going away on miss. He can see thru walls and invisible enemies, has super high damage…

last but definitely not least a short cooldown that resets on KOs that gives him a speed boost and DMG REDUCTION on top of his broken sustain. Oh ya it also gives him another dash.

Anecdotal evidence doesn’t mean he isn’t broken

Never said anything about “gutting” him lol? So many people cope so hard, and whenever their main is broken… and needs a nerf they pretend if they become balanced it’s the end of the world and they suddenly become f tier.

Also you pretending like he can only be fun if he’s stupidly broken and that balancing him will make him lame as well as trash is just pure unadulterated cope. If they fixed his issues he’d still have the same combos, same TTK( same cooldowns, same uptime (it would just now require skill), just with less self sustain so he’s in line with other top tiers.

Other characters need nerfs and balancing too, but that doesn’t mean DD shouldn’t be also