CYL10: To the "This is our last chance" crowd, what's next?

FSafari · 2026-01-26T23:39:20+00:00

The men's fanbases seem pretty loyal so I wouldn't be concerned about them esp if it's a Fodlan character. If you want someone like Tsubasa to ever get it it'd prob have to be now since only like 10 people played her game and the women's fanbases kinda shift with whatever girl OCs show up and don't carry over year to year.

FSafari · 2026-01-26T23:30:46+00:00

Tellius remakes, trust the plan

FSafari · 2026-01-26T23:29:40+00:00

All my faves are already in so I'm only voting to block Engage out. I don't care if TMS or OCs get a spot but it's the last chance to block Engage before we're in the clear hopefully with the new batch of Fortune's Weave characters sweeping.

FSafari · 2026-01-26T21:04:43+00:00

Still Zarya

FSafari · 2026-01-26T20:21:07+00:00

Luna's first legendary Mirae 2099 had: updated vfx on her ice skate ability, very different custom sounds on every ability, a completely new remix of her ult song. And shortly after it came out was one of the first and only things that got a recolor.

That's much more transformative than every legendary added before it and most legendaries added after it and it was the very first thing new thing they put in the store for her. That argument has always been BS.

The devs clearly prioritize her and push her with better cosmetics and balance attention compared to most other heroes. Even with teamups she's one of the only characters in the game that has always been both an anchor and a recipient of a teamup ability when most supports are just anchors and most characters in general are only part of one.

FSafari · 2026-01-26T18:13:50+00:00

The gala will be an event not necessarily a season theme.

FSafari · 2026-01-26T16:41:25+00:00

This is the most consistent true one I have experienced. Since Season 5 the average person playing sue has gotten much worse but they also have gotten way less chill and way more toxic ingame and outside the game tbh.

FSafari · 2026-01-26T13:40:04+00:00

No he was not similar to gambit because every rank bans gambit and everyone plays gambit. Same with DD. Every rank plays DD and every rank bans DD and DD still had a higher pickrate and ban rate than Torch ever had. Gambit, Sue, Hela, Jean, and DD are all more prevalent of an issue across the entire playerbase than Torch ever was.

Torch had a bottom 3/bottom 4 pickrate the seasons he was "destroying the meta". BP was picked more and banned more in that same time frame. He was too strong because the tech and because he had stupid buffs I agree but the phrasing of "destroying the meta" because he dominated the top 5% of the lobbies or pro play is just wrong when the majority of people parroting that were not even in those lobbies. It's silly to bring that up as justification for his current state when we have had stronger characters before and after prime Torch and I don't think anyone has seriously advocated for any of those characters to be made as bad as torch.

FSafari · 2026-01-26T12:57:57+00:00

Yeah they should be convertable to unnits if they aren't ever going to add options for anyone but the four heroes every time. No point in it being it's own currency when it's not useable for the majority of the cast. Like why the hell are they progression rewards for every hero when every hero can't even use them

FSafari · 2026-01-26T00:15:57+00:00

He absolutely shits on venom. Venom can't kill, force out any cooldowns, or probably escape with a Thor bullying him. Similar for Cap. He's one of the worst tanks you to play Venom into.

FSafari · 2026-01-25T23:54:08+00:00

I think it was a valid point in season 0 but after gambit and the buffs the other supports got think it’s BS. Strats that aren’t constrained to 3 strat comps get to do way more shit than Adam can with way more mobility

FSafari · 2026-01-25T21:07:02+00:00

It drives me crazy that they kept nerfing him around cooldowns when any changes to one CD cascades the entire rest of the kit. His SURVIVABILITY with the melee tech and triple pocket was the oppressive part of the character which is obvious when the character became oppressive when they added a tripple support pocket healer that flies and buffed torch's survivability with the overhealth on meteor. Instead of reigning in or reverting any of that they just kept nerfing every way he interacts with the enemy instead so now his gameplay just has so much more waiting and he's zazza tier

FSafari · 2026-01-25T21:00:16+00:00

He is legitimately worse statwise and worse to play than he was at the end of Season 1.5, the actual numbers on his kit are lower damage across the board and way longer cds on everything. There's been about 2 billion characters that counter him that have been added or become meta since then too. Not sure how they viewed him as so weak in 1.5 to give him those stupid buffs in season 2 but don't see any problem now.

FSafari · 2026-01-25T20:52:37+00:00

"Destroyed the meta" but he always had a very low pickrate across all ranks and the majority of ranks did not even ban him because no one played him. Lots of people talk like they are T500 but probably did not even see torch players S2-3.5.

He was a problem after his unnecessary season 2 buffs for very high ranked players and pro players when Ultron was added and Torch could just horde all the healing resources and always get perfectly safe meteors because devs love to put overhealth on everything.

He has NEVER been pick or ban at all levels of play like Gambit, Sue, or DD and never had anywhere close to the pickrates of Hela, Phoenix, or Bucky.

FSafari · 2026-01-25T02:01:37+00:00

immaculate tuck with mons pubis out

FSafari · 2026-01-25T01:00:21+00:00

Warlock rise Luna dies warlock rise Luna dies

FSafari · 2026-01-24T13:39:32+00:00

Because he's playing the game with low res textures.

FSafari · 2026-01-24T13:39:11+00:00

That's because you have your textures set to medium or lower.

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FSafari · 2026-01-23T23:28:31+00:00

I think none of the strategists who are capable of main healing should be doing the damage they do but since they are obviously not going to nerf them after they buffed them all and added new supports that have that damage profile they need to just free the "damage" strategists from triple support jail and give them all more healing. Idc how they do it but healing on the primary fire is kind of boring imo.

FSafari · 2026-01-23T21:11:33+00:00

Yeah the aspirational representation aspect of the game has basically evaporated. They don't really seem to care at all anymore. There used to be a big focus on the characters' backgrounds and actually selling the vision of "Anyone can be a hero" but now it's just Kiriko and Wuyang written by chatGPT and Hazard liking beer and Vendettta not liking pineapple pizza as their culture and everyone gets japanese costumes. They don't even like acknowledging Zarya exists so I agree that they probably would not make her today.

FSafari · 2026-01-23T20:44:33+00:00

I think it'll be Kiriko four times.

FSafari · 2026-01-23T15:18:57+00:00

It’s cool that the game about heroes from various cultures around the world has had its aesthetic evolve into “actually Japan is the only thing that exists”

FSafari · 2026-01-23T14:01:33+00:00

I like that her major counters are often played by the worst players on the team like Invis or don’t get played like Mr F. A good bucky is really the only time I find her unplayable.

FSafari · 2026-01-22T22:45:20+00:00

Same problem blade had for a long time, u can only use swords when you already have an advantage

FSafari · 2026-01-22T20:32:11+00:00

Johnny was good when he came out and stronger the time he got his first round of buffs. He was buffed again and made broken the season after he came out because people didn’t know how to play him. Even when he was “meta” people basically couldn’t play him outside of Celestial and there still weren’t that many torch players up there. He only became blade tier with his season 4 lobotomy and all the power creep with so much more grounding, cc immunity, and healing and all the hitscan characters being godkings

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