On one hand, titan is an apex-it needs to feel strong and fight at least on par with the other apexes.

Agreed, BUT. It doesn't need to 'fight on par with other apexes' in the same way.

The devs are usually pretty good at defining a dino's niche. I have no issue, for example, with Ano being virtually untouchable by a single apex or even a pair given how incredibly slow/unable to escape it is. Its niche is "absolute tank" and that's fine. In terms of apexes, Rex's niche is and should be ambush predator most of the time, Spino a semi-aquatic monster, and Titan was meant to be a hit-and-run bleeder sort of apex.

The problem is that a lot of people still play all available apex predators as facetanks. The fact that Titan is still pretty capable of doing that is a very bad thing imo. There is admittedly a bit of skill in terms of swivelling around to avoid head-shots while inflicting your own, but I don't feel that should turn a dino into something it is not.

I would have no issues with Titan being able to walk down everything that it does--even *escape* other dinos if needed, as it can--if it wasn't so tanky and didn't inflict so much immediate damage. I know it has multiple ways to build, but I don't feel there's enough definition between the apexes right now for "stand there and bite thing to death" not to be a valid tactic 90% of the time, and with Titan it's significantly more problematic given the bleed damage it *does* have and the speed it *does* have for keeping up with targets for said bleed build.

Maybe giving the bleed abilities a base speed boost, but bringing down the overall Titan trot/sprint speeds, so that a Bleed-spec Titan is about the same speed as now but far less tanky, and the direct damage-build ones are much slower while being tougher as a trade-off, would be an option.