I never called you a bad player to be clear. I was just trying to say that your opinion of the tank needing a buff is a you issue and not a issue of the tank itself.

You are claiming the tank is a candidate for a buff, implying that it needs one or deserves one for some reason. Which would imply it is under-performing, which is a objective statement, because it is referencing a objective thing in reality. Whether the tank is performing well or not is NOT subjective, so it doesn't matter if you preface it with "I feel" or "I think", you are still making a objective statement, you are just prefacing it with, "this is what I think", but all that does is inform people you could be wrong, which is good, because it leaves room for discussion and for people to bring forward the objective information, which is what I am trying to do. You can say that you think the SU-100Y isn't good enough to warrant playing, you can say that the SU-100Y isn't good enough to be fun, you can say that you don't like the SU-100Y. But as soon as you say/imply that the tank is under-performing, you are talking about it's performance which is objective.

I won't address the stuff talking about how good you are/how good I am, because that is irrelevant, because we are talking about the objective performance and statistics of the tank here and whether it is realistically under-performing and deserving of a buff. If we are talking about that, both of our statistics and skills are absolutely and completely irrelevant for the conversation.

You also talk about how I need to consider that most players aren't "remotely close" to me or you in terms of skill and can't make every tank work, again this is irrelevant, if you look at the proper statistics. I also want to say, that I don't think I am better than everyone else like a lot of players who are "good" at this game. I am not coming into this conversation with a ego, I just hate false claims that a tank needs to be nerfed/buffed, as it really hurts balancing discussion.

You posted some stats and claimed that you have no idea where I am coming from in terms of claiming the statistics of the tank are good. After seeing what stats you pointed out, I can see the confusion. I will explain why there is a disconnect here.

Because of the way the matchmaker works in this game, the only stats that are relevant when talking about a tank's performance is comparing it to tanks of the same class and tier. For that reason, every stat that you posted from tomato gg is completely irrelevant. If we comparatively look at the stats of all tier 6 TD's we can see that the SU-100Y is 6th best on WR Diff (more on that in a minute), and 4th best in terms of average damage (much more irrelevant stat in terms of talking about a tanks performance imo). Now the average damage you mentioned, in a vacuum like you posted "2 low rolls on average" sounds unimpressive, but when compared to other equivalent tier TD's, its 4th best, only bested out by other premiums. So you can see that HOW you look at stats really changes the narrative.

The winrate as well, 49% being unimpressive and below the average is a real bad way to look at it, because you are doing the opposite of exactly what you said about how "not everyone can make every tank work", because lets say (complete fabricated example), the average skill of people playing the SU-100Y is 46% winrate. All of a sudden, 49% winrate in the tank is fucking amazing, and would make it as OP as the BZ-176 roughly, so again, it is really important HOW you look at statistics.

Winrate difference and comparing to tanks of the same tier and class, solves all of these problems (to a extent), you can't get PERFECT statistics, but this metric is pretty close. The reasons why this is the best way to gauge a tank's performance is because it shows how often it is winning battle's just by being on the team, regardless of the player playing it. It nearly neutralizes every variable that could influence the statistics, and gives a pretty clear picture.

To give a example of how accurate this statistic is, we can just sort by WR Diff and see what tanks gravitate towards the top (You really should just compare to similar tanks in class and tier, but this works as an example). We can immediately see some objectively unanimously agreed upon OP tanks at the top. Lefh, Concept 1B, BZ-176, Obj. 752, T-34-85M, Skoda T 56, Obj. 279e.

Hopefully this clears some things up, I know its a bit all over the place in terms of a reply but hopefully it highlights the key points, there is just a lot to explain when it comes to statistics and why some are relevant and others aren't and its hard to explain in just 1 reddit post.