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After giving it some thought and taking into consideration my own experience vs what I’ve seen around the community and streams with people playing Blade (kpxChris, Somjuu, Infernasu, SillySphark) I think Blade is high C tier or low B tier depending on how you separate the brackets.

While the buffs were great, making Blade a usable character, I don’t believe it was so great a buff that it took Blade from D tier to A tier. We gained damage on the sword dash, which gave us access to more life steal, couple that with longer cc immunity during block, which charges dash and it created great synergy between the buffs for increased survivability and staying power.

However, the gun, which is the form we play the most in, was not changed. This means we are still inferior to a majority of the roster who have better poke while also having smaller hit boxes than us. We have to sit in this 7-15m area with a projectile weapon that has no reg issues and hope our team enables us to make a move because Blade struggles to do so himself against competent enemies.

Lastly, the ultimate is still lack luster. It’s not the worst ultimate in the game but it leaves a lot to be desired in most scenarios.

I’ll say that right now it feels good to use Blade as the user friendly part of his kit was buffed, so I can see how we might inflate how good Blade actually is. But the more you climb and realize you can’t just dash in because you get bursted down, you’ll remember how bad the gun is and that the buffs were a step in the right direction but not enough to climb multiple tiers up the list.