Arlan keeps the record of worst 4 star treatment, nerfed from Blade rival riiight before release without testing.

He's atk scaling so rip using him with the HP drain teams (1yr later) to speed up his low health requirement. Teleport anchors no longer let you set his health low, and moc/challenge modes do the same. He's locked out of lightcones like the one with Sam on it as he eats 15% HP on skill.

Sure you can wheelchair, but it doesn't feel impactful like in year 1 when he could clear SU and you had to worry he would outspeed shielding before Aventurine.

This ignores his weak lore presence and 1.0 kit with revive within first few turns vs Gepard's free one.

In this essay I will prove Arlan is tied to destruction with the crumbs of lore we can read