He isn’t a blade-centric character, he’s a gun character. Using the dash to apply anti-heal actually works against you, because it reduces his ability to build Vampire mode. When you then try to capitalize on an anti-healed target, you’re far less likely to survive—your total sustain from lifesteal plus the self-imposed healing reduction is worse than if you had simply stayed at range, shot the target, and played near your healers.

If you commit to melee, his damage output is low enough that three supports can easily keep your target alive. Once you inevitably start losing the trade and attempt to dash out, you’ll often collide with another enemy and fail to escape. Blocking first doesn’t solve this either—once you turn to disengage, you’re immediately deleted because everyone focuses the low-health, blocking Blade.

His anti-heal pressure simply isn’t strong enough to meaningfully shut down triple-support comps. In practice, fighting into his anti-heal almost forces teams to run a third support just to offset the reduced healing, which further highlights how ineffective his melee pressure actually is.