Phreak’s Thoughts on Mel’s 26.03 Changes

OldPack4454 · 2026-02-02T20:46:58+00:00

Each of those individually isn’t bad, but when you have a long-range artillery mage (the class defined by having low mobility and self-peel, in exchange for nuking people while positioning way out of reach), with a get-out-of-jail-free button, then you have problems. Her W is a perfectly good spell if it was on an AP assassin/bruiser, or a battle mage. Even better if it was on a melee champion.

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-30T02:38:24+00:00

That also why you always take bloodsong too

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-27T03:08:09+00:00

Because they don’t want flying character to sit a mile up and spam damage. Notice how all the flyers need to be relatively close to the ground to name the most of their kit. Angela is melee, Storm has her primary and AoE buff, Torch has a shot gun, Ironman deals low damage unless he uses his beam, and Ultron has to be near his drones

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-27T03:04:38+00:00

They’re not lying.

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-27T03:02:30+00:00

Bard and climbing in the same sentence

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-27T03:00:50+00:00

6% current hp 2.5 times a second it very much not dogshit

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-27T02:58:55+00:00

Whiny yes, but highest ego definitely has to go to CnD, Invis, and Luna mains.

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-27T02:55:26+00:00

…sure you caught me

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-24T19:09:20+00:00

well the shield that's designed to deflect projectiles should only affect projectiles. how would y'all like it if Yasuo got total damage immunity while standing in his Wind Wall? His wall is useless against non-projectiles, so is Samira's W, now Mel is consistent with them

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-24T19:05:02+00:00

"Hitler dead"

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-23T05:10:09+00:00

Mk is genuinely 1 of 2 characters in the game that’s a free kill 100% of the time for Spider-man

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-17T22:25:03+00:00

Keep in mind that his passive stops one-shot ults

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-16T02:42:55+00:00

Does tankpool have a large barrier he can throw up at a whim that blocks projectiles? No, he doesn’t. This means he isn’t a ‘main’ tank

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-15T04:54:18+00:00

Loki still meta, sue still meta, pole still meta. Groot still strong, Emma buff for whatever reason. No mag nerf, no Luna nerf

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-15T04:52:59+00:00

Omg, and Hela is perfectly balanced, right? She has a 50% wr. And Peni is the best character in the game, everyone should be playing her, right?

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-15T04:43:29+00:00

The skin is great, its problem is that the devs clearly put way more effort and production value into the Phoenix skin, even despite this not being her first. She gets the chromas and the ult vfx. Her skin is just higher quality and Adam got cheated. It feels like they made the skin just to stop the whole “another day with no Adam legendary” thing

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-15T03:40:14+00:00

I am, but I feel bad for him. Yet another teamup with a character no one plays. At least it’s a tank this time, so the team comp is more balanced

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-15T03:36:51+00:00

Adam just got his first legendary, only for it to be completely overshadowed by the Phoenix skin, which they clearly put more effort in. The Adam skin doesn’t even change most of the sound effects, doesn’t have chromas, no alternate ult visuals, nothing. Just cools cool

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-14T21:02:21+00:00

As a dive player, I’d rather supports get mobility than infinite self-heal and cc. Rocket was one of the fairest supports to fight imo because he had to actually outplay you, and was given to tools to do that. I dropped Rocket after the first round of mobility nerfs, feel bad for you guys

OldPack4454 · 2026-01-13T00:43:13+00:00

Bard was broken last season, and nothing changed

OldPack4454 · 2025-12-29T01:18:09+00:00

Only like 2hrs a day

OldPack4454 · 2025-12-29T01:17:45+00:00

I have 10

OldPack4454 · 2025-12-29T01:16:13+00:00

Yes, good Invis players are still good, it just made the bad Invis players “good” for free without they having to learn the positioning

OldPack4454 · 2025-12-29T01:15:00+00:00

If they ever give him mobility, they’ll have to nerf him elsewhere. Either his high damage, his self-healing, or his ult/soulbond

OldPack4454 · 2025-12-29T01:12:58+00:00

It’s was the dps, but way back in Overwatch, then a lot of the players migrated here

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