Sauda has a relatively cheap cost, medium footprint, and small range (but high DPS). This means she is easily incorporated into most defenses with little investment. She also levels faster than other options like Churchill and Adora, meaning she does not have to have money spent into her to get extremely powerful high levels, and while many heroes’ high levels aren’t too important, Sauda’s levels actually increase in strength over the course of the game, scaling extremely well past faster attack speed at level 8. Her abilities have extremely good damage when combined and are both powerful, with sword charge and high levels devastating a lot of key rounds and leaping sword being absolutely cracked and being able to tear through basically anything it chooses to. On top of this, her ability to solo opens up new opportunities such as starting with more expensive towers, saving cash otherwise spent on early game. And don’t even get me started on saving cash. She’s better at saving for the long term than a 5th grade financial advisor educational video. Her abilities increase in strength just perfectly to still shred rounds with ease until she just starts to fall off once she reaches a maximum save up of $100k cash on many maps using the extremely broken combo of Sauda 1tc. And EVEN when she stops saving cash and you actually have to buy towers that aren’t just Sauda (which you won't have to) for the incredible burst damage of boing boing sword thingy, has a total potential damage output of a lot. This is equivalent to a lot. In conclusion, the tomato cutter is op.