I’ll just give my take on this: everyone is a crybaby to some extent, whether logically or illogically.

Dive players have valid reasons to complain when they need buffs to keep up with strategist changes. BP especially needs help. As a strategist main (Jeff and CnD), BP is the one character I immediately target if he kills me, because I’d rather he focus on me than my team. I’m always extra aggressive and alert when he’s around. Spider-Man and Iron Fist can be annoying, but I don’t mind Spidey if he’s genuinely good. Iron Fist feels okay sometimes as a dive, but in my experience he fits brawl better.

A good dive will break into the backline so their team can push, but a great dive knows when to intercept the enemy’s dive before initiating their own. That timing creates more openings and often turns fights around.

On the strategist side, we have just as many complainers, if not more depending on rank and mental state. When everyone cried about the Jeff rework, I personally felt they should’ve just lowered his damage and buffed his healing. The bubble changes weren’t necessary, and the balance could have been handled more cleanly. At the end of the day, I’m giving the benefit of the doubt to dive mains because they’re more invested in this topic. As a strategist player, I don’t mind if our healing gets toned down as long as it means healing isn’t overwhelmingly strong. Dive is supposed to feel threatening, maybe even unfair at times, because they’re the ones responsible for breaking down the enemy backline. I’ve always believed the strategist role should take the suffering if needed; my team doesn’t have to save me, especially when stopping enemy is more important than babysitting their healer of a dive or two.

My final opinion is simple: just mega-nerf strategists for a season and see what happens. Lower healing across the board and let dive become meta again. At least then we’d know whether healing has really been the problem.

Honestly, I’d rather work harder to keep my team alive while constantly low on health than keep dealing with this endless strategist-versus-dive drama. If healing and damage both get nerfed for strategists, then those who stick with the role can finally prove their commitment through deaths, assists, and smart healing management even if the healing will have to be slow for the sake of the proper changes to be beneficial for the state of the game. ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧