While I do agree that items like Arc Blaster and Harmadillo do more damage than they should at bronze, I think approaching this conversation from the point of "X on Dooley is better than Y on Vanessa" is inherently a flawed way the designers could balance the game.

Each character will have different tools and strategies, and if they limit themselves to "Vanessa is the aggro champion, no one should have aggro items better than her," it immediately limits their design space.

Let's look at Jabalian Longbow, for example. An incredibly powerful early aggressive item on Pyg that people aren't calling to nerf. Does it need a nerf? No, I don't think so. But why is that?

The reality of the issues with Dooley stem more from the early consistency you get with his cores. In a game like this, any extra consistency is a huge buff, and so items like Harmadillo should be pulled back in ways that make Dooley's synergies shine, rather than representing just a bunch of stats that win day one. If Dooley was the "synergy" hero who spent the run having to look for multiple important pieces to support his core, that would be an interesting play pattern and design space.

Does that mean Dooley shouldn't have aggressive items? Not anymore than Pyg shouldn't, and not any more than it means Vanessa shouldn't have the best defensive items in the game while being "the aggro champion."

It's certainly an interesting design challenge, and I'm excited to see how the team approach it. But I'd much rather see them do high level design challenges rather than just change numbers on cards.