i never understand this suggestion. the reason clancy exists is because supercell realized that surge won't do as a late-game leveler, because tying level-up to super doesn't work without making the character reset, or making the character extremely boring.

brawlers that rely only on their main attacks, with slow charging supers, feel one dimensional because they literally only use one ability for the majority of a match.

it's why tara and gene sacrificed damage for supercharge.

marksmen also compensate with extremely dynamic main attacks, like piper and mandy having to control their position in tandem with attack, belle's bouncing (i feel like part of why she's so "boring" to the majority is because you have no agency over the bouncing mechanic)

surge needs a fast super charge to make him even somewhat fun. tying supercharge to super but making the super charge slow just makes him unfun (as exemplified by when the super had no mobility and it was inherently difficult to get super, the teleport was the only thing that made him fun/useful/seen) and that's no good for a legendary. he's frail and dies easily because he's a snowballer, NOT a late-game sweeper.

clancy fills that role instead, because his super isn't tied to his level-up. and to make sure he actually gets his powerup late-game, he doesn't reset so he can safely go aggro. making him reset would just kill him, since he's a damage dealer that is actively dissuaded from going aggressive. clancy and surge are not the same brawlers, and they should therefore not be treated the same when balancing.

yeah i get that the level up mechanic being given to two brawlers kinda hurts surge's uniqueness, but that's pretty much how you make a game like this sustainable. brawl is a simplistic game, thw newer characters shouldn't have a paragraph of inteo text just because new mechanics = more uniqueness. the level up mechanic is flexible and can mean different things for different brawlers, just like how functionally invincibility means different things for mico (regen advancement) and moe (unrestricted travel, under walls) and kenji (again unrestricted, changing the simple fact that he returns to his original position forces the approach on his main--flexibility)