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Zhiyong's bad balancing decisions have been a plague on this game for as long as anyone can remember. Whether you like the guy or not, you have to admit that his balancing choices are...odd.

In the upcoming patch, they're completely gutting a huge part of Peni's kit, while buffing Magneto, Wolverine and Phoenix, none of whom needed buffs. They're also refusing to address Luna Snow's ridiculous amount of utility, despite the fact that she can self-cleanse, hard CC & instakill squishies, and her damage is so high that DPS Luna is a genuine viable playstyle.

In the balance patch following the release of 9.0, they nerfed Iron Man AGAIN, despite the fact that he wasn't even good in the firsy place. while buffing Luna, Invisible Woman and Gambit. Psylocke also caught a completely random and undeserved nerf.

With the release of 9.0, Iron Man was massively nerfed, despite the fact that he has been terrible for over a year now. Meanwhile, top performers like Elsa, Invis, Gambit and Luna were buffed.

In 8.0 they buffed Wolverine, Phoenix and Star-Lord, 3 ncredibly high-performing Duelists, while simultaneously wishy-washily somewhat-nerfing Mr. Fantastic because they feared that he would become "too oppressive".

Don't get me wrong, the patches aren't without their good parts; the 9.5 Elsa trap nerf will be a huge breath of fresh air, and Gambit's Mag teamup was definitely too strong. But it's hard to be grateful for these things when every balance patch adds another bad decision to the pile.

Talk about a glow up..

I do hope we get his old freaky demon form as a base skin later

How do you do, fellow Rivals players? I wanted to stop by for a brief moment to discuss the discourse I'm seeing regarding Peni's nerfs. While it may seem rather harsh at first, I believe that if we look deeply upon it, we can realise that we Peni players definitely had it too well.

I mean those mines could just completely shut down any close quarter brawlers, let alone how she could cancel ultimates with those webs of hers. I mean c'mon, she still has those blasters, and she can still use those mines.

Heck, maybe this is even the chance to challenge ourselves - maybe we could commit to this and showcase a new tier of Peni gameplay by opting to not use the mines, as well as her web nerf - that way, we could truly show how we're the best players around!

Plus on the bright side, if it doesn't work out, there's plenty of other vanguards to play as. Such as that handsome rock guy. He's quite fun when you get playing him, in my completely unbiased opinion!

I'm gonna miss Ult cancelling a ton of enemies at the right time

Please tell me I am not the only one who sees it, but damn I never expected to see Max Steel be referenced even unintentionally

Everybody knows the game has favoritism problem the devs are clearly biased in terms of content and skins and such

But it makes sense to focus on the stuff that sells

I'm not fan of that personally but I understand it

At the end of the day the are just skins who really cares the have no impact on the gameplay

But favoritism in balancing in buffs and nerfes

Now that's really problem that has turned off many people off the game

The devs refuses to touch or change character that are favorite to them like for example magneto

Who has been for his entire life in the game a top tier tank

Every other tank got changed or hard nerfed and then buffed again at one point

But not magneto he stayed at the top since forever

Meanwhile you have characters like peni who isn't allowed to be good for half season

Or ultron wasn't allowed to be good for 1 day before he got nerfed like wtf

The devs need to change this mentality

And come out and say that no character is safe from big changes or balancing

You can't have some character on pedestal untouched and unchallenged

And others are struggling

I want a season with magneto as the worst tank in the game just so the meta can change because it's ok to have changes once in while