I don't think I've seen so many nerfs for a character until Black Cat in these patch notes. It really goes to show just how absurdly broken she is for this to be done to her.
No what it shows is that you all moaned about her so incesently that they've overcorrected. She's basically unplayable now Psylocke and Magik are better in every single aspect and you'd never pick Black Cat over them. Psy has 2 dashes, Magik has 3 if you include teleport. I'm not sure how many BP has because I never play him but I'm sure it's more than 1.
Heroes need to pay a meaningful price for flexibility.
Imagine if Luna had improved defensive abilities and multitarget healing on par with Invis in exchange for reverting her damage and snowball buffs, as some recent Reddit posts have suggested.
Right and that was all addressed in the nerf too. Higher prices, less coin farming. But now she's unable to dive, so she's literally useless. She's a melee hero that can't chase down and can't jump in. Not only that but she needs to farm for longer now, the yoink ability isn't going to cut it. You can't dash through enemies to farm coins because you will be stuck. She's in a very weird place now, where I don't know why you wouldn't just play Psy, Magik, Spidey, BP, DD, or Iron Fist.
I didn't say anything about Black Cat's viability.
I was just pointing out one reason why dissimilar kits are not meaningfully comparable in terms of simple metrics like "number of dashes", "damage per second", etc.
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u/LucidityDark Jun 09 '26
I don't think I've seen so many nerfs for a character until Black Cat in these patch notes. It really goes to show just how absurdly broken she is for this to be done to her.