NIN Huton & Meisui are a little strong

As the days have gone on in Ranked, I've been noticing something more and more frequent. "Statue" or "0 damage dealt" NIN on the enemy team. in most scenarios having been able to survive entire combos and burst windows using almost exclusively Huton and Meisui paired with Guard/Purify.

Huton - Grants Huton, creating a barrier that absorbs damage equivalent to a heal of 16,000 potency, and increasing movement speed.
Duration: 10s
Movement speed returns to normal when barrier is completely absorbed.
Can only be executed while under the effect of Three Mudra.

Meisui - Restores target's HP.
Cure Potency: 10,000
Additional Effect: Gradually restores own HP
Cure Potency: 4,000
Duration: 15s
Can only be executed while under the effect of Three Mudra.

Three Mudra - Allows for immediate execution of any ninjutsu action. However, the same ninjutsu action cannot be executed consecutively.
Duration: 10s
Maximum Charges: 2

Seeing a NIN stand on point, survive a Nature's Miracle, hard CC (once Purify is on CD), and in many occasion enemy LBs... THEN just Shukuchi out, elixir, then return to do exactly the same thing with Three Mudra at 2 charges again doesn't sound like a DPS. NIN I would assume to have been made to play as an assassin style DPS. but when it's survivability is mimicking that of a WAR by only pressing the same two abilities back and forth, I can't help but think it's a little too powerful.

TL;DR NIN's Huton and Meisui feel overpowered. Potencies are too high. They can be as tanky as a WAR with less effort.

Its kits like these that make me wonder why Monks and some tanks don't have better defensives, but I guess the balancing factor is that they are sacrificing damage for mitigations.

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Originally Posted by KouYanagi

Its kits like these that make me wonder why Monks and some tanks don't have better defensives, but I guess the balancing factor is that they are sacrificing damage for mitigations.

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This is the exact tradeoff. If you use Huton/Meisui, you can't use Hyosho/Raiju. You're sacrificing your burst to survive.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

This is the exact tradeoff. If you use Huton/Meisui, you can't use Hyosho/Raiju. You're sacrificing your burst to survive.

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Thats fair... But it just makes me wonder why such options aren't available to a tank instead. -obligatory GNB imbalance noises-

They honestly need to give CC removal/immunity and/or damage mitigation to MNK's Riddle of Earth because while its design encourages waiting longer to trigger it, people are just going to go crazy with the CC spam once your HP starts dipping low and you'll likely just die before you can pop it.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

They honestly need to give CC removal/immunity and/or damage mitigation to MNK's Riddle of Earth because while its design encourages waiting longer to trigger it, people are just going to go crazy with the CC spam once your HP starts dipping low and you'll likely just die before you can pop it.

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Yes please. As a Monk main, I want something, anything.

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Originally Posted by Calibour

TL;DR NIN's Huton and Meisui feel overpowered. Potencies are too high. They can be as tanky as a WAR with less effort.

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Try playing Ninja yourself, and see how effective you are at dealing damage while blowing all your Mudra charges on Huton and Meisui.

The abilities are potent because they come with an enormous opportunity cost.

Your claim that Ninjas tank as well as Warriors is absurd, and even if they could, the Warrior would offer substantially more damage and utility while performing that function.