The Healer Double Standard

[Deceptus]

Aim for balance but never perfect balance. Fighting games are full of interesting characters with different strengths skills and weakneses. However often there will be only like 12 tournament viable number of characters out of 24. That’s a healthy number. People who play at high end of the game have a decent number of characters to pick for winning high end games.

If you wanted perfect balance. Every character would need to be the exact same character, which is what is slowly happening to this game. I don’t think it’ll ever get that bad. But the closer we get to that the less interesting the game will become.

Problem with that mentality when it comes to healers is there's only 3 to choose from and two are mandatory for content. So they need to be balanced, and right now, they're not.

This is AFTER we missed out on a new healer because "they wanted to balance what they had". SE has had 4 years to "balance" healers, and so far they haven't done a great job. They need some new blood or something because what has been going on for the past 4 years isn't working.

To add onto the point about Astro: It was more butchered so that SE could try (and fail) to fight against the concept of 'The meta' and stringent party compositions which only applied in speed kills and world first bleeding edge racing.

This. SE needs to stop balancing around the top 1% of the player base and around the 90% and lower that the majority of plays like.