Summoner is doing too much in 5.10

[Lastelli]

why compare 5.0 with 5.1?

5.0 is over, everthing that matters is 5.1..

Because BLM wasn't nerfed in 5.1, was it. Therefore old data matters when it comes to assessing BLM potential.

What if a good chunk of the old top BLM simply decided to try SMN after the buffs? This would result in an average decrease of BLM damage at all percentiles. In fact, since 5.1, the relative representation for SMN substantially increased on fflogs (the sample for SMN has now more observations than the sample for BLM, while before 5.1 the opposite was true).

In short, not considering BLM numbers before 5.1 is a mistake and may lead to wrong conclusions.
What we know now is that 5.0 BLM = 5.1 BLM > 5.1 SMN at higher percentiles with the exception of E1S. This is what the data currently tells us.

Of course, it might be that top SMNs still need to adjust to the new changes and future logs will show that a fully optimized SMN is stronger than a fully optimized BLM, but we don't have that kind of data yet.