BLU Ultimates in 5.4?

[Darsien]

BLU is strong enough you can skip Nael Divebombs entirely. Abilities like Diamondback utterly trivialize a good chunk of the mechanics too. Case in point, the first two Trios have a Megaflare stack. Just Diamondback and completely ignore it. Allowing BLU into UCoB defeats the whole reason they didn't let you unsync it. Furthermore, if they gave it a weapon, DNC and GNB have every right to be pissed since they didn't get one.

8 BLU won't be able to skip Divebombs simply because of how little DPS the MT Blu does, at least based on the Alexander Raid's numbers for full BLU parties. That's a huge chunk of DPS gone, and it takes an extraordinary amount of DPS to beat out Divebombs. Some groups require Melee LB3 to do it, so not having that as an option means that it's safe to say that it won't be skippable.

In addition, Diamondback might be usable to deal with Megaflare stacks/Earthshaker/Tornados, but it does have that issue of not being able to move or attack for 10 seconds, which is 10 seconds of DPS downtime by the time you want to use it. That factor makes it unusable on the 2nd Trio because you'd need to use it while inside the towers/stacked for Megaflare, which means Nael will toss her Bleed AoEs at people who can't move. As the bleed ticks for 100k, anyone who Diamondbacks there will not survive.

As a matter of fact, Diamondback by anyone but the tank in Twin, by anyone in Nael, and during any of the trios will likely cause the user to wipe the raid or get themselves killed. In a fight where movement is always happening, not being able to move for 10 seconds is a death sentence. Not to mention that failing most of the mechanics that don't outright kill you gives a 50% damage down to the person or the group (IIRC it's 50%), BLU is going to need to receive some very strong spells in the next update in order to make taking 8 BLU an easier UCOB clear than a standard comp.

This is also without going into the fact that tank BLU is still extremely Squishy. You can only sacrifice so much damage to Diamondback through things before you start to deal with things you wouldn't otherwise need to, such as the 2nd Twister before Twin's 74% transition, which is something that is trivial to do in a more standard comp.