PVP PLD Cheese Problem

[Kansene]

Skill Issue.

Was restricted to my phone for quite a while, and didn't feel like typing a huge post responding to your huge post back there using my sausage fingers on a tiny phone screen.

Well thought-out post that describes quite respectfully how to deal with the issue. You're clearly coming from a helpful place, and it's genuinely appreciated, I did read through the whole thing. As far as I read, you're not really condoning or condemning the pld cheese existing in the first place (unless I misremember, it's quite late in the evening at this point and my head's not all there) it would be disingenuous to claim any kind of "defense" for the cheese existing. You've identified a problem and offered solutions to solving it, simple as.

So not gonna really refute anything you've stated. Even the quote above, the "skill issue" rings somewhat true.
The bottom line of my own argument remains however, is that this kind of absolute trashy nonsense mechanic has no right to exist. I have no numbers to back up my claim here, but I don't think it's a far stretch to assume that the vast majority of an FL team is not going to go to these lengths to shut down a paladin and their buddy. In fact I dare be so bold as to claim they wouldn't even know how to. They jump in, and either play a bit for fun, or to get their daily roulette done.
And, anecdotally, what they experience when they queue into Onsal, is a non-stop clown show of seemingly invincible pld cheese that chain caps nodes all over the place and leads to devastatingly unfair victories. Anecdotally, it's genuinely driving people away from that whole frontline. Myself, my SO, and several members of my FC among them, as well as quite a few randoms I've seen claiming in the /a chat that they're just done with the place. Whether they stick to their word, who knows, but I do take their statements at face value.

It's a strategy that warps the entire FL. It's so prevalent that the whole experience of Onsal is leaving a genuinely sour taste in peoples' mouths. I've seen again and again comments like "Well gg, we didn't have pld to cheese with", or "this was my fave FL and now it sucks" and many other, less kindly worded messages.
Do these people simply need to "git gud?" I'd argue they could collectively start training to become hugely better at the game and start dominating through superior strategy and leet skills, but is that a realistic scenario at all? More likely than that is that they'll simply avoid the FL because it's gimmicky and feels horrible.
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