Sha Lin definitely needs buff, without recurve his DPS is too low, only a 1000 every 1,5 seconds. Strix deals 1200 in pretty much the same time, when he is a hitscan and he deals more damage in general. They should at least buff his health to 2200, and put Recurve into his base kit. AT least this. Because currently Sha Lin is a bad version of Strix and Cassie. You need to hit every single shot or you'll be too ineffective. He is high skil mediocre reward, whereas characters like Willo or Strix are low skill
extremely high reward. There is no reaosn whatsoever to pick Sha Lin if you can just pick Strix or Cassie, he is easily countered by illuminate, and unless you are hugging walls all game you shouldn't be stunned too often.

You pretty much said everything. The only thing I would add: The entire team instalocks DPS/Flank and expects you to pick a tank or a support, and if you pick DPS or Flank yourself, they all report you after the game. Strix obviously one of the most braindead characters in the game, and Willo is actually ridiculous because SHE DOESN'T REQUIRE ANY AIM. I was playing Sha Lin the other day, and the enemy team had a Willo that was flanking me all the time. She didn't have to aim at all, just spam in the general direction, I needed pin point aim, miss a single shot and I'm dead, but she apart from that has 25% DR on dash, AND she has 200 more base health, AND she has the better ult, which is pretty much uncounterable unless your entire team consists of hitscan. How is that supposed to be balanced?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paladins/comments/djig2j/the_burst_meta_symphony_pt2/

Strix in a nutshell. I am still waiting for a response from an Evil Mojo employee, how this is still in the game?

I think Ruckus is perfectly balanced the way he is. He should be played aggressively, because his biggest strength is the damage he provides. I play him more as a tanky flank, going into the enemy's backline and harrassing the squishies. His ult is actually really strong, if the enemies don'T see you coming or they're distracted and they're grouped up, you can easily get a triple kill or even more. Due to his big hitbox it's really important to know, when to retreat, when the enemies start focusing you, and generally managing his cooldowns well is key.

There is literally no reason what so ever to play this character because Cassie is just a better version of it. People know nowadays how to deal with her and her ult.

I'd also like to skip POTG, not only cuz it wastes time, but because it's broken sometimes. Sometimes there are literally POTGs where someone is just standing in spawn, or someone didn't get any kills or eliminations.

@TangAce said in Strix is utterly braindead and needs a real nerf:

strix is unfair af, can burst anyone who was full life, deal insane dmg at range, deal insane damage up close, can't be killed from far cause invisible, can't be killed up close cause insane burst + stupid pistol and ult
yeah he's broken, can't wait for the nerf that will kill him and bury him where koga currently is

You got it, that's exactly the reason. The fact that he is being picked on literally every single map, EVEN ON BRIGHTMARSH, because he is untouchable and impossible to flank, shows how op he is. Against a good Strix player, not a single chance. A good Strix will anticipate the flank coming, go invis, and once they come, he'll just quick scope + flare + pistol spam = dead. Nothing one can do about it. Against Skye he can just buy illuminate and hear her footsteps, which are very loud. Same goes for Buck, just quick scope, flare, bursty pistol spam, and EVEN IF Buck beats Strix in a 1v1, Buck will be stuck in the backline with no mobility and Strix' teammates will just go for him and pick him up. Maeve is pretty much the only one that can somehow challenge him because she has poke, but literally the entire flank class is being destroyed by him

My game already crashes for the 2nd time today or so, even though I had a good internet connection all the time and my PC has a high performance.

You should definitely mention Strix. It's impossible to kill him unless you are a tank. Neither on long range nor on close range.

I'm not playing flanks wrong. It's just that a good Strix player that isn't stupid will anticipate the flank coming, and even if you surprise him, he just quick scope + flare = DEAD. Literally if you have aim, you are completely untouchable if you stay in the backline and just shoot, keeping track of flanks. Kinessa can easily be pressured out by flanks forcing her to retreat and go out of position. Strix can just demolish them for some reason.