Better Game Balancing + Slowdown Powercreep! Fixing FEH Day 2! [Fire Emblem Heroes]
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2024
- We can absolutely curb some of the effects these units are doing and still have them be super strong and competitive. Take more time to playtest units and passives before releasing them.
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The problem with slowing down Powercreep is that we literally give IS reasons not do it, whenever there's a banner that doesn't push Powercreep in a ridiculous way, it just flops
And we just stay in this loop of:
IS releases something broken: we complain about it but pull anyways
IS releases something more tame: it flops
And then just sends the message that IS needs to release more broken stuff
And it restarts the loop
That literally means it's just the player base's fault. Like wtf, if it flops it's because the players themselves doesn't spin on it, unless it's their faves. So what else are they supposed to do? They need to make money to run our fave autistic game, not to mention part of it is invested for new mainline fire emblem games to have high quality. I think the solution is keep up the powercreep but have most of the powercreep be inheritable skills, that way old invested units can keep up, there are still incentive to pull, no one's getting left behind and people who want to use their faves can still use them and still be relevant in the meta. Both sides are happy.
In fact I would think they'd make much more if they make broken inheritable skills. Because people would want multiple copies of them for all their faves, unlike just pulling once for a broken unit. So yeah, powercreep inheritable skills would be better.
@@superbuneary8819 Powercreep is not the playerbase's fault lol. If they keep overtuning Units, they are setting themselves for future flops and to make it harder to succeed. A more healthy approach would be to have newer Units occupy new niches, old niches but in an archetype that wasn't there before, unlock new gamebuilding options, etc.
Like last year the introduction of melt damage was interesting, the flametiles hindering movement was strategically interesting, but it very quickly ramp from 7 to 14 to 20s to all your HP bar which made it toxic to deal with. It also invalidated a lot of previous features. There are other examples like the evolution of pierceable-DR, piercing DR and flat DR.
@@ACLozMusik I get your sentiment, but tbh you're setting yourself up for disappointment if you expect a live service gacha game to feel like a true equal opportunity, fun game for all players type experience. Your expectations are too high, they'll never do a healthy approach like that, simply cuz they never did in the first place, it's a game made mainly for monetization, that's why it's still running. The best thing to do if you're F2P is just go with the flow and work with what you have and what youre able to aim for.
@@superbuneary8819 I mean, the game has many years and some of the points discussed here are relatively new.
The overcomplicated wep/skills descriptions, how effects that before involved 3-4 skills are now compacted under a single wep/skill, etc.
The 3H summer banner 2 years ago was a fairly hypped banner. I just checked the units some days ago and the texts are simple, 3-4 effects easy to understand and the units were also powerful. If you compare that to now, the current state makes it less desirable to tactically engage with understanding the units.
You seem to argue that "bad game design" = "revenue", or that "good design" = "too generous". We like the game, and we think it can be BETTER. That's the whole criticism about.
What we need is STRONG units, not broken. Not every banner needs a broken unit. Maybe introducing broken units once in a blue moon would work.
Yeah, I was talking it over with my friends yesterday, but it seems like every new banner introduces a new, broken, overtuned unit compared to the early days of Feh. Where we got strong but manageable units with the odd broken one once in a while.
Yep and who knows if these broken units will be good 6 months from now. I shudder to think of what units will look like by the end of the year
*cough* every winter *cough*
I mean the recent summer banner with gullveig is okay enough and not broken, so there ya go
"Omni Guidance 4 units"
Legendary Elincia wants a word with you...
Someone had to say this. Altho her Omni Guidance plus "Omni self guidance" (B-Skill) made her scale the whole mobility game to a new level. Plus being a flyer compared to Ash
We're also the problem here, the pandora box is already open and the excitement is only on broken units/skills as we label them as "must summon", while we easily dismiss as "skips" the non broken ones and the sales are proof of this, even popular characters like Azura flop if they're not on the same tier of the meta units or beyond.
The only banners that kinda don't really care about powercreep and sell well are the summer banners, mainly because, well, I don't even have to say it hehehe.
Well its their fault though. Things can be meta and must summons without actually breaking the game. Take Canto Control for example.
Stay strong brother
I 100% agree with you! But... it'll never not be funny to me to note this.
Feh players: "Stop the powercreep, there's too much!"
Feh players the moment a unit like lmcorrin releases, and we have a *single solitary month* that a new unit doesn't push the power level of tanks to the point where nothing can break through them, or nukes to the point where no save can tank them: "wow, this banner's kinda MID huh?"
Most of the Grail units are good examples of powerful but fairly balanced units, and they should stick more with units like that. Like to break some of them down:
Jeralt: Panic effect in his weapon, guaranteed follow-up to negate the bad speed, and good Atk/Def. Can be defeated by a good mage but he's still a worthwhile unit.
Yen'fay: Bonkers Atk/Spd for a grail unit, built in Distant Counter and Spd damage reduction. He has issues taking on bulky units so he can be stopped.
Mauvier: Amazing support capabilities for a lance unit. Great Atk/Def/Res who can double as a distant counter attacker.
More units like this, less units like the bullshit that we've been seeing in recent summoning.
Fair point. All of that can be frustrating especially for f2p players like me, which I just want to enjoy the game :p
But whenever IS releases a banner with ok units everyone skips the banner (think attuned Azura), and when the power creep is insane everyone says it's a must pull (winter banner, emblem Ike, etc.). There's no incentive for IS not to release not broken units because no one pulls for them anymore.
Hey! I did go all out for Yukimura and Azura on that banner. ò.ó
@@ThermalVoidI went for Azura but they are totally right... That banner was normal and It seems that is the problem now in this Game... Being normal JAJAJA
What SD really needs are special rules every season, so You can't just build toxic team and win without thinking
I've wanted seasonal rotations for SD for a while, like Book 1 only, no SI, etc.
Would be pretty cool if they actually do it
@@tacho9427 I’d commit a felony for having Book team restrictions. It would make Summoner Duels WAY more bearable by rotating the books and forcing people to be more creative with the earlier units, while also giving less “funded” players a fair shot at actually winning some battles.
It is tied to sales. They have acustomed the public to totally broken units and now just regular banners do not sell enough cause we know they will release another super broken unit next week. All about the coin 💲💲
Crazy thing about attuned miciah is that im pretty sure they're gonna release Emblem miciah sometime within the next year, and she's just gonna be attuned miciah, but better support
I don't read kits before summoning. I just save for several months and then get units from my favorite games. Micaiah being broken is just an added bonus
Who reads kits? We just want to pull for our favorites.
@@thericeknightNot everyone. I get you guys are casuals but some people really like being competitive. Maybe you guys don't care and pull for favs even if they are bad but competitive players want QoL and sometimes get baited.
@@a-j-o-l-o-t-3 no u, you guys are the casuals. We fave collectors are based and pros.
@@superbuneary8819 HAHAHAHA HOW FUNNY!
I play competitive and I play Aether Raids getting Tier 39 every freaking week AND NOW YOU ARE GOING TO TELL ME I AM A CASUAL HAHAHAHA
get a better argument, bro
Idk why they felt the need to over-tune Micaiah (or some units in general now). Like i like it when your attacking unit also doubles up as some form of support (Hrid, Mauvier,etc) but Micaiah REALLY went too far with all of her utility. Like Letting her cleanse Debuffs on your team was so dumb (should have left it for herself) as it invalidates her PRF Assist skill she came with (to an extent). She DID NOT need Mega-Guidance built in her weapon. The only reason they did was because they wanted her original Attuned Skill to be ran, and didn't want people to remove Crux....here's the thing IS....stop letting units run EVERYTHING. God forbid a single flier on your team can't warp your entire team around. Like at least it would have made you bring another Guidance unit besides her.
Like obviously I expected her to be better than Duo Micaiah after her refine....but straight up Attuned T-poses over Duo (only thing Duo has over her is that she technically scores better and the Duo Button) with providing even more debuffs than her Duo threw out.
Like really they didn't need to give her ALL of that.
That is true. If a flier can't run any of the guidance, is considered bad. Look Loki, Who is insane debuffer and people were saying that, She is not good enough because you can not tun Guidance 4 or Soren Guidance on her...
Same with Hinoka or other units like that.
Is really sad and I never expected Micaiah being so good that people would consider her as toxic.
Its okay guys. My uncle's nephew's grandad's dog twice removed works at nintendo and they said they are doing this because they are getting ready to eos FEH and release FEH2.
Enjoying this series of videos you are doing 👍🏾
I'd like to suggest, powercreep on legendary units I think is actually fine - they have to either strong enough to keep up with a lot of nukes or tanks in arena, or have staying power. And it's way more likely that someone will have copies of a few as opposed to a seasonal. Though, this is probably debatable because we have been getting more rearmed/attuned reruns lately.
At first I joked about L!MCorrin being on backlog and they finally decided to release him, but that seems plausible with how underpowered he is, L!FAlear is oddly a much better pick.
Me hoping Atunned Micaiah gonna be at least 1 year age like fine wine
I don’t think every banner needs to be broken beyond belief as funny as it is to watch X plus Y equals Z being the new meta I think it would make it a better game if IS just chilled for a minute.
Ever since its conception SDS team has been
1. Extra mobility, people have been replacing the cow with whatever provides warping, now is the turn for attuned Micaiah.
2. Canto, AoE and that is what’s Thor has been plus utility.
I would say Ike is our current raid boss and his lack of counters reminds me of what was Lucia on release or Altima when she just received her refine.
I would say that the problem isn’t the fast paced power creep, but rather they not giving out enough orbs to compensate, like wtf with their constant 3 orbs for celebrations. Like right now it feels super punishing to pull because they don’t give out enough resources to compensate, either to update the build or pull for the new unit.
I think these videos are very healthy for IS to look at & hopefully take these tips seriously. But I'm definitely looking forward to more episodes to come 😁.
Thor Summer Duo must have from the next rerun ❤🎉
PART 3 LETS GOOOOOO!!!
Lucia and Fryer are some of my favorite units mechanically! I know when the came out a lot of people were complaining but I found them to be very refreshing.
Is it wierd to say that I actually think Micaiah is more balanced than people think? I know she does EVERYTHING but she has the same counterplay as duo MECAIAH as well as only taking away 2 bonuses rather than all of them like Fryer.
She counters herself really well too and is not a brain dead unit + allows for creativity when base building. I do agree she could have gotten away with less support effects tho 😂
The powercreep has reached the point it is not really possible or hard to keep up while not whaling too much, and it really hurts if you're new invested hero gets countered fast, or just powercreeped by an similar hero that is simply better
A few years back it was still possible to keep decently up free to play i feel like, since you get an decent amount of orbs and the spark system is great way to evade rng if you dislike that
Powercreep kinda insane.
Was considering who to give Laguz friend to and I was like, maybe BAlm. And in just 2 years his refine went from cracked to like, eh. All stats up 10, conditional NFU and +mov. And now we have units inflicting atk/res -50, and doing whatever the fuck Ike is doing. This game is in its powercreep death spiral, only money prevents it from splattering against the ground.
some say the audience wouldn't buy better balance but they would if its all they made
even those powerful units wouldn't be able to keep up after a while when the statline goes past their numbers
I would love to see then add a Test builder area, like have a Aether Raid setting where you can put and character/team with any skills on them (even if you dont own them) and test them with another character/team with any skills so you get a chance to play and build and test anything you want.
That would be interesting, but I don't think they want to do that themselves. You can always use the duel simulator, even if its an external source
seers snare gave an iresting premise id like implemented into feh and that is units get an extra row of ab and c slots and 2 abc slots (those bonus slots that house any abc skill for seer snare bonus units)
1-3 gets 2 rows and 2 abc
4-6 gets 2 rows and 1 abc
7-9 only get 2 rows.
you would have to inherit the skills and maybe arcane weapon users get the abc slot subtracted form it.
Emblem and Attuned skills are already so much. Attuned skills are not balanced and There is a lot of things that there is not more space on the character profile
Quick question. I havent played this game for years. I think when i stop was when the gatekeeper won. I was thinking on going back. I am wondering if the dawn brigade units are on the game. Always wanted to build a edward if he ever was added to game. I should come back to game anyway. Good games everyone
hot take but imo, units with the eariler tier 4 skills can most definitely be demoted to 4* to provide some counter balance and allow f2ps to somewhat close the gap with folks who get the newest toys and such
Oh for sure, the special rate 4* thing was unnecessary when they could have just demoted those characters into hard 4 stars.
To fix the pool becoming bloated, they could just do weekly focus scouts featuring 4 star characters. They actually did that before a long time ago, and never did it again. People would 100% pull for focus 4 stars like Kagetsu, Lapis, etc.
Hot take: I think the ofensive nfu in guidance 4 was a good thing.
All the new speedy offensive units since guidance 4's release already have offensive/full nfu in their base kit, so it's mostly benefiting older offensive units to help them keep up/not have to spend as much on fodder to keep them relevant.
As for defensive/mix phased units they would rather have full or defensive nfu
Is actually not that bad. NFU is everywhere nowadays... And is a Spd Check wich is more balanced even. I think there are worse things today than that
The problem with powercreep is that because this game focuses on PvP, it forces players to summon the newest unit to compete or else they will be outclassed. If there was enough PvE content, then the powercreep would be okay cause it won't gatekeep F2P players. It is unlikely that IS will slow down the powercreep in this game so I think the best way to deal with powercreep is to direct the units for other uses (mainly PvE) than the PvP game modes so if people want the best units to have an easier time in the PvE game modes then they can go for it and F2P players can use their favorite units instead of getting demolished by the newest unit.
Congrats on #1
Why congrats lol, I don't think its a big deal
I agree that the power creep and skill creep and sometimes even stat creep is ridiculous but I kinda feel it’s a lost case already, cause they have gone to far imo to really stop it, neither I think they want that in the first place.
Cause I mean, even with Summer Hríd who is really interesting, kinda brings something new and somewhat unique… I heard a good amount of FEHtuber or players say „He is a decent unit, but I don’t think he will change the meta/will have impact on the meta.“ or „He/His effect would be really strong if it was released in year ago, nowadays idk.“ or „His effect is kinda neat, but Hríd as a unit is not very impressive.“ etc.
Personally I agree with you on Hríd or Lucia - they brought something new but nothing broken, they also weren’t bringing 100 things at the same time, but one really good and unique thing but while Lucia still benefited from that on her Release, just how people argue about Hríd shows me that we probably have left this stage of the game and for many people that isn’t enough anymore to be „worth/relevant“.
I think that Hits even harder with skills. While I think their was no need to pump up Micaiah, Ike or Duo Lyon like they actually did, I feel like with skills they kinda have to do, cause at least I feel like the arguments some people might say about certain units like Hríd are the same for skills but probably on an even larger level, cause I feel like the nuances for „Yeah decent/good but not enough/not necessary“ to „omg such a good skill“ are way smaller than for units, especially cause units also can be sold by „popular character that probably sells well enough“ which I don’t think is the case solely fore skills and so I feel like it have to be a little bit overtuned of a skill to intend players to explicitly summon for it.
Also… Mythic Freyr? Iiiiiii don’t know man. I mean today with all the bs around? Sure. But considering his release time, he was everything but not good game design, cause he was just not like „make sth weaker“ but instead „shuts things down completely, first and foremost Elimine but also on a side effect basically most of debuffs in general“ and that as a time where outside of Elimine it was even a big op thing or such unlike nowadays where we have a billion of debuffs/debuff effect running around on a plethora of units an skills.
With ploy skills and units like Attuned Micaiah, Mythic Loki, and other similar heroes, I think it would be fair to receive another Freyr alt whose Dream Deliverer is now 3 rows and columns.
Uhh... Breath of Life was always support 😶
It heals the near allies 7 hp after combact... It has always been like that.
The new part is that you get also the effect, like happened with Inf NFU 4...
Idk why you are impressed... It has always been Support first😅
Nah, the unit who had it equipped always had to be the one to enter combat. Now you can just have it equipped, and allies get the benefit of it regardless.
@@tacho9427 I know... But It also heals for yourself with is something the 3rd version did not. Now is a Drive and has a self part. And even the Fatal Smoke Cut...
Is going to be a very very good skill for a long while...
People bitch about powercreep but then a balanced banner releases and becomes a "easy skip" people dont summon for stuff unless its strong, so no, slowing down with the Powercreep if anything would hurt the game, it wouldnt fix shit.
They don't do a good job balancing, that's the real issue.
Obviously when they release stuff like Galzus, Arthur, etc. that are released with absolutely nothing to work with, of course people are gonna skip.
I can guarantee you the same amount of people would have summoned for Guidance 4 and Breath of Life 4 if they were tuned down in the way I explained here. They have this bad habit of making something good, and then throwing in like 3 or 4 other effects on top of that which didn't even need to be there.
Oh, also... don't underestimate the amount of people who don't even care about skills or powercreep at all and just summon for characters they like.
@@tacho9427 IS barely gives a damn about balance on mainline FE games so i dont see why they would care here, at least from my side i like that new strong stuff is being added, if Emblem Ike was as good as Legendary Ike the game would be very boring, seeing what madness will be added every month its part of what makes FEH fun for me at least, give me the strong overtuned as hell stuff, if someone wants game balance go and play Checkers or whatever.
@@andresfgp13 The thing with constantly releasing overtuned stuff every month is it almost forces you to use orbs otherwise its hard to compete. I would love to play the competitive modes of the game but I just don't have the orbs to keep up, so now the game has just become a collection simulator for me. I even took a break from the game and when I came back, there were so many crazy skills and stuff I just didn't have access to, so now if I want those skills, I have to spend the orbs to get my hands on them. And sure, IS wont balance mainline FE games, but I think FEH is different as its a gacha. IS needs to at least slow down the releases of overtuned characters and just release characters like how Tacho suggested they should be.
@@jadentseng i get from where you are coming from but thats by design, IS wants people to use orbs, they dont want to have people saving for months or more so they never spend a penny they dont make cash and the game dies, not saying that i support it but its just the nature of the beast.
@@andresfgp13 I mean yeah IS has no incentive to actually do anything about powercreep. It's pretty obvious ever since Fallen Edelgard that they aren't afraid of releasing a unit that hard counters like 500+ units all at once, all they have to do is give it a month before giving everyone the solution. It's just that certain skills in general are just really stupid; Breath of Life 4 as explained in the video is a great example. It doesn't _need_ to work on allies within 2 spaces - it's obviously a counter to pre-combat damage, so why does it have to work on allies too? It's because it's an easy way for IS to really encourage players into summoning on the banner. You don't need multiple copies to get the effect on your units, so why not summon and use your orbs? It's already a strong skill, but making it have that whole other paragraph makes it actually broken/overtuned. That's the main issue here really, same goes for units themselves
Like, IS knows what they're doing here. They don't care obviously, they're getting all the money out of it. It's just annoying to see them do the same thing over and over lol
I agree with basically everything in the video. But the point about Emblem Ike I can personally relate to so well. I remember when he came out and I thought man, he is overpowered but at least I have my Bridal Lilina that has very high res, an AoE special and ploy that is more or less a guaranteed counter to him everytime. Now I don't know what to do if the one thing good against Emblem Ike is thrown out of the window, Breath of Life 4 didn't need to give support to allies and it most definitely didn't have to mitigate Fatal Smoke in any way, sure nerf AoEs and pre-combat damage a bit, but don't also nerf the main selling point of Fatal Smoke. It's ridiculous!
Community: Please calm down with the game breaking busted units for once!!!
IS: Hmm........no.
To be fair when IS does release a banner that doesn't push Powercreep in a ridiculous way they tend to flop, so it's our fault to some extent
@lori2738 It's sad but true, I remember seeing comments basically bashing on units that aren't broken. Heck even had a few basically tell me I'm wrong for thinking said units were good.
@@krislee3155 that exactly happened with base Felix, the dude was good but not gamebreaking and the entire comunity apart from fans didnt gave a damn about him.
@@andresfgp13 To be fair that's also kinda on IS, Felix released at a time where godswords weren't that useful and his only standout ability among all the other godswords was that he could loop Aether and GLR. Not to mention his good skills just turned him into fodder instead of a unit people actually wanted to use lol
Can't wait for your "I quit FEH" video. Maybe in a month?
wow micaiah is a good unit? when you don't paly sd the world sure looks different. all i saw was that she takes away a unit slot on the enemy team that could prevent galeforcing
She is the best support rn in the entire Game. She debuffs that much than surprisingly She can survived more things than you could imagine. Moreover has mobility and is a good nuke
Nah man, the lucia effect was the worst idea IS ever had, i really hope we dont see it ever again.
Coming soon: Emblem Roy has Queen's blade effect but much more overturned and has built in unpiercable Miracle, yay :D
Its fine on her because that's really the only notable effect she does. This is how they need to balance units. It only becomes ridiculous if Lucia was also doing the same amount of things as Attuned Micaiah.
I think any un capped thing is too much. That includes frozen's ability. 10 spd point as check if you beat enemies defense would've been enough of a support.
They rlly want to fully turn the tables around and powercreep tanks to the max. Later on they'd be wanting to be on the nukes side again.
I hate picking OP heroes. I like taking older gen heroes and trying to make them competitive. The thing that bugs me the most about these overtuned heroes is that there is no strategy if you can't do any damage to them. It really puts you in a bad mood when you have decently strong heroes but none of them are strong enough to do any damage to the OP hero of the week. I know I do this to myself by handicapping myself with older generation heroes but the game isn't fun if you're steam rolling everything with one superman of a unit. I think we need more ways to balance out the older stuff. I love the heroes that you can give you a great weapon to share with other units. The attuned heroes are my favorite addition to the game in recent months because it allows you to take something old and give it a little bit of an edge to compete. Give us more stuff to balance out the old stuff please or do a complete overhaul of the older generation units to catch them up to the powercreep.
About a year or two ago, the gap between meta units and non-meta units was not this large. You could 100% compete and in fact in some cases it was actually better to just build a non-meta unit if you were going to fully invest and +10 them as they would just have better stats at that point than an unmerged meta unit. Effect creep has snowballed so out of control now that stats don't mean as much.
Well if only they releaded units like the ones on the last summer banner, that are fun to use but not broken beyond redemption. And also kept it on the player phase oriented side it would be easier.
The powercreep that I despise is the one that Pestblem Ike brings, an unkillable tank that is cheapness incarnate. From strong nukes you can run away and attack in player phase, but cheap garbage like Ike just puts you in a situation where you just cannot win since you need super specific counters (now even more with bol4), so you lose as soon as the match starts and are then penalised for it. Its infuriating.
Whats worse, when broken unfair tanks are released, all the braindeads flock to stuff like Ike as flies to the dung and you start seeing all failed defense results wich are all identical to the other (cheapos smiting sh-Itke and relaxing while the game wins by itself with no effort)
As a based Ike user I just laugh at this. Ahahahahahaha get rekt boiii
@@superbuneary8819 bwahahaha thanks for putting yourself in there so that I can laugh at you... "based" "Ike user" is an oxymoron, like saying "entering outside"
Anyways little person, enjoy hiding like a little coward inside your "based Ike"´s (XDD) cheeks while you can. Knowing Negligent Systems well start getting easy counters to him soon enough.
@@superbuneary8819 bwahahaha thanks for putting yourself in there so that I can laugh at you...
"based" "Ike user" is an oxymoron, like "entering outside"
Anyways little person, enjoy hiding in your "Based Ike"´s (XDDDDDDD) cheeks while you can... Well start getting easy counters at some point knowing Negligent Systems workings.
Totally agree. You know something is Broken and toxic when the Game relies ENTIRELY on that. Everything now is "Who can kill or survive Ike?"
Every team is built for exactly that and that is a Big problem.
And still, some people think Ike is a fair unit and is as easy as to fight Ike with more Ike🙄
I didn't even knew guidance 4 gave you nfu, mainly I don't read the skills completely, stopped caring
I seriously think Book8 is the doom of the game at this point... IS clrealy don't care about the balance and more and more players just left because how extrem the powercreep is now...
I feel IS would choose EoS over balancing sadly...
I played since launch and quit when atuned heroes were released as the final straw. Was curious on the state of the game this morning and saw a few of your videos and seeing this miciah shenanigans made me so happy i quit when i did cause this is ridiculous lmao. Feels like that ship is sinking and they're trynna squeeze every penny before it sinks.
There's no real way to do it. When you have any game structured this way whether it is this, yugioh or whatever, this inevitably have to get out of control
How do you guys even play this sheet? The graphics look like puke.
I don't mind powercreep so much, as its the way the game makes money. What they need to do, though, is give you easy(ish) access to second tier units/skills when they introduce new top tier things.
The problem I have at the moment is that they drip-feed resources so slowly that it takes longer to save orbs for the new units than the use you get out of them. As an example, my ARD doesn't have any units from before Christmas: no one else even scratches EIke.
PS. I do think Freya negating all debuffs is problematic, since it just flipped the meta overnight. (I got a +10 Elimine the month he came out, and that was a complete waste now.) Removing e.g. 2 debuffs like they did with Micaiah would have been fine.
And that is very annoying as I spent a load of orbs getting units/skills specifically to help my ARD team in November. It went almost undefeated for 2 months, but now I've swapped out every unit. So why did I bother spending the orbs?