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I'd rather say that the heavy shift away from safe armouring out of every situation into huge damage has brought forth the actual issues of characters who were heavily reliant on that.War god, balanced kenshi (don't think that in a real match he can spam projectile like others that i mentioned, cuz he will get blown up and he doesnt make that much meter otherwise) cryomancer and probably more
Like I said about Lackey as well, mile-wide issues regardless of the armour-nerf.
You are right in the sense that Cryo for example suffers from it, but Kotal is still solid. Balanced is still good, just not a faceroller, their issues are in their design.
Frankly, I rathered they designed the characters with actual play in mind and leave the armour bullshit for last rather than build them around armour and then nerf them to dirt.