Laiza I think you are going overboard here, I'm glad you found your justification on Reddit, they too want every unit to be really strong. Some of OUR OPINIONS is that we'd rather have a stable of characters that all fill different roles and content be generated that allows us to use a wide array of characters.
On a another note; they very specifically said in their dev notes that Lilibet was a counter for the revive mechanic in PvP. That is what they delivered. If your expectations were more that's your own fault. If that isn't a need for you skip the banner. If you want to rip apart Luluca because she was supposed to be PvE and just has no place on any team, go ahead. If you want to rip apart their direction in making the ML units the only OP units, go ahead. If you are mad they haven't release a good PvE unit since Dizzy, go ahead.
But you're sitting here yelling at the salesman that was selling you a knife because he isn't offering you a fork. And then you are telling the people that bought the knife intending to use it as a knife that it is an awful fork...
I get your rant, I really do, it's an understandable position. But to be mad at other players that like Lilibet is overboard.
From the dev notes:
That's it, full stop.
I need to say this again because it's so absurdly facile it warrants a second response:
A stupid reason is still a stupid reason regardless of who it came from. I don't fuckin' care if the devs said Lilibet was going to be an extinction bot, they're FUCKING STUPID for even thinking about it. No one should care what the devs have to say on the matter. They also said that they plan on resolving the obnoxious as fuck PvP meta by releasing ever more powerful counters to the meta, do you even realize how insane that is? It'll kill the game before its
second year, much less the 10 years that they wanted to the game to last!
And let's just quote this for emphasis:
Some of OUR OPINIONS is that we'd rather have a stable of characters that all fill different roles and content be generated that allows us to use a wide array of characters.
This is
wrong, full-stop. Lilibet covers far too narrow a role to even be considered a full character, let alone a natural 5-star. On top of that, there is an extremely obvious design trend whereby natural 5-stars are intended to be used in all kinds of content. Cases where this doesn't happen are obvious design failures like Ludwig.
Basically, what I'm saying is that this hope for extremely niche characters is actually completely divorced from reality and you are only going to be disappointed when the lackluster characters get another balance pass that makes them over-the-top to keep up with the changing meta. (That's to say nothing of the investment cost required to actually make said characters usable - again, reality and your wishes do not mix.) The worst part is that you're basically advocating for a position that sees newer F2P players getting
COMPLETELY FUCKED by characters like Dizzy who would be so absurdly overpowered next to the newer characters that it's like she's from another game entirely.
Dizzy will never be nerfed. Your dream is already dead. As long as Dizzy exists, newer characters MUST be made to reach the new baseline or they're just going to inevitably fall to the wayside eventually (likely when the next OP as fuck limited gets released).
Speaking of Dizzy - wtf do they expect Angelic Montmorancy to fix when effectiveness rolls entirely 1:1 with effect resist??? The mechanics do not support her playstyle! Unless you RADICALLY outgear your opponents you
always suffer from a non-trivial chance of her getting stunned when she's your absolute most essential piece on the board. Yet another example of Super Creative's failure in kit design.
It's hard to have any faith at all in this game's future when they keep on making boneheaded decision after boneheaded decision. I wish they'd give me a reason to have faith in them again.