I know scourge is not as big of a deal in PvP tournaments anymore (tho worms vs r55 mAT begs to differ), but scourge is still very unfun and extremely degenerate to play against in ranked.
Scourge
- is still very tanky because of barrier (nerfs did help, but not much)
- has instant cast shades so CC doesn't help much 1v1
- has lots of corrupt, aoes cover entire nodes in some cases
- has INSANE synergy with core guard
- massive amounts of visual clutter (like I have played this game for 7 years now and even I still often cannot tell whats going on on the point from all the aoe spam)
- there is always at least 1 scourge in each team every game, often 2+ This creates a moshpit of aoe skills, shades and visual clutter, and it is horribly unfun play against it
All of this is made worse thanks to the fact that people often pick games with small nodes (Djinn's dominion......... awful map). I've seen cases where scourges literally don't dodge and still win games, they are a menace (name scourge seems fitting) in gold and below, where people only understand "fight on node" and "go mid teamfight" then feed into scourge and support guard. Very unhealthy PvP ranked meta.
I know some people will say just CC it and it dies, but try playing against a good scourge who knows what he's doing and has a support guard healing and rezzing with stability + rezz signet. Seriously, scourge was not made with PvP in mind and most people I know do not want to play against it anymore, its just not fun (I'd rather have unbalanced engi nades back than this), it should not be this good.
I know scourge is not as big of a deal in PvP tournaments anymore (tho worms vs r55 mAT begs to differ), but scourge is still very unfun and extremely degenerate to play against in ranked. Scourge - is still very tanky because of barrier (nerfs did help, but not much) - has instant cast shades so CC doesn't help much 1v1 - has lots of corrupt, aoes cover entire nodes in some cases - has INSANE synergy with core guard - massive amounts of visual clutter (like I have played this game for 7 years now and even I still often cannot tell whats going on on the point from all the aoe spam) - there is always at least 1 scourge in each team every game, often 2+ This creates a moshpit of aoe skills, shades and visual clutter, and it is horribly unfun play against it All of this is made worse thanks to the fact that people often pick games with small nodes (Djinn's dominion......... awful map). I've seen cases where scourges literally don't dodge and still win games, they are a menace (name scourge seems fitting) in gold and below, where people only understand "fight on node" and "go mid teamfight" then feed into scourge and support guard. Very unhealthy PvP ranked meta. I know some people will say just CC it and it dies, but try playing against a good scourge who knows what he's doing and has a support guard healing and rezzing with stability + rezz signet. Seriously, scourge was not made with PvP in mind and most people I know do not want to play against it anymore, its just not fun (I'd rather have unbalanced engi nades back than this), it should not be this good.
