HA HA HA hee hah whooooo…
Sorry, I just… I mean… speaking for myself I have never, ever, ever, EVER been in danger of this. Not even close.
Maybe folks with a lot, LOT more luck and resources feel like this sometimes, I guess? But I find that hard to believe, because bad boards exist.
I don’t care about “impossible,” I care about if I’m pretty much only going to win with a miraculous run of tiles that wipes out every enemy who is about to fire, fully charges all of my heroes, and fully charges none or nearly none of the opponent’s heroes.
Guess how often that happens.
(Hint: you should be thinking along the lines of “a sufficiently big room full of monkeys randomly pressing typewriters keys has a chance of producing the complete works of Shakespeare,” which is one slightly hyperbolic definition of “effectively zero”)
It’s not that I mind that there are some defenses that are hard to crack. It’s that I mind that there are entire swathes of hero that, when I see them, and especially in combination, are effectively (statistically) a choice between “reroll” and “cup drop.”
Now see what you did? Klaern is crying now. Poor Klaern.
Of course we don’t want bad heroes; we want heroes that have a reasonable use case.
Oh for Pete’s sake… why should “balanced” mean mediocre?
“Balanced,” to the extent it can be achieved, means “is actually quite good in a special rock-papers-scissors kinda way if less good outside its strength, pretty good at multiple things, or at least jack-of-all-trades decent and worth having in nearly all situations.”
I suppose the last might sound like “mediocre” to folks who consider Anne and Alucard to be the standard of “heroes worth having at all”, but for folks who have a limited roster, a good multi-function hero who is worth bringing on many war teams, for instance, can be a good thing to have, and there’s always room for various specialists (healers, tanks, snipers, hit-all, dispellers, cleansers, minionmancers, fiendmancers, specific counters).
“Unbalanced” trends dangerously close to “why would you NOT use this hero, unless its color/class is excluded, or unless facing its own specific OP kryptonite counter hero.”