it won’t be about if these heroes are as good as they were
it’ll be about how good are they in comparison to other options
and for now, there’s really no direct comparisons for replacements
which imo, SG would have been better off tryin to introduce comparable replacements like they’ve done in the past
ares → guin
guin → ursena
ursena/guin → telluria
telluria being optimal tank & hotm was big mistake
playerbase complained for years about guin and other rare good defense heroes being so rare, they wanted them to be more common
sg said "wish granted "
playerbase has responded with “wtf!? are you insane?!”
and here we are.
if SG does try to introduce more/better tank options, i would advise stickin to the formula that worked for years and using harder to obtain heroes than hotm
players that didnt have guin, could use drake
players that didnt have ursena, could use kunchen
etc
make the most optimal hard to get, but also release easier to obtain fallbacks
think that would have been a better choice than making most optimal the most widely available
i know not all players get the hotm but that’s not the point
having 30 days to obtain 1 hero from multiple portals does increase the commonality of a hero over heroes that are only available 3 days once per month or year or 6 months or whatever
if telluria was as rare as yunan and vela was as rare as finley, i suspect a lot of this would have been avoided