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THANK YOU. People don't care about balance, they just want their fave class to stomp others without having to put in the work to avoid their counter.
Maybe there's something I'm not getting, but doesn't the second setup preclude basically anyone from stomping anyone? If stomping others is one's goal, it'd be through picking a class and then picking on any other class that's weak to one's own, no?
Yeah, the point of this comic is less about people buffing their favorite class (though people do tend to lean towards that) and more about people generally thinking 'balanced' means everything is equal.
Though the man in the purple shirt is definitely wanting to get rid of the advantages rogues have on mages... The mages symbol also being purple lol.
Assuming this is for a team game, predator-prey relationships create interesting dynamics where teammates have to protect each other from their counters, while also aiming to create situations where they can isolate a countered opponent to press the advantage.
In a 1v1 game though, you do want panel 2. It would be very bad if Street Fighter was decided by playing rock-paper-scissors on the character select screen.
I mean, there is some nuance. Sucks for memes, because they thrive on the lack of nuance, but anyways...
Depending on implementation, you gotta be careful to avoid the top panel becoming rock paper scissors.
If class switching is cheap (say, every respawn), you've just built a very very expensive rock paper scissors simulator.