Foulman
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You'd be taking out the only good, cheap robot for F2P players. Focus builds would be a hell of a lot rarer, when new and returning players come in after the gifting event. High health/high strength builds would be even stronger, and the 770 energy 130 support and high health builds would become nigh on unbeatable except by strength/health builds, and tanks that could beat them would be reduced to those classes that can support a high field medic, AKA TM and TLM. People who used to have focus would then turn to more offensive spam builds, like the 4 focus 1300 health strength build. Blood Hawk and Black Abyss would become more viable, but only a select few would own those pieces of equipment. You'd be taking out any problems with tech/focus builds from using Pyro Fly, which is insanely broken and OP with every class relying on a main energy skill to function properly. Massive damage builds like Dex TM, Support TM, TLM and Merc, and the strength abuse builds would become the dominant builds. You might be diversifying the robots that focus builds are currently using, but you would also be driving many players away from using focus or tech heavy builds because of the financial costs involved with taking away such a cheap robot away. A lot would simply leave when deprived of what may be their favourite builds, and the ones who stay would probably have problems. BM would be hit hard, because focus is the only build that I know of which has a decent win rate, BH focus would be dead, and with Dex being risky and with strength being so much weaker than TM and TLM, the only focus users would be the ones who can afford to fork out for the 45K robots. While players who get to the gifting events or who have enough IRL time or money to buy whatever they want would be good, the newbies would struggle to get any robots at all. TM, with its insane variety of builds compared to everyone else, wouldn't really feel the impact. The same goes for TLM. CH would really have to move to strength or fork out for another robot, but because they have a nuke skill, they won't be hit as hard as focus BH. Merc would be left in the mud. I've only seen 2 mercs in the last 6 months of PvP. The Aux rage+IA special would be gone, and seeing as no other robots (except the rare Gamma bot) can come close to the burst of the IA, no focus builds would really work unless they have a cheap nuke skill already that scales with tech. Goodbye Focus 5 BH/TLM, hello focus 4 Strength BH with Blood Hawk or Black Abyss. Botanical Hazard would be used as an alternative, at least by those who have it, and longer battles against focus users would be less risky. In short, you would be nerfing the focus community in general, and buffing everyone who doesn't rely on tech, as well as alienating casual players, F2P players and people who actually lead real lives away from Epicduel. As the game is already so small, you really cannot afford to carry out this hypothetical IA deletion.
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