[OUTDATED] Top 5 Worst Champions in Paladins - Season 6 (2023)

Hey what’s going on guys, this is AndrewChicken and welcome back to another video! We’ve gone over the best champions for every single class in Paladins, so now it’s time to see who’s the worst! In this video, I’ll be ranking the top 5 worst champions in Paladins. These champions are doing really bad in the current meta, and need some love from the devs to make them viable once again!
As always, this list is just my opinion, so feel free to let me know who you think the worst champions are in the comments section down below! Also, just because a champion is on this list doesn’t mean that you should feel bad for playing them, or that you can’t still do good with them if you put in enough practice. It just means that you like a challenge and going against the grain of the current meta!
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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Number 5
2:20 - Number 4
4:03 - Number 3
5:36 - Number 2
7:53 - Dishonorable Mentions
9:52 - Number 1
13:52 - Outro
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[@HupsoniX]

For anyone wondering why Skye is not on this list, she is there. You just didn't buy illuminate yet.

[@mortada566]

Nah she is great in console even z1 complain about her since cross play got added

[@ALONE-pe4mf]

I think sky is too good if u know how to play her

[@spacewarp5850]

She’s hard carried by controller play.

[@rickyrock420]

​@@ALONE-pe4mfpain in the ass

[@streashoot5555]

@@spacewarp5850 or high level pc players which also know how to aim :^

[@Ramsiman00]

Honestly the most ridiculous thing about Kasumi is not how bad she is in her current state but how long she has been in that state. You'd think they would've fixed her by now but nah she is just dumped and forgotten about

[@awoooga5857]

She's still not even in rank for whatever reason. They don't plan on fixing her😂

[@abdulmajeedhallak1688]

No one cares and i am happy about it. Any type of auto aim in a fps game must be prohibited. Same goes for lian lex etc, because where is the fun in auto aim?

[@alphaleon4539]

Well it took them 1 full year to remove betty annoying knockback.. so this is as fast as em can do, which is god awful slow..

[@Hietakissa]

That's what happens when all you do for years is pump out new champions to keep people buying cosmetics, eventually you have too many champions to balance, so you just make 50% of them worthless and ignore them.

[@user-qv2rg9gt9u]

Why is haze not allowed but VII is?

[@yasserboumediane1010]

Moji is a weird case honestly, when you play as her, you usually won't do very well, but every time you see her on the enemy team, she destroys everyone, also Moji bots are the hardest bots in the game even more than Evie

[@benifeu04]

Torvald bots are also better than evie bots

[@nicholaswalker757]

moji bots legit terrify me lol. especially if I'm playing nyx because every time I play against a moji bot as nyx I end up getting absolutely destroyed lol.

[@majin2405]

Easiest thing for me was copying the Moji bot and what items it bought. More times than not I heavily picks haven so that's sometime to factor in

[@inzanity490]

New strat: pick Moji then leave the game.

[@yasserboumediane1010]

@@inzanity490 I mean, that's one way to help your team win

[@christopherberger4458]

Andrew: Don't feel bad for playing any of these heros. Also Andrew Andrew: Kasumi is the worst thing to happen to humanity since genocide!

[@mewletter]

Even lore wise, Kasumi is irreverent in that aspect since she has literally no connection to other champions or the Realms inhabited. Sha-Lin, Koga and Zhin are already well established in terms of lore related and representative of the "East". Hope Evil Mojo just rework her kit entirely.

[@cristhianmontoya6648]

She was interesting on paper but her kit is executed terribly.

[@Iamslay09]

I do like her Design and she seems to be an interesting character overall but she would defenitly need some rework in terms of Lore and kit

[@frogboi8579]

a huge bug yagorath has is that headshot dmg completely ignores her dr. Which means not only your easyly headshoted, but headshots melt you more than theyre supposed to.

[@AndrewChicken]

That's not even a bug, that's intended. 💀

[@HupsoniX]

Lmao, I didn't even know that X_x

[@elmercy4968]

@@AndrewChicken Seriously? Do you know why?

[@Jettsttreams]

Devs gotta show corvus some love. He WAS the main bad guy for a while. I think they should give marked allies who are far away the same healing non marked allies get when healed no katter the distance. Marked allies who get healed should get 115% of the heal. Not to mention 50% chance of TP not working making his fun stun talent a bit unreliable

[@adammarkiewicz3375]

Corvus should always stun with his dagger. The talent should only enable the damage while teleporting through the enemy.

[@antalito3047]

I believe he is getting buffed in the next update so he is going to get some love!

[@majin2405]

His healing is getting a massive buff so maybe he'll be viable again. Though they've done nothing to make his ult viable

[@desmondroyaltyfrye56]

He was the main bad guy because Seris and Raum were manipulating him.

[@johnfaux8651]

I really like the concept of Katsumi, really hope she gets a rework. I'd just turn her weapon Into a hit scan, shooting large spirit nails. I'd fix her escape by just making her faster, and ethereal.

[@bolt6572]

So like the totem guy

[@HorusHeresist]

Everyone who likes Kasumi needs a psychiatrist who enjoys the challenge.

[@astyr_]

I love Kasumi because of her theme design and the backstory about her. Her attack gimmick is also unique-ish by using a voodoo doll to deal dmg to enemies and I was excited when she was announced. At first I admit that I had fun on her first release because she was in fact overpowered as fuck but then evil mojo just murdered her after which gave me a bad taste in my mouth but I understand why. I just wish they would fix her properly this time without her being too broken or too weak instead of deleting her because in my opinion her avenging ghost design is pretty sick and I love her just by her horror-ish design

[@kidninja8331]

Do you like her gameplay or do you only like her based off aesthetic

[@astyr_]

@@kidninja8331 both tbf, like i said the whole aesthetic of an avenging ghost using a voodoo doll as a weapon is a sick idea. And her gameplay is fine, I get why people would get mad because of the whole no aim thing and it shouldve been nerfed but not to the point of being unplayable since paladins is still on the older engine and you have to expect some jank whenever you change something

[@tonshaad1230]

She was never broken in any aspect of her lifetime in the game. Please stop feeding these lies.

[@henriquevasconcelos5919]

Same, I started playing paladins only 4 months ago and when I first had a look through the roster kasumi was my absolute favourite cuz I love her entire deal. Her design is badass and gorgeous and I love the idea of stabbing a doll to do damage. It's such a great concept

[@awux8096]

@@tonshaad1230 no lies being said here i doubt u used her upon release so dont talk shit about her, she was the most broken champion when she came out before her nerfs, u could be randomly spamming ur button with the most awful aim and she would demolish everyone

[@Rockstar-vs1nb]

I think they should give terminus a major ability that changes his calamity blasts to a sort of dash. This would allow him to trade ranged capability for better mobility. The dash would provide NO vertical mobilty as that’s what shatterfall is for.

[@eldiacastillo9817]

as a terminus main, i agree

[@yammoto148]

I mean anything to make me not take nimble so I can get in range for attacks.

[@combineecho5831]

I really like kasumi in theory and I like her abilities in theory but the execution of those abilities really is terrible and I hope she gets some love soon.

[@TTVFearlessFPS]

I was a diehard Caspian main when he came out, I quite liked his kit and how the weapons "bounced" off of each other. They have kind of wrecked him in a lot of indirect and direct ways, but I still find him fun. He just feels SO SLOW to play now. He definitely needs some changes and some small buffs, because if they buff him in any major way, he'll be overpowered.

[@cloudstrife9188]

I love playing Kasumi but i never play her in real matches. The one time i did, i got put against a full team of people who had gold skins, and my highest level was 13. I only really use her against AI matches. I wish she was better, she is such a cool and interesting character

[@ravenextracts1892]

Actually moji’s mobility is a lot better than people think. If you cancel scamper halfway through and jump then you can bhop which gives you a lot of momentum. It’s a really fun tech to learn

[@kemonngo3106]

It's crazy that Kasumi has been SUPER weak for a few seasons now and EM is just.. content with that. They won't buff or change her at all and literally nerfed her even more this season :(

[@abdulmajeedhallak1688]

Auto aim characters deserves it

[@kemonngo3106]

@@abdulmajeedhallak1688 That makes no sense. Lian has auto aim and is perfectly fine. Auto-aim on paper is very strong, but clearly it can be properly balanced. There are plenty of characters who conceptually sound very strong.. but aren't. Kasumi WAS op on release (and her auto-aim was a direct contributor to that) no one's arguing against that. She's stupidly weak now, however. She'd be better off not having the auto-aim at all with how buggy and weak her primary fire is. The fact of the matter is that properly balancing this character is feasible, but people like you and andrew who immediately jump to "auto-aim bad waaah remove her😭😭😭😭" instead of "please properly balance this character" are the reason this list is a thing in the first place.

[@abdulmajeedhallak1688]

@@kemonngo3106 yes and we are proud of that! :) I said it and i will say it again, auto aim should not be in a fps game whether it is competitive or not because it literally defies the reason why people play games, that is to have fun and sometimes to compete against other players. If you think that balancing auto aim is fair that is your opinion, but in mine it should not be exostent in the first place

[@kemonngo3106]

@@abdulmajeedhallak1688 not reading all that 🥱 just get out my replies 🤷🏻‍♀️ yall complain about champion balance but are the reason they’re unbalanced

[@rawkhawk414]

@@abdulmajeedhallak1688 I've said it once and I'll say it again--there IS auto-aim in Paladins on some heroes, whether you like it or not. It's unlikely to change anytime soon, Lian and Lex have been in the game since at least 2017. Nobody cares if you don't think it shouldn't be in the game. IT IS IN THE GAME. That is not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact. Lex and Lian have traditionally been two of the best heroes in the game at different times. This is in part thanks to their guaranteed damage but small tweaks to their kit here and there have affected that as well. Kasumi needs a rework, what she actually got was gutted lol. If they deleted her from the game it'd make no difference as she's already functionally useless. Assuming the character wouldn't have this badly thought out auto-aim primary fire anymore really invalidates the idea that "she deserves to rot in this poorly balanced state"

[@eliasflorentin6632]

I love corvus- and i think the new buff will help him uwu

[@Mrnoob951]

I know what inspired that ghost walk ability for Kasumi. Leoric from Heroes of the Storm. The ability was actually half decent on him because he was a tank and it was a moba so it was nice to be able to ignore unit collison for a reposition and it could also be extremely effective bait if you had a teammate on the way for a gank and you were on low HP because it also had a damage reduction option you could take also you could actually cancel the ability early by reactivating it.

[@Numenex]

I actually still like playing Kasumi. I know she is god awful, and definitely needs a lot of fixing, but I really like her design, her kit (even if it is weak) and the fact that her mines can actually serve as a good anti-flank ability.

[@testeroftheworlds9813]

Mines now broken too. 50% chanse when you place doll right on standing without guard ability enemy after explosion nothing happens - no fear, no stacks. And if Moji in same team with Kasumi, she replace her stacks with own.

[@DavitzR0]

They could just redesign Kasumi instead of deleting her just so they don't have to delete a champion for the first time. Switching out her weapon and making her movement ability somewhat like Seris' but faster would make her decent. Hear me out, I got 2 ideas for her weapon so far (both with normal aim, not the targeting thing she has now): 1. Hitscan needle throwing with medium range, holding the fire button charges up her shot to increase range but not damage. The doll stab ability slows/cripples the last target shot with a needle for a very short amount of time. 2. Seen in one or two pictures with Kasumi if you search her up on Google, dual-wielded sickles, making her a melee character. Pretty high fire rate on that. Doll stab becomes another ability where she throws both sickles forward as projectiles, doing double the damage of a normal hit. can also add a small slow or cripple on the ability to make finishing someone easier. Just bump up the damage on Terminus too if this happens, would make no sense that a little girl hits harder than the big guy, and he needs it badly anyway.

[@osbornejohnson7919]

Those are cool ideas... NEver gonna happen because EM is underfunded AF but really cool ideas

[@Jaeno311]

I always make Corvus work. But he is weak until you get full chronos

[@cyangear6998]

I agree that Kasumi is pretty terrible right now, but I feel that rant at the end was a little extreme and filled with too much emotion. I do think that the character definitely has potential, as the voodoo doll concept is such a unique one. However, I completely agree this is a case where a total rework of her kit would be the best choice of action.

[@kujikawathemeekmage3640]

I think corvus is pretty decent but all support are good tbf

[@kilo3975]

Yooooo you went crazy on Katsumi lmfaooooo. I thoroughly enjoyed that

[@killingthemood2000]

I really want a future where Corvus is usable since he's my favorite support. He needs higher heals, more Marked target synergy, and lower (heal) cooldown to make him viable. Either Dark Gifts or Spreading Influence in base kit would be great.

[@fredstar-mw4tl]

I agree, I mostly use him instead of an extra damage as his stun if hit allows him to kill an enemy before they are unstunned, and his heals are just a bonus for other flanks

[@ashzerodude]

Corvus's ult should apply anti healing like willos dead zone. Wouldn't have to buff or adjust anything. It zones point? Cool. Apply anti heals

[@therealplaguedoctor]

My thoughts on Kasumi: I think she can be saved if -They remove the miss animation (and/or make the hitbox bigger) -Increase her range -Make it so that her body is immune while dashing -Make it so that she can teleport early to the dash location (and maybe make it so that she can cancel her dash as well)

[@JustDeichan]

Basically, bring back Kasumi everyone hated?

[@uniteduniverse9107]

Really sad because Moji is a very appealing character, think maybe swapping her role would help? an idea I've had for a minute that'd make her more unique is a sort of second life mechanic like Dva had in Overwatch where depleting Moji's health bar would destroy the familiar instead of Moji, i dunno how that'd affect the game though i haven't been very consistent with Paladins until recently

[@7zatanna]

Kasumi just needs to stack her curses like willow when she stabs the doll she should shoot blue energy at her targets take away her auto aim and boom problems solved… this character has so much potential and is the only reason I came to paladin’s in the first place…. She got nerfed to ground because people complained and didn’t like her

[@fannecfox3791]

Kasumi is my favorite character but it's so hard to play her :( it feels /so bad/ so often that it's just rough, and I hate how visible it is that when I play her my performance is almost always just noticeably worse than the rest of my team. I really really really hope she gets some changes

[@nicholaswalker757]

Corvus would be a lot nicer if his teleport wasn't the buggiest ability ever.

[@YoshiKing9999]

I’ve said this in a previous video but: I feel like they could rework kasumi’s primary to make it fire slow homing projectiles (like maybe spirits or something) instead of that aim bot thing. And make it only home in if you aim at them with your crosshair otherwise they would just have bad bloom. Think rose from plants vs zombies garden warfare.

[@smkAC]

I think with Yag they gotta buff her dr to 40% and cleanse like 50% - 100% of cauterize when hardened and make the dr go from 40 regular to 90 when hardened cus then she has a better chance of living and she pops it. Also percent based damage against her should do less DMG ranging from 10% - 50% percent less damage. One last thing would be an extra 15% dr when ulting

[@JEFFTHEBOSS-si3oq]

i agree but they would have to remove one or 2 cards as she could get 100 dr in hardening but i agree 25% increase for staying planted and not being able to do anything is so bad

[@Hietakissa]

@@JEFFTHEBOSS-si3oq she can get 50% extra dr when hardened, so if her passive dr were to be buffed to 40% she'd have 90% dr, not 100%.

[@smkAC]

@@Hietakissaalso cauterize removal during it would be necessary because she can actually survive

[@Hietakissa]

@@smkAC she can quite easily solo survive it either way as long as the ult doesn't last for >4 seconds

[@JEFFTHEBOSS-si3oq]

@@Hietakissa but with end of an era which is what i pointed out shed get to 100% because it can increase it by i think 90% at lvl5 please read the comment before responding

[@taluca8474]

I was thinking about coming back to this game so this is some good info

[@frostery1483]

Thanks for the list to which champion I should play

[@aelfynnalochoir8249]

A fun thing me and my bf do occasionally is I'd spec Corvus into a mark build and put it on him as Vora. I hang out on point with the team while he wreaks havoc in the backline with the mark healing covering for any slip-ups

[@AedilVtuber]

The other day I ran into THE Møji, and they carried, mainly bc the other team kinda sucked, but hey a good moji player is typically fun to play with / around.

[@DanielTheRobot]

I'm a relatively new player for the game and I really like Kasumi as a character, so while seeing people hating her is understandable because of she was really broken it makes sense, but having you just want her to be completely removed is kinda sad. I don't think giving up on a character is really a healthy mindset and it would be bad for companies to refund people of their skins when they could rework her kit. But without reworks I have some suggestions on adjustments: - Have it so that there is a reticle on screen that displays the area you need to aim in order to land a hit, but also decrease it, therefore hit can be landed more reliably but you still need to actually aim. - Remove the stupid miss animation or at least make it last way less longer. AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD change the sound effect of it because it sounds like the same sound as landing a hit which makes no sense and completely disrupts the feel. - Allow her traps to give her a slight invincibility while she returns to it. That way people can't just pre-aim and get free damage but don't make it the invincibility long enough for HER to get free damage. - Traps could also make her more threatening with damage or even highlight enemies nearby so that way teammates would be inclined to assist Kasumi if she teleports to them. Just something to not make herself a liability by teleporting to them. - Her third talent should just be built into her kit. It's like some characters get literal invincibility or teleportation while she gets not being able to move at all

[@raurisaurus5057]

Kasumi has a lot of potential and in my opinion is one of the best designed characters (Appearance wise and weapon wise) out of many characters in paladins. Her Auto-Aim was both to powerful and to hindering. Her fear mechanic actually is really good and is one of the best things about her and I wish they played into that more especially since she is a more of an evil spirit. Her ult also punishes a team for being a team which is REALLY good when people decide to group together, but that's about it. They shouldn't delete her and she doesn't need to be deleted, just reworked. Reworking takes less time than designing a whole new champion from scratch and implementing them into the game, and they can re-use current animations if they choose to. Not only that, but most of Kasumi's rework would be within the primary fire, whilst everything else doesn't even need animation changes or full reworks just slight reworks that change how they interact (For example: her phase doesn't need to be outright changed, just make it to where her body has more damage reduction and where she can teleport early to her current phase location, and perhaps increase its speed slightly). Her spirit lure talent should be base kit and just add a new talent that increases the AOE range and damage of the spirit lures but at a cost of removing her fear. Her ult is fine as is, but they could also add a fear mechanic to it if they chose to similar to Mal'damba. As for her primary fire, thats where her main issue comes into play. It simply just needs to be turned into a projectile that is either hitscan or normal. I also feel that her burst damage skill should be instead turned into a DOT instead of an outright burst, that way her opponents have a window of counterplay either before they inevitably die or can get healed instead of just straight up being deleted. They could even turn her primary fire into something similar to that of a shotgun (The reason I think this would be good is more for animation fluidity so that they don't need to rework the animation entirely), she can just stab the doll like normal and then it emits cursed energy that blasts out in front of her instead of something weird like a thin projectile/needle just randomly shooting out from the dolls behind. In any case, Kasumi is very easily fixable. It just requires a little bit of tweaking and maybe primary fire animation rework. Most of her kit is perfectly fine and good with some slight tweaks and her design is still top tier. As a current PC player and former console player, I can definitely say whilst Kasumi was broken, she had plenty of counterplay even in her prime state and had drawbacks. Yes she was frustrating, but she didn't feel impossible to beat, and shields and ranged champions hard countered her severely. The hate on Kasumi might be justified but it is definitely a bit exaggerated. Azaan and Tiberius definitely felt worst to play against when they first came out. Azaan was absolutely broken for the longest time being practically immortal with DPS levels of damage as a mobility tank, and Tiberius could wipe any sniper or tank off the map with insane burst damage until they nerfed it.

[@7oka153]

hello andrew try to test more more more card lvl on omen + try to ult behind someone then void grip them to the ult it feels easier

[@Delicashilous]

Corvus gets a small buff next Update. 100 more heals + 5% more on marked allies, Main heals so As passive marked heals.

[@thisbigshow8315]

@AndrewChicken why does skye is so high in winrate % ?

[@azureking-jordan]

I disagree on caspian being the second worst character because that win rate numbers have been plagued by bad caspian thinking measured cadence still procs card effects. While us good caspian players run lobbies with at 20 kills per match but I’d still put him in the 5 or 4 worst character, maybe a dishonourable mention

[@xQuote]

Can you give a link for the discord bot you use for the win rate stats?

[@akky7723]

caspian using its got some heft does monstrous dps at an unfair range for the sword. it just takes some getting used to

[@Delicashilous]

The Only thing to fix kasumi is to give her a normal primary fire (example: Nail throw).

[@sapphireaurora9634]

so whats funny is a friend of mine plays Corvus, Moji, and sometimes Kasumi. and he has this special way of finding jank that makes the character better than you'd expect, still not super good but able to pull their own somehow. Its wierd but also kinda funny.

[@top_endera_girl5342]

Why all think Yago and Corvus is bad? Because no one can play on it.

[@GravityApproaching]

YEAH THIS GM AND DIAMOND PLAYER SUCK /s

[@portalguy2246]

As someone who plays Corvus, yeah I don’t even play him as a healer anymore I play him as like a stunbot catcher type champion now, which I do really like

[@Auld17]

Kinessa's burst is OP. She needs a nerf, not a buff.

[@Auld17]

I had to leave the game when Kasumi was introduced because all she had to do was look at you from a mile away and you were dead. On top of that, she was super powerful on Dawnforge, a shit map they forced you to play constantly during that time because it was new. They should be VERY careful with buffing Kasumi and only do it incrementally, if at all.

[@mikiferrari1]

I would honestly make these changes to Kasumi: I would remove the aimbot to her basic attack and her miss animation; I would replace her attack animation with her throwing the nail at the enemy with the same range as Cassie or Sha Lin; I would increase the range of the fear mines by making it go beyond the shield. I'd also speed up the teleport animation because you die so easily during that time; his ulti is fine as it is, at least of animation, because I would remove the brand from whoever is hit; the right button, on the other hand, I would make it in the seris manner. I mean that you press it and the damage you do a priori from whether you looked at the enemy or not. I'd leave the more damage thing if the mark is higher with disarming the enemy, but I'd raise the cooldown a bit to balance that being that it could do high damage to multiple enemies at once; with regard to the ghost, however, I would work on it quite a bit. Need more defense or a state of no damage until the end of the skill, so you don't die randomly and you can reposition yourself or escape from a fight. Being a ghost, I would make the animation not visible even if you have lit. It doesn't last long, the cooldown is high and he won't be able to get away who knows how far. To be cured in that state it would always be necessary to cure her of her real body and not of her shadow. Also I would swap skills while in that state like yagorath or tiberius's ulti to better control her. Cancel the animation with her stopped in the same spot (like now) and/or stop the skill before it actually ends. With these changes she will be able to attack from a distance and aim her target at her best, without that problem of shields or body parts covered by obstacles that do not allow you to hit the target; it would be more efficient in fleeing or repositioning itself in a fight in order to then be able to counterattack; the teleport would no longer be an instant death trigger, but a real problem for the opposing team; and the right click would be its true potential with a nice powerful strike. Since the basic shot is very small, it would be easy to miss the target, therefore only those who know how to play it well will be able to do a lot of damage with the right; the ultimate would do quite a bit of damage without giving you the mark to do a one shot combo with the custom right. This way it would be balanced with other damage and not be too strong on flanks. Speaking of the flanks, with the basic attack in this way Kasumi will be able to hit who is invisible without being penalized badly as she is now. Just in case, I'm sorry for my bad english.

[@magythemage]

the thing is, she doesnt even have an aimbot anymore due to how small her weapn is

[@mikiferrari1]

@@magythemage actually, she still has an aimbot, the problem is that is more broken than before, and not in a good way. She has a sign or what it is to hit someone, like the yagorath's ulti, so the shots cannot be used without a visible enemy. That is the real problem with her. She has a lot of problems, but the basic attack is her biggest problem.

[@ske7chypanda]

Yag can be very good with an amazing support. for instance, my friend mains yag and i play support like pip who is my main. When we are together yag is nearly unkillable. The only issue is that once i die it makes it a lot easier for my friend to die.

[@elmercy4968]

Yag is underestimated.

[@allmensland2106]

I wish they’d rework Kasumi to be more about area control with her traps and CCs abilities. Like how cool would it be to have a ‘reverse support’ type champion who curses and debuffs the enemy

[@bloodangel7731]

Only that she is a dps and not a support

[@rawkhawk414]

@@bloodangel7731 ???? what an exciting addition to the conversation. "She is arbitrarily labeled as a dps so your idea about a dps hero that does damage by doing things that supports traditionally do but in reverse is impossible". Huh??? lol

[@shadow8767]

@@bloodangel7731 and yet we have support champs that have better burst damage than flanks, or better sustained damage than damage, and 2 who has the health pool and survivability of a tank.... what's you're point?

[@adamkazmierczak2074]

Thanks for good films❤️

[@allmensland2106]

Why do I feel like once EM removed Cas’ cards proc’ing on shields people turned on him? Like, Cas was always extremely niche and gimmicky, but only now people remember and complain that they broke him. I just feel like the meta chasers are whining because their weekly new main has to obey the same rules as every other champ

[@azureking-jordan]

People only played caspian because of that talent because they saw content creators play it, the true players went to it’s got some heft

[@alphahawk325]

Really when i picked up yagaroth i decimated and i def dont know what im doing also im sad about moji being bad because aesthetically they might be my favorite

[@MrMister1208]

One thing I should change for Corvus is his ultimate, I mean, is a Healer champion, why his ultimate does damage? Is not better if that giant circle can heal the team?

[@elmercy4968]

No. Heal ults are boring for healers. The two we got are enough.

[@generalgrievous1719]

Everyone talking about kasumi but yagoroth on release was something different I have a fond memory of being hammered by a whole team and not even dropping below 25% hp I miss that tank the one that made since to leave still in the highly mobile shooter game I wish they would do something to make her viable cause she’s the only tank I enjoy to play

[@T.K.F.]

We know the devs would try their best to buff a champion in a way to improve them without reworking them as much as possible so if you would Andrew. Mention these in your videos (I think the devs listens to you) 1. Corvus already getting buffed so he's good, probably although I would like 2 marks as base kit and new talent gives 3rd mark 2. Ask devs to remove the dumb minimum ult range for Yag like you want, give Yag built in reju 20% in roll form plus way better movement control. 3. Moji primary and secondary applies and prock stacks. It takes primary 4 shots to get full stacks and 5th to detonate, secondary is the same but doesn't need primary to detonate. Moji can use both primary and secondary together to stack magic mark faster and prock at the same time. If this is busted, decrease mark duration 4. Increase base stats for speed travel cas stun, dash speed and lower required stacks from 5 to 3. Devs could also do what I will mention about term later on HM: Nesa: TP talent base kit, bring old rapid fire eagle eye but better stats both hip fire and aim down sight. I want flankessa or at least hip fire nesa to be a thing. Old viktor nostalgia Term: Remove movement penalty when using siphon plus lower the required charge while having the same value from 4 charge to 2. If they want, lowered charged is a new talent, 1st or 3rd talent in base kit. 5. Firstly, bring back old 1st talent then A: Greatly lower lockout animation B: remove the stupid blue indicator and cone aim assist then remove the animation lockout completely

[@GreedyDrunk92]

Remember people, what all sweaty fighting players abuse sice SF1. If a character is underpowered - you will rarely see them. If you rarely see a character - you rarely have a chance to practice against them. This advantage can compensate for their weaknesses, if the "non meta" player is experienced enough

[@goingtoalice4735]

i don't really think Kasumi needs to be deleted. I find her quite enjoyable to play. For me she's actually more interesting to play than others because she is so bad

[@magythemage]

Yeah, andrew's take was straight up awful on kasumi he's probably mad cuz he likes playing evie and got bullied too hard by kasumi.

[@narancia2815]

​@@magythemageshes not in ranked too

[@soulreaver6546]

​@@magythemagehow would you get bullied by a character whose primary doesn't work 99% of the time?

[@gman-1368]

honestly yagorath needs a more realistic rework. I mean like yagorath in the trailers is a badass stone cold killer but in the game she's a literal punching bag. Yagorath should be able to attack with her claws and use her tail like in the trailer etc

[@zerodots3417]

started playing again after 3 years or so and really liked the visual design of kasumi when i played her it felt awfull just hoping they do a rework on her abilities sometime

[@istjusme]

Honestly the only gripe about this list I have is Moji. One time when playing I was playing against a team with a Moji. This same Moji went on to kick our entire team's butt. (Granted our team wasn't very solid but either way it was something to be impressed by)

[@_ikako_]

i dont agree with your point about Kasumi's reputation. if she got a full rework into a well balanced character, it would be very easy for people to realise that she's good. Take Brigitte from Overwatch for example. she was the single most broken character to ever be released and literally single-handedly created an entire new meta that caused the game to fundamentally change with role queue. People hated her and how unfun she was to play as and against. But now, she's been balanced and reworked and people hardly bat an eye at someone playing her because she has a place in the meta and isn't completely broken (unless you're a ball player who keeps getting booped by her whip). It's definitely pretty easy to recover a character's reputation through balancing and the same could be done for kasumi. I actually really like her concept, as a new player, and it'd be cool to see her actually be playable.

[@ronaldwestbeal2269]

I’m fairly new to paladins and Iv ran into some kasumi’s they just feel like they’re trying to die when they go for a 1v1 you just side step and she seems to miss a lot

[@staticbadgers690]

I haven't played Paladins in a long time and when i did i mained and loved Corvus its just sad seeing him down here

[@themorgue3836]

To be totally fair to Kasumi, if she didn’t have lock on in her kit and it was actually not dog shit, she could actually be really fun and cool. Off the top of my head: Make her primary fire a projectile that looks kind of like a beam of ghostly energy. That way you could make it do comparable damage to a real damage character and have it feel fair Her stacking damage and right click is pretty much good as it is, but I would recommend having it least disarm and the amount of stacks increase it’s duration rather than needing all 5 for the CC to come in Her movement ability needs to have full DR, the body left behind needs to be basically a decoy (since thematically, it would be, the real Kasumi is ethereal.) it also needs to be cancellable for better control over where you end up and to feel less clunky Make spirit lure give some kind of DR when she teleports to it and make them easier to aim or put her Spirit Bombs into base kit (while also significantly nerfing them). If Evil Mojo just took the time to top down rework her and make her not only playable, but actually fair and fun to play and play against, she would not be getting the vitriol she is from nearly everyone.

[@happyhoppip9159]

NGL I forgot Kasumi existed until you mentioned her here 😆

[@Kylelongwest]

Kasumi was better last patch where you have to aim and click on every hit. The click and hold this patch is terrible, if you missed you can't initiate the next attack until the animation of her missing is over, and that is like 1.5sec

[@jeremyparker5800]

I've gotten a few wins with kasumi, but I do wish she get a new weapon instead of using a voodoo doll, like she should just fling nails at the enemy team, but I do enjoy playing her from time to time

[@attenonmj3708]

For me it's more like: 5. Kinessa 4. Terminus 3. Moji 2. Skye 1. Kasumi Yag and Corvus take a lot of skill and I enjoy playing both. Corvus does heal a bit less than others, but his survivability is great and he has ok talents. Yag requires a team with a brain or two and I think she is not that bad.

[@canyesilbas5664]

I dont even know why they went with stupid auto aim doll for Kusomi. She had a really cool ghost bow weapon concept based on one of the traditional japanese instruments.

[@MrPistoleroGun]

Worth noting that "need love from the devs to perform again" does not mean it needs buffs necessarily. I'd rather die than see corvus dominate games again. Nothing was more unfun than corvus with koga or other flanks, being able to 1v5 like it's nothing 😆 Some characters are just either too good or too bad, and i'd rather perform with a bad character if i practice enough, than see the same character used every singular game because it's braindead ez and overpowered like no tomorrow. But the information on winrate and which character performs worse in a category is a good info for when you want to try new things. I'll definitely try some of those characters in casual and see if i can perform, while avoiding the hardcore difficulty of bringing them to ranked asap like it's something natural that my teammates should adapt to.

[@Cuuby0wliz]

Caspian's rework did wonders jasjdsjd he's fun to play, that's why I'm almost lv 100 with him

[@AiloSzn]

I come back to paladins every now and then and i loved kasumi bc salt farming was fun but damn they gutted her and rightfully so she was busted

[@testeroftheworlds9813]

If by some miracle DEVELOPERS looks here. Changes for Kasumi (my suggestion). Remove dependence the damage on stacks. Remove stacks limit - only on one target in same time. Do stacks make debuffs based on chosen talent: 1. 6% move slow on enemy per stack. max 30%. 2. 4% base damage reducing on enemy per stack. max 20%. 3. +3% damage take from any source any character on enemy per stack. 15% max. Make them not count like Moji stacks that they can work together! Old main fire animation and sound (doll stabbing) but change effect from hit locked on target to pistol shot (sending pain comparable to a bullet). Remove punishment for miss hit. Right mouse button ability change from last hit to utility skill. My suggestion - ability to see all enemies through walls in 90+ (cards) range for 3+ (cards) seconds. She hunting for souls btw. Escape ability change to a normal escape without vulnerability. Better if it will be walk (teleport) through walls, but i know Evil Mojo can't do something hard (but this have in Smite). Doll-trap change from lying on the ground useless fart to visible ghostly flying projectile (100%+ [cards] characters average move speed) (limited+ [cards] time travel IF with autoaim [Vatu talent]). After contact with target do micro-stun for 0.2 seconds, 1 second silence, 1 second blinding with spooky image (maybe based on Kasumi skin), apply 3 stacks.

[@estacaotech]

Kasumi came to the game and instantly became the most op character off all time, I remember getting quadras and a few pentas just spamming m1 and m2 sometimes and it wasnt even fun to be honest, then the nerf came and kasumi disappeared real quick 😂, nowadays they should just remlce the miss animation and this might help, but i also think she needs a rework.

[@elmercy4968]

Yagorath has an excellent winrate. What is probably the reason Andrew mentions her bad pickrate instead. If winrate is taken into account like for the "best champs" videos, Term would have to take her place.

[@kiyuthakat4934]

This is honestly one of the best ranking video about paladins I've seen but... I have to hard disagree about caspian. He's my main and one of my most played characters. I don't want to write a massive essay to say how underrated he is, I'd sum it up by saying that he's a very matchup dependent character but on some maps and against some characters he's unstoppable. And to be honest there isn't a lot of "top tiers" that he can't handle easily. And for is mobility, hes broken on that department if you know which fights you can handles.

[@ignis5778]

If you're playing caspian, your first item should never be haven. It shouldnt even be bought on him. If you look at his stacks and god save you build them, you are playing him wrong. Every stack gives 2% attack speed, its not worth farming them since his aspd rework. Its not about how weak caspian is, its about people not wanting to understand that if cadence is nerfed, you shouldnt try making it work. Try different talents. Heft is so OP right now, but pretty much noone plays it, hence why caspian has bad winrate. Also about his mobility:dont use his dashes to traverse the map. Use them to burst enemy down. 750 damage in addition to his 1260 dmg third attack is just nuts and this amount of dmg can be dealt faster then vatu's combo. And it doesnt even need to be aimed since its aoe.

[@azureking-jordan]

Also if you engage with his movement hold down your primary fire because it’ll come out at the first possible frame without it animation allowing you to just the second and third hit

[@ignis5778]

@@azureking-jordan And you can bring up third attack before engaging for a devastating burst. So many techs with him, so many possibilities, but people prefer androxus and talus because they are easy.

[@thousandyardgavri2785]

I always use Everywhere at once and spam the dash. Its fun... But I think I still need to get used to Its got some heft because it requires me being near the enemy

[@ignis5778]

@@thousandyardgavri2785 it actually doesnt. Third attack has massive range, about the same as koga's claws. Light attacks also have a huge range, and they hit in wide area too, so they proc bonus dmg much more often.

[@ImKloan]

As a fresh player to paladins.... like, just started the day this dropped without realizing xD And the worst part? Kasumi is one of the only kits I thoroughly enjoy. I know ill get some shade for this lol... Her kit feels clunky with the animation prock upon missing. Her primary does do little to get people to an execute state. I thoroughly love the "Dying from the shadows" feel she has when people dont have an idea your hiding to their side and killing them. Thats why I love her kit as a "sneaky glass cannon" like a rouge. But it just hurts to play her knowing there is no value from it and getting brutalized by literally any enemy in the process. She needs to be reworked in a way that makes her more of a flank than an assault. Regardless of how useless my main/favorite choice is on this game, im down for suggestions. Ive built a strong reduction on her execute (LT) ability cooldown along with stack building cards, pair that with a heal per elim, life steal, reduced cooldowns, with the 4th being flexible for resilience or barrier breaking to maximize her value as much as possible... To no avail... still only won like a single match or 2 over the numerous games ive played (sometimes being the best player statistically sadly) Not sure where to go from here 😅

[@doges4715]

Isnt yag's form swap basically instant now?

[@mastrorick]

Kinda but in rolling mode she can't go at full speed right away like every other champion

[@arealhuman826]

Doesnt yagorath have the highest win rate in upper ranked?

[@thekingkous9424]

I hope Corvus buff makes him good I love playing him

[@jakeislavic3024]

Kasumi wasnt even broken at release, she was strong in pts but with the nerfs she was in a good state, people are just bad at the game and bc she requires basically no skill to play with, they started to think she was strong bc of her consistency. Any decent player knew she wanst that good, it very easy to flank her and she have no range at all. all the nerfs where unnecessary

[@rawkhawk414]

Requiring no skill to use and get consistency out of is what made the character overpowered. I do find it strange that you could maintain that she was bad while also having these qualities. People who use cheats in online first-person shooters games are usually bad at online first-person shooter games but if they give themselves an advantage wherein they can consistently get kills without skill...that unbalances the game. It can be healthy to have easy-to-use, out-of-the-box heroes in a competitive game--but there's a limit and I think most people agree Kasumi exceeded it. You can get more value on a hero who does more damage if you can land their shots but why even spend the mental effort if you are capable of killing them anyway without wasting any energy on aiming. Kasumi IS flankable, sure, every hero in the game is, but she could match your flank's tempo easily because she didn't need to aim for them. This playstyle completely invalidates abusing all of the mobility available in Paladins to survive long enough to get to cover. Compare her to a similar character design in a game like OverWatch. Heroes who don't need the aim to get value need to take different kinds of risks or sacrifices. Symmetra, Moira, Winston, and Zarya all have beam weapons that (for the record require much more precise aiming than release Kasumi), ramp up in damage over time and require close range to use most effectively. Atm Kasumi's left-clicks have too much jank to use at all, but on release they were definitely too easy to use. As you said she required basically no skill. And I don't even see people talking about the fact that on release her damage didn't provide any kind of directional hitmarker to her targets or visual trajectories (compare Lex and Lian's auto-aim shots that leave trajectories). Finally I'm also seen a lot of neglect for the fact that she is one player out of five on a team one player who can get that much value just for existing is insane. And then to act like she's a free kill because she has an awkward escape tool when she has 1-4 other people body guarding her...? Lol. And I'm not trying to say all this to paint a picture that makes her seem impossible to kill. One does not need God levels of power to be imbalanced. She could be dealt with but her very presence on a team gifted you with a player who didn't need to waste energy on mechanics, could still do competitive damage, and could focus all their efforts on positioning and shot calling while holding left-click.

[@wesker8814]

Kasumi made me delete the game. I main Vora and it was so unplayable to go against Kasumi.

[@generallyconcerned3352]

I want Moji to be so desperately good but she's so irrelevant when it comes to the lore (alongside Willo but she's not THAT bad) that I feel like she's never going to be touched again

[@frostyfrenchtoast]

As someone who stopped playing paladins a few years ago I’m amazed at how many characters they’ve fumbled with elementary level design choices

[@LokyGF]

As a Moji and Yago main, this made me happy 😂

[@Delicashilous]

Seris works well as DPS (with the right build), Ironically.

[@wowo1005]

I swear caspian was S tier not too long ago lol

[@oles9196]

He was because he could get the highest movement speed possible and his stacks could be farmed against shields and deployables but both these things were heavily nerfed.

[@chuggajr]

I’m not sure I agree with Moji being as high as she is. She’s not good by any means but I would say Terminus and Corvus are MUCH worse than her. Moji at least has a niche of being a tanky back line harasser, but Corvus and Terminus have the niche of only being picked when you have another character on their team to do their job for them.

[@elmercy4968]

Term is picked when the other point tanks are gone. That's his niche.

[@RuanRicardoNN]

The only really bad ones there are Yagorath and Kasumi. The rest is just niche. Niche is different from bad. Now Caspian is good actually. The problem is that the normal Paladins player was abusing some specific things and they no longer know how to play with him.

[@Delicashilous]

Moji Only works well on small maps or/and maps With Many tight & close floors/maps with Many edges & walls. Edit: Of course decent moji players know when attacking & when not

[@XLORDPROPL]

Damn Kasumi is so easy to balance... but not for developers... I don't have to say how to do this because no one will listen to me...

[@d4nny912]

i only play dmg champs and have all of them past lvl 30 except for katsumi i never will touch her

[@vicaslanidou78]

honestly, i love Kasumi sm and I'm planning to keep playing her no matter how bad she gets. BUT They need to rework her so badly, I love her theme, her backstory, her aesthetic, her design, her abilities, all about her. damn I'm her N1 defender at this point. I understand your hatred for her even if it made me sweat (I'm not joking), I blame Evil Mojo for this, SHE NEEDS A HUGE REWORK. I definitely do not want her off the game. Hopefully they rework on her though. Even if it takes time for someone to get good with her, a buff wouldn't be bad for her. Even if I stopped playing in late 2020 and started playing this year again, ever since I got Kasumi I had so much fun with her. Even if she's not so broken anymore. I still had a lot of fun. I'm just disappointed at Evil Mojo, because like if the enemy moves 0.1 centimeters away from her scope, she won't do anything. Which is annoying, because you just have to predict where the enemy will go to ACTUALLY go damage with her. But besides that, I respect your opinion but I disagree with all the hatred- sorry if this paragraph seems stupid or anything.

[@psychoherobrine3406]

bro i was so dead weight on Kasumi to the point i had to spam ults on one talus flank, grrr... I just think they need to rework Kasumi to make her abilities work (for once) and fix their damn bugs already. Jesus christ... I thought Caspian was bad enough.

[@frogboi8579]

the problem with terminus is that HES PURELY MELEE, and that is just ridiculous on the shooter genre. Yes, you got charges, but terminus playstyle forces you to no use any charges so you can build dr and speed. What they should do is give terminus passive dr and increase his movement speed, freeing hi to use his range attack without any penalty. also MAYBE giving him passive charges regeneration for those escenearios where no one shoots your barrier, something like a charge every 10 seconds.