The most balanced hero?

Torb.

I believe Torb is properly, 100% balanced.
No auto-winning ultimate.
No massive hard-to-hit abilities.
Brings damage that is entirely reliable on your awareness, etc,.
Mid-ground survivability.
Well designed kit overall.

Yes, he’s a victim to “powercreep”, only because the “powercreep” is what you can abuse at any given situation in a competitive setting. That’s what Meta is and always has been, abusing game mechanics to gain an edge on enemies that aren’t doing it. Like the dreaded double-shotgun in that one game that the entire internet is 50/50 for and against.

Torb is well balanced, but he’s not really abusable.
He has an above-average skill floor to get good results out of consistently (against Gold/Plat+).
He has a pretty high skill ceiling, and it takes a lot of work to be a really great Torb (Fuey500).

He brings utility and CC too! But in the way that CC is meant to be- Crowd Control.
Crowd Control isn’t always stuns.
Crowd Control in WoW is like a Warrior’s Ravager talent. Or a Demon Hunter using Eye Beam in a corridor. You do NOT want to walk into those.

Hunter Snake-Traps, etc,.

Torb has traditional CC, that isn’t a stun or a slow. It’s also counterable.
Therefore, his CC can’t be abused.

Torb is literally the most balanced character in the game from my perspective.

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