What do you guys think about Kiriko?

So this might be a hot take because support queue is already bottlenecking, but do you guys not feel like Kiriko might be a bit too strong compared to the other supports?

Kitsune rush is arguebly OP. Her cleanse kind of hard counters alot of heroes. She has a wonky hurtbox where her arms protect her from getting headshot. Her survivability is top tier and can afford to go on cheeky flanks and come out unpunished.

What are your thoughts?

Too skinny. She needs to eat a burger.

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Really well designed, except that her Ult is kinda bonkers and will probably get nerfed.

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Witch Kiriko is kinda bad tho :flushed:

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The cleanse isn’t even the best part of suzu. It’s the total invulnerability that comes with it.

She’s definitely overtuned. She has better mobility, better damage (if you can land your headshots, which is admittedly hard), and comparable healing and utility to even the best of the supports. Plus she has arguably the best ultimate in the game.

That said, I think her kit is great on the surface, and she just needs some numbers tweaking.

EDIT: On thinking about it a bit, it does seem a bit dumb to give her an invulnerability grenade on top of her insane mobility, since if she uses it on herself she’s nearly unkillable outside of one-shots or her being the last person alive.

I’d rather they nerf her ult than her base kit as things stand. I can see why Kitsune is too much, and if they nerf her base kit it could easily mess things up for us lesser players.

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Imo her ult is too strong. Otherwise I think she is just a really good support.

I have absolutely no clue how to play the character but that might be because i am awful at support.

i actually dont think she is that hard to go against. maybe make her teleport have to be a little closer as a change i would do. but over all i think that she adds a good dynamic to look out for, her invulnerability has saved me from a dva ult which is crazy but having a support actually counter Ana who is S tier is nice. everyone has their own counters and hers i would say is dvas matrix to catch her cleanse. also Mei blocks her ult so it cant support her team to push in. its definitely hard to counter such a nimble character but i think she is in a good place tbh. now sojourn on the other hand thats a topic for another day LMAO

Fox will probably get some adjustments, although I’ve been seeing it getting countered with great success more and more, as people learn to play with it.

Otherwise, she’s a well designed support hero with a high skill ceiling.

Not only is her ult too strong, but it makes certain characters super awkard to to play with the speed rush and attack speed at least if ur trying to maximize its value, like the tempo is good with kiriko itself where u can still aim and keep up with ur shots, but others u have to hold down ur left click to keep up

They just need to nerf her ult a bit. I think she’s very well balanced apart from her ult

Boring playstyle imo
She feels probably how mercy should. Consistent heals, RNG damage that’s only good intentionally for cleanup, high mobility. Ult causes chaos for everyone for no reason at all.

She’s to the point where I might as well play literally any other DPS instead of que support.

They didn’t make a DPS pipeline to support. They made a support pipeline to DPS with kiriko.

I haven’t played this in a while but I still have the game installed on my phone lol

Fundamentally, she isn’t poorly designed, her design was just implemented with really strong numbers. It’s easily tunable without a massive rework, so I’m not worried.

She’s as busted as Sojourn. Every part of her kit needs a nerf.

Kunais do too much damage
Too much healing for how much utility, damage, and survivability she has
Swift step cooldown is only 7 seconds
Her suzu invulnerability lasts way too long
Her ultimate is the best in the game

Yes. Meaning other supports should be brought to Kiriko’s level.