My problems with Mizuki
I’ve been grinding a ton of Mizuki since his release, and while his aggressive, duel-heavy playstyle is incredibly fun, I feel like his overall power has a major design flaw. Right now, a massive chunk of his value is locked behind his passive, Remedy Aura.
Because his passive healing output scales entirely based on the resource meter you charge by dealing damage and healing, his active kit ends up feeling more like a vehicle to charge the passive rather than a set of high-impact, skill-expressive abilities.
When a support’s utility is heavily loaded into a passive aura, it creates a couple of distinct problems:
1. The "Lucio but Worse"
If Remedy Aura’s numbers are tuned too high, Mizuki just sits in the middle of his team, brawls, and accidentally out-heals everyone without thinking. If the numbers are too low, he feels completely useless because his active healing cooldowns can't sustain a team on their own. It creates a balance nightmare where he’s either a must-pick heal-bot or throwing.
2. Low Active Skill-Expression
Instead of feeling rewarded for landing a clutch Binding Chain or executing a smart engage/disengage with Katashiro Return, it feels like you're just throwing abilities out on cooldown solely to keep your passive meter topped off.
You can clearly see this reflected in the ranked brackets:
In lower ranks: He has a decently high win rate, but that is solely off players sitting tightly with their team and passively farming Remedy Aura numbers.
In higher ranks: His value drops off a cliff. As soon as opponents learn how to outplay and punish that grouped-up playstyle, Mizuki players can't adapt. Because so much power is stripped from his active kit, you don't have the individual playmaking tools to out-skill opponents once your passive stops carrying you.
I really love his design, but I think Blizzard needs to strip some healing power away from Remedy Aura and inject it into the active skill-expression of his kit.
What do you guys think? Is anyone else noticing this drop-off as you climb, or do you think his power distribution is fine where it is?