u/oopsi9943

If there's one thing that completely carries Damian's kit, it has to be his second star power. It's completely outclasses his first star power, and is extremely powerful. If you're caught in his super, he can just punch you into the walls with the flaming punch, which bounces you off the speakers and it's just very powerful. Without it, you would at least need to build up punches first instead of going for the kill instantly.

This change also solves the one sided star power issue with Damian. I added a 25% damage nerf to the now star power flame pit, but it can be adjusted accordingly depending on the other sp usage.

Additionally, a small hypercharge rate nerf is fair, since it would definitely be very powerful now with the flaming punch. But it's a lot less annoying having to deal with a flaming punch every single super.

Thoughts?

Essay incoming...

Although I'm frustrated for being unable to find a starr patrol spike giveaway (anyone have a link for me :') ), the fact that the pin was not included in at least the brawl pass skins and instead through a crappy giveaway system is scummy enough and needs to be addressed.

First issue: The huge problem with giveaways being tied to just creators with a low bar is that it causes spam in the subreddit when such a giveaway comes out, and it goes to the point where it kinda gets annoying. That being said it should be a rule to post giveaways, and such should be sent to r/BrawlStarsFreebies.

Second issue: FOMO. In my opinion, those who are less aware that pins are being given away may really want the pin but can't because it's just a pain to get. At the very least there should be an alternative way of getting the pin, or just that exclusivity should be left to skins with exceptions. We also saw a controversy like this with the Janet pin, there was outrage due to how limited and sudden it expired. It also punishes people who are not constantly on social media like me.

Third issue: Malicious QR codes. QR codes can contain anything, and some people could make the qr code link to a grabber while masking it as a giveaway, making it an incredibly insecure way of handling giveaways combined with the FOMO pressure.

In conclusion, exclusive pins being only distributed by creators is just a horrible idea, both for security reasons and spam, and the potential FOMO for those who are not chronically online like me.

Gem Grab, one of the most iconic modes in Brawl Stars, just isn't fun anymore. What was once a mode of control has devolved into a race on who can get the busted hyper first.

Before, you were able to hold your ground, know when to retreat properly, etc. But now, one Chester hyper and it's over, or a Mortis hyper, no skill required, just spam until everyone dies. Hypers made Gem Grab unplayable. Buffies just adds on to the fuel as well, making hypercharges even more deadly.

Now, Damian's existence makes Gem Grab even more unplayable, and there's like 12 different brawlers with busted teamwipe hypers when you only have room to ban 6 brawlers.

Say skill issue all you want, but I would rather a Ranked season where I don't have to deal with Gem Grab, or at least some freedom, like the leaders of each ranked match could have 1 skip each. Especially for bad maps like Parallel Plays (not Gem Grab but equally bad if not worse)

And not only that it only applies 1 mark overall if both legs hit, leaving to only 4320 damage, less than a fucking colt! Genius bug management supercell! D/F tier brawler now, can't hold his ground to assassins anymore.

I've tried removing it and redownloading it, restarting my computer, no dice.