Got Emerald rank in LC6! (no HRE no PCB)
I think it took me around 6 hours of play (played 2 days for a few hours)
Seeing how people were talking about it I thought it was gonna be atrocious but for me I thought it was fine. The items situation is still very bad but this isn't anything new. The meta build is strong but doesn't seem nearly as broken as the UC meta. I can see it being centralizing at top level, but in my lobbies I've seen a lot of diversity and the people using it were still losing pretty often. I think it probably has a high play rate also because of people bandwagoning rather than making builds on their own...
I used Shadow on extreme gear with the gadgets on the pic, the build probably isn't perfect, I know it's missing stats/top speed increase but I've experimented with a few different things and this one has been the most successful variant. I also still like quick recovery and played it a bit at the beginning as well.
(I swear the switch version isn't that ugly, it's just me playing on handheld and the screenshot destroying the quality even further lol)