LogFAQs > #907774016

So I wanna do a community thing - how about we talk about what mercs you thought had issues in M4 and how to fix them? Not the obvious ones, we all know Ellie, Nilin, etc. were all broken. I mean the ones that didn't break the game to pieces. We could call it a Remix Roundtable, since the idea is to discuss what we can do to update wonky builds. I'll start:

Kerrigan
http://mercs2015.pbworks.com/w/page/103738503/Sarah%20Kerrigan

Oy vey, there's a lot to discuss here. If I had to sum up the issues with Kerrigan, they would be as follows...

-Extremely polarized battleworth respect. Either you thought she was good, in which case she was crazy powerful, or you didn't and she might as well not have existed. Multiple times I saw discussed how Kerrigan could lose to 5s during M4.
-Unbalanced units. Mutalisks and Hydralisks came up exactly never in a situation where they mattered, whereas Zerglings were a powerful upgrade in low tier and Ultralisks broke mid to flinders. Fielding an unit that could tank nuclear blasts in mid tier and was enormous and powerful was kind of too hard for most teams to find an answer to.
-Very bad upgrades. Evolution Pit might've been good, but it was too costly, and Psionic Storm was 25 EXP to buy a limited use, super long cooldown, powerup for a merc of dubious battle worth to begin with. The upkeep upgrade's cost was also too high to begin with, as it provided no significant benefit for the EXP (since it didn't allow you to host an ultralisk, lings and any mid tier unit at a time, which was the key breakpoint, without paying money), and you couldn't spawn units fast enough to really take advantage of fielding a huge army either.
-Huge costs. At 92 GP, Kerrigan was the priciest non-7/week unit in the game, above characters like Revan, Raiden and Zero. I'm not sure what the angle was there, but she didn't need to cost that much.

How would you address the issues of battle worth? I think the 'swarm master' angle Kerrigan had was a good one, and perhaps an upgrade that amped her production rate so she could build up a horde of units (for example, spawn two different units at once) might be worth pursuing. It still feels bad when the main named character gets no respect though. She'd also still need a new ability to replace psistorm, which was very unattractive.
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Shine on, you crazy diamond.