>>96174825
>Someone who's tanky and fast is much, much more likely to survive peer level combat than a summoner and debuffer like Death or Pact, or a jack of all trades like tech.
>It should also be noted that 'hide chads' as you call them will always be weaker than an equivalent aged luminary of the same talent, because, big suprise here, the combat mages thrive on combat.
Which is why the Hide Chads would have to make preemptive strikes over the years, sabotaging older luminaries and murdering younger ones who seem likely to turn on them. If it ever turns into a "fair" fight, they're in a lot of trouble.

Of course, if their conspiracies and murderous schemes ever came out, it would provoke a massive backlash by the other luminaries. Which would encourage the next Twilight lumiary to go Hide Chad. . .

(People with power can so rarely trust each other.)