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>the same strive being awful issue as always
Except Pot was perfectly fine until S4 where they buffed him in like six different ways. Same thing with GL, they were steadily finding his sweetstop until they decided to just toss that out the fucking window by doing shit like letting him chain Behemoth into itself and buffing his gatling gun so hard it actually caused the wall to glitch out. And the same is true for Ram, she came out so fucked up from the S4 patch that her swordtoss originally beat burst. Same thing with Sin, he was strong before but now he's wallbreak in character form.

No, Strive's current problems are S4 problems. Yes, there are problems that persist from previous iterations and some of them matter more now (they actually got around to finally toning down guardcrush damage due to how fucked up Nago's chip damage had become, for example) but the state the game was at the end of S3 was almost unanimously agreed to have been the best balance the game has seen. When S4 rolled around people were joking that the initial trailers only looked like nerfs and how silly those Strivers were for being happy with that... then it turned out it was the complete opposite.