<If you like Diana more than Camilla, hit that like! LOL>
First of all, me! LOL
– Silver hair, odd eyes, 128 cm tall, age unknown….
– It’s Children’s Day and they just dropped a real kid! LOL
– LOL nooooo LOL LOL
– I wanna nom on Diana, she’s like a soft, chewy rice cake! LOL
ㄴ?
ㄴ Yes?
ㄴ Here, Officer!
ㄴ (Insert a meme of a dog shining a flashlight)
ㄴ Cheeky cheeks LOL I wanna stuff Diana’s chubby cheeks in my mouth and do the “lellelelle” thing!
ㄴ This is kinda strange, though…
ㄴ I’ll let it slide just this once
ㄴ Adorable Diana’s chubby cheeks are totally 인정, right? Haha!
<From now on, this gallery will be taken over by the Cheeky Squad instead of the Chubby Squad>
(Diana looking majestic while looking down at Below)
Chubby Squad, hurry up and pack your bags!
– Throw Camilla away? Toss the kayak? Throw Camilla away? Toss the kayak? Throw Camilla away? Toss the kayak?
– Ah LOL right! Chubby over Cheeky any day!
– Still, liking kids is a bit…
ㄴ But Diana’s a spirit, not a kid, you know?
ㄴ Diana might actually be older than me… She might have been my older sister all along….
ㄴ Those pedos are actually talking, LOL. The world has come to this!
<1. Lift Diana up>
(Diana smiling brightly)
2. Go for a piggyback ride or spin her around
…What are you thinking, human?
– Diana’s having fun on the ride! LOL
– The “spin” I know is definitely different… Hmm…
ㄴ Huh?
ㄴ As expected, the cheekiness belongs to the Cheeky Squad! LOL
ㄴ This guy is a spy sent from the Chubby Squad, I’ve seen it!
– How long has it been since she dropped, and there are already so many memes?
ㄴ Probably because her design is just so cute!
ㄴ Right now on X, fan art is coming out live!
ㄴ Our Diana is adorable, isn’t she?
<Camilla…? What’s that…?>
Chicken coop…?
– ???
– I downloaded the PDF and sent it to the kayak, my bad!
– But in the story, Diana actually likes Camilla.
– Camilla’s a demi-god, so she doesn’t age, you know?
ㄴ According to her settings, she’s over 300 years old, older than Grandpa Jerome!
ㄴ Kakast, damn! LOL
ㄴ She’s older than our great-grandma…
ㄴ But still pretty, right?
ㄴ Yup, by the end, Diana will definitely win!
ㄴ Let’s go for the healthy, vibrant Diana instead of the chicken coop Camilla!
ㄴ It’s legendary how on a Thursday at 2 PM, ten posts dropped with this kind of bait! LOL
“On Thursday at 2 PM, it’s legendary that this kind of bait has resulted in 10 posts, haha!
[So what's the performance of Diana this woman??]
(Recent Diana has a 90% win rate in 10 games played)
Even a forever noob like me ends up getting auto-carried, right?
-Diana… I guess I need to suck her, huh?
-What?
-If I suck Diana… Hehehe…
-I seriously can’t even comprehend what to say.
-Eonix did what Eonix does, yep.
-New characters usually come out strong, don’t they?
-Camilla has never been strong, she got nerfed even after being decent lately.
-Camilla is a fundamental character then.
-Fundamental characters have always been balanced at launch, haha.
-Since around the time Lennok came out, it feels like new characters smash everything in the battlefield.
-Ah, it’s you again, Lennok??
-Likely to get nerfed in the next patch and head to the graveyard.
*
In the Abyss, there are a few rules that have been carried on from ancient times.
For example, you shouldn’t play ranked games during the daytime on weekdays, and dodging when meeting teammates with Pro Team nicknames is mentally beneficial in various ways.
Another typical rule of the Abyss is that newly released characters always come out overpowered.
I don’t know why. Is the balance team slacking off? Just by looking, it’s clear that if this overpowered character is released as is, it will definitely destroy the battlefield, yet they insist on releasing it as is.
They seem to let the new character wreak havoc for about a week, then if it gets too out of hand, they take action with a hotfix and generally nerf it right after letting it rampage for about a week.
This time is no different. The new character ‘Diana’ has taken over the Abyss battlefield upon her arrival.
-I can’t stop her at all!
-The ruler of the battlefield!
-The avatar of fear, Camilla the great!
You could even see this on Kayak’s stream during her personal broadcast.
Diana, the new character, dribbled 1v3 and defeated them all. Although it was on a sub-account and at a lower rank than usual, her destructive power was by no means to be underestimated.
It was more about the character’s performance standing out rather than Kayak dominating physically.
“Hmm… Isn’t this a bit of a problem? I expected the skill set, but this is way beyond expectations.”
“Isn’t there a problem with this? I expected the skill set, but this exceeds my expectations by a mile!”
“[What was that just now? Whoa!]”
“[Dude, a single hit took half my health, what the heck haha!]”
“[As expected of Eonix, new characters are always OP.]”
“[Damn Honggyun! Can you at least balance it properly?]”
“[Is this small business shenanigans starting again?]”
“[There’s a reason the pick rate is 100%, right?]”
“[Isn’t it just because it’s lower-tier?]”
“[This tier is Platinum, though, haha, probably 70% of viewers are Bronze-Silver.]”
“[Just wait until those getting wrecked by Kayak come to your tier, they’ll dominate.]”
“[It doesn’t look that hard, though.]”
“[Well, that’s because Kayak is the pilot…]”
“[This guy makes Camilla look easy too.]”
“[Even considering that, she does seem easier than Camilla.]”
Still, Abyss is rated well for maintaining character balance compared to other games.
Trends in picks arise depending on the meta, and while there may be underrepresented heroes not favored by people, it’s rare for one character to consistently dominate.
This is also why Abyss continues to be loved by people through continual balance patches.
“But Diana is slightly… problematic. Overall, gameplay, combat methods, and management aren’t that hard, but her performance is too good. Even the overpowered Lennok isn’t this bad.”
Easy and strong. That was the issue Kayak pinpointed.
Generally, a character that exhibits above-average destructive power is bound to have some risk associated. They might require a tightrope walk of risky plays, start strong and decay over time, or only be powerful under specific conditions—characteristics tied to risks.
Such traits are not found in the current Diana.
“She’s strong in the early game, strong in the mid-game, and even in the late game, she only weakens a bit, but come on, modern games rarely reach the late phase! Especially solo queue is even more so. It’s a race to roll quickly from the start.”
“[For real, for real.]”
“[We need to switch from 15-minute surrenders to 10-minute surrenders.]”
“[If I exaggerate a bit, the game ends in 5 minutes.]”
“[5 minutes is a bit….]”
“She’s too strong from the start, making snowballing easy… Her ult is good for making plays, and she generates variables with forced initiations. It feels like she has no weaknesses, right? No counters? Well, if you had to point out one, maybe Theodora? But even that isn’t unbeatable… Anyway, yeah. Diana is indeed broken right now. Grab her quickly, everyone.”
If you can’t pick her or get her first, you have to ban her. That was Kayak’s conclusion.
That was Kayak’s conclusion.
In addition, she added a few words about the impact Diana would have not only in solo queue but also in tournaments.
“If this goes on, Diana will definitely make an appearance in tournaments and absolutely wreck the battlefield.”
“But before that, she’ll get nerfed, right? I predict she’ll be nerfed next week… What? There’s an emergency patch? A hotfix?”
[?? They’re patching right now?]
[What’s this emergency patch? LOL]
[Announcement just dropped, for real.]
[Are they going for a hotfix?]
[Looks like the balance team was watching the broadcast.]
[Realization of the seriousness of the situation…]
[Diana is getting nerfed just three days after her release?]
It was during that moment. A viewer’s comment about the emergency patch made the chat explode.
Reading the announcement on the Abyss official website about the patch, Kayak nodded her head.
“Hmm, it did get a bit out of hand. No matter how much of a prodigy she is, there are limits.”
[Even if you’re part of Camilla’s cartel, it can’t be helped.]
[If the disciple is stronger than the teacher, they get kicked out.]
[Diana should just get weaker than Camilla…]
[So Diana is going to the grave now?]
[Even after a nerf, her skill set is good, so she’ll still be used.]
*
– The patch has been completed. Abyss can now be played normally, and we apologize for any inconvenience caused to users.-
The emergency patch ended after three hours.
As everyone had anticipated, the patch was all about Diana. They massively nerfed the skill power and base stats of the newly launched hero Diana, who had shown to be too strong.
It’s extremely rare for a new character to get nerfed just three days after their release. Usually, even if they are overpowered, it would take about a week to observe before taking action.
With the nerf, Diana could no longer rampage like before. She moved through the battlefield with a frailer appearance that matched her new status.
This incident would later be referred to as Diana’s three-day reign of terror.
Moreover, it seemed that Eonix learned something from the Diana incident, as they no longer released over-specified new characters.
Instead, they strangely released a slew of new characters that were unusually weak. Gradually, they would receive small buffs to get back on the right track, creating a new rule that “Abyss releases new characters weakly.”
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