The Current State of Eternias Meta

[ACuriousGrey]

I feel like people also are forgetting the fact that Xarxes is using both of his masters, grinded 200 undeath (not an easy feat by any means) has shadow (lol, lmao), and ate a Neph (not an easily accessible thing) He's not your run of the mill character by any stretch of the imagination, and he's definitely an outlier, not the mean.

I don't think that it's a very easy thing in the first place to get 2 invulnerabilities without sacrificing something (unless you're a neph), and extremely hard period (if not impossible) for most characters to afford three invulnerabilities and be successful.

In my mind, the real reason he's a "problem" at all is due to the fact that he has a combo that can do 30-40% (or more) of your HP, and has several options to block YOUR 30-40% HP combo. In my mind, the entire problem here is the fact that everyone and their mother has an extremely high damage ability or combo, and so that means one invuln can block 30-40% of your HP. That's why invuln stacking is so effective. He only needs 4 slots to actually kill you, the rest is to survive getting half healthed himself. Not to mention he's just a REALLY good verber.

Edit: Was still writing when GSM made their post, but honestly I agree completely with their points. I've seen a lot of really bad shit said about Xarxes recently purely because he's a strong character that also happens to be an antagonist. What he's doing is both only possible because of a large variety of factors, and even if what he was doing wasn't available to him, he would likely find a way to still make people whine. He's just that good.