Issues with Sustain

[Folian]

Looking at E4, my experience is the Solomon vs Gestalt fight. 

re: the Gestalt vs. Solomon fight(s)

Those rounds were actually pretty quick despite us both being sustain (both being Nephilim helped that) and I don't think they went further then a couple of minutes. The end of the fights was neither of us having homings off cooldown and being yoked out of our god damn minds trying not to get hit. Both of us having true counter and both of us trying to bait the other out is why these periods often took so long, and I think almost every round victory I took was a result of countering Solomon's true counter for the final hit.

Despite what some people have to say about sustain, those fights were probably some of the most fun I've had verbing (Bog being an intensely good opponent helped alot). Some people are gonna have preferences for what builds they do and do not enjoy playing, though I think Gestalt's build had a limit of Wellspring aura + Aquatic Flow for actual sustain, the rest was all damage/Neph racials..

Enna's build was cancer though. God, nerf crystal I beg you. Life Steal is one of the most broken stats in this game. People wonder why Vampires were so OP at their peak (the answer was alpha vamp aura.)

EDIT: Personally, as someone who played the ultimate vibe check build of pure fire-armed on Johannes that 100-0'd people in about 5 seconds flat, I prefer the drawn out fights way more.