Quote (DatNiggaJesse @ Mar 5 2021 12:24pm)
Isnt that the point of gm and rules? To make matchups less dumb? This is why lifetap should be considered bm it always used to be... what if someone mains bvc and does a league and some noob smiter just lifetaps him? Theres no way the bvc will win.... this is my point its so unfair same goes for any char that uses ww or melee. Theres literally no counter... take hybrid for example 8k traps wont touch a pally with 20 sorb and 85 max res so you use ww but oh wait he has unblockable smite with lifetap, unfair af...
The problem really becomes that the barb vs smiter matchup in particularly is almost entirely dependent on what is considered gm vs bm. If the barb is allowed to use stuff like clegs and doom and enchant, he can shit all over a smiter that isn't using exile, tap and hf flash. If the smiter is using exile, hf flash and tap and the barb is using no enchant/doom/clegs, he'll get pooped on. Its a very dumb and mostly skillless matchup that doesn't have the strict gear vs gear checks of click-and-hold melee leagues but instead just becomes a rules lawyer scenario, where the duel itself is nothing but a sideshow to the argument between players over who is breaking the gm rules. As such, I consider the matchup the most degenerate and pointless in D2
Yeah yeah you can have smiters syncing around trying to set up 1 point foh hf flash telestomps while barb tries to mix wsg and str glitch frw whirls to be untargetable while clipping diagonals- I've even done it with widow swap and lacerator offhand- but its going to be dumb and silly no matter how you do it.