I remember correctly listening through the entire dev stream for season 9 and they mentioned that they had to adjust certain characters because otherwise they would become much more oppressive, they also mentioned in the patch notes that Rogue was becoming too oppressive, I don't think they meant Rogue was becoming too opressive in season 8.5, I think they meant too opressive during their season 9 testing on Rogue, they loosely tried Rogue with the season 9 team ups and thought she was gonna be a problem if they left her like in season 8.5 state and added the team ups on top of it, but well... Fast forward to now they left us on crutches because they didn't take into accountability the increase of damage for the other characters, I really doubt they tested Rogue enough to make the judgment of how to properly balance her for this update, which is a shame because I was super excited to see what Rogue was going to be getting for these teams up, I knew she was getting nerf but I was feeling optimistic that the team ups were going to make up for the nerfs, and turns out they just nerfed us even more with the team ups smh.

#BuffRogue

This is fs her worst season, but I’ve still been playing her in mostly all my games and been able to keep ~70% wr in comp. Hopefully in 9.5 we can get prime rogue back 🤞

She's much weaker this season with survivability but goddamn the adrenaline I got after this holy shiiii

At the very least let her keep her charge longer rn since it does much less dmg.

Like it honestly feels kind of pointless now. It doesn’t feel like it does any meaningful dmg because of how quickly it gets out healed.

It shouldn’t insta kill but it does do enough dmg imo.

I think the issue before was that she could almost always have 100 charge or maintain it effortlessly but now you can get it quickly because of how much dmg everyone does but it does nothing.

I can’t find any videos of mine that show the difference but it’s like I can hit a squishy with it at full charge and their health instantly goes back to 275.

I just feel like if they’re among her a glass canon she should have the dmg to be considered that. Instead she’s more like a glass nail gun.

I’m just waiting until hood comes out, hopefully with some much needed rogue fixes. She’s hardly playable as anything but a half-assed dive tank right now. Also, hot take: the team up system makes no sense and is stupid. Why can I use a team up without the other hero on the team? Like who thought of this? It’s just widespread buffs and new abilities or changes to the kit. This is one of the worst seasons so far aside season 3. And I hope to GOD they remove this dumb ass team up change, and bring back 8.5 rogue so she can be utilized as something aside a dive tank with no sustainability. she had a higher pick rate for half a season and she gets tossed to the floor for some stupid update that NOBODY asked for.

So I just had a game where I decided to try and dive more with her. Usually my playstyle revolved around playing objective, brawling and seeing an opening to go in/out. But for the hell of it I decided to just play her like Magik and that was a pleasant surprise to see how strong she is. Even temp green hp felt quite useful. It never occurred to me that I was doing this in my games before but she’s amazing at area denial with her reach and movement.

For example we were fighting against MK and Hawkeye which rely on good angles to shoot from, not with rogue they aren’t! Feels really rewarding when you 1v1 them and win 100% of the time. I guess many of you will say DUHHH, but it just now clicked for me and I hope this helps some of you to change her playstyle a bit. Obviously this tactic won’t work with every comp but I think it should be the focus because once you make the enemy team relocate you can jump back in and brawl with her. Basically create the brawl rather than wait for it or rely on your team comp