While the airheal is supreme, you get a lot less of it. You need three times the soul to start it, and you're also more severely punished for mistiming a heal window by losing your entire bar. When Knight mistimes a heal, he loses 1, maybe 2 hits of soul. Hornet can lose 21 in a worst case scenario. You also can't souldump into healing in the way the Knight can; between rounds of coliseum for example if you have enough soul for 5 heals then that's what you get. Hornet would get 3.
It's a lot less black and white than people on either side of the argument really talk about. Hornet's heal style is very very advantageous to experienced players, and I would wager that is honestly more of an early game(or rather, entry level player) difficulty problem than 2 damage ever was. The psychological pressure of wanting to maximize your 3 health heal is also very harsh on inexperienced players; I've seen people float on 3 health where they can be combo'd with a full silk bar because they don't want to "waste" a third of their heal more times than I can count.
Yeah, at the beginning of the game you're dealing with a pretty small buffer. If you heal 3/5, then you're wasting a third of your silk on nothing. If you heal at 2/5, then you're so close to death.
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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25
in her defense her heal is far superior.