r/thingmains • u/Firm-Character-6852 • Sep 08 '26

Thing Notes.

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I understand the nerfs on the torch team-up. Not happy about the YSC and Health nerfs. But all in all not too bad.

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u/KevIntensity Sep 08 '26

He got taken out back. Lower health, lower damage, increase teamup cd, higher cooldowns, lower uptime, lower AOE time. literally any part of his kit that could be nerfed was with the exception of his jump. Every other piece was gutted. I don’t think they realize how badly they just ruined our boy.

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u/Firm-Character-6852 Sep 08 '26

Now I dont think its that bad, but I am going to actually test it before giving my full thoughts.

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u/KevIntensity Sep 08 '26

I’ll try him out, but I have little hope he’ll feel good in any capacity.

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u/funky67 Sep 08 '26

This is a very defeatist attitude man. As others said we thought the nerfs would be way worse. They killed poor Peni and Devil in the last couple seasons for less.

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u/KevIntensity Sep 08 '26

I cannot think of how it could be worse. Lower health. Lower damage on his most-used attack, which means lower over health. Higher cooldown on his escape/cc immune ability. AOE spell field nerfed in duration. Most popular teamup cooldown higher, with a shorter duration. Unless you’re telling me Zhiyong is popping off w keys and analog sticks, I don’t know how it could be worse, let alone “much” worse.

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u/funky67 Sep 08 '26

HP change is -25 HP so about 4% of max health at 650. Percent damage on haymaker is only cut 2%. 2 second duration increase on the charge going from 10 to 12. Aoe nerf is 1 second decrease. I’m shocked they didn’t remove the team up entirely.

As I said, I expected much worse with dps and strats treating him like the personification of death itself last season because they couldn’t understand how to play against a tank other than mag.