Talk:Merlin/@comment-70.48.38.98-20180207171740/@comment-34208015-20180211182547

Nerfing direct nerfing is unlikely, you can still make a servant obsolete without any changes on the servant himself. Just look at the amount of Quick servants that were considered as broken in the past and that are now considered, right or wrongly, at best as decent if not trash or even less by most players.

Take the example of Okita when she was release she was literally the game breaker saber, now she have been made pretty much obsolete by Musashi + Buster Crit Support & 2030 CE, combo while Okita haven't been nerfed directly, she still got nerfed indirectly because a better combo emerged.

DW will probably start to release harder stuff that will make broken support like Merlin less useful in order to make players think a little bit instead of always relying on the same team comp (they already have some hard content boss with invul pierce that make all protection outside guts useless).

I'm also in favor of no support in challenges: it won't change the god tier ranking (it will still be Merlin, Waver anyway) but I think people will rethink a little of the worth offensive servants indivually speaking.