Talk:Ivan the Terrible/@comment-24857712-20180719124437/@comment-35121543-20180722074224

It took me a loooooong time to realize why everyone keeps saying this guy is so op. I mean, Innocent Monster (Lost) is fantastic, but aside from that he's still not going to be critting super hard even if he does crit consistently, his NP is AoE and doesn't have any super effective modifiers (so even with that 30% NP buff his damage is not "insane"), and aside from his Invul his survivability is not amazing. He seems good but not Ozy level.

And then I realized that Merlin covers all of his weaknesses perfectly and boosts his strengths even further, and he offers lots of utility that Merlin teams usually lack. If you pair this guy with Merlin you pretty much have everything you need for any kind of non-assassin content. They're arguably a better match for each other than Merlin/Ozy or Merlin/Jalter. Kind of gross how nuts it is.