@nooby said in Novax needs to be nerfed, here's why.:
If it is not OP why are they built so often in higher level 1200+ rating ~ 1700 avg rating sentons games? There is almost always one or more built. There is never t3 arty built. It is also common to see two or three from one team.
It's not op because you can shield every mex and your air grid on setons for the same cost it takes to build a novax, but you can do so multiple minutes later, making it effectively much cheaper.
Or phrased differently: When a team is playing well against a novax, it has basically no impact for a long time, maybe ever.
The problem is the "playing well" part, and the apm it requires, because if even one teammate doesn't shield their mexes/power in time, the novax will have lots of targets.
But still, if you let your opponent spent 36k on a building that really doesn't do much for minutes after it is finished, and you don't win the game with your ~4 Battleship / 100 ASF advantage, that's kinda on you.
Making a novax is like spamming subs or harms: It gets worse as a strategy the better your opponent is, but that doesn't make it fun gameplay.