@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.
T3 arty isn’t built on sentons cuz game enders get built in air base and you can’t reach air base without putting T3 arty in range of battleships. Otherwise what do you shoot at? SMDs? Better off winning pond and killing that while also killing 2 bases. 72k mass better spent in navy.
I haven’t seen a novax built in any yudi sentons I watched in probably a whole year. I’d say novax punches above its weight in sentons because of the fact it can always gain utility by assisting in navy, the time it takes for a novax to pay back for itself by killing shielded mexes is probably close to 10 minutes once all factors come together and that’s not deciding games. You also do not deny or win reclaim so the pay off isn’t as good as you might think.
The logic is fairly similar to navy. 36k mass in battleships are gonna turn a tide and pay off while expressing more map control and doing more long term damage than a novax. The major usage case is what you said, using them to help snipe shields once a mavor is up. That’s not a case that justifies a big nerf. I don’t really care if it gets something that requires pgen adjacency or energy to fire but the unit is gonna be totally garbage with a mass cost increase unless it gets some sort of stat boost alongside it.