Are their high popularity only used for selling skins? They're incredibly weak despite having many players, yet the developers insist on not buffing them. (Part Two)

Will the new Summoner Spells salvage Lu Bu's strength? With the season update, there's an abundance of new information and content, requiring time to analyze each piece of data. Determining who's strong and weak, who's overpowered, will likely take about a week. Once the data is available, its reference value will be another matter entirely. Keep in mind that after the rank reset, top players will be flooding the arena. Even if the King of Glory app releases win rates and pick rates, it's difficult to discern whether these are the results of top players or maintained by average players.

Regardless, the most noticeable change is the "Convergence into Soldiers" skill, which primarily reduces cooldown and increases the frequency of skill use. The cost is the loss of Flash for self-defense. Similarly, when applied to Lu Bu, Flash is his usual attack method. After landing, he ambushes and uses his spear to deal true damage to a designated area. The crucial strike relies entirely on Flash. Once he loses Flash, he can't reach him anymore and becomes useless.

Sun Shangxiang

Once considered the darling of TiMi Studios, the young lady was feared by all. Her second skill could break armor, and combined with her first skill's mobility and powerful critical hits, she could cripple squishy targets with a single roll. Her skins sold well, and she had a high survivability rate, earning her rave reviews. However, data shows that she has the lowest win rate in top-ranked matches. Not only that, she also has the lowest win rate in the entire ranked development lane and the second-lowest in the peak match development lane. With these three titles, is her situation still bright?

Across all skill levels, it has a 15.3% pick rate and a 44.26% win rate; in the 1350-level peak match, it has an 8.2% pick rate and a 46.62% win rate; in the top-tier ranked matches, it has a 7.8% pick rate and a 45.07% win rate. The higher the ranked difficulty, the fewer players there are. The mechanics aren't particularly strong; its success hinges on mobility. It can be a survival skill or an offensive skill. However, the reliance on mobility for both damage and survivability leads to hesitation in team fights, turning a burst into a drawn-out, inflexible playstyle.

The so-called burst damage is not as good as Ao Yin's sword aura switching, which lightly locks onto the enemy, deals damage quickly, and is powerful against the front row. In dragon form, he enters an invincible state and cannot be targeted. If it were Sun Shangxiang, you might think her strong period is later, but in reality, it's only between level 2 and 3. After level 4, she starts to weaken.

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