Vainglory Topic: Is Lyra OP

I wish him good luck! I believe Lyra is overpowered for four reasons: her heroic perk, her imperial sigil, her bulwark, and her small amount of counters. Out of the four, the bulwark is the main reason. Let me briefly explain Lyra's abilities. Her heroic perk is that her basic attacks shoot an extra arcane missile that deals crystal damage. The missile slows her target. Additionally, the missile uses up a small amount of energy, but when depleted of energy, can still fire her missiles. Her A ability is Imperial Sigil. Lyra fires out a sigil that deals both AOE damage to enemies and healing to allies. The damage is based on crystal power, and the heal is based off her max health, meaning getting crucible is a vital option for a support Lyra. When the sigil disappears or upon reactivation, the sigil explodes dealing a burst of healing or damage (again based on max health or crystal power). Her B ability is bright bulwark. She creates a region around her surrounded by walls. In that region, enemies are snared (cannot use movement abilities or items), slowed, and take crystal damage. Although it is commonly misconception that only the walls apply this effect, the entire region inside the circle creates the effect. However, if an enemy touches a wall, the wall will reapply or apply the effect, thereby refreshing the duration. Her ultimate is arcane passage. Lyra teleports to an area, while creating a portal. Both allies and enemies can use this portal. However, allies can use it immediately while enemies have to wait a few second to use it. Now that I am done explaining her abilities. I will write down my arguments. 1. Her heroic perk makes it near impossible to escape. If the Lyra buys attack speed items, the slow will be applied and reapplied countless times, making escaping or engaging very difficult. 2. Her missile damage and range are huge for a non-skillshot support. Lyra has the highest range (6.8) in the game, tied with adagio. As long as she started basic attack her missile is guaranteed to hit. Also, the missile damage can do quite a bit of damage, easily out-damaging Ringo in the early game, even though Ringo is considered to be a strong early game hero. Even though Ringo does more damage, Lyra can attack at a farther range, so Ringo will be dead when he reaches her. 3. Her imperial sigil heal and range is very high. her imperial sigil can heal 110 damage per second with a 150 detonate heal without health items. One crucible enhanced sigil can bring a near dead kestrel to full health. Although Adagio's heal can be stronger, there are sixth reasons why Lyra's heal is stronger. First Lyra's heal has a higher range, making her able to bail her allies out of the most sticky situations without putting herself at risk. Second, it is AOE heal. If Adagio heals 300 health, Lyra can heal about 240 health for ALL of her teammates,making it much more effective. Third, Lyra's total heal is much higher including detonation. Fourth, Lyra's heal grants movement speed, proving a miniature warhorn. Fifth, the sigil does a considerable amount of damage over time, discouraging enemies to continue chasing. Sixth, Adagio's heal is based off CP, while Lyra's heal is based off health. To make Adagio's heal significant, he has to buy a CP item which will make less tanky, and have one less option to buy a support item that can help his team. However, most support items already have health in them, so Lyra's build can be more tanky and better for a support. 4. Her bright bulwark is definitely not balanced. It literally shuts down all movement abilities, basically a third of the entire roster of vainglory heroes. some unfortunate heroes can't use a single ability while snared, eg. Ardan. if you get caught in a Bulwark, you will be a sitting duck. Only a few heroes can avoid this snare. Even if you dodge her initial pulse, you will still be caught in the wall and snared. 5. She only has around 2 counters. Taka can dodge her bulwark but he cannot stop her from escaping using a sigil or her ultimate. Ringo isn't affected by her bulwark, but struggles against her range. Some statistics also show that Lyra is really OP. In week 1 of the Evil Eight, which is the strongest teams in NA and EU go against each other in tournaments, the win rate of Lyra in the EU was 100%. Lyra also featured the highest ban rates in both regions, showing that the best players are aware of the power Lyra possess. Able to stop an attack in a few seconds, heal, and chase proves her to be OP hero. According to broken myth, which is a prestigious vainglory website, put Lyra as the strongest laner and support as of 1.19. Also, the tier list changed drastically because of the need for a counter on Lyra. The second plane laner is Vox, as he can apply more pressure to Lyra than any other laner can at the moment. The second place support is Phinn because he is affected significantly by her bulwark. Taka claimed the number one spot, only because of her counter against Lyra. Lyra has even changed the meta, which is now team comps that focus on keeping your team alive as long as possible. Guess who does that the best? Lyra. In conclusion, Lyra is OP because of her insane abilities, the amount of utility she brings, and her synergy with her items and heroes. Sources: . http://www.vainglorygame.com... . http://www.vaingloryfire.com... . http://www.vaingloryfire.com... . http://www.phoenixvainglory.com... . http://brokenmyth.net... . http://brokenmyth.net... [btw this is technically my first debate so I apologize for any mistakes I make. Hope I didn't disappoint Con! :) ]