Cobb Vanth feedback: Need to be better in 3v3
I wanted to share some feedback on Cobb based on my experience with him so far. Overall, I'm a bit worried about him, and most of that worry comes from my experience against Hondo, with a bit of Jabba mixed in.
Before Cobb had his Datacron, beating Hondo was rough. If Hondo didn't have a Datacron of his own, my odds were around 50/50, maybe a bit better, and if he did, that dropped to something like 10%.
Cobb's Datacron improved things a lot, but I think that improvement actually exposes how much the team relies on Datacron to be able to win, and that becomes very obvious in 3v3.
In 3v3, the nature of the team (Cobb plus two mediocre-to-bad characters) just doesn't feel good. The omicron isn't fully active, and having two fewer allies makes killing a GL a lot harder, since it's mostly about raw damage. With Cobb, the easiest way to generate that damage is getting Alert on the whole team and spamming specials, which becomes way harder to pull off with the smaller squad.
Against Jabba specifically, the omicron does help you survive, but you struggle with actually killing him, aka good at surviving but bad at the one job that matters. Feels like an OG NS before the Merrin nerf at that point... But in the post Era of aniversary era, that isn't good enough for a Jabba.
For all these reasons, I feel Cobb needs more than what he currently has. As it stands, I fear he'll become a skippable character if he doesn't perform well in 3v3, which means he doesn't perform well in half of GAC, and that's a real problem when 3v3 already demands more teams to begin with. He ends up being a "luxury" pick for 5v5 that doesn't even guarantee a win. Kind of like Trench, if he has a good Datacron, he's kind of relevant, if not... Trench who?
While we have the Datacron, I think Cobb will feel useful. Please buff him so we don't end up with a Trench situation!
