Twilight Zeroth

It's less about the damage and more about bad positioning habits the rivals playerbase hasn't bothered to grow out of because sustain is so high. The Rivals devs actually do listen to the community- more than the community listens to itself, actually- and the community has repeatedly expressed being mad when the supports on THEIR team aren't healbots. We want to fight and live standing in the open in front of the enemy team, we want our supports to be immortal without us "babysitting" them, and we flame support players that pick a character that doesn't have an immortality ultimate. No, seriously, we only see complaints about support sustain when we AREN'T the one ones BEING sustained. People complain about white fox not keeping up with sustain? Buff. People complaining about Jubilee not keeping up? Buff. We don't even give the people that actually PLAY support time to actually adapt to these new, non-healbot playstyles before we whine and beg the developers to switch them to healbots- AND IT'S NOT SUPPORT PLAYERS ASKING FOR IT. ALL of the people complaining about nerfing sustain need to realize what that means for you: you will need to change your positioning habits and engagement timing, and you will need to ACTUALLY peel for your supports and clear your backline- both of which the Rivals playerbase have been reluctant to do. It'll probably also mean you'll have to FILL support (and tank) more during the initial growing pains of learning the lessons we were supposed to learn like a year and a half ago. ...but we don't ACTUALLY want to do any of that. We SAY we do on Twitter, but whenever a support player doesn't heal you during a 4v2 because they needed to reload, we post the clip and say "The supports you get on your rank up:". The devs are just attentive enough to know it's easier to put higher heal numbers and appeal to the lowest common denominator than it would be to tell the average Rivals player "You've been playing wrong for two years and need to actually learn now".