LogFAQs > #908638456

Here's the reason why you can't outright be rid of pay downs btw. The burden of balanced team composition, particularly in the early-mid game, becomes too high without it. Unless everyone went lowbie heavy, you'd have a bunch of matches where it's 2v0, or 3v1 stomp, or whatever. This is what happens if you tier lock until teams have like 10 mercs each.

If you don't tier lock at all, then the weaker mercs become obsolete at all times. And at the same time no one wants to wait till 2/3s of the way into the game to see Samus Aran have a match either.

So paydowns are a necessary evil I think, but they need to be balanced properly. With new mechanics they could be, I feel. You could also make them a thing you could do early game, but gradually phase it out as the game progresses, since as I said I think once you have pretty big rosters it becomes less of a problem.
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