What I, A Kiri main, would do to fix Kiri

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So since getting into the game I seem to have accidentally picked up the habit of choosing the most busted character to be my main in each role. Kiri for Support and Freja for DPS. and I will never stop hearing people saying that Kiri needs to be merged, no matter how many needs she's received in like the last year or so. and as far as I understand that, the reason for that is Suzu. The ability is fundamentally flawed in a way that means unless Kiri is so bad she's a throw pick, she will always be broken. Blizzard seem to have largely opted for the first path, needing her kit until it becomes less and less fun to play, but here's my thought for how I'd rework Kiriko so that I can accept her being nerfed whilst still being able to have fun playing her

  1. Nerd anti-heal. It's already a very strong ability in the game but anti heal is one of the best status effects for Suzu to cleanse, but by reducing its value you also reduce the value gained by negating it, and simultaneously make it more viable to play into an anti heal team *without* a cleanse. Maybe reduce the duration or make it just a healing reduction or something, details not important, just the idea

  2. Remove cleanse on Suzu. Obviously this would be a huge change, and would kind of change Kiri's identity in the game a bit, but I fear it is a necessary change if I ever want to live with my main not being despised by the rest of the players, and I think it can still be fair. Keep the phased out invulnerability but make it only that, no cleanse.

  3. Return kiri's cleanse on swift step. This would return some of that identity I feel and also at least allow her to cleane herself, but only herself. preferably this would also come with reverting some of the other nerfs she's received, though not necessarily all of them.

I feel like this is a compromise that will allow people to stop complaining about kiriko, whilst still preserving how fun she is to play, unlike at the moment where they just make her less and less fun each patch. Obviously it won't please everybody but I personally think it's a reasonable compromise

Anyways this is largely just a silly idea, please don't take this too seriously, my qualifications are that I thought about it a lot, I'm not even a high ranked player, but I'd just like to hear what other people also think about it.

(Also on the note of Freja, idk maybe give her falloff damage but give her back her breakpoints so she can still take duels but can't just sit in the back and actually has to interact with people)

Posted Sep 13, 2026, 1:34 AM UTC

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