Sova and Fade are the only initiators that are even playable, because they're the only initiators that do something useful, that no other agent can do (to their level).
Everyone compared Initiators with other initiators, as if they serve the same purpose. But in fact every agent competes with every other agent for their slot withing a team comp. What do they bring to the table?
When a team comp needs smokes, you pick controller
when you need dive, you pick duelist
when you need passive info, you pick sentinel
when you need flashes... you also pick duelist
when you need stuns... you pick duelist...
when you need mollies... you pick duelist... or controller... or sentinel......
when you need recon, you pick sova or fade.
Why bother playing Breach, Kayo, Tejo, Gekko when Yoru, Omen, Phoenix, Neon, Waylay exist? They don't bring anything to a team comp that other classes don't already have plenty of.
What they should do instead is fundamentally rework the other initiators to have more information utility. Recon is the one thing that Initiators have over other classes, and Sova/Fade are the only AGENTS with recon. If they got nerfed heavily, people would not start playing the other initiators, because they will still be overshadowed by better agents in other classes.
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