Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-39230426-20190926190650

Llum The Magical Matriarch SS+ --> SS

The Ranking Council has made the unanimous decision to move Llum The Magical Matriarch down a rank into SS.

Her stats other than Life, for a non-tank support, are really underwhelming. The norm for Speed in the current meta is around the 3,530 - 3,560 range (3,575 being REALLY good), so having a Speed of 3,509 just ain't cutting it anymore.

Bulwark, while a great and fantastic trait on it's own, suffers from the simple problem of just that, it's on it's own. The typical modern monster nowadays have Evolving Traits that get better over rankings and double traits that are usually just good right off the bat. Pretty much any monster with True Vision can hit Llum with any side effect they please since she has no Immunities.

Her skillset, while honestly still amazing and valuable for the modern meta, is made up almost entirely of AoEs, meaning that she struggles immensly to make an impact vs AoE Dodge monsters and Mega Taunt monsters. I say Mega Taunt because, despite the fact that she can strip them of their Mega Taunt, she doesn't have access to Nanovirus or PEB (Positive Effect Block) to fully stop a Mega Taunt monster from just resetting it back up.

Overall, while Llum The Magical Matriarch is flawed in a few areas, she does, in fact, make up most of those flaws with a lot of really good things in her amazing skillset. But simply because of these flaws, she really isn't SS+ worthy anymore, and much more fitting for SS.

But again, don't go thinking that any S tier, whether it be S- to SS is a bad tier, those tiers are labelled as S for a good reason. It's because those monsters outperform a massive majority of the monsters in the game. This statement isn't specifically meant for Llum, but moreso for any monster that we decide to move up or down as we're rehauling the viability rankings. Please, don't go thinking that because a monster was dropped from one S tier to another that they're automatically bad. They aren't, they are still incredibly useful and outperform more than half of the legendary Monstagram. Try to be more appreciative of most monsters and don't be afraid to use them. Unless their name is Nebotus. Just, don't use Nebotus in any form of late game please.

K, semi-rant over. Tl:dr, Llum The MM to SS.