Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-39230426-20191111182156

Balor: SS- --> S

This decision was agreed upon fairly quickly. Balor NEEDED a drop. His abilities and what he does exactly are severely outclassed and out-performed by other, better monsters in the meta today. Mediocre stats other than Life, very misguided Relic Slots for a Tank (Sword and Amulet, those would be more fitting on an Attacker tbh, and with Balor's measly 3377 Strength, naw fam), just an alright Trait with Hardened, and he wasn't released during the Mega Taunt/Taunt Trait era, so poor Balor is just completely outdated in that regard.

That being said, he still has his merits which allow him to be in the S ranks and not lower. He still does get access to Taunt, so he can actually perform the role of a Tank unlike SOME OTHER MONSTERS THAT SAY THEY'RE TANKS BUT DON'T HAVE TAUNT (cough cought Tankerion cough cough) and he's also pretty solid in the self-sustaining department. His Taunt skill also gives him Double Life, and he has 2 skills that heal him, one that deals AoE 40 Earth dmg and gives him Regen, and another that just straight heals him by 50% of his max HP. So yeah, not too shabby. And for offense he's not too bad either. He can spam both Quicksands and Poison for DoT (granted he can only apply Poison as Single Target) and he even gets access to the semi-deny of Total Blind.

tl:dr, He's definitely still solid enough to land a spot in the S ranks, but not exactly any higher due to being completely outclassed in his field by much better monsters and having just overall incredibly lackluster stats.