I can’t say I’m surprised it happened: it’s an annoying and oppressive weapon in the right hands. Despite that it was a gun that had quite a large learning curve and skill ceiling. I’ve been very fond of this weapon since launch and am going to miss using it a lot. Hopefully they help it out so it can at least be more useable in PvE if they don’t want it in PvP.

It’s just the definition of unnecessary. Feel like Fighting Lion got an awesome buff that made it relevant but not broken like 5 years ago, and they’ve just been slowly chipping away at it ever since. Y6 Fighting lion has about half the blast radius, half the reload and now 80% the damage of Y2 lion. And what makes it worse is, there’s never an actual current balance reason given. Blast radius was a casualty of lunfactions ad clear that never got reverted, reload was just a speculation that it would be too oppressive with the infinite primary change, and they didn’t even give a reason for this nerf