Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34495693-20180321224136/@comment-35189034-20180404020020

too lazy to read every single one of these but here's my two cents.

In Proto's case, it used to be an obvious taboo due to the amount of effort it took to catch one (it's mobility was the most top notch, enabling it to easily and quickly fly away from other classes and even other protos.), the normal usage of it (running or vulturing), the absurd amount of damage it would deal against almost every single class unless it had high defense, and just overall being that one class that NOBODY would want to pick or deal with due to how irritating it was for 'entire servers. 'Especially since I heard a friend of mine almost get banned for a 4v1 back in the day due to using a group of allies to catch the damn thing.

To this day, it's still that annoying flying vulture class that dips in and out of combat, but it's much more difficult to use and less overpowered as well as having less mobility upwards to fly away. I think that since it's such a strange class to use (being the only class capable of flight.) and how it's supposed to play makes it less favorable and noticable compared to other more noticable classes.

In Anubis's case, it was almost always the deathmatch taboo. You could hardly fight a 3-5+ stacked Anubis without teams of three or over due to how retardedly strong the buffs it had were. Or you had to specifically use Spectre (and how it used to ignore defense entirely) or the ohnohereitcomes big ball of rads from Sievert to get past their high amounts of armor. It was easy to use as well, since all you were required to do is sit around on your ass and collect souls (that boosted your stats by 10% roughly iirc back then) and spam X when you got hurt (which stole a great chunk of health and stats).

It still is slightly taboo to this day, since picking it means you're likely to eventually become a MAJOR threat to the enemy team and end up taking on at least two people at once with your 130-160% stats during TDM. But it would be nice to see someone use it outside of stacking souls and becoming retardedly strong. Like using the ult to immobilize and leech HP from enemies or using the Z to debuff an enemy heavily.