Asha is COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY BROKEN.

[Dirmagnos]

Her ability to reduce enemy in line attack to 1, when an enemy appears, combined with her stealing attack from enemies, before they attack, means that NO enemy in line ever gets to attack, as player/ai summons new mercenary every turn. It might as well be permanent, because you HAVE TO spawn new merc in, it cant be skipped. So objective description for this ability should be "Reduce attack of enemies in line to 1". And stealing attack from enemy before they attack, means that their attack will always be 0 and they will never be able to attack.
4 Ashas in line will completely prevent any physical attacks from enemy team, only allowing for abilities that are triggered outside of attacking.
This moronic design makes her the MOST powerful merc in the game, by an enormous margin, with very little counter. I thought Trixie was broken, but this is the next level of incompetence.
Only ones unaffected are mercs with Immunity perk...that devs also broken couple of updates ago, boosting them for no good reason, making them absurdly powerful. Every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game all i see are mercs with Immunity, with their obscenely op abilities. Lorraine stun of all ranged enemies on attack was already powerful, but then some moron decided that 1 turn stun was not enough and boosted it to 2. Even tho she already was very strong under right conditions.
And does not even account for the fact that mercs with immunity are complete beefcakes, having absurdly high health. Sure, they cant be healed or buffed, but they also cant have debuffs placed on them, so it was a good balance. Then some moron decided to boost hteir health, to compensate for lack of heals, while doing jack and ♥♥♥♥ about them being immune to debuffs.
Regina, with her multi-attack and heal, can completely heal commander in just one turn, if she is not killed fast. And because of her high health and immunity, combined with stacking multi-attack, taking her down takes longest than any other melee merc. And if she got her relationship skin, she also can self-heal like crazy, completely negating only serious penalty Immunity has - 10% health restored per attack and with adding one multi-attack each turn, she can restore a progressively greater chunk of her health each turn. So you have a juggernaut, with insane health, insane self-heal(as almost all other heals heal fixed amount, not percentage), immunity and she can heal commander for hundreds of health each turn. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ brilliant design.
At the same time defensive mercs, like Luther, that were ♥♥♥♥ for a long time(pretty much from getgo), still get no love. If anyone needed buffing, its them. Instead devs have been buffing mercs that were already fine to begin with. I havent seen Luther in ages, because those mercs are so utterly useless and nobody plays them.

[Cymric]

Against Asha you need to make a decision. Sacrifice that entire column and hit her with AoE, or, if your column is powerful enough, skip and turn, don't play any merc. Her ability will not trigger and your column of merc can destroy her.

Yes, immune mercs are powerful, Regina is especially busted. But the thing about this game is that you can play the exact same merc in your deck too. Nearly everyone I fight these days have a big and fat Regina. You can build one too.

If RNG screws you and you don't have a counter in hand when Regina is played, or draw a counter the next turn, you lose. BUT this is exactly the same if the enemy drops a Harper/Korben behind a big fat merc and you don't have indirect damage ready, or a suppress commander ability. Or Salma followed by Mitsuki. There is so much OP ♥♥♥♥ in this game that you just have to shrug, take the loss and move on.

[BigBombz]

Use suppress on Asha, she's not much of a problem after that. Regina with maxed relationship is one that if your opponent has her, then that game is pretty much a loss. but then again you have to put a lot of work (or lot of money) to get her maxed, so it's only fair that she is powerful.

Everyone should remove those super powerful mercs from their line ups when they log out, so that AI wouldn't be able to use them against other players.

[..]

Originally posted by BigBombz:

Use suppress on Asha, she's not much of a problem after that. Regina with maxed relationship is one that if your opponent has her, then that game is pretty much a loss. but then again you have to put a lot of work (or lot of money) to get her maxed, so it's only fair that she is powerful.

Everyone should remove those super powerful mercs from their line ups when they log out, so that AI wouldn't be able to use them against other players.

Very much agree on wat u guys said. Regina is really too OP and everywhere I lost is due to such Regina. There seems no merc to counter her at all. At least other strong mercs can be affected with Suppress. So I'm really considering to start building Regina as well.

She's high HP, immune to everything, won't die in 2 - 3 turns, hits harder n harder, game ends. Hope Regina gets nerfed immediately.

[Cymric]

This is a pay to win game. Certain mercs are by design over powered to get you to pay. Further more, the dev must let the people who paid cold hard cash feel that they get their money worth before nerfing the merc. This is the reality of playing a pay to win game. You are never ever going to get a balanced game play experience.

[War Maiden]

Originally posted by ..:

Originally posted by BigBombz:

Use suppress on Asha, she's not much of a problem after that. Regina with maxed relationship is one that if your opponent has her, then that game is pretty much a loss. but then again you have to put a lot of work (or lot of money) to get her maxed, so it's only fair that she is powerful.

Everyone should remove those super powerful mercs from their line ups when they log out, so that AI wouldn't be able to use them against other players.

Very much agree on wat u guys said. Regina is really too OP and everywhere I lost is due to such Regina. There seems no merc to counter her at all. At least other strong mercs can be affected with Suppress. So I'm really considering to start building Regina as well.

She's high HP, immune to everything, won't die in 2 - 3 turns, hits harder n harder, game ends. Hope Regina gets nerfed immediately.

Actually Regina and the Black chick with the bo staff are the same.
They both are strong, both also can do multiple hits. I forgot her name, but basically the same.

[War Maiden]

Originally posted by Cymric:

This is a pay to win game. Certain mercs are by design over powered to get you to pay. Further more, the dev must let the people who paid cold hard cash feel that they get their money worth before nerfing the merc. This is the reality of playing a pay to win game. You are never ever going to get a balanced game play experience.

And... then there is that as well.

[divus2006]

Regina can be quite nicely neutralaized by such mercs as Bi or Lucretia or even Billy. Every time A hostile Regina turns up I use some of them against and then put Kitty or someone like her behind. Then Regina is of no great threat.

[Cymric]

Originally posted by divus2006:

Regina can be quite nicely neutralaized by such mercs as Bi or Lucretia or even Billy. Every time A hostile Regina turns up I use some of them against and then put Kitty or someone like her behind. Then Regina is of no great threat.

The enemy AI, while not the sharpest tool in the shed, does know how to use suppress. I hope you have more than 1 agile merc in your deck and is lucky enough to have drawn it.

[War Maiden]

Originally posted by Cymric:

Originally posted by divus2006:

Regina can be quite nicely neutralaized by such mercs as Bi or Lucretia or even Billy. Every time A hostile Regina turns up I use some of them against and then put Kitty or someone like her behind. Then Regina is of no great threat.

The enemy AI, while not the sharpest tool in the shed, does know how to use suppress. I hope you have more than 1 agile merc in your deck and is lucky enough to have drawn it.

Truth be told, it seems the 'Enemy Ai' has an affinity to use characters (regardless if they are actually that players CDR) to use 'Suppress'. However, they also like to cheat, just a FYI. The 'Enemy' will use 'Suppress' and then a couple rounds after use it again... None of us can do that. That is definitely a cheat mod to subdue us, instead of being a fair game. Sure, I know war is hard, been there done that, but 'cheating' is not in war, because no one can cheat on the battlefield, unless they drop a new, overwhelming tech that nobody knew about, which, well... lets be honest... never happens, due to many other caveats unavailable to the general public.

[..]

Originally posted by divus2006:

Regina can be quite nicely neutralaized by such mercs as Bi or Lucretia or even Billy.

No wonder. I don't hv a proper levelled Lucretia n Billy so I never used them. Now I hv an idea, thank you.

Which merc is Bi by the way?

[divus2006]

Originally posted by ..:

Originally posted by divus2006:

Regina can be quite nicely neutralaized by such mercs as Bi or Lucretia or even Billy.

No wonder. I don't hv a proper levelled Lucretia n Billy so I never used them. Now I hv an idea, thank you.

Which merc is Bi by the way?

The girl with a crossbow, I don't know what her name is in English :))

[九芫一]

Originally posted by divus2006:

Originally posted by ..:

No wonder. I don't hv a proper levelled Lucretia n Billy so I never used them. Now I hv an idea, thank you.

Which merc is Bi by the way?

The girl with a crossbow, I don't know what her name is in English :))

Sounds like Bea

[Ah_Zee]

Here's an idea... let's add Another BROKEN char. to 'fix' the Other broken ones, then we'll add an even More broken one to counter this one. Yeah, good plan.

[..]

Need to nerf Bea's Infection damage. It's so broken when combined with Wanda's infection.
Ur commander dies immediately.

[SKYLE]

Originally posted by ..:

Need to nerf Bea's Infection damage. It's so broken when combined with Wanda's infection.
Ur commander dies immediately.

The same can be said with Ivy and Gaia, but you need to wait until turn 3 at least.

You also got units like Harper if she is placed right at the back of the attack order such that she is hit last, your commander is pretty much dead if you can't remove her.

There is not one unit that is super unbeatable OP at the end of the day. Even Regina has her counters, unfortunately one of them is quite new Omega, at a similar level and relationship I suspect she can one shot Regina, the problem is Omega is quite new so not many people have her maxed out. The other is the shield lady (forgot her name), as long as she doesn't get suppressed or have her shield removed before Regina attacks, it neutralizes her to a stalemate. Zara is another which due to the sheer number of attacks Regina can build up will suddenly give your other team members huge number of attacks. Thing is Zara unlike Regina can't be improved via relationships and thus is harder to get her to survive a high level Regina after a turn or two. Then there is previously mentioned Harper, as long as the commander damage is higher than the heal Regina gives her own commander, Regina can end up killing her own commander.

There is another poison lady at max relationship will disable the immunity on all immune units. But you have to get to max relationship with her. I've only ever saw that once on a former alliance member.