I'm just going to make a quick summary of everything wrong:

* A tiny tool kit with no synergy

* Awful defense

* Awful sustain

* Awful damage

* Tiny aoes

* Poor CC options. RMB is probably their best semi CC. In addition, their knockdown options are poorly limited.

* Zero synergy with its non awakening counter part

Everything feels bad, the only thing good about awakening is that its a speed demon for low end areas. But for everything else its absolutely bad. I think succ nova is pretty good, it needs work but its in way better shape than awak. I'm sure some people may disagree. This is my opinion however.

I can agree on the tiny AoE's, but not so much on defnse, sustain or damage, I can often outclear a lot of different people, her short term burst damage is in my opinion top tier, combine that with her speed, and she can most times not be beat.

The tiny AoE's make sense, since she's a fencer, the concept around fence is to be quick and agile when countering another opponent with huge amounts of quick burst damage, it's not meant for constant sustained damage.

As for her defense, she has an S block, so she's on par with a lot of other classes, something I can do with her and not many other classes is face tank Mirumok trees without having to move because both her sustain and defense is high enough to allow me to not really fall below half health, the image below is what allows me to go completely potless in all regions I've taken her, the only place I can't really survive is places with 1 shot mechanics.

Sorry if I didn't specify. But I'm talking about in pvp for the most part. In pve she feels alright, which is why I said she is a speed demon in low end areas. You know, I just discovered today she had a S block. I had no idea. That makes her a lot better in pve.