if you want a competitive game u need to balance for the top 5%, they are the only ones who can utilize every aspect of a faction and therefore get the most out of it. if you balance for the average joe u dont need to host another tournament or going esl etc because it will be a COMPLETE mess.
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In this case, Centaur is perfectly fine then as its the only unit that allows brits to stay in game at that level and ISG is still batshit OP.
I'm all for balance on high level, but our high level is about 20-30 players repeated in top ranks in different order depending on army.
CoH2 isn't exactly SC2 where top skill leagues are more populated then coh2 multiplayer in all modes.
I'm just saying that even if top 150 brits are doing well, I'd be surprised if brits overall in 1v1 have above 0.5 w/l ratio, but thats just guestimates until relic provides data on their own.