One vital thing you are missing in your evaluation: If the special nerf is an indirect buff to bladedancer it is also a buff to hammers and stormtrance. Hammers were not touched and stormtrance and blade received a nerf.
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I stated that. It can be assumed as well
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No sir hammer are throwing range less of the time shotguns kill them and more often their counter are teamshots (notice several primary buffs should held take the mm down easier) and grenades are often used on them as well. In addition stormtrance is nowhere near as quick and close range as Bladedancers
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Teams can easily team shot BD too. Do you know why shotguns kill hammers much less? It is because most shotgunners are dead before they even get close. Hammers get the health regeneration, have more range, have more armor, and can move much quicker thanks to titan skate. This nerf just proves how biased the balance team is. Not to mention the only reason it was nerfed is because one of the devs found it annoying.