The fact they can be used as a panic button makes it extremely annoying and cheap all on it's own.
Oh, I'm about to get merked? Here, let me just use my Super so I take you down with me.
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And I've pulled that off with Arc Blade once or twice, it's just a bit harder. What I was getting at is that almost every time they're used both Fist of Havoc and Nova Bomb have next to no chance of killing more than one person because the enemy would have to be in a clump to make it possible. Which is why you see them getting thrown as a last-ditch effort to keep an opponent off a control point, or as a bum rush tactic to quickly clear the way for a capture(I've done this before by throwing down a Nova Bomb inside a defender's shield, taking it down and killing him at which point my bloom perk caused a second explosion and cleared the other two people there). Hunters have the best specials by far in that field - while they take a second to turn you have by far the most control combined with the usual one-shotting associated with supers, which is why Hunter supers can consistently get more kills. I wouldn't say a super being called a panic button means it's cheap - I'd say that means a panic button or berserker tactic is all it can be used for on a regular basis.