Devils ' advocate , all media was pretty lowres then . I watched an episode of Friends from VHS on a tube TV and the gang didn ' t look much better than OP ' s pic . But yeah , no one thought this looked real . We just thought it looked amazing for a game . <| sep |> It must suck to be the biggest betas on the internet <| sep |> How did you manage to max their SA ? Summons ? <| sep |> Judging from his smile he must follow Souths <| sep |> you mean full ap lux ? <| sep |> He ' s watched too many romantic comedies . <| sep |> I seem to remember Nintendo Power doing side by side images of the game and movie showing off how good it was , but I could be misremembering . <| sep |> Cabrakan is a Mage that tries to do too much in the same time but cannot do it well enough . I mean , it ' s a great jungler , but so limited to tank comps only . Xing Tian has a great kit nerfed a bit too hard . It is certainly in a decent state , but he cannot be THE aggressive support each used to be , Bacchus and Fafnir does what he does damage , hard CC and mobility so much better than Xing . His ultimate is reduced to a worse Ares ultimate that is easily telegraphed , effectively just a zoning tool that cannot outdo other zoning ults Fafnir or Ymir . Ares is the only Guardian , contested only by Fafnir in the damage department . He has the ability to melt a whole team by himself by applying a slow and cripple before dealing percentage health damage over 9 s if timed well . Not to mention the chains themselves doing as much as a Mage nuke if landed well . His ultimate is a much more efficient beads popper than other ultimates due to the superior range and casting time . His ultimate makes the target vulnerable to ganks for the next 2 minutes or forces their ultimate out , both very important things taken away . Otherwise , they ' re most likely dead . But I agree , Guardians in general are very well balanced . I don ' t think Xing Tian and Cabrakan are actually C tier bad , but they make themselves hard to justify a spot in the team unless it is a niche comp .