tl;dr read the fucking title.
>Sneak up on unicorn
>Unicorn senses your intention to fuck her shit up
>LOL LEVITATED AWAY
>Teleports behind you
>*unsheathes telekinetic blade*
>nothing personnel kid
This invariably happens every single time I get remotely close to a unicorn. What the fuck is this shit? What kind of crack were the devs smoking when they decided this? The Earth Pony is supposed to be the CQC class, right? So who the fuck thought it would be a great idea to give the unicorn, supposedly a "glass cannon", a direct (non-orthogonal) counter to CQC combat, as if they didn't already have enough ranged attacks to keep you from getting close to them in the first place, which was literally the entire intention (Need I remind you that they're the only class with baked-in ranged attacks that you CANNOT deflect unless--surprise, surprise you're a unicorn? It's almost as if the devs all only play one class or something…) And it turns out, it doesn't even matter how careful you are or how good your positioning is because a unicorn can just click her hooves together and go
>muh telepathy
and you're fucked! There's no positioning that will save you from
>I CAN LITERALLY AUTOMATICALLY SEE EVERYTHING
>b-b-but you can grow plants!
Not even combat-oriented, who gives a shit? And if you really are incapable of managing the water and the fertilizer that plants need or taking care of them properly, you can just go fishing; you don't even need the Earth Pony for food. And with a complicated enough spell, you could probably create your own automated farming magic anyways; leave that to the wizard autists. Even if you did need the Earth Pony for food, playing it is like being a medic. Literally nobody plays the medic class in any game that has it without some other external combat-oriented incentive, like cool guns or increased move speed. You know why? Because people play video games to have fun. And it's not fun to be sitting in the back of the crowd twiddling your hooves while waiting for
>ELITE UNICORN MASTER RACE
on the front line to kill everyone with telekinetic blade spam. And honestly, being able to grow plants feels more like some shitty arbitrary feature that the devs decided to throw in because they figured they should have some semblance of balance. But a semblance is just that.
>hmmm earth ponies can't really do shit
>I know, let's restrict the ability to grow plants just to earth ponies, that'll make it balanced
>yep sounds good to me!
>lol but earth ponies can pull heavy cannons
And with enough button mashing, a unicorn can carry three heavy cannons around with magical levitation. Furthermore, how much use is a cannon in 1v1 combat? Actually, there's another problem. Not only does the unicorn possess a hard counter to an entire class in a game where THERE ARE ONLY THREE CLASSES (no alicorns don't count) and YOUR CLASS IS LOCKED FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE ROUND, but some of its abilities directly overlap/replace core focuses of other classes. Take weather control, for example. Weather control, unlike growing apple trees, is actually an interesting ability because on top of giving pegasi the opportunity to conduct high-risk attacks like tornadoes it also gave them the ability for more complicated tactics through the redirection of fog and cloud barriers. And all of a sudden, the devs decided to hand this ability to unicorns? Are you fucking shitting me? And don't even get me started with self-levitation.
>muh magic
>oh by the way I can fly just like a pegasus
>lol lightning bolt from render distance, fuck you
>lol but key combos
I don't give a shit how many mouse buttons or keys you have to press to make a fireball or a lightning bolt. There's not even a reason to have the world of Equestria and all these objects you can interact with when a unicorn can just fucking go
>muh telekinesis!
>muh alchemy!
>muh time traveling!
>muh teleportation!
and literally become God.
Devs need to fix this shit. Literally unplayable 0/10.