[quote=@MelonHead]
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I think being a speedster would cover even more bases than flying though. Wind's character was indeed powerful, but it didn't move -that- fast and so could be pretty easily taken down with a powerful (or more importantly) quick enough ranged attack. Unless they have the ability to negate certain ranged attacks upon them like a character I encountered in the first round of the most reason tournament. 

When you're talking potent ranged attacks, being in the air can actually be a weakness, there isn't much to hide behind in the sky. 
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That's the thing though, you could fight on a pretty even playing field. Assuming you even had a ranged ability. Though flying does not leave you as open as one might think. When you factor in things like clouds, smog, tall buildings, and of course the sun, all of which can disrupt line of sight, which is counts as cover on it's own. A archer type relying on speed is at the mercy of his primary means of locomotion, the ground. In which case there are any number of ways of countering him, be it shock-waves, AOE attacks, earth manipulation, fire, ice, water, etc

There are countless ways of countering a speedster, (never mind the arena in my experience has yet to even see a true speed type character anyway.) the only means of combating a flying character is ranged weapons, or air manipulation, or gravity powers. That's it, plus those can also be used to combat a ground based speedster. All in all, anyone wanting to win would never choose a flying character over a ground based one. Cause even if you rely on melee attacks you at least have the [i]chance[/i] of hurting the guy. Not so with the flyer, unless he comes down for some reason, leaving the vast majority of PC's unable to fight him aside from running and hiding somewhere. Speedster ranged character just so happens to be the only one who can fight such a character on anything resembling an even footing. Which gives the illusion it is the most OP character type. 

[quote=@Impaqt]
[color=7bcdc8]Guns in Roleplay. I should say Guns in the Arena just feel really out of place to me. I don't like using them and I don't really care for others that use them.[/color]
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To be fair archer types are a legit character type for people to use. Imo their the least skilled oriented type and I prefer avoiding them whenever possible, but nothing inherently wrong in using them. New players need a easy entry type after all. 

[quote=@DJAtomika]
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All of my characters have guns. Part of their loadout. XD
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And almost every battle I've seen they have to leave their gun behind. :K