I have one shotted all St. Nicholas I’ve encountered with my Royal Hunstman. It doesn’t matter if they even have the ally shield, all St. Nick to date I’ve encountered has been one shotted. Their artifacts are probably just far superior compared to yours. The only caveat, I stay around 3050 - 3150. So it is also possible that the ones you’ve fought are just pure monsters which I try to avoid for the most part.

^The problem is you have listed a very specify champ, while the OP has voiced his concern over a general problem.

Tbh the game is "broken" on many ends. Its the curse of all p2w games, some legendarys like huntsman for example have to broken and op, because otherwise whales have no desire to spend money.

The question is as always who and for what the game should be balanced for.

If you want true balance you somehow have to seperate pve and pvp damage.

@Donkael: Yeh it was definitely gear quality (and my decision that 85% critrate was 'enough', this time it wasnt). My actual point was more how this particular high survivabilty tank has the ability to one shot even other damage sponges and indeed managed to outDAMAGE a glass cannon.

I am aware that counters to meter-boosting teams exist but this is where the synergy between the two problems occur. The counter to turn meter boosting is to increase survivability... ie: even more of a reason to choose HP/DEF based champs with shields/def buffs/ally-def/etc. Add this to the ability of these champs to hit as hard as ATK based champs (point 1)  and you have next to no reason to choose an ATK champ (in the arena) if you have the other option.

...But what if you could give these slow-pokes the chance to go first as well? That would be even MORE awesome... meter-boost to the rescue!

A fully self-reinforcing loop of binary decisions :(