Hear me out (copium)

So, as you may be able to tell from my Jiaoqiu pfp, I'm a really big fan of Jiaoqiu. He notoriously had a really bad beta, with some pretty bad nerfs, similar to Tribbie's v4 nerf. However, this makes me hopeful that Tribbie will turn out OK, since their situations are pretty similar for the following reasons:

• New support enters the beta, and is generally considered decent, but not exceptional outside of their BiS team.
• In their final beta update, they get a huge nerf: specifically, an added cap to their ult effect that mostly just affects their performance in their BiS team and/or at e6 (granted, Tribbie's nerf also hurts her uptime, while Jiaoqiu was still pretty easily getting full uptime after his v5 cap).
• Character gets extremely doomposted and considered worse than f2p/older units (including Robin), sometimes even in their BiS team. This results in a negative reception of the character, with many former fans saying that they're now planning on skipping.

This is the point we're now at with Tribbie. Her ult-spam viability is pretty hurt, and her viability in other teams (such as Therta) is slightly damaged, but mostly unaffected. However, in Jiaoqiu's case, when he released, he was still pretty good. He was cemented as BiS in debuff/DoT teams, and he's pretty dang good outside of them. It's likely that Tribbie will go the same way: she's probably going to be continuously doomposted by people in this sub and the leaks sub, and maybe after release, but we Tribbie mains need to stay strong in expectation that she'll still be good after release :3

Edit: I've seen enough negative comments to think this was probably an inaccurate comparison, so ignore this. I still maintain that Tribbie is likely better than she's been made out to be, however.