1.9 brings down the max skill level. People like stimpay will no longer be special because pvp will be easy. Anyone below 1600 in 1.9 pvp either has 4fps or 900ms. High elo wont be a thing because every fight will be 50-50 . Its just hit exchange and since you will just sit there and block with your shield until your hit delay is ready strafing wont be useful. Imagine a Faction Scrim in 1.9… 40 people sitting with their shield waiting for their hit cooldown. 19 hours later no one is dead because once you run out of pots you just run away since no one can do much DMG with their 1 hit per 3 seconds, and thats the better part. UHC will die because everyone will bow/FnS/Lava since if you melee you will most likely be left with low health, making an easy clean. This will also happen with SG and other games like it.

1.9 is trash, but the reason it has so many supporters is because the majority are not that good at pvp. Lowering the standard of "good" benefits them. They see that they are not good at something that takes lots of time, skill and practice so they demand a change. A change to the worse for all.