It is interesting if this discussion is framed not just as who could use buffs, but who needs to be really dramatically retooled: what one character should NRS go back to the drawing board with and significantly revamp? If that is the case, I think it might be Shazam. Here's why:
The Lobo community has reached a pretty solid consensus on a handful of buffs to fix him. Make this easier to link, fix the whiff on this, give faster armor on this, mostly minor things except the trait. The trait bites b/c you get one nuclear shell that adds 4% to the damage. Wow. Yet, the suggestion is to give the shell armor-breaking properties (to deal with Grundy and some other awful MUs) and maybe let Lobo stack a couple shells. 5-6 changes, most minor, and the Lobo players are satisfied.
Half the Bane players say Bane doesn't help. Ok.
I'm not as up on them, but the Lex and Joker communities also seem to have some decent consensus on some minor tweaks, although Joker's trait seems to still be an issue. Joker would probably be the runner-up, although it seems like a few tweaks could go a long way.
Not AT ALL putting the Shazam community on blast, but there seems to be a lot less consensus on how to make him work. Close to no consensus compared to others like Lobo. That just tells me there are some fundamental problems if everyone has different answers as to what he needs. Shazam is supposed to be awesome. The idea for Shazam was literally someone thinking to make a character as powerful as Superman whose alter ego was a young boy. Shazam isn't as good as Superman in IGAU, not nearly. He isn't even nearly as good as his counterpart, Black Adam.
And he's the only good guy who is poop-tier, except for our 'hero' Scorpion, lol.
