it would have probably changed the game's history entirely really
that is kind of an enormous overstatement
At the greatest effect it would probably draw attention to Dark Balanced in general instead of adding her to the already long but very versatile and very good list of Devils, which is kinda Dark's bread n' butter archetype and always has been (along with Fire Attacker, Water Physical, Wood Balanced, and Light Healer). They've expanded a lot since then, sure, and roles have evolved to bring greater versatility among types and attributes. We're seeing a surge of Dragon and Physical among Fire, Water's seen a lot of Healers lately, Wood has been really stepping it up with Attacker, Light has been seeing kind of a steady spread of everything in general, and Dark has been getting some growth in Physical (and kinda dominates the Machine market right now-- especially with this new Batman stuff).
Meanwhile, lesser used types for Dark like Balanced and Healer are still struggling. Dark Healers just got four super-fantastic units in the past couple months with Awoken Haku, Persephone, Asmodeus and not-tan BikiniClaire. As a type in and of itself, Dark Healer simply cannot stand alone, since there are only really six super viable units in it altogether, if you add Dill Sirius and normal Claire to the list. And your odds of getting two of the six listed here are really low because lol collab/event golds. Kurone and Aamir are also valid, at a stretch. But the rest? Pretty damned empty. The type simply cannot stand on its own. And even if you ARE lucky enough to have all of these, only three of them are viable leaders for the rest (Awoken Haku, Asmodeus, and normal Claire). Persephone's leader skill kinda blows unless pairing her with a partner that has a really good atk multiplier; BikiniClaire is great but she boosts Devil atk, not Healer. Aamir's leader skill is kind of awesome... only if you're willing to throw away two slots on junk units. Kurone boosts HP only. Dill Sirius only works when you use a skill.
Thus my point is, even if a type gets some great stuff, it simply cannot stand on its own unless it has a wider pool of options. Which may yet still happen for Dark Healer, who knows? But it's gonna be a pretty long time before it becomes a game changer. And the same goes for Dark Balanced, which has
MORE shit already than Dark Healer does and is still struggling. Adding Pandora to the list would, at best, use her popularity as a springboard to get a couple more Dark Balanced types to pop in as subs, thus making the type a bit more viable. (And even then, they'd in most cases... still be used as Pandora subs, just like pretty much all Dark Balanced can easily do already, right now.) But I wouldn't say that it would change the history of the game-- I think that's a pretty big leap. And even then, we now have things in Dark Balanced that, while they work differently from Pandora, can certainly match her strength and then some with Typhon and this new Batman. Like Pandora, Typhon doesn't rely on type for the leader skill, so both of them can use pretty much any subs they like (they both work as subs for each other as well, even if their active skills are incompatible together). It's the new Batman that suffers a bit because of all of this, but what I'm trying to say is that one simple change for Pandora when her ult came out wouldn't have fixed that-- it would have just made it a little more viable at best and had next to no effect at worst.
meanwhile ./muffled screaming at tierlists
why are we doing this now too, this is such a stupid endeavor
It's just more whaletier circlejerking tbh. People just want another excuse to lord themselves over other people for having better things by having a list to use as an excuse of "look at all of my S-tier cards, peasants".
and so on.
