Smoke - remove shield
Wamai - remove shield
Tachanka - buff aoe/duration - reduce ammo count
Tachanka slight increase in LMG ammo count
Valkyrie remove shield

I generally believe small changes could make a huge impact, seeing as the meta is mainly secondary gadget based

To replace these shields without goyo you would be forced into warden / ela / alibi type operators which directly and instantly changes the meta, or forces goyo plus one and still achieves the same thing.
Don’t give strong gadget ops good secondary gadgets ontop ( utility wise)

Remove one melusi as well fuck melusi all my homies hate melusi

They gave melusi the mp5 angled on a three speed it’s arguably a buff.
1 dmg less 100 firerate less BUT angled grip.