(Let me put a disclaimer that I understand why we need outliers. I'm just saying what I hate about them)

Outlier Definition: A feat that is much more impressive than a character's other feats, and as such is ignored for the purposes of battleboarding.

For Clarification, I'm fine with outliers like the ridiculous Hulk feat where he hits the ground with universe busting measures of force, but only causing an earthquake(?) But when people take perfectly acceptable feats, that's where I get annoyed

To begin, I feel that outliers shouldn't be credible to begin with. People tend to forget that characters are works of art specifically crafted by an author. Every single one of these "outlier" feats were specifically made by the creator with an intention of mind. They wanted to show that the character has these capabilities, and thusly did so. Who are you to say that the feat is not okay when the creator of the work disagrees?

To add on to this, a thing I don't pretend to understand is some people's aversion to letting a character be stronger then they believed they were. An example is the FTL Samurai Jack feat. Whenever you try to use this feat, you always get one guy saying that it's an outlier. It baffles me why their self imposed laws of the universe prevent them from accepting Samurai Jack being super damn fast, especially when he has Other dumb speed feats and it gets tiring after a while, Especially when, as stated in the first point, the creator of Samurai Jack decided this feat was acceptable and representative of his creation.

The last issue I will address in this post is the fact that poor users tend to scream outliers at any feat that prevents them from winning. This encourages degenerate, toxic debating and is actually worse for battleboarding overall. Typically one of these users will be hard-wanking a character, and fighting tooth and nail to try and convince someone that they win an obviously lost matchup. This in itself is fine, but when you do it by trying to say the opponent's feats don't count for whatever reason it becomes silly.

Overall, I see outliers as something that while on paper is a good idea, in practice just ends up being superficial and abusable.

Thoughts?