Before they added Unparalleled and other 4th mystery, passives. His dragon fire mystery did the exact same thing Unparalleled do now, increase damage to clones and summon, c*e it twice before 4 rounds cooldown. Basically a clone destroyer and combo starter. So the only thing they did to him is nerf his pvp aspect and buff the ninetails aspect which 70-80% players population don't participate anyway because level freeze is a must.

Same for his mirror return passive, before it has another effect that increase damage cause to the ignited target which made him sync so well with Tobi. Then they nerfed both of them, Tobi can't start combo anymore, can't dodge anything at all, can't revive and fire main's passive. So once again they nerfed his offensive aspect and make him just another Kurenai version, nothing unique.

Then we talk about his clone, yea before the clone can attack by itself and has high chance to cause repluse and imprison to cover for the lack of combo initiator in his stardard attacks. But yea they also nerfed it.

All they did was gave him the 4th mystery which has 3 rounds cd in return for all those nerfs. Made him became just another support while take away all his offensive gimmick as a fire main. But when it come to support, Water and Earth do a better job than him and they keep buffing other mains, Wind is extremely powerful now with all the buffs in 4.0 in both aspects while completely abandoned fire main because he was so called "OP" in 1.0.
IMO, give his increase damage to ignited targets back. It's the best gimmick for him and it's just like a poison tai gimmick for water or clone for wind or leech for mb or shield for earth.

scarlet blaze

Fire main don't actually need a lot of changes in his kit like many others said. He just need a few add-on effect on his current kit.

Mystery :
- 3rd mystery should ignore and go through immune to debuffs ninja, remove the cd reduction passive if Oboro clone is present.

- 4th mystery's mystery should add a shield base on his TOTAL res, not his based res.

Passive :

- Mirror return should be revert back to 1.0 where it give a passive buff that increase damage deal to ignited targets because this is his best gimmick imo. He is a fire jutsu expert so he should act like it. But currently ignite is kinda weak beside it only purpose to counter some water team because it capped at 1k9 damage per tick and there are many immune ninjas out there.

I think that's all fire main need. So all main are unique and have their own gimmick.
Fire : ignite and increase damage on them, strong control.
Lightning : immune swordman and leech and mystery cd reset and paralyze and look cool.
Water : healing, remove debuffs, poison.
Earth : shielding, increase damage when have shield.

BTW I know this thread is kinda useless because no matter we discuss here won't reach tencent. But who care about that? As long as you have fun typing stuffs lol