Please, stop accusing each other of being fanbois, or accusing Relic developers of being biased or even using playercards stats as facts to disagree with somebody.
I'm tired of the faction lobbies that rule in this forum, always coming in packs to derail the discussion with nonsense about playercards and fanboyism.
A lot of interesting topics have been closed by that. Just stop.
If your best argument is that player A doesn't play axis factions or that player B is biased, please, keep it to yourself.
If a player only ever plays one side, he really loses the right to comment. His perspective will be totally skewed, he won't understand the arguments because he has only seen the game from one side.
You'll see a lot of 1-faction guys here saying "everything in my faction is fine". They can just be ignored though.
But I'm with you on dropping the fanboy accusations.
Anyway, the point of the OP
isn't that SHOCKS ARE SUPER OP. It's that for a 2CP unit they perform incredibly well. The best available counter at 2CP is an HMG, which can be beaten with smoke (some good points have been made about suppression and smoke not being an auto-win)
On the other hand, Sovs other infantry is muuuuuuch worse so there is a kind of balance. I'd like to see them brought together, like penals bit buffed, shocks bit nerfed.