Aztecs were serial nerfed for the last 5 years. They got a nice buff with the last big patch but the new Jaguar Warrior atk bonus seems messy.
As a monk and infantry civ, a better synergy should exist between Monks and infantry. Or at least between monks and JW. Maybe monks should heal 2 or 3 times faster JW to help them keeping there bonus atk.
Aztecs UU is still too niche comparing to Mayans/Incas UU.
Another possibility would be to revert to food cost of Eagles (20 food instead of 25) to make again Aztecs a very agressive Feudal civ.
People are accustomed to awful unique units and get puzzled when they see a UU that’s worth training.
Unique units are important part of civs’ identities, plus these units require a castle, which is a huge opportunity cost. Of course they should be good enough to be worth training.
It doesn’t apply because now Aztecs are below 50% win rate whatever the Elo. They were directly nerfed it’s a thing. But they were also indirectly nerfed by the buff of other civilisations + new Indian civilisations with good gun powder or range infantry units.
The last big patch was supposed to buff infantry civs. But in reality it didn’t help much.
Honestly, jaguar warrior isn’t OP/broken as it still dies to range. Now if you want to look at a good infantry unique unit, look at the Kamayuk which unlike the jaguar, has decent pierce armor. As we’ve learned from the urumi, an infantry unit can be as busted as you want in melee combat but as long as it dies to archers, it’s balanced.
