Ichi 1.0 is really good against Noise.
He almost always runs with programs installed and his economy relies on selling them to Aesop’s. He has no way to pressure centrals without relying on installed programs. He’s often on 3-click turns because of Wyldside, so at least one of the subroutines will fire. He’s zero-link, often runs poor, and his economy depends on crucial resources. Which means the trace-1 subroutine is actually important in the matchup. It’s also strength 4, so it doesn’t fold immediately to either Parasite or D4v1d, and it takes 4 cards to break with Faust.
It’s, like, aight against Prepaid Kate. Not great, but serviceable, and with Cyberdex Virus Suite you can force a Mimic / Datasucker rig to burn a tutor on a Sharpshooter.
Eli is pretty good against Noise (takes a long time to die to Parasite for a 3-rez), kind of bad against Kate (broken very efficiently by Lady), and good against Criminal (cheap to rez and taxes Corroder for a lot).
Viktor 1 is porous like Eli, but Yog blanks it (and Yog is not “completely gone from the meta”, all the non-Noise Anarchs and the occasional crim are still playing it) and it doesn’t stand up to Parasite as long. You don’t really want to include porous-but-taxing ice that might get blanked. You generally prefer Enigma due to its ability to actually keep someone out of a server for a turn before being invalidated by Yog or Parasite.
Dunno if that’s how Dan sees it…