you can use teleport, vigor, or charge to counter lowered faster run walk. there are several ways to counter it, just none that are really practical besides teleport.
in how far does siggard's lame others? lifetap makes you get full hp after a few hits.
siggards just got nice stats, but never as good as e.g. wiz gloves.
I dont find LT really bm anyways, on euscnl LT isnt considered bm by the biggest part of the dueling community and the pubbies rather laugh at you if you do not use exile on a smiter, so why not use it?
LT is pretty much accepted in dueling sigard not really lame at all apart from the small amount of slow ppl will argue... IMO as i stated slow really is not bm to me
Certain things like a nec using decrypt etc makes the duels more competitive..