Becker - Was copying the PoP moves too strong for Skill Adaptation then? That always seemed the best options for him to use, so should those specials be generally off limits for copy abilities?
I wouldn't say PoP was the issue per se. In fact it can't be the issue anymore because we're converting PoP to an Auto and only modify Specials based on whether it's active or not. But even in theory I don't think not allowing those four moves specifically to be copied would make a significant difference.
The power and variety you get from Lv 6 moves is still outstanding regardless. To give a couple examples, you have Glowing Destruction for pure boosting and stuff like Hand Gottes, Black Dragon, TZone and TPhantom to have answers to a great number of situations. You could even threaten Stamina control with Latigazo. I don't think that any one of those moves is too good, it's having access to all of them
and making them even harder to negate than they are normally that's the issue in my eyes.
Kimijima - I’m not really following his Reserve ability. If the opponent receives line-up information that could be false, wouldn’t they just ignore it - so the ability is mute?
Ah, that one's only half-done. There should be something to counterbalance that, I just haven't thought of something that makes sense to me yet.
Mizuki - Good. We’re just nerfing Hardy now, right?
Actually I had this one noted down since round 1. If you ask me, the character we should nerf for winning too much is Ryoma - guy's been on consecutive champion teams now, that just seems fishy.
Tokugawa - Could he get Glowing Destruction or would that be too good? I feel like his limitation with Black Hole means he’s often disadvantaged against other top players in Singles without another special in his arsenal.
As he is right now, probably too good. If he gets all his Mental boosts, GD would be a +11.5 for him. I do see what you're saying though, so maybe there's a different solution. Maybe we could get rid of Loyalty to bring it down to a more acceptable 9.5 boost or give Black Hole three activations instead?
I just think that Shiraishi is likely not at 22.5 total in the manga just yet -and that maybe he is too good of a doubles player compared to how he does in singles, even though he played like 1 doubles match ever.
Partially agree, partially disagree. I do agree that he probably doesn't have all 4.5s yet, although I expect him to get there by the end. I don't think he's too strong in doubles either. Maybe this might hint more at him being weaker in singles than he should be? Would be interested in hearing other opinions on this.
Zaizen might need a limitation to one of his autos (as it's deadly on balanced characters... For no real reason honestly). Maybe lowering each stat by 0.5 if it's more than one? Idk.
Sounds fair to me.
Mizuki's special training should go to another character, I feel, otw he becomes a really strong reserve, lol. Special training felt like foolproof, in a sense that it was always there to cover my fuck ups.
I wouldn't want to transfer it to a different character, it's a big part of his skill set in my eyes. Two solutions come to mind though:
- Only allow it to kick in if the opposing player was predicted correctly.
- Return stats as +1 total instead of +1 for every stat checked.
Maybe the Franken-Shiraishi combo should be killed btw? Like changing Franken's auto to work only with base mental.
Hm well, this combo is a bit of a special case I suppose. 99% of the time characters aren't able to raise their partner's Mental by more than 1 stage, which I think isn't an issue for Frankensteiner. Maybe his Mental could just be capped at 5? It might also be warranted though to split the boost decrease among all boosts like what you were suggesting for Zaizen.
This is silly because no one would use him, but I feel that Kikumaru's "Oishi's Spirit" should work whenever he is not his partner -or, at least, whenever he is not in the line-up.
I guess we can do that. When coming up with it, my idea was to make it a choice between having GP or having a stronger Kikumaru, but I suppose they're not actually good enough individually to warrant that.
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