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This was the long version of saying you don't trust they'll be able to make H. Smoke balanced if they take away his air throw. Nobody wants to see Scorpion become the new H. Smoke, and nobody wants H. Smoke to still overshadow Scorpion. Your opinion has been heard. Show some faith. It sounds like H. Smoke will always have his damage and thats a big plus. Ermac does big damage too without an airthrow and he still managed to do fine in the tier charts.How does limiting smoke to 2 specials make him more unique? It makes him more boring, and if Scorpion continues to get buffed and Smoked nerfed, the exact same thing will happen but reversed. No one will want to play Smoke anymore, for the same reasons. If you're going to take away an option, give him another one to make him more "unique". Taking away options on top of nerfs doesn't make sense unless you give him something else to make up for it. The goal is to make every character balanced, let's not lose sight of that.
Exactly my point, and Smokes air throw isn't what makes him more effective in UMK3's meta than Scorpion. The both share the same specials, air throw, spear, teleport. What good is removing the air throw when they both still share the spear and teleport?
Taking away options and limiting a character on top of nerfs already applied doesn't make sense unless those nerfs weren't enough. Even then, removing an option unless it's broken beyond repair simply doesn't make sense. The exception of course is when 2 characters are very similar, and in this case, have the same specials. You'd then take away one or more of one of the characters specials, while giving him new ones. Not create the same problem over again.
Right, so how does removing the airthrow from Smoke alleviate this problem?
We'll just have to wait and see.