Ya'll not explaining why people dislike it. First off the priority system is fucked. They made a counterhit system in which a heavier attack beat out a lighter attack when they were both active and touching, meaning a hk would beat a mk. To compliment this poor choice most heavy attacks grant a crush counter, which is a crumple state that grants a giant damaging combo. The implications are that the neutral feels like you're fishing for a crush counter because you can't throw out other buttons in footsie range. Jump back os no longer works, so a great multi-layered defensive tool was done away with. That means that the options defensively are to crouch tech, which gets blown the fuck up by shimmy and just block which gets thrown. Throws often loop back into throws in the corner. There are no deadshot mb wakeups where you get to stand up. Also, whiffed normals don't hang around very lomg so whiff punishing is only done by few players with disgusting reactions like momochi and punk. It's just pretty boring to play. It feels very, very, very flo charty, and the reason that offense is more annoying than an nrs offense is because normals recover so quickly nearly every block string can turn into an unreactable tick throw essentially. Normals probably need to whiff longer, there needs to be more blockstun so people aren't tick throwing everything, the priority system needs a fix and the game needs more depth in general.
