Mahval minus X-Factor and infinites, sounds good to me.
and stupid explosions everywhere
And bullshit teleport mixups that get to abuse crossup overhead oversized hitboxes. Seriously...fuck that game. I quit it for a lot of reasons and I was one of its biggest supporters on GAF for years, but the amount of lockdown possible in that game with assists is high and coupling that with dudes with teleports as good as Dante, Vergil, Strider or Wesker and its ridiculous. Plus Doom Missiles are absolutely stupid. They should disappear if he's hit. That guaranteed interrupt is just like putting the brakes on any matchup so he's on nearly every team. Plus since day 1 Vanilla X Factor has lasted too long and netted FAR too many bonuses to the player in terms of speed, damage, setups, and saving throws if you use it as a mechanic. Making folks able to become ridiculously broken for periods of time that get longer the more meter they have is not a good tool for balance. Broken as hell is still broken as hell even if its on a time limit so why throw it in and call it a good thing?
Screw hammer.
Screw helmbreaker.
Screw Vajra.
Screw Dark Phoenix.
Screw Dark Wesker.
Screw Vergil's hitbox and damage output.
Screw Doom Missile assist abusing teams.
Screw the loops and tac infinites.
Screw X Factor
I switched to KoF XIII because I was sick of braindead stuff like that. There was a ton of tech I respected and a ton of players I respected but they all were drowned in an OCEAN of what I just mentioned on stream and tourney. Thats the meta for that game now.
/salt