I definitely think that it's unfortunate that supers aren't used more; a lot of them are really great. I have a feeling that they will end up changing supers to at least scale less in combos and do more damage in general. If I'm not mistaken, super moves do 33% damage by themselves, and most combos that use super moves only go up to about 42-45%. Which isn't terrible damage, but it's terrible damage considering the cost. The ratio of cost to effectiveness for super moves right now is a bit absurd. It's 4:1 basically. Many characters do much more damage with just 1 bar. Pretty much every character has a meterless combos that can do as much damage as a super move.
Right now, the sole purpose of using most super moves is for flashy damage that you don't really have to "work" for. If you connect with a super, you don't have to worry about dropping your combo or anything. You are 100% sure that you will deal that damage to the opponent, which is especially nice if your opponent is around 33% health and you don't want to risk dropping a combo and losing. But is that enough to spend 4 bars when you need to save your meter for clashes, push block, or meter burned moves that have more utility? And when your super move can just be blocked!?
So this brings us to your original request, having supers being able to be used more often because their effect is too low for how little they can be used. However, this can ruin the game aesthetic. Imagine Trigon blasting you 5 times in a single fight, or getting hit by the Batmobile at the end of both matches. It sort of counters the fact that we want to see more supers - by letting us see supers more often, we may end up wanting to see them less often! The reason we want to see more supers is because we really don't see them at all. But, we don't want to see more supers over the course of a single fight, we just want to see them used in general. It doesn't create interesting gameplay patterns to be able to
constantly throw supers out for a lot of damage.
We want to be rewarded for saving 4 bars to use a super.
If someone's strategy is to save their meter just so they can use their super move, they should be rewarded for it, rather than punished like they are now. It's a legit strategy of meter management; it may seem like a bad use of meter management, but it's a form of high risk for high reward. So there are two ways to go about making super moves more effective rather than more accessible:
- Lower damage scaling when using a super move in a combo
- Giving super moves more utility -> unblockable
The first suggestion has already been discussed, and I'm pretty sure that a lot of people agree that it's a good way of going about this problem. However, the second suggestion is to give super moves a reason to be used rather than just big, easy damage. The only thing that can really point to is to make them all unblockable for
guaranteed damage. I do believe that Green Arrow's is unblockable already? By making all supers unblockable, they suddenly turn into a huge comeback mechanic, similar to using all 4 bars during a clash. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you and your opponent are low on health, and you saved all 4 bars of your meter - you suddenly have this big advantage with your super.
Unblockable supers is definitely concerning, but it does create an interesting mindset during gameplay that can already be seen a little bit with Green Arrow and even Solomon Grundy. It suddenly creates positioning concerns: it will become imperative to dodge super moves or to put yourself in a good position to avoid danger. Super moves would become an intense moment of gameplay, much like clashes are right now.There is still risk in throwing out naked super moves because they can still miss if you aren't close enough in the first place.
Holy %$&# - TL;DR: The TL;DR is mostly the stuff I bolded, but here's a summary. If they lower the scaling on super moves, will we really want to spend 4 meters on a super move just for cool 60% combos? Does it create interesting gameplay to easily do that much damage? Is it worth it to wait an entire fight to save 4 meters just for that? As the game stands right now, it has such a great meter management system, except for super moves. Should we then add utility to super moves to make it worth spending 4 bars of meter on them, such as making all of them unblockable, to create interesting gameplay patterns that are exhibited in all other forms of meter management in the game right now? I personally don't know yet.
