Custom or tournament variations?

Do you mainly play with tournament variations or customs?

Tourney.

Custom. Now and forever.

it really depends but the endgame is customs for all

Tourney rn because KL, but I much prefer customs.

A fun game is 10x better than a balanced one (I fucking love Destiny if that's any implication lol)

I play strictly with tournament variations. It seems that there is a missed opportunity since the main idea behind the game was for us to use custom variations. They can still do this with the built in balancing system and just make things cost more points if they are too strong and maintain the move compatibility constraint or introduce new move constraints based on how the game's meta evolves.

I play Tournament Variations mostly and dabble with customs now and then.

I think having the 3 Tournament Variations isn't that bad considering most of the special moves are in tournament now aside from a couple.
Example:
Terminator doesn't have 3-4 in tournament and one of them is Broke AF (Terminate) like I'd love it but it would legit break the game.
Terminate gives him instant armor for a long period of time and the cost is:

1. He can't jump
2. He loses 1 bar of each.

The reason its broke is he can use it anywhere, he takes no hitstun and can punch in between every string when its active he can activate right in front of them and the only thing that disables it is KB's. He can still do Combos and FB but has frame adv no matter if he is hit since he soaks multiple hits.

Do I want Customs? I do but I feel they would have to change several moves and would to give us that basically toning down the moves we want.

I want customs, but i tend to play set tourney variations most of the time bc if KL.

Custom is broken shit. At least, tournament variation can be balanced.
But, if question is "with" or "without" variations at all, i choose second. Most of characters have 1 strongest variations and 95% of players plays with that variations. With "custom" variations you have 1-2 super broken builds per character, 95% of player will play with that build, most of moves in custom variations will never used at all.

As a result: No variation > tournament variation > custom variation

Tournament. I strongly doubt Jade would do well against all the broken crap when she already struggles against tournament stuff.

Tourney variations because NRS keeps locking good skin behind KL

I'd bet money we will get legal customs eventually though

both, the way god intended

Custom, except when I play in KL because they force you to use the stupid ones. I don't like to be forced into unecessary limitations on play style.

I'd play Customs more often if I could find non-ADD/14 year old/wifi players who fatality after every single match and quit immediately after you win 1 game.

They're really fun.

Ideally I would like custom and prefer it on certain characters, but I have to agree with @LawAbidingCitizen about Terminate; the existence of that move alone is enough to keep me stuck to tourney variations for the time being.

Tournament, but I've barely been on this month. It'll be fun again when they need to refresh the meta and everything gets rebalanced and legalized.

undeadcookie456 said:

Tourney rn because KL, but I much prefer customs.

A fun game is 10x better than a balanced one (I fucking love Destiny if that's any implication lol)

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Saaaaaaame. I haven't put down Shadowkeep since it came out.

This game is just like D2 Year One (and MKX once we found out GGPO was coming). I firmly believe that, eventually, the crooked will be laid straight, and there'll be a great big fucking shift in the paradigm that'll win over both sides. Just like Forsaken, and KP2.