Cashual
PSN: Cansuela
This is definitely a casual mentality. That somehow it's cowardly to prefer ranged characters, and that doing combos are what.....hard? You think P2W, M2Dave, pig, etc. just aren't capable of doing combos? That's what you're implying with the suggestion that these guys just shoot guns instead of learning combos and it's completely untrue. In fact, playing a zoning character means you often have to learn really weird, full screen or 3/4 screen conversions off of stray hits to really be effective.IMO, zoning is like corner camping in a FPS: It's lazy. Why learn combos when I can just shoot my guns across the screen? I don't like this 'must win at all costs' mentality. Get out there, get your ass kicked, stop being afraid to lose and become a better player because of it.
Though I don't want zoning to be irradicated because frankly people can do whatever the heck they want, but to me, they're going to be missing out on most of the game's mechanics and their skill will be limited to that specific strategy in a game you need to be versatile in.
The underpinning of what you're saying is that it inherently takes more skill to what? Use a safe armor move, or a ridiculous jump in attack that's hard to AA, and then apply overhead/low mixups into 40% combos? Is it hard to do pokes into tick throws? What is the "right, fair, and honorable" to play the game?
There is a ton of depth to characters to dr fate. That's not to say that some people online won't just relentlessly machine gun off fast recovery projectiles thoughtlessly. But at the same time, there are a shit ton of people who mindlessly jump in, and "spam" safe mixups or abuse other cheesy tactics.
Your post honestly is just so far off base and it paints you as someone who has no clue about the mechanics, balance, and design of fighting games. It surprises me that someone would find this site, make an account, and post, yet make a post like that.
And for the record I have no opinion on deadshot as my copy hasn't arrived, this post is a response about zoning in general. I don't even play mainly zoners and I still think the post I quoted just stinks.