OK, so last night I had some ideas for nerfing block pressure and I want to know what people think. In my opinion, 1 bar, full stamina block breakers are ideal for this game as long as all character balance changes are made to keep them from overpowering some characters over others. I've read from some people that they would buff some pressure characters more rather than nerf them because of how much meter they gain during the match. If this is true, then I was thinking that 2 simple things could be done to solve this problem.
1. Make stamina take twice as long to recover.
2. Make all EX moves cost a half bar of stamina.
For #1, stamina recovers too quickly as it is to really punish people for spamming their run ability and abusing block breakers if they cost full stamina. This would ensure that no player would ever be spamming block breakers or using them unless they thought they really needed to, because it would leave them at a significant disadvantage for a long time if they did. Pressure characters especially wouldn't want to use them because they need that stamina to close gaps and start their pressure. This would also help zoning in general to be more effective because there would be less running in from full screen, jumping over a projectile and landing a jump in punch for a full combo. Games would last longer too.
And for #2, not only would this make people even more hesitant to block break unless they needed to, because they wouldn't be able to use their metered tools for offense or defense since breakers would cost full stamina, but all pressure loops like Tempest's EX orbital hat loops, Shinnok's MB hell sparks loops, Quan's MB rune loops and Tanya's EX tonfa toss loops would now be much less effective and you would only be able to loop them twice instead of three times even if you had 3 bars of meter. If they did decide to loop them twice, they would have no stamina to use any of their enhanced moves, run, or back dash. They would only be looped twice to end rounds, and even then if the opponent conserved just 1 bar of meter, they can just break the EX move when it hits.
So basically, regardless of how much meter a character gains throughout the match, stamina loss is universally the same for everyone, so if stamina is made even more valuable than it already is by making these changes, then block breakers would not be abused by anyone and especially not block pressure/rush down characters because they rely on their stamina more than anyone.
And before anyone mentions Summoner Quan or Hish Qu Ten Predator, they're only 2 characters and they need to be nerfed regardless. The good these changes would do would make up for 1 or 2 cases like these many times over.
