i think you're being intentionally dense/argumentative here just to be a dick.
If that's how you want to interpret things then that's one you. What I wanted was for you to clearly spell out were, specifically, you had issues with her design.
But I'll reiterate I understand it's not her design, I'm saying her design is bad so change it. You can make grapplers that aren't as silly as she is, and when I say silly I'm not saying it's powerful or broken strong like I said I don't even think she's top 10, I just think she wins ugly by design.
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can makes grapplers that play differently from Laura but in the case of SFV Capcom has clearly chosen not to. Every single grappler in the game has basically the same plan. Some (Zangief) are just better at implementing said plan than others (Alex).
Changing her to a less momentum heavy character by removing some of her midscreen pressure options(after command grab for example) but buffing her neutral is not nerfing her it's changing bad design, as for the best mechanisms to do that it depends on what direction they wanna go with the whole cast, there's almost certainly going to be big universal changes to game mechanics in S3 and what those are determined what she'll need to be viable.
It's funny that you mention her command grab because while the move was certainly improved from S1 to S2 (-1f startup, + damage) one thing that did not change was the fact that she actually doesn't get much off of landing one. When you see someone get scooped by her and then get scooped by her again that's not real. That's the person getting scooped making an executive decision that getting scooped again is a better option than getting their backdash read or having the DP blocked. When you see someone get scooped by her after a blocked normal into V-Skill Forward that's the game fucking them around a bit as she is, at best, -2 in such situations.
Back to the Urien thing, it's not about balancing around low skilled players, it's about increasing the skill gap between bad and good players. Adding recovery to a whiffed normal like uriens St hp would have almost no impact on a player like nemo or doguras games because they time/space it better than everyone else, what it does is expose players that are predictable and just fish with CCs to actual punishment from opponents. Cause right now your best option vs a Urien st hp is to jump at him if you think it's coming, and that puts you in range for a cr hp into death. It's not about nerfing or buffing, it's just about rewarding players for playing smart.
If you're looking for a game that rewards players for making smart, well thought out decisions then I'm thinking that SFV might not be for you because it's about as anime as you can make a Street Fighter game without adding in gratuitous panty shots, dudes noses randomly bleeding, etc. I also just finished watching Canada Cup were it seemed like a substantial portion of Dogura's gameplan with Urien was sticking out s.HP and seeing if his opponent walked into it. I would imagine that the priority system is something that could probably stand a good looking at before any specific normals of high usage got looked at.
This isn't just a Urien thing btw. Zeku was clearly a "test character" with some mechanics and him having extra recovery on whiffed heavies strongly suggests that capcom plans on balancing those CCs like uriens st hp and karins st hk by making them easier to whiff punish, cause let's be real you aren't whiff punishing those consistently right now no matter who you are.
One of the Zeku forms (forget whether it's old or young) also has additional recovery on his backroll that no other character does that makes meaty attacks not work properly against him. He has some phenomenally bootleg behavior on his spin kicks that a seems equally unintentional. He also has basically S1 properties on his VR (something several characters lost to the nerf-bat). If Zeku is, as you speculate, a test character then SFV is right and proper fucked because most of the stuff you're citing a being a test-bed for new ideas just seems like stuff that wasn't tested period.
