'Cept Basalt only really KO's things that have High recoil anyway.
BeyFan, I think I saw that... Pretty gutted I didn't go for it now, though.
Hero: True, but it's nice to have them back. being well known means people trust results more, and notice when you've posted a thread (see Kei's horrible, horrible, toungue-twister thingy for the perfect example). It helps a lot when you're posting combo's which, like MFH Basalt Kerbecs 85RS, are somewhat hard to believe (as I guessed it would be easily OS'd by MF MLD CH120XF and handled by MF LLD BD145LRF, it seems I was wrong). It's kinda lame like that, but that's life.
The preconception that RS loses to opposite spin was actually largely true when it first appeared, given MFH Earth Bull/Aquario GB145RS was the main defence combo, and LLD was hitting below it, causing large stability issues for RS. If RS is protected from that (in this case, by being low), it's harder to kill. I believe the "Don't look down on midgets/low track defence" thread wasn't given enough appreciation, as 230 and BD145 came out soon after it was made, but I think they may have been approaching that conclusion. BD145 might help, though it's scraping issues are discouraging, and 230+RS often leads to lots of stability issues.
The only thing with RS, and the main reason people prefer CS, is that it's simply not very practical at tourneys, especially in the usually Stamina/ Stamina+Defence oriented metagame most places seem to have, as it's so easily outspun by the vast majority of combo's, plus, when against newbies/people with only a few beys, you're more likely to come up against random FS/S/etc combo's, and get outspun, so they've always been kinda limited. Now attack is more popular, I guess it's more viable, though I'd still be hesitant to use them unless I was quite sure of what I was facing.
BeyFan, I think I saw that... Pretty gutted I didn't go for it now, though.
Hero: True, but it's nice to have them back. being well known means people trust results more, and notice when you've posted a thread (see Kei's horrible, horrible, toungue-twister thingy for the perfect example). It helps a lot when you're posting combo's which, like MFH Basalt Kerbecs 85RS, are somewhat hard to believe (as I guessed it would be easily OS'd by MF MLD CH120XF and handled by MF LLD BD145LRF, it seems I was wrong). It's kinda lame like that, but that's life.
The preconception that RS loses to opposite spin was actually largely true when it first appeared, given MFH Earth Bull/Aquario GB145RS was the main defence combo, and LLD was hitting below it, causing large stability issues for RS. If RS is protected from that (in this case, by being low), it's harder to kill. I believe the "Don't look down on midgets/low track defence" thread wasn't given enough appreciation, as 230 and BD145 came out soon after it was made, but I think they may have been approaching that conclusion. BD145 might help, though it's scraping issues are discouraging, and 230+RS often leads to lots of stability issues.
The only thing with RS, and the main reason people prefer CS, is that it's simply not very practical at tourneys, especially in the usually Stamina/ Stamina+Defence oriented metagame most places seem to have, as it's so easily outspun by the vast majority of combo's, plus, when against newbies/people with only a few beys, you're more likely to come up against random FS/S/etc combo's, and get outspun, so they've always been kinda limited. Now attack is more popular, I guess it's more viable, though I'd still be hesitant to use them unless I was quite sure of what I was facing.