(Apr. 25, 2011 5:13 AM)th!nk Wrote: There was a problem with plastics, though, there was a dominant type. As soon as people started using Zombies, the metagame became terribly broken.I looked past that, since it was blatantly obvious. (perhaps silly.)
Personally, I just loved plastics for the extra customisation (and, as I was a kid at the time, no one really cared about rules, so there were some crazy modifications. We drew the line at stuff like huge, spiked WD's that broke beyblades, but yeah.). Of course, as I always used hasbro stadiums, attack was never all that great then. Meh. Actually, I used to use Spiral Change primarily (though I later modified it with a driger S tip, after losing the Bearing. It actually worked amazingly well, but aaanyway).
Anyway, back on topic, yeah, it's hard to get a flower pattern. If you're good/lucky you can get it to do smaller circles before getting caught on the tornado ridge, which lets you get a couple of hits in, but you're not going to get a flower pattern without grip, plain and simple.
I think how far people go with attack types is very dependent on how many people bring them, and use them, no?