(Aug. 30, 2022 4:14 AM)CheetoBlader Wrote: (Aug. 30, 2022 3:05 AM)BladerGem Wrote: While this may be true, it certainly doesn't do anything to help our LAD-saturated meta either, especially when samespin barely matters. I mean, when's the last time you saw anyone actually use atomic for samespin in Standard?
Our meta isn’t LAD saturated, attack is very much viable and good. And also, same spin is just as important as opposite spin. Opposite spin matchups have a 50% chance of happening, and guess what’s on the other 50%? Same spin is. Same spin is equally important to opposite spin, we just don’t use stuff like Atomic(‘) because it’s outclassed and also doesn’t work as well on DB disks.
I don't think that having
one viable attack layer in the form of Guilty would qualify attack as being "very much viable and good". I'm well aware of how spin matchup odds work
in theory, but you still can't pretend that LAD spam doesn't happen. Maybe I've been living under a rock, but I thought Atomic was still the king of raw same spin stamina? Unless you're referring to it being outclassed by worn Rise or something, whose performance I still don't entirely understand (and only see on the winning combos list
slightly more often than Atomic, which is... REALLY not that big of an accomplishment).
🤷♂️ I dunno, maybe I'm just jaded because I live in a state so big that we can have multiple tournaments a month, with none of them close enough to attend; or I'm just tired of seeing Dynamite +F in literally
every winning combos list with the only counterplay being "slap Xtreme on Guilty and pray to a god of your choice".
I just think it'd be an interesting change of pace if Dynamite +F and/or a handful of LAD drivers were banned, even if only experimentally, y'know?
I never got a chance to play MFB during its prime, but from what I can tell it seems like it's got infinitely more balanced type matchups than Burst has
ever had (bar maybe GT, but those were the days of Judgement and Zwei + no Bearing' or Drift).