RDF will wreck this meta so horribly that no one will ever play again...
I'm serious. It would literally be that bad. Gravity Perseus Stamina ver. 85RDF would completely wreck everything, hands down. It would be the most ridiculously broken custom of all time. That would be the one and only custom anybody ever played.
Here in NC (where some of our players are used to spamming broken stuff), in BB-10 events, almost every match is played with Dragooon F230 or Dragooon RDF.
Please nobody unban RDF... please.
Onto another subject... I've stated this before in the Zero-G/Standard forums, but I honestly think, especially with Gravity running around now, F230 should be banned. I still believe it to be ban-worthy in all formats, and I have watched it first-hand wreck NC's metagame and leave it smoldering on the floor. We lost multiple players solely for the fact that F230 was completely stomping everything.
Regardless of whether or not you think it's ban-worthy in Zero-G/Standard, I think we can all agree that it is certainly unhealthy, especially with a dual-spin metal wheel to utilize it.
I honestly think it is an absolute priority to ban it as soon as is physically possible. MF-H Gravity Perseus F230GCF is absolutely and undoubtedly broken from my perspective, and beyond unhealthy for the format.
I took like an hour to read this whole thread through, and I honestly think that now would be a good time to see Gravity T125GCF to eat dirt. It is, honestly, virtually uncounterable without RDF in this format to produce a Defender with high precession.
Here's my proposal: The problematic Gravity customs I see right now are Gravity F230CF/GCF, and Gravity _125CF/GCF.
I honestly don't think that Gravity EWD is a problem. It's Gravity on a stamina setup. Gimme an "R" gimme an "E" gimme a "C," "O," "I," "L!" What does that spell? RECOIL!!!! Even when you weak launch, it's just not that intimidating at all to me. I went up against plenty of Gravity spin-steal at my last tournament, and I complete wiped it out with a simple Attack type and a sliding shoot.
Plus, Libra/Earth LTSC will almost undoubtedly win against it for the most part.
I also don't think Gravity Attack is a problem at all. The only thing that's different about it from other Attackers is that it can go left and right. So what? Sure, that'll give you versatility against all 3 different heights of Defense/Stamina, but TBH Gravity isn't the highest-powered Attack wheel in the format. Cosmic and Beat are, with Lightning actually slightly ahead of Gravity in terms of pure smash IMO (notice that's my opinion from my testing... most people say they're about even). It's not particularly high-powered (heck, I actually get equivalent results against mid-height Defense/Stamina with Vulcan LTAC), it's just versatile, which isn't bad as long as it's countered relatively easily.
LTDC/MTDC will beat it. Hate to break it to you people, but you ain't gonna be hitting 55-60% against RSF Defense in a tournament. It'll honestly be more like 20-30%, maybe 40% percent if you get particularly lucky.
Now, onto my proposal. How do we get rid of the super overpowered Gravity customs, while being able to keep the (arguably) not-so dominant ones (again, that there is a product of my personal opinion. I'm pretty confident with my idea, but other people think differently. I would get a second opinion after reading this, since I'm obviously biased)? Well, this is gonna sound a little crazy, and please nobody blow up in my face over this, as I think it's a long shot and it probably won't happen, but:
Let's ban CF/GCF! I mean, seriously, look at what those two particular variations of customs have in common! Without GCF/CF, they're completely useless. Heck, if we got rid of those, we wouldn't have to ban F230 or Gravity (again, depending on what your opinion is on Gravity attackers particularly). The dominant customs would be completely crippled, while still allowing the viable ones to be used, making for a much more interesting game IMO.
Whaddaya think guys?
With the recent testing of Scythe and R145 on Defense along with Bakushin LTDC, I myself am actually starting to feel that unbanning RB would be unnecessary. I mean, come on... we all know you're not gonna hit 50% that you get against RSF in a tournament. It just doesn't happen like that. I'm pretty much neutral for now, but leaning a little tiny bit toward keeping it banned. It is so close, however, that I could feel myself in full support of RB within the next 20 minutes, so I'd call myself neutral. XD