stun meter is rather irrelevant since its just giving you a visual of something thats already in the game(dizzies). granted it will change playstyles some since when they see it almost full, they will change their gameplan to fill it, instead of guessing if they are almost dizzy
I’d rather have a stun meter and see how close i am to being dizzied. Theres other ways to show Guard Breaks in a simple Manner. Garou does a great job of showing you when your guard is about to be busted but Dizzies are tougher to show though they could do it again like Garou does. I’d still rather have a meter though to show just how close to dizzy i am.
I don’t like Guard breaking though as it punishes you for excersizing a basic element of fighting…guarding and not only guarding but guarding well. Your being punished for being able to guard well. Whats that about? Dizzies come about because you messed up. Your being punished for opening yourself up, for playing badly, making a mistake. Guard Crushes come about cause your playing a certain style well. that makes no sense to me.
Guard crushing takes a long time no matter what the game seems to be and that usually comes down to the same blockstring being played out and the player defending against it not trying to get out of it. If you could block until you found a clear opening you would do that no? But if you knew that he was going to open you up soon if you didn’t try to create your own opening would you still continue to just sit there? Not really any game where there’s absolutely nothing you can do except get guard broken from full meter, it’s only about how you deal with it and keep from being overwhelmed.
If I’m gonna just sit there and block he’s perfectly capable of throwing me which is what throws where implemented into fighters for in the first place.
i hate both honestly but looking at it id have to say fuck both cuz it doesnt make sense that im able to block someones overly offensive pressure near perfectly only to get broken for whatever combo they chose then from there since i “messed” up and chose to block they can unleash combos that can fill my stun meter cuz i did something right? now i take more damage than necessary.
Guard meter works for KOF everything else not so much.
Both suck but stun meter is much worse because like sabre said you should know when your about to get dizzied without having anything telling u so.