LogFAQs > #916516561

The main issue with that is it being too broad and leading to semantics arguments. For instance, "signature skill offensive ability" - would that be 'spin dash' for Sonic? If so, you're gonna get arguments of Sonic not being able to roll up into a ball. Or otherwise people will argue that it's Homing Attack, or the boost gauge. Now, that could be absolutely fine - an admin could step in and say it's this specifically - but then that would be needed for every character, and shenanigans would be called if that wasn't defined pre-match, so this leads to having to define "signature skill offensive ability" for every model. And even then, what's Quiet's signature offensive ability? Actually shooting her gun?

Universal abilities are dangerously powerful as whichever team activates it normally has an inherent advantage over the other. I'd say our current most exemplary example is Ryu's Martial Law, which gets a pass due to an insane recharge. It used to be a universal ability that applied to everyone in the fight... which normally hugely favored Ryu's team as composition could be built around it. Same thing with stuff like "replace the match with Xtreme Beach Volleyball". I'm more fine with the idea of abilities like "replace the match with AMERICAN FOOTBALL" or "replace the match with capture the flag", as those have an actual basis in combat and the shifting of objectives actually comes at a cost in the proposed AP system instead of being able to combo a select few abilities into it to ensure a win (i.e. "the opposing team has Senator Armstrong. Let's put him in a wheelchair so he can't football, phew glad we dodged that bullet." ), but it's something that needs to be taken with trepidation, and fits better as a challenge to be given out by event matches.

also if we did it it'd totally be Judgemaster Cid.
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