Meta abuse

Right now the meta is to abuse the side-step feature to nerf opps combos while waiting for a block counter to drop your opp, them immediately posture stack guard for a finish. This is very low level gameplay and make for a terrible experience as you can just abuse this across all with all divisions especially when using a tall fighter with good blocking stats. 

I believe the side-step is a good feature for avoiding kicks but shouldn’t avoid boxing combos realistically. This would also prevent people abusing it for every combo with no penalty to your nerf power.

I also believe the stack guard posture up should be removed all together. It’s a dumb position that takes no skill or timing to acquire in-game but gives the fighter on top nearly ten free punches. In real life fights this position can only be achieved when the fighter on bottom accepts it and choses to block instead of moving ie. Stipe vs Overeem

Last feature I see being abused are the block counters. I understand why this feature was out in for the boxing fans but this move does not work in MMA because the glove size is too small. It’s simply doesn’t make sense in mma and has never been used effectively in mma, for these reasons I especially don’t think they should cause three rocks a fight because it can be used to counter so many different attacks. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a block counter to the body in mma but it is the main tool used to defend the body in UFC 5.

Thanks for reading.