FourthSmokage
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Drive type gives players the ability to spam defensive support. This basically means that any head-on attack against an opponent using Drive Guard Support will result in a failure, and give the opponent an opportunity to chakra dash you.
As you can imagine, this is a very cheap way for Drive type users to take no damage and cut through substitution bars like butter. And then when the subs are finally gone, drive type noobs will just switch to attack type and proceed to rape.
The worst part? Changing types only costs 10% chakra.
This is nothing compared to the chakra penalties of instant awakening. If you stay in instant for too long, or god forbid if u get caught in a combo, the chakra bar will shrink drastically, maybe all the way down to 0. And the cooldown for chakra recovery from that is brutally slow.
Instant awakening is a tool to skillfully extend combos. The instant awakening form is still very vulnerable to attacks.
True awakening is very powerful, yes. But you can only access it after being in support drive and that's not likely to happen without taking damage. Also, true awakening requires a full chakra charge. Any decent opponent is going to do everything in their power to stop that from happening. Whether its spamming shuriken or Sasuke's tilt, or simply keeping the pressure on with chakra dashes. It's the opponents responsibility to stop the awakening.
However there is next to nothing that can stop drive type spammers. Chakra dashes just bounce right off of guard support and shurikens don't do anything to them at all. Basically Drive Support is a way to gain cheap defense at the cost of little chakra.
It must be balanced. Up the chakra penalty or shorten the lifespan of guard supports.
Also, if anyone can think of a way to counter Drive Type, feel free to share with the rest of the class.
As you can imagine, this is a very cheap way for Drive type users to take no damage and cut through substitution bars like butter. And then when the subs are finally gone, drive type noobs will just switch to attack type and proceed to rape.
The worst part? Changing types only costs 10% chakra.
This is nothing compared to the chakra penalties of instant awakening. If you stay in instant for too long, or god forbid if u get caught in a combo, the chakra bar will shrink drastically, maybe all the way down to 0. And the cooldown for chakra recovery from that is brutally slow.
Instant awakening is a tool to skillfully extend combos. The instant awakening form is still very vulnerable to attacks.
True awakening is very powerful, yes. But you can only access it after being in support drive and that's not likely to happen without taking damage. Also, true awakening requires a full chakra charge. Any decent opponent is going to do everything in their power to stop that from happening. Whether its spamming shuriken or Sasuke's tilt, or simply keeping the pressure on with chakra dashes. It's the opponents responsibility to stop the awakening.
However there is next to nothing that can stop drive type spammers. Chakra dashes just bounce right off of guard support and shurikens don't do anything to them at all. Basically Drive Support is a way to gain cheap defense at the cost of little chakra.
It must be balanced. Up the chakra penalty or shorten the lifespan of guard supports.
Also, if anyone can think of a way to counter Drive Type, feel free to share with the rest of the class.
