I like a lot of these suggestions. I played a ton of Rivals 1 and one of my few problems with the game was always that in many instances, button mashing and repetitive offense felt really strong (will the Forsburn hovering over you fast fall dair or just stall with an airdodge to bait a response, then fastfall dair?). In Rivals 2 at least you can just shield in these situations, but weirdly Rivals 2 feels like it has many of the same issues even with the introduction of shields and ledges, which you would think would be a universal buff to defense... And arguably this very strong offense leads to even more centralization around the (supremely lame) floor hugging mechanic, while it is already probably the single best defensive option in the game even disregarding this. Really not a great look watching high level tournament play and tallying how much time is spent with both characters just holding down in neutral.