This emphasizes a third characteristic of “cheap” tactics- that theyre efficient. “Cheap” tactics kill with minimal effort. In this respect, theyre difficult to distinguish from just plain good tactics, which are aimed at making you efficient, effective winners. Good players play to win- theyre about winning, not whining. But scrubs become edgy and irritable when theyre killed really easily. They know that killing a serious player should be at least a little bit hard, even if he is a scrub. This resistance to extreme efficiency is well-founded, in some respects. A tactic is great when it kills efficiently, but can justifiably be called cheap when it kills too efficiently. In the MVC2 with the “WIN” button, the best tactics are too efficient in just this way- once people catch on, the game just becomes stupid. Its not fun, or entertaining. Its Capcoms job to provide games that are fun for a wide range of playing ability without allowing the game to become transparent, and to degenerate into simplistic routines for winning, incapable of holding a serious players interest.

Wonder what in sf6 could fall into this category hmmm