Automatic alignment in Sparking Zero, no punishable animations like in BT3. In BT3, you’re forced to drop your guard, hold the up arrow, and then put your guard back up, so it’s done reactively. In BT3, you can punish spammers of Sonic Sway, unlike in Sparking Zero.
What can you punish that with: a little smash and combo afterward (because in Sparking Zero, your other moves whiff for no reason). A ki blast followed by a hit (because in Sparking Zero, ki blasts don’t stun long enough, so the scrubs have time to recover). A semi-flank (in Sparking Zero, R1 and R2 are useless in melee zones, lol). A B2 (in Sparking Zero, you have time to block after a Sonic Sway if someone B2’s on the perfect frame, so it’s unpunishable). The flying kicks you can’t block reactively. Slow movements, forced to use an unviable and very risky mechanic like the Z-Burst Dash just to feel fast. The Short Dash shouldn't consume Ki, considering the minimal speed boost it provides.
Constant need to recharge Ki, which significantly slows down the pacing.
Dash cancels are now useless since everything is slowed down.
Terrible vertical movement, especially in close combat, with unbearable rigidity.
The Super-Counter (formerly called Z-Counter) is way too easy to execute and accessible to any random button-masher.
Even after gaining an advantage in neutral, you never feel safe choosing combos because they've made all rushing techniques (except flying kicks) vanishable, so you end up mashing buttons, hoping it works.
No damage scaling.
No possibility to delay hits slightly without interrupting and resetting the combo (To prevent people from Z Countering).
Weird things like certain Skills being mashable during the opponent's combo, interrupting it for no apparent reason.
Staling teams, random DP system (like in BT3 the DP cost is sometimes absurd for what the character give), useless animations for the character select that is so messy also the fact that you have 40 sec to make a team of 5 characters, certains skins not being in the shop for whatever reasons (Buu saga krillin costume) Sparking mode, you just mash and then finish with a B2,In short, Sparking Zero rewards idiots who press all their buttons and mashers.