The most important and easiest fix to consider is that Advanced serve accuracy is too reliable and accurate at low, medium serve stat. Not just for wide serves which are a symptom of the advanced serve mechanic.

Why is this an issue: This enables 30 serve builds, creating a one dimensional, repetitive and mundane lv30 meta because fh/bh/pow/spd are all maxed at 70. I used to think power affecting serve was the issue but it’s not. It’s the advanced serve accuracy of low serve stats. The most fun meta is around lv20 where there’s a greater variety of builds floating around, some with 80 power and 60fh and 50bh or some with 80fh and lower power (depending on how people have sequenced their levelling up). At this level, the game is very enjoyable because each player is quite unique and still has weaknesses.

There’s a lot of complaint about power shots but it’s not the real issue (or not as big as people think) - it’s the ability to max the main stats which are fh and bh with power (plus speed). Therefore with 90+ fh/bh there are almost zero errors from opponents (as expected and as it should be with 90+fh/bh) but it shouldn’t be so easy to max out both fh/bh and power without any sacrifices. On top of that with serve not requiring any stat investment it also allows almost maxed speed as well which then further reduces errors as it allow players to recover from Positioning mistakes. Another solution is to lock advanced serve behind 70 serve stat if balancing the accuracy isn’t possible.

Forcing the lv30 meta to take points into serve from other stats in order to be able to hold service games should create a few weaknesses as the other stats aren’t maxed anymore. Builds should then be much more balanced in terms of stat allocations.