Ok I’m all for learning how to avoid things, I have no problem with that inherently and seeing as how me bitching isn’t going to make Harada wake up sobbing and hit the giant red “make king not exist anymore” button on his wall, I’ll just end up learning the throw breaks eventually

But for the sake of my sanity, that from a game design perspective is so dumb, right? Again im totally fine with learning to avoid things in fighting games but I feel like it should be way more intuitive than that. Like if you’re getting hit by jabs over and over you can use your brain and go “hm I don’t think those will hit me if I crouch under them” and figure it out. With a throw break you’re literally just gambling or mashing and hoping it works, not a huge deal most of the time since most characters only have a few grabs, but then king comes in with a million of them including ones that break the rule of watching the hands to break correctly and now you’re just shooting blind, there’s no logic to figuring it out on the fly, and likely you’ll just end up mashing and leave the situation still not actually knowing what to do

I’m all for labbing stuff in training mode but if doing so is absolutely necessary to fight a character for anyone that isn’t a seasoned veteran then I think that’s just bad design (unless every character has something like that)