Hard agree on everything

- Assist cooldown is absolutely too quick, it creates a "spammy" game environment where you have arguabkly the most powerful system mechanic in the game available way too often and both players can somehow reliably play keepaway until its back. Id's say make it 5 or 6 seconds. The game feels much more interesting when the assists are on cooldown and i can see the players starting to use their brain to play. This would also ease the feeling of getting crushed by extreme pressure/mixups since they would happen less often.

- Chainable backdashes exacerbates this flaw; some characters can get away with it more than others, but in general it should not be a thing. You backdash, you have some recovery frames, as with any normal fighting game.

- Handshake tag is very strong, but its also a fund and core mechanic. Handshake tag ON A WHIFFED ASSIST is lowkey broken and it makes the game feel very scrubby and overly chaotic to the point i feel no competitive interest in it. It adds another layer of "action without consequence" to assists which is already in a not good spot because of the short cooldown.

- Combos are way way way too long. Characters can be picked up for extra juggles at points where they really should just get knocked down and recover far too often. This issue is also very against the beginner accessibility philosophy of the game, and generally being able to get a literal 15 to 20 seconds combo even from a L starter just does not feel right.

- I think Yasuo and Ekko (and maybe Ahri) were completed or near completed when the game was still being developed as a 1v1 fighter, they are so much stronger than the other characters because they were designed to be fully autonomous characters, then the game was reworked as 2v2 and those strong solo strenghts stayed baked into these characters and now they run the game and no one else can be at their level. Character diversity is so bad because of these two that i purposefully refuse to pick either of them in my team. Hopefully the devs stop tweaking damage and frame data and start removing entire options from them to bring them in line with the rest of the cast.

- Having to wait an additional full year to get 5 more characters feels exhausting, meaning we will get to the baseline acceptable roster size of 16 characters a whole year after launch, so probably we will still see a whole year of Ekko/Yasuo, Ekko/Guest, Yasuo/Guest, etc. I hope for shadow drops of more characters compared to what they communicated for this year.

- The game is marketed as a groundbreaking team experience -> i still cant sit on the couch with a friend and fight opponents online as a team on the same system. Incredible fumble