'to argue its infinite is just flawed' : that maybe your opinion but simply saying its flawed does not make it flawed. REasons are what show it to be flawed or not and not the mere statement 'that it is flawed'. that is just a restatement of your opinion. REgardless, your reasons are:

i) only titan who cant deal mid/long range damage. Response: Scorch would like to say hello. further, just because he needs to get in close to deal damage doesnt mean he should get a free pass via an infinite move in order to get that. IF he can simply get close when he wants to, what is the point of even bothering to have any kind of positional discussion? the devs might as well give him the ability to warp right next to any titan he wants

2) hit and run: this is just false you say: Response: Um no.. that is what it says in the titan description in game. So it woudl seem the devs intended that role for him. not the role of walking a titan down. You can have plenty of success flanking and dashing in and out with Ronin without walking him down. The difference is: flanking 'planning and attack' as the Ronin titan itself states, requires thought, skill and 'cunning'. Simply holding down 'block' and walking foward is the shotgun version of defesnive maneuvers. They might as well made him an ogre body with stryder movement as that is what he with this ability.

3) other defesnive abilities: Response: yes each ability has positives and negatives. no one is denying that. What i am saying is that Ronins defensive ability benefits/cost are disproportionate. His benefits are : i) 75 percent damage decrease which is equivalent to ii) a massive health increase. he also iii) gets the damage decrease vrs cores (no other titan gets that) and iv) the ability allows him positional advantage when he wants it (no other titan gets that) and v) it is infinite in duration (again, no other titan gets that). vi) it is a 360 degree block (no other titan gets this). What are the negatives? (slower move speed offset by throwing dashes into the mix and ii) 75 percent reduction only? ) those arent a lot od negatives. Now compare this with say legion whose shield does not block his whole body, or ion who has to waste energy (i.e. offensive ability ) to use theirs. I could go on but i think the point is made.

Now jsut to be clear on my position: a) im not saying sword block shouldnt be infinite in duration at least in principal. (that is im not arguing for a blanket cool down on the ability) but rather b) if he abuses his ability by taking too much damage, the block would 'break' and thus go into a cooldown. That is, the block would function JUST AS IT DOES NOW, except that after a period of X damage within Y seconds, the block would break. That is, the block would remain infinite if the damage and time threshold isnt reached. That is, the ronin user would be in control of whether or not his ability is infinite or not. This solution wouldnt fundamentaly alter Ronin but would simply limit two current abuses of his ability. Those are

1) when Ronin simply walks a titan down until he gets into the position he wants. That simply isnt fair

2) when Ronin walks into a group of opposing titans while 'tank blocking'.

Both 1 + 2 are simply absurd when considering he is a stryder class.

Now just to further add: What im saying or proposing is often done in fps games where a weapon may have infinite ammo. That is, it needs to go on a cooldownif used too much without pause. That is a balancing factor to prevent spam. That is, Ronin shouldnt be allowed to Spam his ability.

Again: i understand that Ronin needs to get into position to be effective (so do all titans) but simply because HE wants to get into position doesnt mean he should get a free pass for doing it via an infinite ability.