CRITICAL CLUB PRESENTS: Critical Edge (COMPLETED!)

12% can work if your edit is a longer match style, and takes a good bit to get to large. If your edit is, say, a 1 offense 10 defense edit, or a param spread like that, you can afford to have high finisher %s in large (which is something I like doing because it allows you to control the length of the matches much easier in my experience). 

I’d be more than happy to put forth Chad Fukushima & Gunner Wilcox for either a singles match for one of them OR a tag match as “The Big Gunz” if anyone is interested or in need of a matchup.
However I’m easy, so if plans are already in motion to fill the remaining spots then that’s fine and I’ll sit this one out.

I just wanted to put it out there for anyone who might be struggling to find an opponent(s).

:)

Chad: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=973989056

Gunner: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1198244512

Also, I can’t record shit because my laptop is ancient xD

Why don't you 2 do a singles match? Sounds like a good solution to me.

There's no real "guide" exactly, but generally people set their front finisher to anywhere from 5% to 8% or so. That's not necessarily something you absolutely must follow, but if you're using offensive parameters as a gauge of how good someone is at a particular category of moves, it's one way of trying to limit how often it is used.

If you instead view the params as ways to tweak the pacing of a match - lower offense for longer matches, higher offense for shorter - then you can work from there.  If all the striking moves do less damage, for instance, through a combination of setting punch/kick offense low and/or the opponent's defenses being higher, and you use those extensively early on in a match, then that early phase will go on for longer and give the match more time to build up to large.

It's a lot easier to regulate ground and back grapple finishers imo. You can just set a ground sub as a priority, or if it's something like the Regal Stretch or Omoplata Crossface, you can forego the prios entirely and just be judicious in your move selection to limit the amount of moves that potentially lead to a face down state. Back grapple finishers can be limited simply by using more ground strikes/eliminating critical damage pickups altogether, turning down back grapple to 0% when an opponent is dazed at large damage, and instead using a move that stuns the opponent - like the Ibushi or KENTA rush, or any of the B-type striking moves - to get the groggy state that'd lead to a back grapple. That way, you can usually get a move that kills on the first or second use.

Here's the thing, my dude: You actually have 100% PER CATEGORY. So you have 100% to spread between small, medium, and large categories for your front grapples. For argument's sake let's say you have 20% dedicated to Irish Whips and 10% for Face Locks (or whatever it's called, I forget off the top of my head) in Small Damage. That's 30% taken up and 70% left to spread among all of your assigned moves for the "Small" damage category. For the sake of match pacing you probably want to spread that among all of your "Small" category moves. MAYBE one Medium damage move? That's up to you and something you can experiment with more as you better understand percentages. You'd then do the same for Medium and Large, adjusting accordingly. You don't need to limit yourself to "one other big move." Not in the least. If you do that your Edit is basically NEVER going to get to a point where they'll have done enough damage to be in Large, and they'll only have two moves to do in Large Damage if they ever get there.

Does that make sense? Think of it this way: You assign something like 5% to Back Switch in Large Damage, 5% to your Finishing Move, 10% to Hammer Throw/Irish Whip, and 9% to another move under the Big category. So out of 100 times your edit wins a grapple, 5% of the time he'll go for a Back Switch, 5% your Finishing Move, 10% a Hammer Throw, 9% another Big move. The same applies for Small and Medium Damage. So you want to spread out your move percentages to ultimately get a match pacing you're happy with. A natural progression would be high percentages of small moves in Small, a mixture of Medium and Small in Medium with a focus more-so on Medium moves, and finally in Large a smattering of Small and Medium damage moves with a focus, evidently, on Big moves (without OVERdoing it, which is where the fun balancing act of logic comes into play). I'd say watch a match or two of edits you know you enjoy, download them, make a copy of them. and pick apart their logic. Or if someone like Dawn or another person whose edits you enjoy is streaming test/random sims ask if they wouldn't mind opening up their logic for an edit so you can take a look at it.

Again: You don't have 100% to spread among all three categories. You have 100% to play with PER CATEGORY. You'll see as you adjust things the percentage at the bottom for each category adds up to a 100%. You literally can't continue on if it adds up to anything less.

That definitely works for me. I'm happy to have my Kazuo Saji go against his Chad or Gunner.

Would one of us be expected to cap it or is there a team in place for that? I don't mind capping but it may make more sense to have a neutral third party to make sure that I don't automatically put him over 😁

Saji: "...come on man, you're killing me 😭"