What move do you make a finisher

It's all character for me. What move best represents the character's philosophy and attitude towards wrestling? What seems like their most devastating, finely-honed technique? Does their background or training suggest a particular move? What does the rest of their move set logically build to? That's what finishers are to me: an ultimate technique that represent the culmination of the character's style and approach.

The move that needs it the most. Like, if an edit has multiple finishers that should be roughly equal in strength, but one of the moves is more powerful in-game, I'll make the weaker move the finish, so they're closer in effectiveness. Like if you have a corner-to-center version of a move as well as the regular version, the C2C is far stronger, so I'll make the regular one the finish.

Conversely, if one move is clearly far stronger in his actual matches (like Misawa's Emerald Flowsion compared to the tigerdriver), I'll make the stronger move the finish, naturally.

Also, since I use mods, the mod pack has a feature that forces opponents to stay down after a finisher for at least a few seconds, so if there's a running-to-down move (for example) in the mix, I'll make that the finish since it needs the help to be sold, even if it's not his main finish.

All in all, as I said above, I just think about what move needs it the most, for whatever reason.

View's version did both, but it never ran completely right for me. Carl's, which I use now, just does the finisher, I'm pretty sure. I haven't tested it in a bit. (His also lets you set multiple moves AS a finisher, but you need to be careful how you implement that if you're picky regarding your results screen, not to mention potentially having guys inadvertently critical.)

If I'm wrong about that, then disregard the last paragraph, but the rest still stands.

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Something to think about. I had a 619 crit someone today. That's not a knockout move.

I'll be changing the 619 to a sig.

Thanks, turrible666

I generally make the lead-up to a submission move (if it's a Grounded submission, anyways) the Finisher so that it takes out the most HP/SP so the submission has a higher chance of getting a tap out.

Mechanically, once a wrestler has reached 0 HP, all other moves they take damages Spirit instead.

Obviously, some submissions are more damaging than others, specifically the MMA mount submissions.

I've used the Burning Hammer on my 250+ edit personal roster maybe a total of five times, tops. Part of that has to do with how legendary the move itself is. Everything else is pretty much fair game. I think the Kinshasa is the rarest move on my roster. Only one edit has it. That's more like the Burning Hammer to my roster than the Burning Hammer is. I've been trying to use almost every move in the game as a finisher of some sort, but it's tricky getting something like the Front Facelock submission to be a credible finish. The edits I have that are "superpowered" (My promotional universe is completely absurd and goofy) have the crazy-looking Burning Tornado and Kinnukuman moves to set them apart from the rest of my roster in terms of capabilities.

An interesting exchange here, and I think both are well stated points.  I absolutely think the front facelock, especially out of top sprawl can be a legit finisher.  My Jon Bones Jones edit uses it as his primary finisher due to how he defeated Lyoto Machida, and with my fictional edits, it's a potential finishing signature submission for the Everyman, as his Union Lock.  The idea there is that the Everyman is a meat and potatoes brawler type who is as unflashy and workmanlike as it gets, so for him to just crank on a standing guillotine makes perfect sense to me for one of his finishes.

In general, to extrapolate the point to a broader scale, finishers should always be looked at in context, both for the edit, and the environment in which they operate.  For a modern lucha style fed, a Canadian Destroyer could easily be seen as a midmatch move, but under different circumstances, that's a no questions finisher.  Some edits might be top technicians, for which a flash pin would not be out of place for the finisher.  Others could be strong enough strikers, like my Andronicus Turner, with his boxing background, to use the Overhand Hook as a finisher, but then you have edits for which it wouldn't even rate as a signature.  It all depends on what works in each individual case, how the moveset is constructed and how you want to logically build to what should be the culminating move in their arsenal.