Basic edit tips and tricks!

Ukemi is perhaps the most vital part of the CPU logic.

I feel like people are afraid to touch it. Remember that reversals are random and based upon the stats of the return style as it is. All this does is set the percent of these random reversals that your edit will forgo to allow themselves to be damaged for a boost near the end.

It works really well for faces to have higher values in small and medium, then very low near the end, while for heels to have very low on small, low on medium and higher on high damage. I've played around with it enough to see a marked difference in how the edits work

Here, for example, is my old school, shitkicker uppercarder of a heel's Ukemi: 10/35/20

Note he still has SOME Ukemi early on. That's because he's meant to be a main event sort of heel that makes the face look good near the tail end of the match, but starts off dominating. He'll still get a spirit boost, there will be some dramatic kickouts [hopefully] and so forth. The rest of his moves and logic are built around making this happen, though. It's a part of the whole. His logic is set to do headlocks, punches, kicks and stomps for the most part to really grind the face down and keep them from doing their big spots.

His main event nemesis, the ultra babyface? 35/20/15.

Once again, the intent is for him to behave like an old school babyface that gets beaten up early on, has a few hope spots midmatch, then [hopefully] makes the big, roaring comeback at the end. Much like the heel, he's built around the idea of making this happen, which means he's looking for moves that work in each context. While he'll still be looking for weardown holds and weak strikes early on like the heel, there's more of a focus on letting things be more 'exciting,' like doing more irish whips, running moves, etc.

How about a monster heel? 15/30/40.

That's a bit more extreme, right? Think of a guy like a Vader that is a very high-impact, deadly heel. He's not trying to build a 40 minute match by wearing someone down, he's looking to hurt someone. There's some logic on a chokeslam early on, the same with bigger slams. He's out to make an impression before he starts gassing out. Think about those old All Japan or NWA matches that started out RED HOT and then simmered a bit before the finishing runs.

My average, modern-style wrestler? 20/35/15.

It's a good, conservative way to help matches have some build, some added back-and-forth in the middle portion before those reversals later on start adding to the drama of bigger move exchanges.

Don't focus too much on the spirit boost. While I don't have the hard numbers on how much of a boost they are (has anyone gleaned those from the code yet?), the impact doesn't seem overwhelming. The character might kick out of one extra move or something like that.