u/Realistic-Block-312

Because he's insanely broken *once you get caught in the loop*, but also suffers from some issues, this list pretends to both nerf and buff Steel in different aspects:

Abilities:

-Normal Shield: Increase the cost to 3, make it cancellable before the slash; and have a V2 form that activates as a counter, making it unblockable post first hit only through this method (similar to Madison's shield attack).

-Normal Strike: Make the second hit come out faster.

-Special Strike: make it cancellable before the first hit.

-Special Breaker: Make Steel be considered airborne upon jumping so he can be juggled. Deal slightly more damage.

Super:

-Deals much more damage.

-Make the bar charge faster.

-Steel can no longer recharge upon activation (cooldown starts), and just gains 1 point of energy by default once activated.

-Make the extra attacks be consumed once used (cancelling before the shots come out by either dashing or using a card out doesn't consume the super, which is how you get to level 2 and the reason why the bar now charges faster and deal more damage).

Assist:

-Make it cancellable and the last hit lifts the victim upwards.

My mision was to make Steel be less punishable with blocks (its biggest enemy), but also get rid of the elephant in the room which are his insane, virtually infinite loops.

What do you think?

I don't think he needs an entire rework but rather a bunch of adjustments:

-Make him be able to act faster after forward dash or increase his travel distance.

-Either reduce the size of his hurtbox or make him travel further when backdashing.

-His normal Strike should allow him to act faster after the last hit via Dash Cancel.

-His normal Breaker should have better ranger, be slightly faster and let him cancel before the attack.

-His special Breaker should have superarmor when he jumps and his hurtbox should be slightly smaller; also let him Dash Cancel a few frames faster after the hit.

-His special Strike should push him forward before the hit for better range, since he "jumps" but doesn't travel any distance, and allow him to move after the hit is done because when you use this move as a finisher (in the last moments of cooldown), he recharges energy while still lying on the floor, unable to move immediately; the only one that needs reworked. Alternatively, he could also make the character bounce off the wall ala Katie's moves or Javi's assist.

-Goldar assist: Reduce the cost to 5, Superarmor on the very first frames, travel slightly faster and maybe change the animation (he looks goofy); maybe that one animation from his megazord counterpart where he flies and tackles could be recycled.

-Optional: Increase the percentage of his Armor talents, because I feel he is too vulnerable for a slow, heavy hitter (but I don't think they ever buff or nerf talents, do they?).

Goldar is my main and I've been waiting for his buffs. He is pretty outdated and I am defenseless against characters that have better ranger and avoid my attacks by travelling almost half the screen

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Many months ago I was playing with Goldar, my main, when I noticed that his special breaker turned him green when in front of an attack, which I found odd since this attack is extremely easy to interrupt and despite making Goldar jump, his hurtbox counts as grounded. He can apparently be interrupted at any time when using this stomp attack, or that's what I thought: I am not really sure how this happened, but he seems to have invincibility frames when "airborne" (again, he is actually grounded), which could come in handy for me, but it is probably the most difficult interaction to pull off. I have this idea that it might have those invincibility frames only at the peak of the jump, but because I couldn't replicate this interaction anymore, I am begging for help to see if you can find it. The training mode is not that helpful, but I would like for someone to get it on video