The Grand Slash nerf was bigger than I thought. And it ruined combos.

When I saw that grand slash was getting nerfed I was like “cool, you can’t sweep, do a sidestep and sweep again.”

It wasn’t that oppressive to begin with (pretty easy to vanish, not a lot of damage) But on paper at first glance, great change.

But in the grand scheme, this completely gutted combo resets

Ex: we’re in neutral, doing our sidestep thing and I catch you with a sweep. I continue with my combo normally (rolling hammer, gut punch, rush attacks, whatever)

Now it’s getting to the point where I have no more moves left and if I use something I already did, it’ll send you flying.

Here I would use grand slash, let you recover and use it as a combo reset, but since I opened with a sweep. I can no longer use it even though I’m at the end of my combo and I did one all the way at the beginning.

TL:DR I think the sweep nerf was an overall L. If it stopped you from doing two sweeps in a row but let you use it as a combo reset, would’ve been the best outcome. Skill expression took a hit.