What do you think about autocombos in fighting games? Should they be removed all together?

What do you think about autocombos in fighting games? Should they be removed all together?

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As long as they're weaker than actually learning a real combo I don't see why they should be removed. A lot of people aren't good at combos or hate practicing them but are deadly at neutral and other facets of the game.

Obviously the best players will learn to combo anyway, but there's no reason not to give less skilled players a single button BNB that they can use while they learn the character.

So long as they're weak and non-intrusive its fine. You don't need them

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The issue with autocombos in a fighting game isn't about how they impact the skill floor to get into a game, it's about how they fit in along with other mechanics. Gatlings, chains, magic series, that's all essentially the same shit. The problem is that autocombos are so poorly implemented in most instances that they negatively impact the game at all skill levels.

DBFZ does it well: a newbie can mash light and see a fully realized example of the most basic type of combo in the game, while higher level players utilize the properties of autocombo such as how it snaps to position to extend more complicated combos. It's versatile and fundamentally important.

KOFXV autocombos are absolute garbage. Not only do they force a new player to spend the highest amount of resource possible for a heavily scaled combo, they also have no extra functionality to benefit higher level players. You won't weave a partial autocombo into your bnb. Also, when implemented like in KoF you lose the option for standing jab pressure.

I think it should have both. Sf6 is doing it and seems to be a good balance.

fuck autocombos and easy motion inputs
fuck people who advertise it, they don't play

I believe FighterZ does it the best. You mash L and you get a 25% meterless combo, or you mash M and you get a 33% for one meter, neither of which give you a knockdown you can oki off of. But doing a very simple and easy manual combo delivers you the same 33% safer and faster than mashing L for no meter at all plus a hard knockdown for oki afterwards. But also every character's autocombo LL and LLL are unique moves exclusive to the auto combo which creates situations in which you'd actually want to use the auto combo at least a tiny bit, such as setting up tickthrows for some characters or having an LL that dashes you forwards very far very quickly, letting you either close gaps or beat out an opponent mashing reflect.

This way the auto combo isn't something that's ever optimal to fully do and more experienced players should leave it behind, but in certain niche situations it ends up being another tool to use.

I think it's cool when fighting games are able to have combos that are extremely difficult to pull off consistently in tournament, but you have top level execution-specialist players who are able to do it. If you take away any of the skill in execution, then you lose something there.

Let them in as an optional thing like stylish mode. Anyone can beat stylish players in GG XRD so that's not an issue with me and they can help the other guy have some fun by just mashing shit. That said, imo it's unaceptable to force them upon ALL of your playerbase like FB did with Type Lumina, not only they get on your way, they also punish you for mashing/double tapping literally anything which is sometimes a normal thing to do in anime fighting games, regardless of how clean your inputs are

only retards complaining about them. they're never good. DBFZ is the only game where autocombos have a use but it's not like you're literally spamming autocombos, you use them for utility mid-combo to extend them in ways you couldn't normally which is perfectly fine.