Ytlaya posted:

From what I've seen of other people playing, the issue seems to be that most of Clive's toolkit is objectively inferior and there's an "optimal rotation" of sorts where you use the Shiva dash thing constantly while mixing in Zantetsukens and canceling out of stuff.

This bothers me, because it feels like that stuff is far more important than the actual "action-y" parts of the gameplay.

This doesn't impact most of a normal playthrough at all since you unlock stuff gradually and playing "optimally" isn't necessary, but I basically hit a point where the way to "git gud" was to perfect execution of this specific sort of rotation that used abilities I don't even enjoy using.

My answer was to "just not use those abilities," but it feels bad that I'm basically hurting my own performance by doing so and I can't "git (as) gud" through the actual action parts of the gameplay.

Edit: Added in spoiler tags for ability names just in case