Regarding Stale Moves, please read. 
Here's the thing. Do we really need a stale moves system? Will it truly cause us to use other moves to save our kill moves? In all honesty, I think such a system is garbage. If you use a kill move and the enemy survives, you shouldn't have to worry about it being staled. The fact that you may hold off on using certain moves, or using moves you don't want to use just to refresh the moves that you do is incredibly gimmicky and otherwise nonsensical.
If we implement it and it's too strong then it borks a ton of characters, forcing them to use moves that suck, because their good ones aren't fresh. Conversely, if we implement it and it's 'too weak' and otherwise unnoticeable, well then I ask what's the point of adding it? It's such a sloppy mechanic.
If you think about it, the idea behind a stale moves system could indeed be more lazy than most of you think. With a console game, especially a fighter, there's only so much beta testing and balancing that can be undergone by a game's release deadline, as time is money, and surpassing the proposed release date is generally a costly move on the company's behalf. No matter how much they try to balance the game it's impossible. The developers have no possible way of comprehending--foreseeing the metagame of their very product as said metagame is formed by the player base over time. For example, does anyone actually think laser locking, and jab locks were foreseen by Sakurai? What about the many CGs, namely Falco's, DDD's, etc. Further more, do any of you think that Sakurai had ever planned on the IC's having alternating grab infinities, ice block locks, and desynchs? So what's my point? My point is, because the development is limited in their balancing efforts, and because they can't foresee the metagame of their product they try to safeguard their product with an otherwise gimmicky system: stale moves. A stale moves system then helps them in a huge way with balancing, as it becomes a scapegoat. They realize that there's only so much balancing that they are capable of so they build a system to 'weaken' or catch what they have overlooked. They hope that said system will keep characters at a level playing field, when it in fact does not... MK anyone? They hope that said system will make sure certain tactics don't get out of hand, as after release there's NOTHING they can do to change it. Conversely, we, the community behind Brawl+ CAN change things whenever we want. If some strategy arises that is found to be rediculously overpowered we can easily nerf it without taking away options from the character. We don't have to rely on a system that doesn't work as we have a much better system: ACTUAL COMMUNITY BASED UPDATES--- BASED ON METAGAME AND TOURNEY RESULTS.
With that said, Brawl+'s balancing efforts are actually far more solid than Sakurai and his team because it is basing its balancing efforts on concrete facts, the metagame of characters and tournament results. This is something that the developers never had access to, as it didn't exist yet. With that said, unlike a company that's losing money by not meeting a deadline, we here at Brawl+ work as a collective community, all building to a bigger picture--- a better game.
We can, and have been, fine tuning each and every characters movesets, fixing discrepancies in their game, whether it's hitbox changes, damage changes, frame speed changes, speeding up the character, changing their physics, changing their aerial mobility, you name it, we do it. We're making sure each character has his fair share of options, set-ups, etc, equating to what we deem as tournament viability with said character. Let's not forget that beyond simply fine-tuning characters we can add ATs of our own, completely engineered by the community to the game. Not to mention we've already changed the ledge game rather drastically, added hitstun, added shield stun, added momentum, and fine tuned just about every other aspect of the game--- and we have no reason to stop yet. We're not done.
Why is it that if we can truly balance a game in a fashion otherwise impossible by any development team should we employ something as haphazard and gimmicky as a stale moves system?
(Someone bump it up please). I'd rather discuss it there than here.
