I'm fine with buffing a move on a good character as long as that move is pretty much useless, like Lucario's case, but when the move it already useful enough, I don't think it's necessary to buff it.
Being punished upon successful connection is basis for a good move?
It's ridiculous that a character would get punished for successfully pulling off a move that isn't even that great. Not only does doing the move lead to a free damage option for your opponent but it can also potentially knock out your ability as well. The risk=reward ratio is out of whack.
Guess we don't need to buff Kirby's copy after all.
My ultimate point, light snark aside, is Falco's old shine is hardly considered a good or even moderately useful move. A number of people that have made replies pertaining to the matter in the Falco discussion board are in agreement. cAm8ooo unintentionally summed up my thoughts on Falco's old shine with his on the Kirby copy ability: The risk=reward ratio is completely out of whack. It is extremely difficult to land with; unless you hit with the tail end of the attack, it is extremely punishable even when you connect with it because of the time it takes for Falco to put away the shine; and on the off-chance you are able to space it well enough to not be punished for it, the reward you get from spacing the attack perfectly is next to nothing to be blunt. The new shine will allow proper reward for hitting with the shine and eliminating the possibility of being punished for it with a successful hit along with deepening Falco's game considerably and opening up new possibilities and strategy for the character. This is balanced by not only a nerf to Falco's lasers (a nerf that is well-deserved considering how much they can shut down taller characters), but also by making it even harder to successfully connect with outside of an established combo by doubling the first four frames of startup.
Needless to say, I am in favor of bringing back the Falco shine buff; my reasons for can be found a few pages back in the Falco discussion topic if you're interested (they spanned several large posts which I don't feel like reiterating at the moment unless pressed). I'm actually very supportive of alot of the original changes made to some characters, including Wolf's "Melee Falco" shine, Lucario's Extremespeed buff (I'm very glad to see that's still kept in), and Sonic's spikesmash (I like it so much that even if my playstyle is much more suited to the normal usmash because I can follow it up much easier, the originality of an usmash that sends the opponent down and the depth it gives to Sonic's metagame is simply too delicious to pass up).
I can see why most conservative-minded players would take the stance that they do, and I respect them and their opinion for it, but I would be willing to give a unique buff to
Metaknight if it could significantly deepen his metagame while not breaking the move or the character.
I personally don't agree with the criterion that a character has to be mediocre or bad to receive unique buffs. I understand the sentiment that people want to buff the lesser characters with unique things before the "better" characters (I use this term subjectively, because the game isn't complete, therefore we don't know who will end up being the better characters in the game) I don't think we should ignore a unique buff for a better character if we have one lying at our feet already. Again, it's more a matter of trying to optimize character (and by extension, game) depth without sacrificing balance or suffering homogenization. One of the primary complaints of vBrawl is the lack of depth, correct? Brawl+ is an attempt to fix everything we can that is wrong with vBrawl to the best of our extents, and though the community has differing opinions on how to achieve that, I view that giving characters increased depth and increased options is one of the primary ways to go about doing such so long as we don't break the game in the process. We have a opportunity to do great things. Why shouldn't we make the most of what we can do?
...Ok so I did ramble on about my reasoning for wanting the Falco Shine buff inadvertently. ****.