Suggestions

TL;DR Stubborn is nerfed to be -1 damage and 50% knockback reduction on Dash/Jump, while full knockback/player hitstun negation is expanded to any time damage is fully negated --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a suggestion for: A nerf to stubborn A general addition regarding knockback + player hitstun negation --------------------------------------------------------------------- A nerf to stubborn itself Currently: "Dashing or Jumping right before you get hit will reduce the damage you take by one, and you will take no knockback." Changed to: "Dashing or Jumping right before you get hit will reduce the damage you take by one and greatly decrease the knockback you take." (Dashing/Jumping with Stubborn would cause a 50% reduction to knockback, halving knockback in general, and negating Volatile's 50% explosion knockback buff while somewhat mirroring the language used to describe volatile) A general addition When fully negating the damage a structure deals, its knockback and player hitstun is also fully negated. --------------------------------------------------------------------- With these changes in combination, Stubborn would still have knockback/player hitstun negation against disks (unless they are damage boosted through something like Surge), but so would Adamant, Guard (presumably), and possible future damage reduction shift stones, resulting in Stubborn not owning a monopoly on this. When combining any damage negation options, full knockback/player hitstun negation could only reach so far, allowing for larger/grounded/moving structures to still cause knockback/player hitstun even if part of the damage is negated. Stubborn would maintain a knockback advantage against larger structures, since it would have 50% knockback reduction. This would help maintain Stubborn's identity and act as a mirror to Volatile's 50% explosion force increase. Surge and possible future damage boosting shift stones could act as counters to full knockback/player hitstun negation since they could help with piercing through full damage negation. Due to an expanded range of knockback/player hitstun negation options, this may also act as a nerf/counterplay addition to Explode/Volatile explosions since the explosive force would presumably be fully negated if damage from the structure was as well, possibly encouraging the application of Explode on larger structures when facing players with more than one damage reduction stone.

Holding something slowly builds up spin. Longer you hold faster it spins. Either it builds spin slow enough that it doesn't matter if it gets fast, or it has a max rpm Lighter rocks spin up faster. Larger ones take time. Pros: Rocks that can roll and thus curve intentionally in a direction. Might help "waterbending" tech. Cons: Your held rocks are spinning if you don't release them soon enough. Could cause self damage if not mastered. Doubled edged, but so is volatile. (I keep thinking I've already made this post. (or maybe someone else has...my bad if so for making it again (searching on this site is not so easy)))

A stone that allows you to see through the dust making it mostly transparent and a stone that makes explosive objects create a much larger, longer lasting smoke cloud scaled with explosive power.

just think it would be a nice little touch, simular to how grounded objects make a rumbling sound.

Guard should be rebalanced to have an extra -1 self damage. so if you hit yourself with guard it will deal 2 less than what it would without, most guard gameplay relies on trades based on using guard to trade hp with your opponent and benefit from the -1 difference. A lot of guard play also require guarding your own structures to benefit from guards unique mechanics, so by increasing self damage reduction to -2 total it helps give guard the slight edge against the opponent by benefiting from the difference in damage dealt

Using explode on an object that already has explode causes it to detonate either instantly or on a timer, i dont know which one would be better

Currently, from what I understand, Charge Stone has (presumably) unintended behavior that allows for doing things like holding a structure then un-holding it, still allowing the player to continue charging off the structure they no longer have hold on or otherwise allow the player to not be holding the structure after a charge has completed and, in both cases, still retain the charge to use on another structure. This is behavior used in "Charge Battery" techniques. As it stands, there is also additional inconsistency and unintuitive behavior with Charge Battery beyond what is described here. I suggest that this current behavior be removed and replaced with a 5 second long (or longer/shorter if that amount of time seems too long or too short) lingering of the charge buff after the structure affected by Hold is destroyed or is no longer being held, but only after that structure is fully charged. This could allow for a more streamlined, intended integration of his behavior as a feature that could allow for those that have spent time learning to utilize the current behavior as a fairly large part of their combat style to still have a play style that works in a similar, albeit simplified direction. Ideally, I think this new lingering buff behavior should be combined with some version of previous suggestions for a visual effect that indicates the charge is on the player instead of the structure and have that visual effect linger for the 5 seconds this buff is active. Note: this may constitute a buff to Charge based play styles not specifically utilizing charge battery type behavior currently, as it more opens up more general usage of charge for a short period after the structure is no longer held. Thank for your consideration!

Changes Explode to Implode. Instead of pushing things away it pulls things toward the destroyed structure. Can be synergized with Volatile.

In the game's current state, Vigor is perhaps the least used shiftstone, often getting discarded for adamant and stubborn for damage negation effects. Besides just making it heal more or requiring less damage (I'm gonna out some thoughts to these at the bottom, but they're not the main focus of this post), I think a good change would be to allow the healing to go over 20 HP. A problem that all defensive stones share is that they don't really do anything until you get hit. Stubborn, Adamant and Guard however at least interact with that first hit and reduce the damage. Vigor already has the downside of having a limited amount of healing to give each match (6 if the opponent isn't playing damage negation), so in some scenarios getting a 5 damage burst while staying at full HP - something that should feel great - can feel like you just lost 2 HP you could have healed to gain even greater HP advantage. On Changing the Numbers: I feel like a 3hp heal would be justifiable for how hard it is to proc, 4 would maybe even be too much. I'm against lowering the activation number, since that would completely change its current playstyle of going for two hits and follow ups to fishing for singular, strong hits with Walls and Grounded Cubes.

So, I thought 'hey, if we're all earthbenders, why not bend different kinds of earth?' so maybe you could select your favorite kind of dirt in the station. Could just be a cosmetic thing, maybe they could boost some stats? clay could spawn faster but not do as much damage, obsidian could do something cool like not being able to be ungrounded, maybe there could be some metals thrown in there, just a thought.