I have a problem.
I'm addicted to trying to figure out how fighting game characters and systems work.
Same. I collect and hunt down all fighting games now. There is so much to study and see. I love testing out different meta environments and trying to figure out what tools promote and deter within those systems and then brainstorm of their possible potentials outside those environments or with subtle changes. Its why I liked Arcana Heart so much. Those Arcana's are pretty much entire movesets you can slap onto a ton of already detailed and character specific tool loaded movesets. Doin things like taking Nazuna and her ridiculous unique meter fueled zoning and coupling it with stuff like homing orbs, beams or armor is just wild.
Speaking of Anime Fighters I've been playing more Dengeki. At first it felt slower than other fighters, but then I started to realize that trump cards last a LONG while once activated and during trump card states your combo options are FAR greater. You get things like OTG properties, new links between moves, cancels, and even additional hits and new properties to specials like launchers and wall bounces. Once I started abusing the long lasting trump cards for combos with less reservation I started getting half health stuff pretty easy out of folks.
Yukina and her spear and Kirito feel pretty good for combos. Especially Kirito. Yukina can link any knockdown into a ton of hits but Kirito can simply start and end better IMO. The main thing I am finding so far in this game is that as far as assists go, due to the limited combos options on some things its often best to look for assists that are for relaunches. Launcher combos are hard to get for some folks outside of Anti Air stuff and most air combos need double jumping into somekind of player grounding followup into super for real damage. This is why Kirito felt good...he could finish things up with super and relaunch assists mean longer combos that give him more meter to use for this stuff again later.
Can't wait to play Ignition sometime. Climax feels pretty good.