Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160205001148/@comment-27764012-20160211215300

Well the reason I gave gauntlets and greaves is because I wouldn't really kick, due to how weighty they are it'd be a massive waste of time to attempt to kick an opponent with them, the only real attacking use they would have is if I was falling and landed on something or did a ganondorf style air stomp on somebody, so they're almost purely there to assist with grapple mode. Also all those fighters use very fast fighting sytles and would not want the dead weight of having another weapon part to slow them down, I on the other hand would use a very slow and deliberate figthing style (Like Yasuhashi's slow giant sword swings, it wouldn't be as powerful as those but you get the point, rather slow and deliberate) and thus am perfectly ok with the extra weight.