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Balance
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Even if you can't dodge it, that doesn't mean you can't fire one off yourself and thus turn the chance of the enemy's attack hitting you into a random one. And considering the amount of posts two combatants are limited to (usually three, although that depends on what the combatants agreed to), there isn't really a whole lot of opportunity to use Super Moves.

As for your second comment....to be honest, I'm glad you brought that up, because I would argue that the real heart of this matter is not "balance" but the definition of "godmodding". If I remember right (and please correct me if I'm not), you seem to believe that writing any of your opponent's actions at all qualifies as godmodding. Under that assumption, I can see how you might have come to the conclusion that the current system is imbalanced in favour of cheap Super Moves, since if all you can do is write your own moves, there is no reason not to keep firing Super Moves.

But while I'm no moderator, even I can safely say that that was not the definition of godmodding under which the current combat system was designed. After all, you read the example Omni wrote for the Fighting and Competition Rules. To some degree, Samus' "posts" involve Alundra's actions and Alundra's "posts" involve Samus' actions. Their actions don't exist in a void away from one another, but are tied together. So even if you don't have technical control over your opponent's actions (for example, you can't fire off a Super Move in their stead), you do (again, to some degree) have a narrative one. In that situation, there is plenty of room for sparring and minor attacks.

Only Omni/the moderators can provide the working definition of godmodding under which the Omniverse operates. But in my own past experience, the working definition of godmodding was "making other characters behave wildly out-of-character, particularly for the purpose of making your own character(s) appear superior". As long as you did not abuse it for the purpose of narratively tilting the fight in your favour, you were able to depict some of your opponent's actions in your own posts. But of course, those were different RPGs and I cannot claim with 100% certainty that definition applies to the Omniverse.
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