Totally got your finger on the pulse of the matter, regarding the combo breaker into instinct/shadow/juggle/unbreakables. Free meter for Spinal and auto 1/3 life bar for Jago. DUMB!!!
Your talk about feral cancels was right too and as you were saying it, I was thinking a crazy instinct dash would be better for the zoner match up.
I don’t think there is any way to solve the Combo breaker problem that you mentioned though. There’s no way they’re going to go back to the rock, paper, scissors form of combo breaking like KI 2/Gold had. Though it will really show who has skill in this game, no one is going to be able to pick it up on a casual level.
But who are the two characters they are reworking? hmmm…