Directional Homings

[Shadow Shinha]

Every time I lost to Waves water-prison/earth-pillar combo all those years back, I wanted to suggest this. But I didnt wanna be seen as a sore loser, so I never did. Now that enough time has passed since then, I can finally suggest this.

Basically instead of having a certain range all around you, the homings would have a set hit-area in front of you. Since it would be a lot harder to hit that way, instead of the usual 1 sec charge it could be 0.5 sec charge or have a wider hit-area or both. You could also have the jutsus do different amount of dmg depending on the position of the target in the hit-area. Would make em at least a bit more skill based.

Idk how good str wm is right now, but all their homings could technically work like this too.

[Slifer]

I don't like this for the simple fact that it looks really cool to stand still and pillar someone behind you. And it plays into the whole ninja aspect of awareness. If someone is seven steps behind me, I'd like to think I could know they were there, let alone if I was a naturo based ninja.

 

From a pvp perspective, idk. I'd have to play with it a while. It seems like it could be really annoying to use, cuz people would just run directly at you and in circles and random directions so you'd have to just hope and pray they are in front of you when it goes off.

[Zabu]

Just get better lul