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The infamous pinfall glitch appears to be directly related to having any/all of the following items:
1. Tap/Hold kick-out system
2. Visible reversal prompts
3. Visible HUD
If you use the original kick-out system (mash the face buttons), and turn the HUD and reversal prompts OFF, you'll get longer matches and more of a fight out of a decently tough Hard-difficulty AI. They won't be very cheap, but may still occasionally use cheap jabs (but not usually spam them).
Also, the timing isn't that hard for reversals on Hard difficulty. The AI actually tries to wrestle you, instead of just stand around and spam reversals and cheap tactics all day. Yes, Legend difficulty is BROKEN!
Here's the slider set I use to get decent matches:
1. Hard difficulty, Blood ON, Stamina OFF, Reversal Damage ON
2. Damage sliders all the way to the left
3. Game Balance sliders all the way to the left (ALL of them!)
4. AI reversal sliders left at default
5. Original kick-out system, HUD off, Reversal indicators off.
I made counts visible, turned camera cuts off, made targeting manual, and targeting indicators always on*.
*Allows you to return to targeting the legal opponent more quickly after having your pin or submission broken up during tag matches.
EDIT: Turns out that on Hard difficulty, the AI will still spam cheapness if it is on the losing end of a beating. However, it does NOT always resort to cheapness like it does on Legend difficulty. Example of "desperation cheese": I was fighting Primo, and he was losing...badly. He knocked me down and pinned me, and I kicked out. He immediately ran up at me from behind and executed the Frankensteiner and pinned me again. I kicked out. Primo then repeated the running Frankensteiner and pinned me AGAIN.
That qualifies as SPAMMING in my book. Other big-time spammers are Mark Henry (jabs), MVP (dancing double palm strike), Chris Jericho (jabs), Shawn Michaels (jab/chop combo), Mr. McMahon (jabs), Dolph Ziggler (ground grapples), and The Miz (jabs).
Oh, and one more thing: EVERYBODY loves to spam the infamous "stunning toe-kick". (It's the diagonal move in everybody's strike repertoire). It's easy to set up groggy grapples with it.
Pikachu (my CAW) is the only character who does NOT use the toe kick, as his standing strikes have all been replaced with strong strikes, many of which can KO an opponent if KOs are enabled. His strong strikes are the Kozlov Boot and Brogue Kick.
1. Tap/Hold kick-out system
2. Visible reversal prompts
3. Visible HUD
If you use the original kick-out system (mash the face buttons), and turn the HUD and reversal prompts OFF, you'll get longer matches and more of a fight out of a decently tough Hard-difficulty AI. They won't be very cheap, but may still occasionally use cheap jabs (but not usually spam them).
Also, the timing isn't that hard for reversals on Hard difficulty. The AI actually tries to wrestle you, instead of just stand around and spam reversals and cheap tactics all day. Yes, Legend difficulty is BROKEN!
Here's the slider set I use to get decent matches:
1. Hard difficulty, Blood ON, Stamina OFF, Reversal Damage ON
2. Damage sliders all the way to the left
3. Game Balance sliders all the way to the left (ALL of them!)
4. AI reversal sliders left at default
5. Original kick-out system, HUD off, Reversal indicators off.
I made counts visible, turned camera cuts off, made targeting manual, and targeting indicators always on*.
*Allows you to return to targeting the legal opponent more quickly after having your pin or submission broken up during tag matches.
EDIT: Turns out that on Hard difficulty, the AI will still spam cheapness if it is on the losing end of a beating. However, it does NOT always resort to cheapness like it does on Legend difficulty. Example of "desperation cheese": I was fighting Primo, and he was losing...badly. He knocked me down and pinned me, and I kicked out. He immediately ran up at me from behind and executed the Frankensteiner and pinned me again. I kicked out. Primo then repeated the running Frankensteiner and pinned me AGAIN.
That qualifies as SPAMMING in my book. Other big-time spammers are Mark Henry (jabs), MVP (dancing double palm strike), Chris Jericho (jabs), Shawn Michaels (jab/chop combo), Mr. McMahon (jabs), Dolph Ziggler (ground grapples), and The Miz (jabs).
Oh, and one more thing: EVERYBODY loves to spam the infamous "stunning toe-kick". (It's the diagonal move in everybody's strike repertoire). It's easy to set up groggy grapples with it.
Pikachu (my CAW) is the only character who does NOT use the toe kick, as his standing strikes have all been replaced with strong strikes, many of which can KO an opponent if KOs are enabled. His strong strikes are the Kozlov Boot and Brogue Kick.