The fact you need expensive and/or limited healing items just to stand the best chance is really stupid. If you guys really want a healing item that badly, just give us free budokai/ranked exclusive items that can be used once per round, and disappear once you're out of budokai/ranked matches.
There should be exclusive Budokai Healing Items, and disabling all the autoheal crap.
Display MoreGuys, I beg of you, let's try to be as friendly as possible, as we both want the game to do good, and Kihira is simply posting an opinion on the matter.
Now, avoiding unnecessary crapstorm of dislikes, to reach an unanimous decision on the subject at hand, in my opinion the best bet is to eventually let the devs to do some tests on their own(IF they would actually be ok with removing the potions and such), to let them judge any possible imbalance that could come from this decision. That's what test servers are for.
My opinion?
What's there exactly to fix? I've seen Humans beat SKs without problems, Dendes manage to get to the finals without problems, and majin too, and I'm talking about the Korean DBO, so don't take my opinion for granted, as I know that most people played on TW and HK, but still, that's my own experience on the matter. Beside the autopot glitch suggested by CritAholic, I really can't understand what would be the problem with potions.
In Rankings, it's useless, as most of the times you play for fun(eh, on my side atleast, I don't enjoy that kind of PvP, but enyone has it's own style of gameplay);
In Tournaments, I too think it's a question of timing and strategy, which to me is pretty damn fun, where as without potions and such, it would simply be "Smash the damn confusion/stun/block skill and hit it until it's dead".
You may question that leaving potions out of the equation would make Tournaments much more interesting, the problem to me seems the balance it would require to reach such thing: whatever you admit it or not, classes are not that balanced to make it a full possibility.
As always, my two cents
Look at this and show me where the fun is:
Sure it's pretty cool, but you only win if you have max LP
cant wait to see how daneos will change things 
