that chair flip thing

[Superlagg]

what if throwing any object at someone standing on a chair could topple them to the floor for a short stun?

Is a much better idea than

how does everybody feel about adding a ~1 second delay to climb on top of a chair? (a progress bar action, like handcuffing someone)

in my honest opinion.
If you add a progress bar/delay to this then it would completely lose any and all of its practicality in real combat. As it is right now, supplexes are the only guaranteed way to level the playing field and to catch up to a person who keeps running away and you keep tailing him - even tazers are too slow to catch up.

In fact, call me biased, but I absolutely adore the idea of chairflipping and would like more "environment-utilized combat moves" to appear, for example, knocking over a stool to create an incredibly weak "banana peel" trap which might only standing-stun and force drop active item.

I believe encouraging a more "on-the-field" approach as opposed to "prepared for everything under the sun kleptomaniac" will make the combat feel a lot more fair and even-grounded, though it has to strike that balance that won't invalidate either approach.

Agreed. While I agree that chairflipping can be pretty nuts, I'd rather it be nerfed with something to counter it instead of making it less practical in general.

Hm. Course, the window between that jerk getting on the chair to when they've leapt into the air is pretty narrow if they're going for a mid-combat chairflip. I'd see it being mostly viable against people who prepare chairflips a traps.

Then again! It takes a moment to set up a chairflip. Gotta go to a chair and drag yourself onto it. Would be enough time to get out of range to throw something at them.

Also, I think chairflips and suplexes stun you both for the same amount. Trouble comes in when one of the wrastlin' dorks is full of stims. Could be prevented with pre-dosing sugar/coffee/cigs or good old-fashioned meth, but that's not always ideal and makes you (me) look like an idiot.