Gouge is all sorts of fun as an attack that rapidly builds balance, but I'd really like to see it's functionality moved to tactics of some sort. Or perhaps a combination of tactics/brawling moves with defense "analyze" like boosts to balance. The inspiration for this suggestion is the fact that when you watch two smart people fight these days, there's basically these extended "slap-fighting" pauses (ie., mutual gouge spam) in between disablers/targets/swings. It's pretty ridiculous when you think about it; chop draw [gets roared/MB'd etc] gouge gouge gouge gouge gouge gouge.