well not to nitpick but it's a game in a fantasy world. You've got like cyborg robots and people with cybernetic arms firing missles at people. So it's not surprsing then can smash the ground hard enough to cause some damage to someone else.

Thats different, in a fantasy world, flicking someone in the ear shouldn't damage someone.

Stumbling for a second because the ground moved should not damage you at all, it never made sense.

They should make the reaction look more impactful.

little boys who ask questions cause the boogie man to kill at night

if youre gonna complain about that..why not blocking sword attacks with your forearms? or blocking a freeze attack?

theres so much that doesnt make any sense like that.

Well, that ́s bit stupid question... But those moves are damns tupid too. And you can ́t even block them. Noob-moves... Of course you can jump, but still.

That's where it adds a strategic element to the game: moves like that should be used at a point when it would be impossible for the oppontent to jump in time, like immediately after they land from a pop-up or knockdown attack.

Well lets see...if I pull of the following techniques on you and you fall on the floor, you WILL get hurt. Let it be sword, dagger or knife I am using, stumb-ling -even if is "very little"- is lethal in combat.

Zornhaut, Zornmut, Umslacht, Körperdanz... and one of them just consists of slapping my palm on your face. It ends with your face down in the mud, probably with a bit cranial trauma.