I love modding different lenshu variants, here are some things which people tend to like (and I like) about my striking-esque mods:
10 tf for first three turns:
Makes rushing super easy to counter, with much greater opportunity to react to your opponents opening moves. 200 ed is a pretty good ed for striking mods, since it leaves you close enough to engage your opponent but not close enough to smooch em.
Fixed point distribution:
Fixing the points so they reward more careful strikes and protect you from stupid damage if your wrist or arm gets caught up in the strike, you might remember striking reborn was an org literally made around a modset with this kind of goal.
Similarly, I also like to change the point_dm parameter for most of the joints to scale a bit better with the point distribution
Alternate dm thresholds for limbs:
600 personally seems a bit high, I like to do 500 on the wrist/ankle, 370 on the elbow/knee, 420 on the shoulder/hip, 345 on the pecs/glutes / rest of the tori depending on how high i want the base threshold to be
I also nudge up the threshold for the neck, but that's just personal preference.
this is polished in more recent mods and i intend to polish it more, but here are the toris and gamerules from my acroshu_f mod to give you a better idea of what i'm saying
gamerule
matchframes 430
turnframes 10,10,10,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25
flags 3
dismemberment 1
fracture 1
disqualification 1
dqtimeout 25
dqflag 1
dismemberthreshold 345
fracturethreshold 305
pointthreshold 0
dojotype 0
dojosize 0
engagedistance 200
engageheight 0
engagerotation 0
engagespace 0
engageplayerpos
engageplayerrot 0,0,0,0,0,0
damage 0
gravity 0.00 0.00 -23.00
sumo 1
reactiontime 16
drawwinner 0
maxcontacts 20
(the match is inside of a box, that's why there's no dojo. iirc the box is around the same size as 500 dojosize)
# for all players
body head
pos 1.00 0.85 2.65
point_hit 97
flag 16
body breast
pos 1.00 0.90 2.20
point_hit 50
flag 16
body chest
pos 1.00 0.90 1.95
point_hit 40
flag 16
body stomach
pos 1.00 0.95 1.75
point_hit 40
flag 16
body groin
pos 1.00 1.00 1.55
point_hit 86
flag 16
body r_pecs
pos 0.75 0.90 2.15
point_hit 30
flag 16
body r_biceps
pos 0.45 0.90 2.30
point_hit 10
flag 16
body r_triceps
pos 0.05 0.90 2.30
point_hit 3
flag 16
body l_pecs
pos 1.25 0.90 2.15
point_hit 30
flag 16
body l_biceps
pos 1.55 0.90 2.30
point_hit 10
flag 16
body l_triceps
pos 1.95 0.90 2.30
point_hit 3
flag 16
body r_hand
pos -0.35 0.85 2.30
flag 16
body l_hand
pos 2.35 0.85 2.30
flag 16
body r_butt
pos 0.80 1.00 1.45
point_hit 0
flag 16
body l_butt
pos 1.20 1.00 1.45
point_hit 0
flag 16
body r_thigh
pos 0.80 1.00 1.10
point_hit 10
flag 16
body l_thigh
pos 1.20 1.00 1.10
point_hit 10
flag 16
body l_leg
pos 1.20 1.00 0.50
point_hit 3
flag 16
body r_leg
pos 0.80 1.00 0.50
point_hit 3
flag 16
body r_foot
pos 0.80 0.90 0.10
flag 16
body l_foot
pos 1.20 0.90 0.10
flag 16
joint neck
pos 1.00 0.90 2.50
point_hit 55
point_dm 30000
flag 16
joint chest
pos 1.00 0.90 2.05
point_hit 50
point_dm 17000
flag 16
joint lumbar
pos 1.00 0.95 1.85
point_hit 50
point_dm 17000
flag 16
joint abs
pos 1.00 1.00 1.65
point_hit 50
point_dm 17000
flag 16
joint r_pecs
pos 0.85 0.85 2.20
dm_threshold 345
point_hit 40
point_dm 12000
flag 16
joint r_shoulder
pos 0.65 0.90 2.30
dm_threshold 420
point_hit 15
point_dm 8000
flag 16
joint r_elbow
pos 0.25 0.90 2.30
dm_threshold 370
point_hit 6
point_dm 5500
flag 16
joint l_pecs
pos 1.15 0.85 2.20
dm_threshold 345
point_hit 40
point_dm 12000
flag 16
joint l_shoulder
pos 1.35 0.90 2.30
dm_threshold 420
point_hit 15
point_dm 8000
flag 16
joint l_elbow
pos 1.75 0.90 2.30
dm_threshold 370
point_hit 6
point_dm 5500
flag 16
joint r_wrist
pos -0.20 0.90 2.30
dm_threshold 500
point_hit 0
point_dm 4000
flag 16
joint l_wrist
pos 2.20 0.90 2.30
dm_threshold 500
point_hit 0
point_dm 4000
flag 16
joint r_glute
pos 0.90 1.10 1.51
dm_threshold 345
point_hit 63
point_dm 25000
flag 16
joint l_glute
pos 1.10 1.10 1.51
dm_threshold 345
point_hit 63
point_dm 25000
flag 16
joint r_hip
pos 0.79 1.00 1.40
dm_threshold 420
point_hit 15
point_dm 8000
flag 16
joint l_hip
pos 1.21 1.00 1.40
dm_threshold 420
point_hit 15
point_dm 8000
flag 16
joint r_knee
pos 0.80 1.00 0.80
dm_threshold 370
point_hit 5
point_dm 5500
flag 32
joint l_knee
pos 1.20 1.00 0.80
dm_threshold 370
point_hit 5
point_dm 5500
flag 32
joint r_ankle
pos 0.80 1.05 0.25
point_hit 0
flag 16
joint l_ankle
pos 1.20 1.05 0.25
point_hit 0
flag 16
I don't mind at all retiring lenshu for a more polished, competitive heavy grav striking mod, but there should be some community consensus on which one(s) that should be and there's should be lots of testing and trying out up to making it more official-ish.