Does changing your weight class change your moveset?

[Zapp Brannigan]

Made a light heavyweight fighter but now I kinda wanna make him into a heavy weight fighter. But when I try doing that. It says it may reset my movset.

[captain403]

I don't think it does. At least it didn't when I changed a CAW from cruiserweight to light heavyweight. If you wan't to cover your bases, duplicate the CAW before changing. If it changes, you can import from the backup (that you of course renamed so you can identify it) in the moveset editor.

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

i havnt done it but in older games it would either reset your moves to a "standard" moveset, for example there are 4 classes and each starts with their own unique moveset, so if you started as an acrobat you'd have the acrobat moveset, and then if you changed to a super heavyweight it would change your moveset to the super heavyweight moveset instead.

The other way games have handled it is by only changing the moves that would be invalid. for example, anyone can use a punch or a kick or a suplex. but a super heavyweight probably wont have a phoenix splash, or a moonsault to the outside. likewise a light weight probably wont have any moves used by giants like the colossus clutch.

I don't know how this game handles it. I would think it would only change the moves that wouldnt make sense for the new weightclass but, you should really just make a new character in the edit mode and then change its weightclass to see what changes. it would only take a few minutes to make a test character and find out for sure.