
Players have been asking this for 2 years and we don’t have any answers on why you don’t let us do that.

You can, both players just need to ready up by pressing menu and it’ll skip it, one player can also just hold it

On this note, the hold start to skip should be available sooner or be more consistent. It could just be me but I feel the hold to start input sometimes doesn’t register and it’s not clear if my input was logged and the hold timer is running or I need to re-press the start button.

I don’t know, to me it feels like I absolutely never can skip animation on online matches. Only offline.