Recent content by NotLiquid

In a game where character skill is so transferrable because of how 90% of every character is so uniform in utility (how many times have you come across the complaint that you really notice how similar every character's aerial is because of how aerial mashy Ultimate is) Game & Watch is one of...

A romanticized hypothetical perhaps, but if Snake can play solid footsies against the likes of G&W and Ness like you suggest then that's in most ways kind of an ideal scenario considering I can't think of any other characters on the roster that invalidate Snake's reliance on grenade as a neutral...

Biggest thing I came away learning today is that without grenades, Snake is still really good.

Might be premature to say with Kagaribi still around the corner but Japan are definitely the kingmakers of the meta right now. It feels like a very long time since that's been the case in a Smash game, even for as long as we've revered the talent over there. The western invasion being completely...

On the "matchup plan" part, Guilty Gear Strive recently released ABA, which is probably one of the most fun characters in the game that I've played in a while. The quirky thing about her is that because of how she's designed, her matchup weaknesses in particular are extremely transparent even...

Looking at the Battle of BC6 bracket, I think the remarkable thing about Toriguri's bracket run is that all of his losses were Game 5's, and those were specifically losses against Hurt (1st place) and Yoshidora (3rd place). He never scored a winning set where he allowed the opponent to win more...

Seconding Sparg0 vs Yoshidora's losers rematch, while I don't know a lot about the character I know that a lot of people seem to believe Yoshi really struggles against sword characters like Cloud; that struggle was a lot more evident in the winners semis set but less so in losers finals after...

There's a universe out there where Smash's designers decided to not arbitrarily design far ahead of Banjo's ability weave and exploit his myriad tech toolbox and where he'd actually be a high tier menace. I've said it before but the only significant thing that holds Banjo back at a top level is...

Following this old post where you cite those three specific characters being better than G&W... ... and after Miya finally winning that same day, you argued that Steve, Joker, Palutena, Aegis, ROB, Sonic, and Snake were all better characters than G&W, along with listing a drove of characters...

In October last year, you made the assertion that G&W does not qualify for being at the top of the tier list on the basis that Miya and Maister both failed to take home several tournaments where the former would regularly place in Top 8. At the same eve of that post, Miya successfully won a...

Miya's last supermajor win was literally less than two months ago

You're right, I'd crossed my wires since Kurama (who eliminated chungus) was the one that was eliminated by HERO.

Big Chungus was also expected to have a bigger rally this tournament as Europe's best Steve player (seed 57th), but he got upset by Larry Lurr and then eliminated by HERO in losers for a relatively low 97th place underperformance.

Diddy Kong in the past has generally been held back by a very undeveloped meta. So many gimmick plays like his patched out pyramid scheme infinite buried the lede on a variety of unexplored confirms and combos that were high execution but high reward (d-tilt into stutter step FSmash, hard banana...

I've more or less accepted that the community will never give up the ghost on Pikachu at this point.