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Asked about DELTA, will ask again about Kagaribi. Anyone have predictions before the chaos? I'm gonna be (somewhat) bold and call a sparg0 win, I feel it coming given the bracket.

Sure, but the relevant part for character competitive impressions is his character roster's impact on the statement. While I always advocate for looking at other performance indicators besides character strength when evaluating a player's performance, we have so much data on Cloud's matchups at...

imo, sparg0 is coming to the correct realization that his current character roster is the problem that holds him back from being consistently #1. Cloud is just not a good main investment. sparg0 is an exceptional player who has been making it work, but realistically Cloud falls in line with all...

Predictions for Delta, anyone?

Sephiroth is good enough to hang, just like most of the swordies in this game; definitely not a bad character at all, but he's missing the right player playing him. If MKLeo, for example, actually played Sephiroth you would see Sephiroth in a lot of top 8s and even winning some events...

Nah, Light just leaves very limited windows of vulnerability to get hit by spindash. There's always either a hitbox or a shield somewhere. He full hops in neutral and either d-airs or n-airs. If he n-airs and lands on spindash he beats it, so that's neat, and if there's no spindash, he lands...

Sonix just can't win a grands, huh?

Mobility's stocks are at an all-time low, especially grounded mobility. In a way unprecedented for smash, several top characters for today's meta (Steve, Snake, Min Min, ROB, Samus, etc) set up obstacles that make it difficult to use your mobility to its fullest extent while many of the top...

Neo casually getting 49th at this tourney. Wouldn’t even have thought that he was there. Miya wins dropping only two games. He did have a bracket of entirely favorable matchups though. On topic, I do not agree at all with buffs over nerfs. I think this just makes for a worse game. Ideally you...

On the flip side, reverting the majority of nerfs would make some of the mid tier heroism we've seen and enjoyed, as well as some of the character launches into high and top tier, unrealistic. For something topical, you think Corrin would be doing well in a meta with original Joker, original...

I also think a lot of characters are misunderstood, especially when it comes to their strengths and weaknesses when they over and underperform. How many times have you heard it said that Pyra/Mythra's weakness is recovery and that's why they're not doing well? It's just so wrong (or so obvious...

Something that was brought up on today's Tweek Talks: Tweek feeling a lack of motivation and saying that this game is "soulless" because matchup gameplans feel decided at character select. For those of you who watched the segment, how do you feel about the sentiment? There are definitely some...

I have faith in Lucina. I'm not a top player by any means, and smash will never be more than a passive hobby to me, but I've done well vs. every Steve I've played with Lucina, and that includes some pretty good/known Steves. I actually think I've won 100% of friendlies games I've played vs...

Great topic, imo. d-tilt has a few uses. It's the best ledgetrapping tool, since it can hit stuff like Cloud up-b'ing to ledge and so on, and d-tilt -> tech chase d-smash can lead to kills outside of ledgetrapping. Walking spacing is not as big in this game as it was in S4. You still do walk...

The thread is pretty dead, anyway. Most of the very insightful theorists long ago abandoned it, it's the same handful of legacy users just casually talking at this point. I think whatever we discuss is OK, rankings or otherwise. Still, agree, would be nice to see more character-based...