I'm just pointing out that even one of the most valid, popular and challenging of esports has the possibility for a bit of drudgery and entrenched defensiveness.
Just watched ADHD vs Nairo. Nairo repeatedly rushed at the tree and took a BUNCH of damage and still brought it back by punishing ADHD (strategy isnt even airtight with a lead). Then he thought he could style on him more and he got bodied (by default villager stuff like bowling ball). Nairo definitely displayed that he could deal with it, but he may have been a bit impatient.
Snakeee had a completely expendable character to throw at villager and make trades and he still flung himself over there to get killed. All he had to do was throw the luma PAST adhd and shoot him in the back. All the mixups would easily be in his favor because only the luma would be at risk.
Tweek did smart stuff, lost his nerve game 1 I'd say, but game 2 he let ADHD camp his deficit and lose. Then ADHD went Diddy and that should illustrate to you how broken this villager strategy is. Villager can camp you and has mixups that do 6-12 damage and push you too far away for follow ups. Diddy can camp you and has mixups that kill you at 70%.
What can I say about DaPuffster? You can lose in 6 minutes or you can lose in 1 minute.
Jtails completely invalidated the ledge campings with 1 move.
ADHD just wanted to camp, and he was willing to camp a deficit and see if his opponent would get bored/overconfident. Its EXTREMELY easy to force a match to go to time if you aren't even trying to win. The commentators were pretty bad, but they always are. Smash commentators only want to make funny memes and one liners to rival wombo combo instead of being informative and engaging for the audience. Some of them were literally making things up on the spot. Saying that villager was invincible because he blew himself up (not remotely true).
Honestly, its kind of refreshing to see a couple of moves that punish super dash grab bros (trip sapling) and super roll dodge bros (kong cyclone). Even thought ADHD might have just been trolling (I think he could won the matches he lost with some well timed aggression). Extreme Balloon Trip loses to simply shielding on the ledge. The moment he grabs the ledge, you just OoS upsmash, up B or shield drop down tilt (or Dair). He has no mixups that beat shield. If there was a custom pocket that was a command grab, I'd say this might be overly strong, but there is a universal option that makes this fairly easy to beat.
This might be a broken toolkit, but what you folks saw wasn't broken. The strongest part of this might be sitting on top of the sapling and shielding (as you can't be grabbed), but even then, villager has one of the worst shield grabs in the game and almost everything is safe to poke at him with.
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