Yeah Sorry I hit tab and it posted my reply before i was even close to finishing......as i was saying....Well after beating most of the game "unlocking all Characters, stages, and trophies" I quit playing because i would get new games to play after beating those games I would play SSBM because i would get bored of those games. It would always be fun to play. So it was my game to play when all of my other games got old. It never got old. After i started playing link all the time i used to think i was good by doing my double forward smash and then doing up-b alot of the time it randomly hit them, then i would throw a boomerang straight ahead if i wasnt close enough to do that other sh*t.
I quit playing my gamecube for awhile until like last year or so. I started getting into smash again playing all the characters even amounts, i realized more and more i learned more and more, i was a loser and found sites like this to learn even more. I stuck to just link and eventually used bowser as my secondary character and G&W as a third.. Eventually i could bomb jump, wavedash, l-cancel, etc. I also realized stun time was important and could help me combo. I noticed that little but faster attacks could lead to other bigger attacks, i started learning how to connect all my attacks to keep my attacks going. I learned that links chain shot/air dodge/up-b could save me from several spikes. I noticed that most attacks were useful for link. I only used the arrows to stop samus from bomb jumping or preventing samus balls even though bombs did the trick. Anyway my point is eventually my and my friends were always guessing what the other was going to do and we ev
entually could combo eachother across the screen to death. We never went to tournaments though but we used all the advanced techniques amd had tournaments against other friends just to own them and we owned anybody we knew with the came, we were always looking for a challenge in town. No one we ever played could take a stock from us except eachother. Not saying we are amazing we still suck compared to the worst pros and ppl trying to become pro and generally alot of ppl but we knew what we were doing we understood how competitive the game was.
I always had to work hard as hell to beat my friends marth with my link but 50% of the time i did, and it took a miracle for my bowser to beat his marth. Well anyway we loved the game.
Brawl makes me sad. When i get bored of brawl because there is nothing to learn i go play all the games i already beat out of boredom. I miss being able to combo my freinds marth across the screen, i miss being able to mix up my recovery to prevent punishment, i miss being able to edgeguard better since the edge grab is so g*y now. I miss how much harder it was to spike, or to have a perfect recovery. I miss using skill, i miss watching my link get comboed to death as i am DIing away and pressing A hoping my nair will deliver a break in marths combo. Now its basically like playing tag because the lack of stun.
Other than the addition of new characters and stage builder I hate most everything else even brawls Final Destination has went to h*ll. Oh yeah and I also dislike how in the matter of like 10 minutes you can pretty much rock at any character in Brawl except for like ganon and maybe Samus.
I was never a big fan of wave dashing but i did it now and then. Now i miss it because in order to take it out they changed the mechanics of brawl to a point where it just sux because the new airdodge limits options too. But the bottom line is that Brawl is a game of Tag whoever gets tagged it last with a K.O move loses. Oh yeah and now unskilled ppl get lucky often because i cant do long combos on them.