well you know the motto...its easier to ban then to find a way to beat it, right?
I'd like to think there was away to escape an infinite. But they are called that for a reason.
I voted no. It only effects five characters, so that is far from banworthy. And if you happen to main the characters at risk, just counter-pick. This thread makes me wonder what else people will try to ban out of bias or laziness.
Look, this argument is moot, it only affects 6* characters, so why not ban it? Why should we have to counterpick? If you ban his infinite on the 6 characters, is that going to make them OP? No. Are they going to have extreme advantages over him? No. It's going to make things more balanced, so what is the problem?
Maybe because this sets a bad precedent? Once we start banning a move that a character has, where do we draw the line? You said it yourself, this only affects 6 characters (and it's escapable by 3 of them, and one of the ones he truly infinites is D3 himself). So say (hypothetically) that people come to believe that MK's Tornado is too overpowered, and makes way too many characters not viable. Do we need to ban that then as well?
Look, is his tornado infinite? Does it guarantee a stock? Is it nonpunishable?
We are not talking about marths sword range in melee, we're not talking about foxes shine in melee, we're not talking about snakes nades in brawl, none of these KILL YOUR OPPONENT ONCE YOU PULL THEM OFF FOR SURE.
You pull off this INFINITE correctly. They die.
INFINITE, just remember this, we're not saying a move is broken, we're saying an INFINITE is broken. Which it is, do you disagree? Do you think it's fair?
PLEASE Just REMEMBER if it is banned, this INFINITE, what is the harm? DDD opponents now have 6 more characters to worry about? SERIOUSLY? AND YOU'RE CALLIN US LAZY?
It is because we are not trying to balance the game. There is a difference between creating a ruleset that lets the better player win and creating one that gives Captain Falcon as equal a chance of winning as Meta Knight (ie hacked Brawl-which is trying to "balance" the game). We are playing a fighting game, tiers, and an inherent IMBALANCE between characters is only natural.
But to this extent?
There shouldn't be a debate here. It's such a simple thing to do 'You can't infinite these 3 characters'.
There is NO downside. This is not a gateway ban, this is an infinite ban. Wobbling was banned in melee, did it make the IC's suck? No, it brought them down a few pegs.
If you ban DeDeDe's infinite on these 3 or 6 characters, what happens to dedede? He loses an overwhelming advantage on 3 decent characters. He isn't nerfed to hell, he isn't brought down to bottom tier, hell his tier position probably won't even flinch at this.