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I randomly instantly kill CPUs with various moves. Sometimes jab, sometimes back-air. Edit: additionally, the “playlist feature” plays random songs from the extended list, that are not in any of my playlists. Also, pretty frequently the game crashes when I use Falco’s shine on Fox Edit2...

There's no reason for negativity. I'm surprised that with everything shaking in Nintendo that it's still happening this year, but everything will be okay! Promise.

Oh, did Nintendo go through with Iwata's idea of buying Project Melee to support the obviously huge fan base? Awesome. Sorry you guys have to deal with the backlash in the interim before they announce everything.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKJi-4lbB3EwpLpC82OWFjA/videos Cheers.

Falco and Jigglypuff are clearly optimal. Falco's only arguably weak matchups are Ice Climbers, Peach, and MAYBE Sheik. All of who Puff annihilates. Puff relies on very little technical skill, and focuses entirely on fundamentals. This means that the majority of your mechanical practice can...

Two things. 1. L-cancelling is almost an absolutely bad choice in the game. If all moves were reduced in lag by default, it would remove a barrier for technical proficiency. 2. It DOES add in a mix-up game (with shield-tilting, multiple character hits, needle hits). In other words, you can...

All characters in the top 8 except for Falco and Jigglypuff struggle returning from the air. All characters struggle to get out of a corner, except that Marth has the second-best "reversal" out of the top characters when cornered (Sheik). Marth does have worse OoS options compared with Falco or...

Marth is significantly more difficult to combo than any of the fast-fallers, or Ice Climbers, and arguably Sheik. I fail to see how this point is silly. Simply saying "he gets combo'd to death" is true of nearly every character, given a percentage range. Regarding his ledge options, they are...

Out of the mentioned characters, he has the best weight for escaping combos outside of Jigglypuff or Peach. Edit: Marth is the only character in the game with a favored match-up against Fox, and his former primary weaknesses have been mitigated due to to the advancing of his tool set.

Foremost, there are two points I wish to make. Firstly, Melee at a TAS level is a perfectly balanced game. This is simply because all moves have start-up time, and so are beaten by a perfect, reactionary player. This means that there are certain intangibles that we must account for when creating...

Why were HBOX and M2K the only two (of the main six) players to show up for MLG?

If your thumb hurts, you're developing calluses in the right spots. The more it hurts, the faster your calluses will develop (avoid long term damage please)

Research shows that they've been marginally successful in the 4 years they've been operating. Surprised they're investing 30K.

For those who are wondering, the character breakdown is as follows: Falco 2 Fox 11 Puff 1 Peach 3 Yoshi 2 Falcon 8 Marth 3 Samus 1 Dr. Mario 4 Pikachu 4 Sheik 7 Ice Climbers 4 In terms of number of times they placed top 4 (discounting the Melee Gods). I'd be interested in seeing the %...

I think an interesting analysis would be to score characters on a proportional system (i.e. results scaled proportionately to number of entrants with a given character), and to discount all of the Melee Gods, to see how characters would scale. You would use the smash majors from 2012 onward for...