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I'd love to see Gluto pull a Bloom4Eva and just randomly counterpick with Swordfighter against a top 10 player. Weirdly enough, the character would actually help him out, likely doing better against Cloud and Steve than his own main. I know I argued against the likelihood of Gluto successfully...

A character specialist derives too much of their competitive drive from their character choice to see significant improvement from swapping to a "better option." Passion is what drives improvement and if a player loses their main source of the stuff, they have nowhere to go but backwards...

This is just theorycrafting, but I've always felt that Gunner could do pretty solidly against Pikachu. Absorbing Vortex to force approaches, Charge Blast to make those approaches tougher, and then using a mix of Cannon Jump Kick (frame 4, kills) and their amazing grab (largest frame 6 grab btw.)...

I'm gonna derail the current discussion and ramble about :ultbrawler: some. I mainly want to touch on how good the change to stage selection has been for the character. Because you choose your fighter after, you can tailor your moveset to fit whatever layout is selected. This means that you can...

If I'm not mistaken, brawler's counter throw also works against wonderwing.

:ultsheik: below :ultbowserjr: is a spicy hot take but probably not as spicy as that bottom 5 :ultwiifittrainer: placement.

I think you're underestimating Distant Nosferatu. Having a long ranged tool that beats shield is extremely powerful. Being able to control that much space from such a range really makes your opponent think twice before committing to an approach. With shield being much less safe to approach with...

You'd really be surprised how much of a difference dash length makes. The reason Marth doesn't care about his dash length is because he has the fastest walk in the game. He doesn't need to run so it doesn't make a big difference. Ganon on the other hand has such a slow walk, even after the...

I'm surprised you made so few changes to my man Ganon. Even with the changes you made to his Neutral-B it's still useless and might even be worse than his default. His default Down-B is Wizard's Foot, I think you meant Wizard's Dropkick. The change to his aerial Side-B hurts him more than it...

I'd look again at the downsides of monado arts. Buster lets you dish out 40% more damage in exchange for taking only 13% more. That's a very large difference. You also deal decreased knockback in this mode which increases how long you can extend your strings for.

Meta Knight's nair is significantly better than Kirby's due to much faster start up and much lower end lag. You're underselling Game & Watch's nair as well, large hitbox, decent combo starter, and does 17% on its own. Ryu's nair might have minimal landing lag but the hitbox leaves a lot to be...

You should swap out Mario's up tilt for a stronger anti air since you already have two good combo starters with your forward and down tilts. Ryu's strong up tilt is an excellent anti air and would also include his weak up tilt if you still want another combo starter. Forward air should...

I think Ganon should move up a tier. It kills extremely early, comes out on frame 6, and autocancels out of a shorthop. It also has a pretty nice semi-spike hitbox during the late hit.

Cloud and Mario are likely the 2 easiest characters to play in the game. Donkey Kong is pretty simple to pick up and play as well. Captain Falcon and Ganondorf would probably round off the top 5.

There are likely 1-2 80-20 matchups in the entire game at most. The Ness Rosa matchup is very likely not any worse than -2 and is commonly called -1. Gravitational Pull is already very punishable with the high amount of end lag it has. Adding 15 frames more onto that just seems kinda silly. You...