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Zelda is cute.

Zelda's good, people just suck at using her and don't really try, and then complain and say she's bad and onedimensional. People thought Byleth was Low/Mid tier before Leo picked him up, and then they actually started seeing the character has really strong stuff. They even thought Nair was a really bad Palutena Nair.

trixx from meta of smash:
"this game is designed to annoy you and not have actual fun"

I wonder how many people actually like Kazuya for the badass, technical of a character he is, and not just for a trend, or because of his 0-deaths. I liked Kazuya the moment I saw the direct, and how different he felt to the conventional "shoto" characters.

I feel he wasn't nearly as popular the first year, and it wasn't until like Riddles started doing better with him that people started jumping on that bandwagon.

I literally lose more to tilt and being annoyed at the stupidity of my opponent than actually feeling like I'm getting outplayed. It's such a Smash Ultimate thing.

Not to mention how much easier Ultimate made it for lazy players to win by just following some generic, bland, textbook way of playing and being enough to beat actual good players with it and call it a "skillcheck" when there's no actual skill involved.

As a competitive player, it annoys me to no end when players leave after a single match. It makes me think they're just idiots that think they somehow think they're that much better than you and don't deserve to rematch you, and let alone when there's no other opponents around.

I'll never get wifi players. I'll never get this wannabe "competitiveness" of GSP when you don't actually want to improve or have any sense of sportsmanship, or even fun, by the looks of it.

wifi people are dumb.

Been playing wifi since Ultimate came out, and I still can't wrap my head around how people are so stupid to not rematch after a single match, let alone if it was a good match. Do people not care about fighting other good players? Does sportsmanship not exist?

A lot of the time it wasn't even a legit win, and I probably killed myself, and they're all on their high horse thinking you don't deserve another round.

To lose like a winner.

me quitting the soul sucking leech that is smash ultimate:

smash ultimate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGAxwA1u2MM

People seem to have this dumb idea that going 0-2 is somehow only reserved for new or bad players, but that means they really don't understand the game that well, and let alone if a tournament is stacked with half-decent players at worst.

I still never got wifi players that never rematch. Can't think of any good reason unless they don't like good quality matches.

I don't think many people can relate to putting a lot of effort into something and loving it, but also hating it, or at least ultimately turning into something you start hating without really wanting to.

When you love something, it should simple, even if it is hard for you.

It's funny people trying to excuse it tell you, "you have to play X way", as if that's the only solution. In a good game, the only thing that matters is (and should) to be better and more skillful than your opponent, and that's it. You're not any better for playing "strategic" or "smart".

Good players don't need any conventions or rules.

Ultimate was the only Smash game I could get 2stocked by people worse than me in spite of putting much more effort. For that to happen in any other Smash game, they need to be at least better than me and not get away with random bull**** only that game allows.

I played Bottom 10 character in Brawl and could go even against Brawl MK, because only skilled mattered then. So much for Ultimate's "balanced" cast...

Cutie spotted... owo

Sorry, I was just talking about the profile picture... XD

That and I wanted to find my friend's comment on here too... ^^

I think I punished myself too much for not being good at Ultimate. You could have learned all these skills from previous games, but it doesn't garantee you'll be good at it. Ultimate has this thing where it feels it rewards you for being good at only one or two things at lower levels (even midlevel), and it can even carry you for it.

Fundamentals isn't playing lame or dash back > punish, it's a whole other set of skills people aren't taking into account, like being able to read and punish multiple habits (rolls, spotdodges, airdodges, even dashbacks, jumps, etc.), intuitive DI, mixing up your own disadvantage (aka not always panic mashing the same roll or directional airdodge away), ledgetrapping, etc.

So I just punished myself for being a good computer technician when the game only required me to be good at using a broom.

Midlevel is a joke. If you want to do well, just pick any lame strategy or character and you'll get carried easily. There's no real competitive value in it. You can win without really improving, and the game allows that.

You're better off taking the game casually, beyond that.

Hasn't even been a whole 4 years, but I almost feel like quitting Ultimate. The game has treated really horribly for the amount of hours and effort I put in, and it's really weird game that can either reward you for being really average or outright punishing for actually being good at Smash because you didn't want to settle for textbook mediocrity. Anyone can be patient and play lame, but not everyone is willing to put in the hours to practice combos and have the creative mindset to try and exploit different skillsets within the game.

I've seen people who get by in their locals just by being good at only one aspect of the game, basically a gimmick and not have anything else that really makes them good beyond that. This is what mid level and below looks like now. Midlevel became a joke, and I wouldn't be surprised if people nowdays do think midlevel is something a lot worse than it actually was.

And while I'm still wrestling with my inputs and the game's awkward game mechanics, the other guy is just sticking to the "gameplan" a 5-year old can pull off as a simple """""skillcheck"""" which you can't even argue "get better" in return. I got better, and the game didn't give a ****, just because I wouldn't want to play in your specific boring and textbook way.

And that's the whole paradigm of Ultimate: It's not about playing better, it's about playing specifically to this one thing, regardless of skill.

my byleth montash, in case people here still care about Smash

In all my years playing competitive Smash since Brawl, I never played a game that rewarded bad players so much. To them, it's completely fine and dandy, but it's a kick in the balls to players who actually dedicate time and effort to improve.

Great ****ing game design.

There are times I say to myself Zelda is the only reason I play Ultimate, but I'd be lying to myself. I love all of my characters, and I've been crazy about them, each in my respective "phases". Byleth is also the only DLC I've waited eagerly and very passionately those 12 days prior to release. They were excrutiating. I'm very thankful Byleth is in the game.

quiero cheldita

I am too proud.

I'm saying it again:
Best ****ing Summit. This reinforces part of why I love Smash. It goes beyond the videogame.

Smash Summit is everything you love about the community. We need more of this stuff, it's amazing:

Best Summit in existence.

It never made sense to me how people use this word, "tryhard", as if I'm supposed to differentiate between playing "for fun" and playing "seriously"/using effort. To me, playing for fun and actually putting in effort are one in the same. If I don't use effort, I can't expect to play well, and in exchange, I won't enjoy it.

What's the fun in not trying? Is it somehow more "cool"? It's stupid.

I told my friend the only real counterplay Kazuya has is that no one really knows how to use him yet and we both laughed at that thought.

Base Broly looks really cool to me:

I ****ing hate being inconsistent. There's always some goddamn factor throwing me off, whether it's input delay, mental or even physiological. It doesn't make sense to consistently practice and **** just works whenever it wants to. I'll never get it.

dude why didn't they put this in Smash he looks insane

Merlí is a top tier foreign Netflix show.

People say it's worse to have wifi than not play Smash at all, but I'll be honest and say I probably would've been a lot happier and mentally healthy if I didn't touch that crap for a year and a half. It's the worst thing that happened to the game, and killed my passion and confidence as a player.

And you know what? You still have Training Mode and CPUs. Sure as hell beats being angry and literally getting worse.