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Just to nip this line of reasoning in the bud (haha, plant humor), the gendered languages are all over the place on this one: Spanish and German use feminine terms to refer to PP (luchadora and Kämpferin) Dutch and French use masculine terms (vechter and combattant) Russian uses боец, which is...

Some observations after my region's inaugural tournament: :ultzss:: I miss the old zair most of all, I think. Otherwise, she seems very similar to the "Marss-style" ZSS from the end of Smash 4, relying on tricky movement instead of bullying with a big disjoint like she could in 2015. Her kit...

A bunch more footage got uploaded to smashbrosspain: It's hard to watch this demo footage... It's like watching noviceSmash 4 MKs and then it turns into Playstation All-Stars as soon as the meter is charged. Can't wait until the game is out so we can lab the proper followups/confirms and...

MKLeo didn't use any Cloud during top 32 (at least, possibly didn't in pools either), so it seems disingenuous to list him first.

These are just for Q2 this year, correct? Hate to burst your bubble, but grapple beam > plasma whip.

IIRC Earth went Corrin in every streamed match last night. He's mentioned not being confident in his Corrin while abroad before, so some were speculating that he was going solo to train her up in a low-pressure environment. Right here.

Over a broader section of time, maybe. But this is literally just the month of February. Every character from around Luigi or so downward is propped up by 1-5 results. We can't draw useful conclusions from a sample size this small. All we can safely say is that, shocker, characters don't get...

What does this show us though? That if you remove achievements the best two players of a mid-tier, the characters get worse results in a one-month sample? That seems self-evident, and isn't solely a Pit phenomenon.

1) Buffs. A buff immediately calls attention to a character. If, say, Bowser had started the game with his current up throw, it would have been accepted as matter of fact by now. Kinda cheesy, but well-explored. Buffs (at least, significant ones) attach an X-factor to a character, where you know...

Wanted to ask this for a while... In light of Aba breaking out MK to beat Zinoto and take ZeRo to game 5*... What's holding Meta Knight back? He's small, high-mobility, oozes high-damaging combos and kill setups. He's shown consistent ability to overcome perceived checks through sheer punishes...

Aba used MK against Zinoto, and Komo used Cloud against Aba and KEN. Those were apparently the only off-stream characters from the top 8.

Thread necro: What's the drawback to dthrow > fly at ~80-100%? Is it a DI read? Can the opponent just jump out? Just messing around on 3DS and can't test outside of training mode. Edit: Mmm yeah you can absolutely jump out. Ah well.

Fun fact: Ranai two-stocked Komo's Cloud on Lylat at G4. It seems to be his CP of choice for pretty much every MU.

These got thinking, so I whipped up a couple of charts for comparing Anther's usage to usage in the OrionRank/PGR: Anther's Usage (Tier List Format) OrionRank Mains (+hidden bosses and Hyuga) It gives us an interesting look at mid-level v high/top level, imo. Don't really have time for a full...

You're not at all wrong. I generally compare players by wins and losses instead of by placings, but wasn't in a setting where I could easily trawl through brackets and went for a quick and dirty way to make my point.