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This is a bit off-topic but people are running the story that the Pichu nerfs dropped Pichu out of top tier, and I don't buy it. In my mind, Pichu was always only ever Palutena-tier, which is to say, a refreshing, exciting yet ultimately overrated high tier that was only going to age badly. All...

I love Bayonetta and all her mains' arguments are valid, but I swear that if Rosalina or Shiek got 1/20th of the outcry she's getting, the low-tier discourse would be a bit less repetitive. What I'm wondering is, is Olimar really "definitely top 1" as some have declared off the backs of...

I find it a little silly that people expected huge shakeups and sweeping buffs when this update had not just a new character, but a whole new game mode in it and new social media features. Obviously working on all that means less dev time left over to tweak characters. Let's keep some...

I dunno, folks… looking way too similar to Mushroom Kingdom U. Also, not having a right-side platform sounds like it'd be fun but would possibly permit clockwise circle-camping in ways that Battlefield doesn't.

Random aside but people keep uttering "A poor craftsman blames his tools" in fighting game tier discussions and it drives me nuts. Fightgames aren't "crafts" in any way or shape. It's tennis, not a ballet. You could use a guitar for a racket and it'd absolutely be the guitar's fault you lose...

I found an unlisted change: Hazardless Pokémon Stadium 2 has been altered - the jumbotron in the background now displays images again instead of going dark for almost the whole match. (Compare footage of basically any set prior to today, such as this, with what the stage looks like now)...

Chromcide was (is) always more finicky than initially reported. On one local I saw a week back it happened on final stocks and led to Sudden Death.

Err, you've missed both BestNess #51 and Shaky #68. Things aren't that bad yet. No, the real crisis is much worse: zero Isabelles. I mean, I know we don't want her to get hurt, but this is ridiculous. (More seriously, there's no Ryus either, and he doesn't seem the character to be that...

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Having watched recent Bayonetta footage it seems obvious to me she's now just Noisy Sheik. Don't be fooled by how intact her ABK combos appear, or that downward ABK is back as a combo starter: the dismal damage output says it all. The familiar-looking KOs with offstage Bullet Climax, down-air...

Hazardous question but: is Bayonetta really looking to be bottom 5? I find it a bit hard to believe she's now in the same level of irrelevance as Wii Fit, Pac-Man, Bowser Jr, Kirby and Dedede. Do any of those beat her now?

I'm not saying we should exclude the slope-terrain stages, I'm saying that the community probably will. There's a lot of anti-slope sentiment out there, so much that I was surprised.

My predictions for what the list will shake out as: Starters * Tri-plat (Battlefield) * Wide two-plat (Kalos Pokémon League) * Medium two-plat (Pokémon Stadium 1 or 2, whichever has higher ceiling) * One-plat (Smashville hazardless OR Yoshi's Island Brawl) * Zero-plat (Final Destination)...

I just read the original post and I want to sadly declare: Magicant will NOT be legal because even without hazards it still has a tiny platform directly underneath the main platform, which is basically camping central. Consider why Duck Hunt is banned in Smash4 and why Kongo Falls is banned in...

Matchup ratios have a specific definition. 7:3 means "given two players who have perfect MU knowledge, one will lose 7 games out of 10". It does not make any mention of the power differences between the top and bottom tiers. How is losing 7 Melee games out of 10 any different to losing 7...