3 stock or 4 stock?

[The Slayer]

I'm slowly thinking two, but if people are still getting KO'd easily in a few minutes after the game has matured, then 3 may sound plausible.

 

[Swedish_Otaku]

I don't get why the speed matters if you have time as well. Just pick 3 or 4, not more or less.

Brawl has been testing out with 1 Stock games recently, and its actually going surprisingly well. Perhaps thats what the ruleset for Smash 4 should be at the beginning.

That's ****ing stupid...

 

[Chilex]

After rewatching the SDCC and PAX 1v1 matches, the amount of time it took for players to take one stock worries me. It may because of the severe lack of experience in the game, but that's just me.

As for my input, 4 stocks is now pretty much out of the question. 2 or 3.

 

[Servine]

I'm thinking that the matches will have 3 stocks but be a little shorter, maybe 6-7 minutes?

 

[Gabukin]

I think the first few major tournaments should be 3 stocks, and if the matches go by fast then go up to 4 but if they are slow remain at 3.

 

[MioTinto]

I'd start out with 4 out of old habit, but if 3 stock proves to be more convient, why not?

 

[AbbiDood]

4 works so well for Melee becouse the game is so fast, and kills happen so early in most Match Ups. Now of course "early kills" could be the case in Smash 4 too, we don't know that yet, but from the looks of it 3 seems like it'd fit perfectly. 3 stock worked.. kinda good for Brawl I guess, but matches still took forever sometimes. Considering this game is "a faster Brawl/Brawl 2.0" going by a lot of what I've read, 3 seems like it'd work just fine.

I'm one of those people who'd love to test 2 stocks too, mainly becouse I like the "win 2 rounds to win a match" feel that Killer Instinct has. But hey, we'll see. Maybe others would like to try it too.

 

[Losho]

I believe that it will start with three and if for some reason it needs to be changed it will be.

 

[DoctorDub]

In light of recent news and game-play from more recent builds, I feel we'll start off with 4. Whether or not it's stuck with, I don't know. We'll have to see how the Meta develops.

 

[HeavyLobster]

Start with 3 stocks because the blast zones are still very far out and recoveries look really good.