UltimateShinigami
Smash Journeyman
I've noticed that all the brawl matchup vids we've been seeing have had the combatants playing with 3 stocks. Does anyone else find this strange? At this point in my life I would naturally assume that even melee pros, American and Japanese alike would put it on 4 stocks, but then I realized, this is Brawl, not Melee 2.0 (goodness how many times I've heard that said). So then I thought about my SSB past. When I was little (later elementary-middle school) my friends and I played with 10 stocks. After we found more people in my neighborhood that played, we realized 10 was too long of a match for people waiting their turn. So in SSB 64, we started setting it to the amount of stocks right before your stock icon changes to the multiple faces (I hope you get what i mean because i'm too lazy to clarify).
This was good for a while, and we continued this until we found out about proper competitive play, since we had long since abolished items and always strove to be the best, only playing FFA after someone got mad that they lost and wouldnt pass the controller, so then evevryone would play, keeping the sore loser from getting their rematch at that moment.
When I learned of the pro's using 4 stocks, I immediately told all my friends, and they willingly changed to that. I always thought of it as the perfect number because the game isn't too long, but I always felt as though with 3 stocks, you don't have enough time to come back if you're losing.
So why has everyone been using the default 3 stocks in Brawl and do you think that will change in the future?
This was good for a while, and we continued this until we found out about proper competitive play, since we had long since abolished items and always strove to be the best, only playing FFA after someone got mad that they lost and wouldnt pass the controller, so then evevryone would play, keeping the sore loser from getting their rematch at that moment.
When I learned of the pro's using 4 stocks, I immediately told all my friends, and they willingly changed to that. I always thought of it as the perfect number because the game isn't too long, but I always felt as though with 3 stocks, you don't have enough time to come back if you're losing.
So why has everyone been using the default 3 stocks in Brawl and do you think that will change in the future?