In essence this thread is a general hub for talking about the mechanics and results of all characters in this game. There are people who have never been to a single tournament, people who attend and do well or bad, people who live around strong scenes or weak scenes, and even a few top level players occasionally. And of course no matter who you are or what your experience and knowledge is, you have to make your opinion known whether you're asked or not.
Whenever there's something obvious to be said about an event related to competitive Smash 4 or a comment inside this topic, the one who says it first is granted a billion likes because "UUUOOOO I WAS THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING WELL SAID BROTHER", although no doubt just about everyone is more or less guilty of this.
Things are often compared in a vacuum without an understanding of the character as an entirety because you didn't want to think about it that way, let alone had any experience actually playing said character. Sometimes this is done with an idea of high level concepts and sometimes not, sometimes with understanding of how reaction times actually work and how they certainly don't (although props to many facets lately trying to change this for the better), sometimes you've taken the time to go through a bunch of resources such as videos and sometimes you haven't, and so on.
Words OP, broken and nerf need to be mentioned in every YouTube video because nice meme and youtube money, results are judged by forgetting what happened a week earlier and without any thought of what's probably going to happen a week from then, and more than anything, matchup charts always warrant attention and discussion.
Unfortunately Smash has a bunch of variables when it comes to interactions between characters, and the misinformation extends to commentary as well which is often forwarded to thousands of people making things worse: a move with weight based knockback doesn't connect properly and the reasoning is "the opponent was at too high of a percentage" or a multi-hit attack whiffs because it was spaced improperly "SDI of the gods". If you're not certain about something, don't pretend to be. TKbreezy made a great comment once, saying that whenever in commentary there's a situation he's unaware about he goes and finds out about it. Most don't do this though.
If you look at all the bad tendencies, you might even want to say **** this community out loud.
Or you might try to make things better and ignore all those things and the people who argue by strawmanning or by continuously proving that they don't know anything about the fundamental concepts within the contexts they're discussing, and instead try to focus on providing constructive content when there's room for it. I've had my share of obvious comments out of boredom, ones that didn't necessarily need to be said, but most of the time I try to be constructive by either bringing up something important that wasn't said, or by playing devil's advocate whenever it's reasonable. There's no point making a post where you say the exact thing that was just said by 25 other people, just in different words, let alone just going "Yes mate! I completely agree with this! Word!". It's unrealistic to have this topic be anything but a mess, but within that spectrum of messiness, it's always realistic to make it less of a one.
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