A character you're simply better with than your main?

[P-J]

Confession time: I love using Lucina. Her spacing is super fun and her combos feel rewarding since usuallly they're attributed to solid gameplay or bad DI by the opponent. HOWEVER. I'm way better with Charizard. He survives way longer and has easy kills (grab and up-throw at <110% with rage is a guaranteed kill pretty much).

If an opponent is giving me a hard time, a switch to Zard usually gives me better results than good ol' Lucy.

Does anyone else have this "scenario" in their gameplay?

 

[Jaypen7]

If you do better with Charizard than Lucina, you may as well play Charizard and keep Lucina as a secondary

 

[P-J]

I think it's more that Charizard is a less common matchup for opponents and his playstyle can be "gimmicky" for a lack of a better term, so I get better results with him. He's definitely not as fun to play with for me, so that's why I don't "main" him. To be fair, a well placed side-B is probably the most rewarding kill option he has. Lucina's perfect hitbox down-air spike is right up there as well. Thanks for the feedback!

 

[Remi45]

Same here actually, I love Olimar, but usually do better with villager or rosalina...

 

[Kapus]

My main is certainly Peach, and villager and mega man are my subs, but on some odd days I do far better as Luigi than either of them. Sometimes if I feel threatened I'll pick Luigi because i feel safe. It's weird.

 

[DarkAuraful]

Well, there's Marth, who's obviously the better character. I feel like I'm adapting to his spacing a lot and I feel so satisfied tipping things from left to right. Heck, he might even be considered replacing Lucina as my own main! I also feel the same way about Corrin (though not by much) and occasionally Shulk too.

There were sometimes when I feel I do the rush-down job better as Roy, though most of the time he's more of a bait and punish character.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

Does anyone else have this "scenario" in their gameplay?

Everyone does.

It's why secondaries exist.

 

[Frihetsanka]

I might potentially do better with Mario and Cloud than Ness simply because they're stronger characters.

 

[Deleted member]

, weirdly enough.

 

[FallenHero]

For a while my Ryu was better than my Marth, but now they are both at about the same level (my Marth is slightly better but not that noticable).

 

[Kevandre]

I suddenly had a surge of fighting for my friends. I wouldn't consider him a main but I've been doing better with him lately than anyone else, even Ness/Lucas... Which is surprising

 

[FamilyTeam]

I dunno, I'm slowly coming back to Smash yes I do realise that is a bit of a mistake and I feel like is welcoming me back far better than is, even though that really shouldn't be the case considering I've been playing Mario for nearly 10 years and Lucie for barely 10 months. Lucina fits me like a glove, nowadays, because my playstyle always involved short combos and finishing off my opponent as early as possible with a Smash read, and turns out Lucina has the best Side Smash in the game, pretty much, so she suits me.
BTW, I still firmly believe Lucie can be just as capable as Marth, but that might be a disucussion for a different thread.

 

[Frizz]

I can secretly play Captain Falcon really well.
Then again, I guess anyone can.

 

[Axel311]

. I think it's mainly false sense of confidence though just because he lives so long and is so hard to gimp.

 

[CnSyren]

I'm a cloud main, but when I had to play my friends really good villager (I usually lose) without the dlc I pulled out link randomly and won 3 games in a row. Was quite the shocker.

 

[Drig786]

Dark Pit is probably miles better than my toon link, hes my most played character according to the game

 

[FrostyFlakes]

I "main" Toon Link but I feel like I play more smart when I use Marth as I have to be careful with how I approach and I enjoy playing the spacing game with Marth

When I play toon link though..... I just chuck projectiles non-stop and mainly take stocks off people because they just keep running into bombs and boomerangs

 

[Cardboardtubeknight]

Game & Watch

Whenever I have a losing streak with the crew I already have lined up with a figurative approached its like "Oh **** Game & Watch is getting mad! Let him out of the cage!"

 

[GuffMcGufferson]

I main R.O.B. and Captain Falcon, but in all honesty, I somewhat play better with Cloud, one of my secondaries for R.O.B.
It just seems that whenever I'm having a tough time playing R.O.B. correctly, pulling out the Cloud usually works out for me. (Just like it does with everybody else, especially Anti) It's kind of weird in my eyes to play better with a secondary than a primary.

 

[ELITEWarri0r115]

. More than .

 

[Sari]

I love using , but in the end I think I perform better when using .

 

[Bigbomb2]

While I consider Link my true main Bowser has graduated to a co-main status since I end up often performing better with him. His stupid damage output kind of carries me I think. Link's learning curve and the mindset you need to have to be effective with him makes my Link feel weaker

 

[bananette]

My favorite character is and i love using him,but i'm way better with

 

[Jakkun]

I main , but whenever I use for fun, I tend to get better results, plus my combo game feels more consistent with her. Im considering her as a secondary, but at the same time, I have to focus on being more consistent with Robin.

 

[FightingPorygonTeam]

My main is Pacman (Peach is a very close second), but Yoshi is definitely my best character. I can only play Peach with practice, and same goes for Greninja, which can also be one of my better characters.

 

[Shollyboster]

I actually used to be like this. I would go to tourney's and win with my main. Then, I took a break on Sm4sh. When I went on For Glory, everyone was beating me with my then-Main, Lucas. I knew that Ness was considered a higher character, so I started playing with him. Although I enjoy Lucas more, playing with Ness is much more reliable for me because I realize my play style more effective kills with Ness.

Also, I made this wallpaper of characters I like to play. If you want to check it out. Since we are already on the topic, of course.

Edit: Spelling/Grammar

 

[L'Raychel]

Luigi is definitely my best character... as far as consistency goes.

When playing matches with my friends though, I sometimes give them a LOT more trouble when I use Ganondorf. I'm sure it's just because they aren't used to fighting him as often as others. Still, it's kind of hilarious to see one of my friends, who mains Zero Suit Samus, rack up so much damage, just to miss a single attack and then die in one hit from Ganon. xD

 

[Shollyboster]

I suddenly had a surge of fighting for my friends. I wouldn't consider him a main but I've been doing better with him lately than anyone else, even Ness/Lucas... Which is surprising

Ayyyyy lmaooooo Ness/Lucas main hmu

 

[DJBor]

Pretty much how I found Villager.
Right now, it's Ike. Dunno what it is, but my results with Ike are through the roof right now, and he's just a pocket for when I need big disjoints.

 

[jcx]

Even though I consider myself a solo Cloud main, I feel that my Mario is just as good as my Cloud, if not, better. I've been playing Mario a lot longer as well; I've had more time to study his combo tree and matchups than I have had for Cloud. However, I still play mostly Cloud in tournament and I find him much more fun to play, especially because of his disproportionately high kill power. (凶 is life)

 

[Swevester]

No matter how good I become with , all I have to do is TOUCH and I feel like my skill level is the same with the two. I've played Link my whole life, and Cloud's been in the game for half a year and he already feels more fluent. I sometimes go Cloud just to spite a friend of mine who mains . Idk what the Link/Bayo or Cloud/Bayo MUs look like, but she has much more trouble with Cloud and I can tell why. I'm not even really trying, just slinging N-Airs and U-Airs around and it's somehow working.

 

[Ze Diglett]

Like it says in my signature, Mr. Game & Watch is who I consider my "fun" main - that is, the one I almost always choose in casuals - and is definitely my most used character these days. He's such a darn cool character with his 2-D monochromatic frame-by-frame style that I just love stylistically, not to mention his wacky windboxes and RNG Side-B make him an awesome "troll character" for a scrub such as myself. Unfortunately, I'm absolutely no good with him outside of a few select matchups because I just have no fundamentals and, well, Game & Watch is basically all fundamentals. That's why I have other characters like R.O.B., who's been my main since Smash 3DS' release and is now my co-main, Mewtwo, who I've absolutely loved since Melee and is also just a really good character, and even Pac-Man, who's just great fun to use/watch and, at least from this scrub's perspective, has a much lower skill floor than Game & Watch.

 

[Steegan]

is my favorite character by far, and has everything I love in a character (such as powerful grab followups, and a strong projectile game), but I always perform at a higher level when playing . I play Mario at such a higher level that I am eventually going to make Robin a secondary.

 

[Ravengeance]

This I can definitely relate to bc at launch Sheik was the character I decided to main. But she has received considerable nerfs. So I still have more time played with her than anyone else, and by a large margin. Yet, it feels like my secondaries give me better results. Like I still feel like my Sheik is my best character but overall I do get better results with Mario who was like my 3rd or 4th most used character.