Shiliski
Smash Journeyman
Up until now, for custom tournaments, the quickest way to check to see if someone was using (tourney-illegal) equipment was to simply look at the icon in the corner of a player's portrait. I'm of course referring to the icon that shows boots for speedy equipment, a fist for attack equipment, a shield for defensive equipment, or a mix of those three for hybrid builds.
It has generally been thought that if this icon was blank and white, then the player wasn't using any custom equipment, only custom moves. Sadly, this is not the case, as it's possible to be using equipment and still get that white, blank circle.
While it's true that most equipment will increase your stats more than decrease them, that's only true most of the time and not all of the time. Some equipment that has really potent positive side effects (such as Improved Launch Ability or Explosive Perfect Shield) tends to have a small increase in one stat and a large decrease in another.
If you equip two or three such items in such a way that you have negative stats for Attack Defense and Speed, you'll end up with the blank, white icon. This way, you can have some pretty nice bonuses that no one will ever see unless they check your customization screen. Considering that money and pride are often on the line when it comes to tournaments, the temptation to cheat might become too much, especially if cheating is this easy.
For the Wii U version, the solution to this is pretty obvious: Make sure any Wii U machines have all of the custom moves but delete all of the equipment. You can do this by selling off the equipment or feeding it to amiibos or.. whatever.
For tournaments using the 3DS version, I'm not really sure how to check this except by looking at each individual player's 3DS and custom move set-ups... or by simply turning customization off.
This is posted just a heads up for any TOs who want to run custom tournaments. It's too bad we don't have a "custom moves only" mode since that's what we'd all prefer, but it doesn't look like we have that choice.
It has generally been thought that if this icon was blank and white, then the player wasn't using any custom equipment, only custom moves. Sadly, this is not the case, as it's possible to be using equipment and still get that white, blank circle.
While it's true that most equipment will increase your stats more than decrease them, that's only true most of the time and not all of the time. Some equipment that has really potent positive side effects (such as Improved Launch Ability or Explosive Perfect Shield) tends to have a small increase in one stat and a large decrease in another.
If you equip two or three such items in such a way that you have negative stats for Attack Defense and Speed, you'll end up with the blank, white icon. This way, you can have some pretty nice bonuses that no one will ever see unless they check your customization screen. Considering that money and pride are often on the line when it comes to tournaments, the temptation to cheat might become too much, especially if cheating is this easy.
For the Wii U version, the solution to this is pretty obvious: Make sure any Wii U machines have all of the custom moves but delete all of the equipment. You can do this by selling off the equipment or feeding it to amiibos or.. whatever.
For tournaments using the 3DS version, I'm not really sure how to check this except by looking at each individual player's 3DS and custom move set-ups... or by simply turning customization off.
This is posted just a heads up for any TOs who want to run custom tournaments. It's too bad we don't have a "custom moves only" mode since that's what we'd all prefer, but it doesn't look like we have that choice.
