I'd believe what you're saying if I hadnt seen reflex vs m2k, or Seibrik vs lambchops. Isn't that supposed to be high level? Isnt that more effective than nyquil at putting me to sleep?
Look, Brawl is a terribly imbalanced fighter, that goes further beyond giving the attacker less advantages. It gives an imbalanced advantage towards playing defensively. Which does
not make for a good fighter, nor does it make it more thoughtful because you have to think before you attack. It means that because I am almost never at an advantage when I attack, I shouldn't attack. The smart thing to do is not to think before you attack, its to not do it in the first place, unless your MK or snake where you're either too fast or your moves go through everything.
Good example of the opposite and how it makes for a good fighting game is Guilty Gear. Generally speaking, you want to attack. If you try to stay back and camp, you lose all of your tension, which is essential really to be effective with most characters. Staying back and spamming projectiles like gunflame and stun edge just doesnt work. It forces a fight, and a very deep and thoughtful one because you are forced to choose between this and that, think about whether they are gonna do this or that.
Not, "wait for them to come and start spamming down dodge to d smash with ROB, or down dodge to grab to insta-**** with Dedede."
Look, I dont want to name any names here, but half of the people i've seen get good at brawl were absolutely abysmal at melee, and it wasn't really a matter of it just wasn't their game. They were just downright dumb players, with no mindgames. Now its their time to shine with Brawl apparently.
No thought required.
And I suppose you can argue that since I don't play the game so I don't have as good an idea about the metagame as you all (even though I did play seriously up until about May, and I still play with and follow some of the top players.) I don't need that sort of personal support to my arguments (why should I need more than knowledge on the fundamentals to point out the fundamental flaws?) You can just ask people like Reflex, ChillinDude, Overswarm, etc...
Dumb dumb game.
It doesn't mean I hate or like you guys any less or more. It just means I think you play a bad fighting game.
Heck, I play melee, that's not a very good fighting game either.
Thats why I'm slowly losing myself to guilty gear
(even though I still suck

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