I'd like to dump some impressions of matches I played earlier. It was against a Sonic main (offline), who played almost strictly Sonic tonight.
First, Ness. I had no problems against Sonic as Ness. I don't know if I ever got spring gimped, ever. Avoiding the spring with my double jump or just recovering high was trivial, and Sonic's inability to cope with fair kept him from really taking advantage of this. Ness advantage imo. 55-45?
Second, Lucas. My Lucas is no where near as good as my Ness, but in the several Lucas/Sonic matches we played I absolutely dominated. I snuck a bunch of PK fires in, much more than in most matchups. Sonic's attempts to d-throw me were met with a tech, d-tilt, jab for 18% a pop. Actually, this happened after every attack I spot-dodged too. Anytime I have the chance to punish sonic, I pull out Lucas's dair combo and bring home the bacon. After he started power shielding my f-smashes, I'd grab him at the end of it instead, still doing over 40% total! I just had this overall feeling that I was doing double the damage Sonic was doing to me.
Third, Ganon. Ganon continued to impress. Matches will suddenly veer a stock either direction at a moment's notice. I might say the Sonic matchup is 55-45 in Ganon's favor. Sonic really needs the spring here.
Fourth, Falcon. Probably even. Matchup is strange to play. Spring very effective.
Fifth, Luigi. Only played a few with him, but Sonic dealt with him well. I had a ton of trouble landing up-bs and had to rely on traditional KOs. Probably around 55-45 Sonic advantage.
Sixth, Peach. My Peach is pretty bad, so I probably shouldn't make any judgement. Still did okay.
Seventh, Bowser. I won all the matches with Bowser I think... but I felt my opponent just wasn't used to him. When he was on his game, he wasn't doing that bad. I think I got most my kills with bair and f-tilt. Didn't get much out of d-throw. 55-45 Sonic?
Eighth, Yoshi. I did well with Yoshi. I actively tried to trade hits, which let to Sonic always having more damage. I felt this was one of the easier matchups, but would hesitate to call it 60-40.
Ninth, Wario. My opponent said he suspected Wario was now Sonic's worst matchup, but then I played him and his Sonic did really good against me. Granted my Wario is sub-par (I can NEVER land farts...) but it was still obvious that the changes made a difference and this wasn't bad for Sonic. I'd want more testing, but I'd believe it if you told me it was even.
Tenth, Link. He was played some in random matchups. Nothing outside the ordinary.
Eleventh, Sheik/Zelda. My opponent had SLIGHT trouble playing solo Sheik. He did better than he did with vSheik, and the change was noticeable, but it still seemed slightly short compared to say his Sonic. He tried switching to Zelda at poor times that let me get KOs. Same story with Zelda. When I played Sheik/Zelda, Solo Sheik did okay, nothing special, and Solo Zelda struggled a bit but got low-% KOs often enough to pretty much make up for any perceived shortcomings. Sheik+Zelda continued to be pretty solid, definitely a force to reckon with. I find I don't get many u-tilts as Solo Zelda, but after transforming from Sheik I get them all the time...
Uh, let's see... I played some Toon Link for a bit, he did okay. The f-smash buff mattered in the matches, and scored at least one KO at a lower % than he normally would have.
I played an ICs match or two towards the end. One of the stronger characters against Sonic, who really struggled with both Blizzard and the difference in damage scale. Not sure what to make of the matchup.
A bit of Kirby, nothing memorable.
We both played a good amount of Meta Knight. I think all matches involving him came down to the last stock, and Meta Knight won about half of them. I actually won one thanks to his down-b buff, when I was desperately trying to sneak in a kill.
I played a ton of DDD at the beginning. I had a lot of success with d-throw chases. Interesting matchup against Falco.
My opponent played several matches as Fox. Pretty much what you'd expect, nothing really took me by storm.
We both played several as Falco. We agreed that Falco is still really good. Really good. I mused that it is possible that Falco could actually be better now than he was before. My opponent thought this is true. Falco won most of his matches, but none of the matchups seemed in his favor by any large degree.
I played a Wolf match or two. Can't remember against who...
My opponent played a few matches as Pikachu. Pika did fine in these, seemed evenish matchups.
I played a handful as PT against Sonic and Falco. One of the stronger characters. I managed to pull off a lot of bullet seeds? I recall winning almost all the PT matches.
I played only one as Jigglypuff, against Sonic. Hard to comment much.
There was one Marth match, against MK. I think Marth barely won, it was really close either way.
G&W... G&W was really, really hard for Sonic. I consistently 2-stocked him with low %s. I don't think he knew the matchup well though, since I was landing more aerials than I should have. Still a matchup to keep some eyes on.
I played several Snake matches. He still does well, but I have to resort to a lot more C4 kills. Sometimes I keep f-tilt fresh and kill with it! Not sure what to say about his matchups... I anticipate a lot of 55:45 Snake's advantage matchups.
Just a question for the creators of this:
Is a PAL non-HBC version in the works or are you guys finished working on this? Just so we know if we need to add HBC or if we can wait for the non-HBC release. Thanks in advance.
Someone is working on it I heard, but I'd suggest going ahead and installing HBC if you can. It's not much trouble.
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