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, if they recover low, trying to intercept PKT2 with the soccer ball or sun salutation is difficult and risky. If they recover high (which is usually a terrible option for Ness anyways) or mid way, it's an option but there's still the chance of Ness baiting the sun salutation to use PSI Magnet. As for the Soccer ball drop, the timing is extremely precise to actually use this as a gimping tool from above. First you have to be the right distance from the ledge so you don't accidentally SD when you cancel the headbutt, then you have to predict when Ness is actually going to use PKT2 so you have to be just the right height to let the ball drop right in his path, and then you have to worry about a potential ledge trump if your timing was off because he's likely going straight for the edge. For Sonic, it's significantly safer because he launches himself so high but you still have to have the timing down pat for the spring to hit him to cut the distance of his recovery or even just to stun him a little bit so he has to reset it.
Serious answer time. I get where you're coming from but that sort of mentality only ends up limiting yourself as a player. Barring a few outliers, you can do well with characters who aren't strictly top tier, and we've seen it happen from time to time. It's a shame when "X" player drops "Y" character, but it's not something you should dwell on. I'm not sure I dig your analogy either... if your old friend went to law school and found success, is that necessarily a bad thing?
Considering the significantly large size of Smash 4's cast compared to other Smash titles, balancing the tier lists to where the gaps between upper-mid and top are reasonably small is the ideal approach for a healthy competitive scene, in my opinion; if within a cast of 58 characters the same matchup occurs in grand finals at a startling rate compared to other high tier characters (Sheik vs ZSS), there's an issue with balance, even if those two characters are #1 and #2 on the list.
Yep that's him
I mean, there's no reason to write it off completely unless you've experienced and explored the matchup yourself. Just because Cloud is a better character doesn't mean he might not have bad interactions with worse characters (insert Dr. Mario reference here).
Well "good matchup" for Jigglypuff doesn't actually mean it's favorable for Puff, just that it's awkward for the opponent. Puff doesn't actually have good MUs so much as MUs that force the opponent to play differently than they normally would due to Puff's weird physics. It's probably one of Puff's best high tier MUs though.
Think of this like Young Link in Melee. He was often a counterpick character against Peach and Jigglypuff for a while, but still had a losing MU against them. It was just an MU that forced the Peach/Puff player to think more or was better than their alternatives.
Pretty much this. I used to play Jigglypuff, and she doesn't really beat anyone. But I could do well against most players simply due to them not being comfortable with Puff. You cannot combo her very much, and she moves about in an unorthodox manner that makes her hard to hit. I beat/took games off of local players who were better than me or played better characters with Puff, through their inexperience making them flounder enough for me to exploit.
He quit on the dream of doing what he loved in favor of doing something he knew would work (ie maining Sheik/ZSS).
Well, yeah. That's what most people maining characters below A tier are doing.
It isn't Genesis, it's apparently a weekly featuring a bunch of Japanese players.
Yea, then he'd be olimar.
Clearly, his helmet is airtight.
It's almost exactly fox's level.
Pretty sure this one tournament is not using G3's ruleset.
Yeah, but the problem was they literally spent the entire match saying "I think that's a fair... Nah, might be a neutral B. ...Oh, that jab looks bad", and stuff like that.Pretty sure this one tournament is not using G3's ruleset.
G3 banned any sort of modification, including appearance, and the Fighter had to be created out of a Guest Mii.
Norcal, Land of the Free*
Also can throw people into the can.
I think commentators could use some fixing. Their hitboxes don't match the visual effects.
Hmm... That is rather interesting... G&W new Wario counter confirmed.
This isn't really an apt comparison because while Gunner's Fair autospaces and the projectile is faster, Villager's Fair kills on startup.
