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How far did Will get? Can't find him on Challonge
While I really want to say otherwise, we have to keep in mind of Player skill as well. Simply put, Ally is on a different plateau than his competition, only rivaled by NAKAT, whom I believe went on tilt after Set 1 of GF. So as it stands, we can't say "Mario has good MUs against the top tiers". We can only say "Ally can win against the top tiers using Mario", which simply means Mario is tournament-viable.
There has been more than enough times where NAKAT stays at the ledge, and his opponent bum-rushes him and NAKAT just grabs and uses B-throw of doom. There have even been players who shield on the ledge while Ness is recovering, and he just gets up from the ledge and grabs then throws.
Well, making uair have a KBG closer to, say, ZSS's and making it a little more sluggish would mean that you have to actually trap the opponents, rather than free combos, and it would mean that he can still kill off a grab (which, with his grab, is still wicked good), but can't do it for free at 110 on lightweights. Or maybe make his grab have slightly better KBG, so that you can jump out of dthrow->uair before it starts killing.
Wesker.. In MvC3?
You can usually make diddy's dthrow uair not a true follow up at kill percents especially lighter characters. You can get out of it earlier than you think.
Nope nope. I dunno where people get this impression, but Kirby gets basically exactly the same power he copies, although sometimes it's a little scaled down to Kirbysize. The sword he gets from Marth and the punch he gets from DK are smaller, for example. Although the DK punch is still deceptively large, and the shieldbreaker is still a useful disjoint! Also, Bowser/Charizard flame breaths are amazingly good, actually. It's literally free damage when spaced well, especially since you're using it on big heavy characters.
It depends on distance. Close to Kirby is the "grab" part, and far away is the windbox part. If the windbox is pulling you in, you can shield it, or roll away for free. The only time the windbox is useful is if your opponent doesn't know how to space their moves against Inhale, and they try to Fsmash you or whatever from too far away, whiff, and then get pulled in by the windbox during their move's ending lag. In other words, it's useless against competent players.
I was laying in bed not-sleeping last night, so I decided to look at Twitch on my phone. I loaded in just in time to see the very last game, in which he bodied Mr. Pikachu. It was quite amazing.
I'm going to have to watch the rest of his matches before I can really judge, but I think he's winning because he's good and because his character has options. The match I saw, he looked simply dominant. I can guarantee you if he had dedicated his time to a character with fewer options, and lower quality options, like Kirby, he would still be capable of winning, but the struggle would have been more obvious, and it would be hard to say he "looked dominant."
UMvC3 specifically. He was so easy to use and powerful that he dominated the early meta, but his weaknesses started getting exploited eventually that he dropped in usage significantly.
I really doubt it. As said, Wesker's biggest weaknesses came in three places: he didn't do very much damage compared to later, more optimized combos (Diddy does phenomenal damage and kills very early; it's hard to see this happening unless someone finds some ZSS tech), his style became obsolete*, and the most important thing of all: his neutral game fell apart. Wesker had a real problem in the neutral game - he dominated the ground, but he had no way to confirm from the top of the screen, where characters like Doom and Magneto liked to live. Once they started to become more popular, and once Vergil took his place as the go-to XFactor Anchor, Wesker just lost his place in the meta. I don't see this happening in Smash 4 for a variety of reasons. Diddy doesn't lack in the neutral. At all. He's got amazing tools for neutral against the whole cast, and unless the game shifts to a neutral setup somewhere else (which I could kinda see happening with things like Villager and WFT on the ledge), he's gonna be great.
Not sheild or a lot of characters can duck under rising fair and just punish him.
NAKAT doesn't play Pikachu seriously from what I know.
I'm really just saying that down the line the meta might shift into something that makes Diddy so much weaker. It took a while for air based mobility and TAC combos to happen and make Wesker not the best character in UMVC3. By th same token the meta might not shift and Diddy could always be dominating
A few times back on the 3ds. Charged Phantom is usually better for shield pressure or as a b reverse punish.
It is now my goal to counter-punch Ness with Little Mac's 2-frame Nair while "trapped" in PK Fire.
Or nair out of it with pacman. (Or just, y'know, avoid the problem with side B absorption)
Never said that you were, but you did imply I was with that off hand remark of DK people don't know WTF they're talking about. I cannot tell you with 100% probability that DK has been nerfed beyond repair, but like I said, let the meta grow. He still can pressure, albeit in a weaker, laggier, and somewhat more nauseating way.
Diddy isn't going to get much weaker. His neutral game is top 5 at worst, his recovery is far from terrible and isn't really a big liability, and he's just good at everything. I could see optimal Sheik or something become a comparable force as the meta develops, maybe even a bit better, but Diddy is here to stay as a top tourney threat barring patches.
Yeah, that was back when people were still actually trying with Zelda.
Alternatively, change the angle of DThrow to 20 degrees so that it can't be comboed into Uair. That alone would make him considerably less irritating.
The main weakness for Diddy people tried pointing out was "He can't recover when low"
NAKAT's Pikachu is still in training and not quite up to the level of his Ness or Fox. That said, Set 2 of Grand Finals was Ally kicking on NAKAT's corspe after the extremely close Set 1 between them. He dominated him regardless of what character he used.
