Pelikinesis
Smash Journeyman
The original opening post of the Metamindgame Spam thread seems to have withstood the test of time, so I'm reluctant to change it in any way. So potential additions will go here.
I suggest that you read the original post: http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=6050396&postcount=1 , before reading or commenting here.
Character-specific Metamindgames off the top of my head:
Olimar: Discard your Pikmin and never pull out more. Just as empty jumps are scary because of what you AREN'T doing, so is Pikmin-less Olimar. Also, people like to kill Pikmin. If Olimar has no Pikmin, people like that are utterly SCREWED.
Falcon: Falcon Punch whatever stage you are on. Your opponent will be afraid of the 10-stock kill increase you get for destroying the stage, and they will block it with their body EVERY time.
Come to think of it, by being bottom tier in the conventional Tier List, he is also automatically Top Tier on a Metamindgamespam Tier list. Being outprioritized by everything, being chaingrabbed, being manly, and being horribly outprioritized just gives a Falcon user that much more opportunity to MMGS.
"How did you like my balls-to-your-fist style?"
Ganondorf: Pick the white-haired/bearded color and tell your opponent that you didn't pick Ganondorf; you just picked Sean Connery. Afterwards, say things like "This is Sparta!" in a Scottish accent. Later on, dair the stage for the exact reason that you would Falcon Punch the stage, and tell them that running into Ganondorf's crotchal region during his Utilt nets them free points.
Luigi: Luigi is rendered absolutely Top Tier with Metamindgamespam. His taunts, his Utilt and Dash Attack, the way he trips every other step he takes, his Crawl......even his Final Smash. He has absolute Metamindgamespam potential.
Pit: Don't use Pit.
Alternatively: "But maybe using Pit would be a mindgame in itself, seeing that he has no mindgame potential. Posted by TKD+ITA+Mar="
Alternately Alternatively: Use Pit's Arrow Loop and make it circle around him then come back at him from behind and yell "PK THUNDER MISSILE!!!" or even better "PSYCHO CRUSHER!!". Watch as your opponent GTFO's to avoid being hit by the corkscrewing psychic-boy rocket of death that isn't there.
Snake: Like Pit's pseudo-PK THunder Missile maneuver, but with the Nikita instead of the arrow.
Also, get yourself stuck with C4 and then chase your opponent around screaming offensive things like "Jihad!!!" and "durkadurka!!!!" and try to kamikaze them in the face.
If you do any other attack, ANY other attack, your Metamindgamespam potential is decreased. Snake's ludicrously ranged, disjointed invisible hitboxes with overpowered damage and knockback take A LOT away from your MMGS capabilities.
EDIT:
I found a way to work with this. Usually, Snake's ridiculously disjointed, ridiculously invisible hitboxes provoke a sort of "OMG I shouldn't have hit you but I DID!!!" reaction. A way to incorporate this into your MMGS article is to MISS while doing his tilts, etc., thus making the reaction one of "OMG I shouldn't have hit you AND I DIDN'T!!!"
Which just shows that you metamindgamed Sakurai and his entire Brawl developmental team. If you could see through Sakurai's MMGS, what chance does your opponent have against you?
Marth: The reason Marth is good in a conventional sense is that most of his attacks are wide sweeps with his sword, with similar startup and ending lag to the attacks (i.e. not much).
This is exactly why you should use his poke attacks (dtilt, Usmash, shield breaker) and nothing else. Primarily utilizing the least efficient moves of one of the most overall efficient characters is Metamindgamespamming at its finest.
MetaKnight: Same as above. However, seeing as nearly ALL of Metaknight's moves are ruthlessly efficient, the only way to Metamindgamespam with this guy is to use Dimension Cape. ALOT.
In short, Metaknight has very little metamindgamespam potential, so provided MMGS isn't banned in tournaments shortly after it catches on, he will be low tier. Sorry mains, you guys had your run.
King Dedede: Chaingrabbing defeats your own Metamindgamespam and sets you up to be metamindgamespammed (Hah! I got you closer to the edge!). Don't do it.
Instead, spam Side B until you get a Waddle Doo (or whatever the cyclopean mini-shoop-da-woop thing is called) and do everything you can to keep it on stage and get it to laser people.
Say things like "It's freaking OVER. Waddle Doo is coming for you!". Once you have one on stage, keep throwing it at people hitting it back on stage when it starts to fall off, and never directly attack your opponent.
Yoshi: Keep shielding and telling your opponent about all of your nonexistent Out Of Shield options.
Jigglypuff: "Use Rest while NOT touching your opponent, stating how this is one of the steps to reach your goals in your masterplan. Posted by Spadefox"
Mr. G&W: Alternately do ledge attacks and his bell taunts for massive noise pollution.
Jigglypuff: Constantly do fully charged downsmashes. Why? Jiggs SPINS while she does them. It's like Dashdancing, without the risk of tripping, and a Smash attack comes out. You can also intimidate your opponent by showing them how fast Jigglypuff can go and how obscene her recovery is, simply by holding down shield until it breaks.
Link/Toon Link:
"Wear a pair of green tights and a funny green hat then pick Link or Toon Link. Also, if your using Toon Link, use sticky tape to hold your eyes open. Don't forget to yell things like "I'm Meta Mindgaming You" and "Watch out for the Master Sword........in my pants.""
~ Posted by Alfa
NOTE: Any mention of pants during a game of Brawl is automatically and irreversibly a metamindgame.
Peach:
Pause and look at Peach's underwear every time you do a revealing move. Tell the opponent that you need Peach upskirts every 10 seconds to play properly.
~ posted by PrepareYourself
Sonic
Keep using the side taunt (You're too slow!) yet never run, so they are in fact faster than you are. They will say something like "I'm actually faster than you!" and you say back "I know. That's the point".
That is where they get MMGS'ed."
~ Tornadith
"the best metamindgame would be to spam ike's eruption (FULLY CHARGED). im not even going to go over all the advantages of this. accept ur letting ur opponent KNOW ur controlling this match." ~ The greatest ROB player, apparently.
Special Maneuver Metamindgames:
Tether Recovery: Use your tether recovery move in the opposite direction of the ledge. It's so metamindgamery that your opponent will most likely jump past you to edgehog the nonexistent ledge you're aiming for. Freaking brilliant.
^Idea originated from Professor Mgw's comment^
Miscellaneous:
"when ur falco or fox bair toward ur enemies while faceing them and encourage them to hit u then they get thinking theyll get pull toward u they fox/falco/wolf flash to recover only to SD of the side becuase in actuallity dimensions just broke and they were hit way from you causing the space time continuum to fall apart and the universe inverts upon itself which would mean u wins"
~ posted by GangstaKirby
(Note on above: The fact that I don't understand any of that makes it a metamindgame. I think I've just been had.)
Counterpick Metamindgames
"Pick 75m as your character, and pick the baseball bat as your stage."
~ TKD+ITA+Mar=
Blog will be updated as I think of MOAR.
I suggest that you read the original post: http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=6050396&postcount=1 , before reading or commenting here.
Character-specific Metamindgames off the top of my head:
Olimar: Discard your Pikmin and never pull out more. Just as empty jumps are scary because of what you AREN'T doing, so is Pikmin-less Olimar. Also, people like to kill Pikmin. If Olimar has no Pikmin, people like that are utterly SCREWED.
Falcon: Falcon Punch whatever stage you are on. Your opponent will be afraid of the 10-stock kill increase you get for destroying the stage, and they will block it with their body EVERY time.
Come to think of it, by being bottom tier in the conventional Tier List, he is also automatically Top Tier on a Metamindgamespam Tier list. Being outprioritized by everything, being chaingrabbed, being manly, and being horribly outprioritized just gives a Falcon user that much more opportunity to MMGS.
"How did you like my balls-to-your-fist style?"
Ganondorf: Pick the white-haired/bearded color and tell your opponent that you didn't pick Ganondorf; you just picked Sean Connery. Afterwards, say things like "This is Sparta!" in a Scottish accent. Later on, dair the stage for the exact reason that you would Falcon Punch the stage, and tell them that running into Ganondorf's crotchal region during his Utilt nets them free points.
Luigi: Luigi is rendered absolutely Top Tier with Metamindgamespam. His taunts, his Utilt and Dash Attack, the way he trips every other step he takes, his Crawl......even his Final Smash. He has absolute Metamindgamespam potential.
Pit: Don't use Pit.
Alternatively: "But maybe using Pit would be a mindgame in itself, seeing that he has no mindgame potential. Posted by TKD+ITA+Mar="
Alternately Alternatively: Use Pit's Arrow Loop and make it circle around him then come back at him from behind and yell "PK THUNDER MISSILE!!!" or even better "PSYCHO CRUSHER!!". Watch as your opponent GTFO's to avoid being hit by the corkscrewing psychic-boy rocket of death that isn't there.
Snake: Like Pit's pseudo-PK THunder Missile maneuver, but with the Nikita instead of the arrow.
Also, get yourself stuck with C4 and then chase your opponent around screaming offensive things like "Jihad!!!" and "durkadurka!!!!" and try to kamikaze them in the face.
If you do any other attack, ANY other attack, your Metamindgamespam potential is decreased. Snake's ludicrously ranged, disjointed invisible hitboxes with overpowered damage and knockback take A LOT away from your MMGS capabilities.
EDIT:
I found a way to work with this. Usually, Snake's ridiculously disjointed, ridiculously invisible hitboxes provoke a sort of "OMG I shouldn't have hit you but I DID!!!" reaction. A way to incorporate this into your MMGS article is to MISS while doing his tilts, etc., thus making the reaction one of "OMG I shouldn't have hit you AND I DIDN'T!!!"
Which just shows that you metamindgamed Sakurai and his entire Brawl developmental team. If you could see through Sakurai's MMGS, what chance does your opponent have against you?
Marth: The reason Marth is good in a conventional sense is that most of his attacks are wide sweeps with his sword, with similar startup and ending lag to the attacks (i.e. not much).
This is exactly why you should use his poke attacks (dtilt, Usmash, shield breaker) and nothing else. Primarily utilizing the least efficient moves of one of the most overall efficient characters is Metamindgamespamming at its finest.
MetaKnight: Same as above. However, seeing as nearly ALL of Metaknight's moves are ruthlessly efficient, the only way to Metamindgamespam with this guy is to use Dimension Cape. ALOT.
In short, Metaknight has very little metamindgamespam potential, so provided MMGS isn't banned in tournaments shortly after it catches on, he will be low tier. Sorry mains, you guys had your run.
King Dedede: Chaingrabbing defeats your own Metamindgamespam and sets you up to be metamindgamespammed (Hah! I got you closer to the edge!). Don't do it.
Instead, spam Side B until you get a Waddle Doo (or whatever the cyclopean mini-shoop-da-woop thing is called) and do everything you can to keep it on stage and get it to laser people.
Say things like "It's freaking OVER. Waddle Doo is coming for you!". Once you have one on stage, keep throwing it at people hitting it back on stage when it starts to fall off, and never directly attack your opponent.
Yoshi: Keep shielding and telling your opponent about all of your nonexistent Out Of Shield options.
Jigglypuff: "Use Rest while NOT touching your opponent, stating how this is one of the steps to reach your goals in your masterplan. Posted by Spadefox"
Mr. G&W: Alternately do ledge attacks and his bell taunts for massive noise pollution.
Jigglypuff: Constantly do fully charged downsmashes. Why? Jiggs SPINS while she does them. It's like Dashdancing, without the risk of tripping, and a Smash attack comes out. You can also intimidate your opponent by showing them how fast Jigglypuff can go and how obscene her recovery is, simply by holding down shield until it breaks.
Link/Toon Link:
"Wear a pair of green tights and a funny green hat then pick Link or Toon Link. Also, if your using Toon Link, use sticky tape to hold your eyes open. Don't forget to yell things like "I'm Meta Mindgaming You" and "Watch out for the Master Sword........in my pants.""
~ Posted by Alfa
NOTE: Any mention of pants during a game of Brawl is automatically and irreversibly a metamindgame.
Peach:
Pause and look at Peach's underwear every time you do a revealing move. Tell the opponent that you need Peach upskirts every 10 seconds to play properly.
~ posted by PrepareYourself
Sonic
Keep using the side taunt (You're too slow!) yet never run, so they are in fact faster than you are. They will say something like "I'm actually faster than you!" and you say back "I know. That's the point".
That is where they get MMGS'ed."
~ Tornadith
"the best metamindgame would be to spam ike's eruption (FULLY CHARGED). im not even going to go over all the advantages of this. accept ur letting ur opponent KNOW ur controlling this match." ~ The greatest ROB player, apparently.
Special Maneuver Metamindgames:
Tether Recovery: Use your tether recovery move in the opposite direction of the ledge. It's so metamindgamery that your opponent will most likely jump past you to edgehog the nonexistent ledge you're aiming for. Freaking brilliant.
^Idea originated from Professor Mgw's comment^
Miscellaneous:
"when ur falco or fox bair toward ur enemies while faceing them and encourage them to hit u then they get thinking theyll get pull toward u they fox/falco/wolf flash to recover only to SD of the side becuase in actuallity dimensions just broke and they were hit way from you causing the space time continuum to fall apart and the universe inverts upon itself which would mean u wins"
~ posted by GangstaKirby
(Note on above: The fact that I don't understand any of that makes it a metamindgame. I think I've just been had.)
Counterpick Metamindgames
"Pick 75m as your character, and pick the baseball bat as your stage."
~ TKD+ITA+Mar=
Blog will be updated as I think of MOAR.
