G-reg, lol. He doesn't even main him. He's a smart player.
In all honesty, Ness is a pretty good character imo. There's a few matchups where I think he'd be a much better choice than Mario (Snake and D3 come to mind...), it just didn't help that when the Ness vs Mario discussion came around, that the Ness boards went ballistic when we claimed that Fludd gimps Ness reliably. Some denied it saying that good Ness players "recover low" or "can stall with downB" to deal with it, some wanted to disregard gimping completely in the matchup ratio, NONE really agreed.
After awhile...they kinda lost their credibility in discussing the matchup, they made outrageous claims and everyone just seemed biased. Things got frustrating, so we just decided that "Lol @ Ness" was the way to go....then we made that thread...lol...then Kanzaki made that post...
Boredom does things to you