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dude your first post is sad...
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dude your first post is sad...
- Snake has fire power coming out his well popularized *** (and not Wario-like in any way.) With homing missiles, what looks like a great recovery and his special Smash attacks, he can’t not be noticed as a unique character. The first character that actually has an attack where he can plant something...and it’s a Smash attack? Snake is plenty versatile and considering he’ll be mainly and ground planted fighter (for the most part), he’s going to be a pain to fight. Can’t be too far for too long. With explosives all over, he’ll cause havoc and have to be watched. Not only at what he’s doing, but everything around him. He’s a regular person with bombs. His greatest weakness may be in the air. If you can keep him up there, he should be easier to handle. He’s not the fastest character but he obviously can finish and chances are, he can do it many different ways. That makes everywhere unsafe. Close up, he may have difficulty defending himself. He’s easy to maneuver around but not easy to approach head-on. If you let him stay on the offensive, he’ll be quite the challenge.
Key Points:- Long range land specialist
20%A-80%L
Advantages: Good finishers, good projectiles
Disadvantages: Lacks agility
Potential: 94 Initially: 55
Olimar?
Regarding Snake...LAND MINE SMASHES???? Ok, what's his best option when someone rolls behind him? "Lets plant a bomb! I'll only get hit a few times! Then explode by my own device!"His UpB will even leave him exposed. It looks like Peachs Parasole but high lifting without that massive priority.
His UpSmash is shooting (again). Link isn't going to get hit by that in the pic, then what can Snake do?
He's on extreme sides of Ness strengths and Ganon weaknesses.
Snake has great fire power, can force people to approach him and keep them away. But his attack speed is (without question) slow and leaves him open plenty. If he is always on the offense, he'll do good. But when they get to him he'll be often vulnerable. He will be balanced mind you, I just think he's going to be tough to get used to.
Who do you main? If you main Ganon and Ness, it'll be an easy conversion. Link and Falco(alaDyce) not so much. They can protect themselves from all sides at all times effectively. Far and near. Snake, meh...
I can really say they all SUCK against the wrong matchup. Snake SUCKS>no more or less. But I'll still say he sucks, against Mario I would think for sure. Mario would get too close.
I agree, you did say "Olimar?", I just wanted to state my opinion as well.Rhyme - Olimar, the first word I said after that post
Snake like Ganon, that's again what I said
Match-ups and tiers etc...you might as well just had quoted me.
You sound like you're arguing but you're basically agreeing![]()
BTW Snakes SUCKS!
Edit: I'll say it again.Snake SUCKS
I'll back my statement up if you have an argument worth debating that states he wont.
Haha, sweet detective work Rhyme.You definitely just said that Snake sucks and you want someone to try proving you wrong.
I'm getting a bit peeved because you seem to be on both sides of the argument. Please just pick one of the two stances so we can discuss properly.
........This Pic means one of the Following....
POLITICALLY CORRECT VERSIONHaha, sweet detective work Rhyme.
Snake IS going to be a good character. Like you said, all 3rd Party guests will be great fighters, otherwise their creators would be greatly offended. (If Sonic ends up fighting as well as his games do... oh boy...)
I'm seeing an overall revelation this time around for every character though. I'm going to say that all fighters could all easily be put into Top, High, and Mid Tiers alone. I don't think Sakurai will make the same mistakes again (Mewtwo, Kirby, Ness, Pikachu...)
Who's Smashkid?My predictions on the FULL ROSTER, (no summary)
Samus - Zamus - Ridley
Krystal - Fox - Wolf
Meta Knight - Kirby - Dedede
DK - Diddy
Ike - Marth
Link - Zelda - Ganon - CSLink - Sheik
Pikachu - PT - Jiggs - Mewtwo
Mario - Peach - Bowser - Luigi - Bowser Jr
Lucas - Ness
C Olimar
Pit
Smashkid
Balloon Fighter
Little Mac
Mach Rider
Isaac
C Falcon
Yoshi
Wario
Ice Climbers
G&W
Sonic - Snake - Megaman
44 Total
Complete Balance
Brawl
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Sorry I put all that junk into your quote, but I couldn't communicate on a sophisticated level unless I could read what you had typed while I was typing. If you need to do an in-depth response like I did for your post, just copy the quote window on the thread page, then select (multi-)quote, paste that into the window, and work off that.HAHA Rhyme - Perfect
Links "Potential" is higher than Marths in melee. At full "Potential" Link will dominate Marth in every way. Marth is still higher in the tiers.
Note: Marth and Link will never be equal in the tiers, regardless of "potential" and human error. Some reasons off the top of my head include:
1) If Marth spaces his counter correctly, you'd need to be frame-perfect to recover with Link and get passed this annoying downB and the Dtilt.
2) Marth outranges and outprioritizes almost every single one of Link's correstponding moves. The only advantages being that Link's Usmash is faster than Marth's Usmash. (Link's and Marth's Uairs are both fairly instantaneous, same for the Nairs. Oh, one exception, Link's upB outranges Marth's. But it has SOOOO much punishable ending lag. =/)
3) Marth can outmanuver Link, and because the majority of Marth's attacks are so fast, he won't suffer from throwing a "punch" and missing as Link will.
4) Marth's grab and juggle game are infinitely better.
5) Marth's arguably the best edgeguarder in all of Melee.
6) Any single swing of Marth's sword cancels Link's projectiles, which render's them fairly useless on Marth's ground-based approach.
Regardless of how much "potential" Link has, Marth has more. **Four and five aren't specific advantages over Link, but over all other characters in the game (which includes Link, so those points are valid).
In a balanced game, potentials are closer yes (notice I said they're all from 88 to 99, what is that? an 11% difference), but still vary because of their differences (even you would say that to have perfect balance you'd need to remove variety).
Yes, I'll admit to that. I also don't think that Sakurai is the type of person to sacrifice variety for balance - thus variety will exist, and thus there will not be balance up and out the whazoo.
Potentials are rarely reached and no matter what happens, "tiers" will form. Whether it's a tier list for the masses that change over time or tier lists to certain regions, large or small. In the "smash world" tier list (the one frequently on the net), Marth/Fox etc...are considered the "top tier". I have yet to face a Marth that can beat my Link. Or a Fox that can beat my ICs. Or a Sheik that can beat my Samus. Or a Falco that can beat my Pikachu. Does this mean they are higher on the tier? No. But non-the-less they are genuinely better when used correctly.
OK, the tier list also has an admitted fault. A character on the bottom, such as G&W, can potentially counter a character much higher than themselves, such as Falco. That's not made up, either. Just becaues a character is low doesn't mean they can't counter one character who is ranked higher, but what about the 25 other characters in the game? G&W does well against Falco, but put him against Fox, Marth, Peach, Shiek, Falcon, Samus, Ganon...are you seeing a pattern emerging? Good.
If you aren't facing a good opponent than the tier list hardly matters. However, that doesn't prove the tier list doesn't exist. You can't say that Link has potential because you can beat Marths with your Link. Aniki is the best Link in the world, and even he can't stand up to Ken (Marth) or Captain Jack (Shiek) because his character isn't suited to fight against these characters. So no, Link will never be "genuinely better" than Marth, Shiek, or Fox, no matter how "correctly" you can use him.
(And I've fought some **** good smashers and lots of them.)
Yeah? Like who?
At the same time, Marth is a better character when fighting a Peach or Falcon (who Link has trouble with). And does stand as much or more of a chance against many characters. (that's where match-ups come in) and that's why he's higher on the tier.
Right, so "character matchups" as you say, or "counterpicking" as I say, still exists. That's how Melee was played, and you seem to agree that this counterpicking method of beating characters will still exist in Brawl, so how are the characters equal again?
Potential is reached when a character is used without the slightest mistake, properly and perfectly. I'm not there, you're not there, I don't think anyone is perfect but the closer you are to perfection the better the character is in your hands. And Link has more potential than the likes of Fox. He's much harder to bring to perfection as he has such a "variety" (again that word) of possibilities in battle. Fox etc may overwhelm most characters with their speed and approach quickly, but if Samus is used "perfectly" Fox can't touch her. Even if Fox is used "perfectly", the reflector and speed isn't enough to get through her stength, range, weight, priority and recovery advantages that she has over Fox. You won't be able to shinespike her to finish her and she isn't slow enough to fall from his speed. When every move made truly counts, there's no chance, that's why human error is the decisive factor. (And that will always be the greatest factor for anything related to everyday life.) After all, that's what seperates Competitives from n00bs. It's not like the characters are worse for them.
I'll agree with that. I also acknowledge that I haven't reached a state of perfection, nor will I ever reach that state; but I hope to be d*** close one day.
It's true that Fox is harder to perfect than Link. However, Fox is more capable at fighting than Link is, whether you consider today's metagame or character perfection. You can't say "If it weren't for human error, Link would be better than Fox." Actually, due to the high level of technical ability necessary to play Fox, error is what keeps him from outmatching Link entirely. Ever tried playing against a Fox with Link on Slo-mo Melee? You probably didn't win because there's little room for error at this speed, and the inherent advantages Fox has over Link are MUCH more greatly emplasized. Human error prevents character perfection, but after six years, I'd say that we've evolved the metagame to its highest level. At this "highest level", all advantages and disadvantages have already been accounted for. This is the highest level of play, this is the greatest level of mastery that we smashers will ever obtain in Melee, and Link still can't compete with the high tiers.
Don't throw that Samus junk at me. The only reason Samus can avoid being shinespiked is because Fox players can't always move their fingers fast enough or time spiking through her upB consistently enough (which is possible, just difficult). Ever seen SDM's "Adventure"? This is the amazing level of perfection that Fox can reach. If every character's potential were fully realized, Fox would be banned from competitive play.
Actually, "n00bs" have trouble hitting with Marth's tipper. One contradiction to a "true statement" proves a logic statement wrong, therefore characters are "better or worse" for different people, like competitive smashers and casual players.
Snake SUCKS was actually a joke but
I dragged it on to see what people thought. Unfortunataly there weren't too many people around to voice themselves meh...it was a fun argument. Snake will be a big adjustment for people who want to main him. I know when I've had a few battles with certain characters and then be G&W, I always want to use DownSmash when someones behind me which really isn't the right thing to do), I have a feeling there's going to be alot of that with Snake. No biggy. Snake won't be top tier. Vulnerability eliminates that, but inevitably he won't be bottom because he can actually finish and has a distant recovery. I'm not really on a side in the endHe'll be right in the mix, I'm sure he'll be high on the tier quickly because of the mass population that's going to experiment with him...ALOT! But in the end it will all even/balance itself out.
Oh, alright. I guess you're glad to know that I can be easily provoked. ^^
Eh, you mostly agreed with me there...with one varience: I don't think Snake will "balance itself out" in the end. I believe he'll always be near the top of the tier list. But that's just me, and your opinion's just you, so I don't see a need to debate this until Brawl is released. We're not going to agree with eachother about this insignificant point.
Indeed, balance is no more than having one large tier. The fewer the better and if there end up being 3 or so, that's as good as "balanced"
They know what to look for now, there will be less mistakes and more mistakes will be fix. That doesn't leave many mistakes (ala M2/Kirby). Human error exists, even with a massive team of experienced geniuses that are wise through what they do. You can't be perfect, don't think anyone is. (didn't I just say that, it doesn't have to be said thrice.) They've done this twice now, three times a charm, lets wish them luck too eh?
So you agree that this game won't be balanced? I can't quite tell, you kinda worked around full clarification like a politician. I'm not expecting any greater level of balance in Brawl than what existed in Melee...but that's OK. As far as diverse fighters go, Melee was fairly balanced. I just wish there weren't any broken characters.
Balance For Brawl
P.S. I just played a great show
Discredit that, a PERFECT SHOW
P.S. I love the Razz![]()
Edit: Oh my I can't wait for Luigi, I think I'm in love with the WD into Uppercut-of-DOOM!
Didn't you just say that nodoby's perfect? You absolutely couldn't have put on a "PERFECT SHOW". Lol. What instrument do you play, by the way? Or are you a vocalist? Performance artist? Please, do tell.
Haha, Utilt death FTW! Next to Marth's, Luigi's Utilt was my favorite in all of Melee.
From whome? Where on the internet is this information located, and is it official? We like sources around here, the more the merrier!ive heard rumors of either marth or roy (probably not both) returning, very recently
1. I stand corrected, neither have I with CJ, I don't think I've actually seen A match. But I've seen vs other Sheiks. But Ken, more than less Aniki gets the W. Again, I don't beleive 12 of them are. But you know what I have to say about that (turns away from argument* hahaha!1. Alright, well I got a bit out of hand on that. Nobody's the best, but they can be close. Still, I've only seen 1:2 (Aniki vs Ken) in sets, and I've never once seen Aniki's Link beat out CJ's Shiek, but that wasn't exactly my point. I was just saying that Aniki could be a better player, but because his character isn't as good, he won't do so well, and that's because some characters are better than Link. (Actually, twelve of them are.)
2.Hm...there's nothing about "Jumble" or "hotstuff" on Youtube, and let me be the first to say that Forward has gotten MUCH better over the last few years. And for the record, I've squared off against some good people as well, so I understand how this game is played.
3.Yes, agree to disagree about Marth.
4.I'm not throwing any doubt into this statement: I WILL be playing you on the competitive circuit one day.And, on that day, I'll look forward to one of the best sets I have ever had.
5.Oh trust me, I'm a Samus main, and D1 has shown me absolutely every reason that Fox is better than Samus. I was only working with what you give me, but know that you don't have to go into the Fox vs Samus argument at all.
6.Falliblism...I like the way you think. Alright, well I've satisfied the primary condition, which is to provide a single instance in which your assertion fails. Secondly, "There are several instances where professional mastery versus casual use of a character can be seen quite noticably. Many new players cannot use characters to their full/intended potential." Newer players have trouble landing Falcon's Fair. They don't accurately space or time the move, and they can't use it while taking advantage of the incredible speed that Falcon has to offer. Pikachu and Mewtwo have two of the greatest recoveries in the game, same goes for Jigglypuff and, yes, Peach. However, especially in the case of the first two, I have yet to see a new player who can take advantage of these amazing recovery abilities. In this way, what was intended to be an amazing recovery winds up being a recovery handicap. Again, newer players cannot utilize spacing correctly with Marth and thus will have trouble using him to his potential. If you're not yet good at L-canceling then there's no way you could play an effective Gannondorf. If you can't take advantage of the Mario's amazing sweetspots than it's all for naught. Basically, I've just described several instances where a statement contradictory to yours is true, and I already showed one example of how yours was false. TAKE THAT, FALLIBISM (which you spelt incorrectly, by the way. )
7.Psst...I heard Dynamism is helping Hillary's campaign. ._o
8.Lol, so you don't think there will be a single Mewtwo or Marth in Brawl? While I'm inclined to disagree, I won't go ridiculing you...at least not until December 4th.
9.Oh really? My girlfriend's a drummer. -watches heads spin- She's **** good at beating those things, too.
10.And what about Luigi's Usmash. I hear talk it once ate Link's Dair. Oh, and this one time, in a friendly of my Samus vs Plank's Shiek, an Usmash ate my fully charged shot and nearly killed me. The same Usmash! I was at 135 at the right edge of battlefield. Thank Sakurai for DI. True story.
1. Lol. Link's 13th on the tier list which is why I was making the joke. And honestly, I haven't seen much in the ways of Aniki (Link) beating Ken (Marth), in fact I've seen exactly one match where that has happened, but you're the Link main and I trust you've been studying up so I'll believe you...at least until I find time to kill and I can look at some matches between the two which, since I'm at college, could be a while.1. I stand corrected, neither have I with CJ, I don't think I've actually seen A match. But I've seen vs other Sheiks. But Ken, more than less Aniki gets the W. Again, I don't beleive 12 of them are. But you know what I have to say about that (turns away from argument* hahaha!
2.Me and hotstuff were actually gonna put a video together, but it will probably be in october. And it's more just weird tactics, like the things that we do that we haven't seen before. (ex: I do this crazy Jolt Uair Dair thing with Pikachu that totally kills any fastfallers. No escape. And another one with Link Bair and Uair on chars around Marios weight.) We're all more underground, just play tourney goers between tourneys. (mainly Jumble, then he plays me) "correction" I played Forward late last spring, late May maybe. I remember cause I broke my nose twice within the next 2 monthsIt was very breif. Ha, and I wasn't really ready for smash, I came back from vacation and had 2 nights to occupy myself staying at my aunts. It was in a tourney and played two rounds then had to go home. I still managed to win both best of 3s. It was fun
one vs him (so only a year and a bit, but yeah we're all better so no big deal)
I'll tell you when I get one up on the Tube
I'm sure you have and do, that's why I'm enjoying this conversation plenty
3.Agreed.
4.Just read that exactly, right back at you.
5.Agreed and good to hear.
6.ok sorry jeezFalliblism. Secondly um...how is that contradicting what I said? Really? I'm not understanding. I think what you said is what I said but you said it better
What I'm understanding is that a new player doesn't know how to use a character and therefore the character in their hands is worse. Which is true, but the character itself isn't any worse because it is the human who doesn't use the character properly. Which is what I said and is also true.
At least that's what I'm getting. Again what we both said still applies...I would think. Can you tell me what I said that you're proving wrong, I got lost here. I'm sure what I said (or you) was either poorly written or misinterpreted.
7.oh....wowI seriously laughed and frowned at that one at the same time
8.If it does heppen, I'll be ready to accept and be flamed.But I'm sure it will take more than a day and of course (I hope) they use the net to fix it.
Doubt that will be needed, you ready for some flaming?
9.Good for her...and you
On that note, I just scored the overtime winner in a hockey game. In a mens league here called the Music Hockey League (MHL). And now I'm going to jam night to jam with some of the best musicians in town.Every Sunday for the rest of the year! funfun!
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WOOT WOOT
10.Sheiks Usmash isn't asas Luigis but haha *shakes fist* "SAKURAI wait." *puts hand down* I hope it's a more looked at trait in Brawl too
DI FTW
P.S. September 28th (this coming Friday) is our last show and then we're just doing art and crap for our album and lining up tours, (which I don't have to do) so I'll be going somewhere to enter some tourneys. Maybe actually losethat would be GRRRREAT! The band is another reason we haven't made a video, hotstuff doesn't want to do it himself but it takes time.
Point in me saying this: And just incase you'd know *crosses fingers* are there any tourneys in Oct in Vancouver, Canada? (I don't live there but it's close)
P.P.S. oh my, I just had to erase all the smileys in your quote cause I made too many HAHAHA!
Edit: Hiding in the dust, someone asked "Who is Smashkid?"
That's what I'm calling the generic AC char to appear in Brawl, it's a good name for someone who has none, and the stage is well...
LOL! None taken, nominal misspellings aside.2) Is that...why...it can't be...a...BULBORB! Pikmin! Oh how I've missed thee. With your standard enemy from Pikmin rendered so beautifully next to the repugnant Tinkle, what does this say of Captain Olimar? Can we get a Character Update Friggin' Friday, anyone?Lmao...CUFFs. You think Sakurai's bound with CUFFs every now and again? Perhaps he's got a kinky side. *cough*bondage*cough* Sorry for stealing your clever humor, Aires, but I just HAD to do it.
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Yeah, I noticed. I EFFING NOTICED!Not gonna lie, I'm rather surprised nobody's brought up Tingle yet. Anyone else notice that his trophy was the cell-shaded rendition from Wind Waker? In the same shot as several non-cell shaded trophies? Am I building to something? Yes. In the past, one arguement against CS Link's inclusion was the possible difficulties in tossing a cell shaded character into the Smash Bros. environment. Well, seeing Tingle's trophy together with the Nintendog, ect certainly would tend to suggest that Nintendo has already been addressing that issue. A confirmation of CS Link for Brawl? Of course not. Something to think about? Definitely. I say this all begrudgingly of course, because as I'm sure I've established, I'm a 1-Link per Smash Bros. supporter, but I've got to call the fact how I see them.
Haha, yes, humbly indeed. ^^ I was just so excited and tired at the same time.Rhyme, good call on predicting the return of the trophies. In fact, I distinctly remember your post, which you so humbly dug up for us, so in a pinch I guess I could vouch for you. But only if you support my campaign for a better Mario movie. After all, I can't be just handing out my vouchers.
Wait...what misspellings? I thought I did a good job.LOL! None taken, nominal misspellings aside.I only disagree because I want a Character Update sooner. Let's go back to CUTing tomorrow!
Awesome trophy, I approve. (XD After your troply's italicized, he looks like he's got scoliosis.)Happy Birfday ylink_underestimated!
I got you a present. It's a trophy!
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That was you cuz you're my Super Smash brother! (Now everyone go "Awwww!")
And I guess there's no hope for Tingle, Dr Stewart, Ooccoo, or Slippy for PCs. Though, I could very well be wrong. Three things though:
1) rAT, I couldn't agree with you more about CSTingle's relationship to CSLink. Let the speculation continue!
2) Captain Falcon HAS to be in. There's no dancing around the subject now, Sakurai. If we don't get a CFalcon update this week, I'm going to SPLODE!!!
3) No one cares about Slippy or Ooccoo anyway. Not a big deal.
That did make me go aww!That was you cuz you're my Super Smash brother! (Now everyone go "Awwww!")
I say this all begrudgingly of course, because as I'm sure I've established, I'm a 1-Link per Smash Bros. supporter, but I've got to call the fact how I see them.
Yeah, I noticed. I EFFING NOTICED!I feel the exact same way: one Link in each Smash Bros. is perfectly fine. The fact that Tingle has rekindled my flames of hatred makes me angry with him for the first time. Ohh, Tingle...
That's what I'm talking about!^ Are you depressed because of Tingle too? Or are you depressed becasuse they're depressed because you're obviously a softy. Nah I'm kidding, I went awww tooThat did make me go aww!
Happy birthday, y_link!
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No, I'm depressed because I like them but they don't like WW Link. It's conflicting.That's what I'm talking about!^ Are you depressed because of Tingle too? Or are you depressed becasuse they're depressed because you're obviously a softy. Nah I'm kidding, I went awww too![]()
SCRM. But now I can actually go by SCRAM. Which will be perfect when I play Diddy. Scramble!By the way, what tag do you go by when playing? It's one of those random things I'll remember 4 years down the road while watching Brawl videos and be like "ZOMG, I KNOW that amazing smasher...got'ta get his friend code!"I'll get around to looking up my Wii number one day, and at that point I'll put it under my info so everyone can find me. Got'ta learn from everone so I'll be that much better.[/COLOR][/FONT][/B]
Lol, alright. I'll keep an eye out for ya' then...if I can remember that name.**** Canadians![]()
Watch your TongueC.FalconKnee update Friday, just watch