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CPU's have become spammy and un-playable

hidensheik11

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Has anyone noticed that the AI after the new patch just spam attacks? If you're out of the cpu's range they will almost always spam. I've noticed this many characters, all level 9, like Little Mac spamming neutral b and Jiggs spamming rollout. This is a level 9 Captain Falcon in training mode that keeps using Falcon Kick.
 
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LindenBree

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Hm… I didn't notice a difference between the patches, but I didn't pay much attention to the AI. Now that you mention it though, I recently played a Doctor Mario CPU that kept spamming pills. I shrugged and used his spam to practice perfect shielding against the pills and out of shield options. If all the AI is acting this way now though, that sounds a bit tedious and redundant...
 

Flor@

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When I got my gamecube controller adapter I immediately went into offline smash to get a little practice with the controller that I hadn't used in so long. I was Ike against a CPU Robin and they OWNED me because I could simply not get past their spam and they figured a way through all of my approaches. It was so sucky. I felt like the CPU was legitimately owning me like a pro Robin would. Maybe it just directly countered my playstyle with Ike, but I really could not approach. Probably should have baited spam so they'd use up all their spells.
 

rp17000

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Idk I sorta feel that they are much worse about spamming now, but it's not like they didn't spam before the update. I mean look at this Level 9 Villager when the game first came out.

 

WolfieXVII ❂

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I've noticed this as well
I played this LVL9 CF, and as soon as I got out of his range, he would spam down b
 

Mo433

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In training mode, the computer does tend to spam, but in Vs. mode, I have not had much of a problem. In fact, I think that they have made the Lvl 9 CPUs much more challenging which is always welcome for me
 

Tacticulbacon

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I'm pretty sure the cpus in training mode mostly spam special moves regardless of what level they're on, so if you were using training mode to make these observations that's probably why.
 

hero of hyrule2

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I didn't notice but when i play i always act like its training so that may be why
 

SphericalCrusher

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They are definitely more spammy, and they ledge guard better.. but I don't ever play CPUs to win - I play them to create combos and just to mess around. If I played them to win, they're still pretty easy.
 

Samal Lord

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A bit off-topic, but after the patch when I set the CPUs to random I've noticed I tend to get a lot of the same characters and never others. I've fought Dr. Mario a crazy amount of times recently and not once Greninja or Villager since I updated. Could just be bad luck, but it sucks to fight the same characters over and over and keep who I fight random.
 
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Montair

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I've noticed that zelda keeps on spamming her side special and olimar spamming pikmin throw but its on training mode
 
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