Until Sam responds to your post I'll respond. Brett, I really feel as though that you are a good player and a great friend. If it wasn't for you, I would have never even gotten to the level of play that I am now. It's also because of you that I was motivated to improve as much as I did. That out of the way, here is my opinion on this matter.
You are a good player, but that's it. You have great techskill, but poor application. In your matches, you would rather play to impress then to be efficient. An example is doing unnecessary things all the time such as moonwalking and dairing rather than simply edgeguarding someone; which usually leads to your death. This leads to the next problem.
You squander your potential in character development. I know that you can use the majority of the cast to a good degree. You know the basic metagame of all those characters. It's nice to be flexible, but don't you think that instead of being good with some characters, you could be amazing with one? This where the problem lies. You have no main meaning that you don't have a character that you're an expert in. I feel as though that if you actaully learned everything about a character, you would do much better than just switching characters because your losing. This brings me to my next point.
You can't adapt. You have been playing pretty much the same ever since I've met you. This is where the problem lies. Your playstlye is great against someone who doesn't know how to deal with agressive players. However, whenever you play someone who is reactive/proactive such as myself, your playstlye become extremely ineffective due to its predictability. If you would just change the way that you played against people you wouldn't lose as much as you do. Which brings me to the next issue.
You are a reactive type of player. You rely on your opponents basic insticts to gain the advantage in the fight. An example is making a person sidestep dodge out of habit. What seperates a good player from an pro player however, is being a proactive player. What I mean is that being able to create situations that are the most favoritable to you instead of trying to use a person's natural habit. An example is when I wait for you to double jump with Falcon doing an aerial at the last moment. When you do this, I just run away then come back and proceed to chaingrab you with Fox . Once the chaingrabbing begins, you only have so many options after the grab that I calculate the most likely thing that you will do and punish when you get out of the grab. If you simply made a scenario that was in your favor all the time, you could easily manipulate the opponent into doing what you wanted, thus having an immesurable advantage.
All of these points are plateaus to your improvement as a player and prevent you from being the best in DE. For the past year, I have been improving in alsmost every aspect that I can think of. I've played amazing players and tried to intergrate their playstlye into mine. I constantly try new things and do my best to push my gameplay to the next level. Why do I do this? Simply because I want to get better. I want ot be as efficient as possble. That's all that matters to me. To be honest, it angers me when someone squanders their potential instead of becoming as good as they can be. It shows me that they don't care about getting better and would rather do other things. If that's the case then I won't even bother the person because it's like they're a handicap to my progress as a player.
I truly want to you get better. I will be attending tournaments as often as I can, and I want you to come. Don't give me that bull**** that nobody tells you anything. You have your own resources that you can rely on to get information. You should be doing as much as possible to get better on your own instead of relying on others, which means voluntarily contacting people instead of vice versa. If you don't then you're always going to miss out on oppurtunities to improve and then get upset when it was your own fault to begin with. I'll leave you with one piece of advice that my brother told me when I was acting just like you. "A closed mouth doesn't get fed." Depend on yourself and not others to do what needs to be done.
If you truly believe that you are the best in DE then prove it. Not by friendlies, but by going to tournaments and showing to others that you are mature enough to understand your faults and improve on them. Otherwise, you don't deserve that rank. Wheather or not you want to is your decision. I would love to have another person that I can get better with instead of just Mike. I'm sorry if I pissed you off, but this is something that I needed to get off my chest for a long time. I'm just glad that finally had the sense to say it.
