Do you think that Palutena is overpowered?

[Roberto zampari]

Palutena is overpowered because of her moves / attack paterns.
Too overpowered than MEWTWO. Or at least, a replacement for Mewtwo for SSB4.
Anyone agrees?

 

[Thane of Blue Flames]

*facepalm*

 

[Reila]

Palutena is overpowered because of her moves / attack paterns.
Too overpowered than MEWTWO. Or at least, a replacement for Mewtwo for SSB4.
Anyone agrees?

 

[8-peacock-8]

She's a god. So she has her excuse!

 

[Tackman91]

For the sake of my sanity, I'm gonna pretend I didn't read your post and only read the title of the thread.

I believe there is a limit to some of her attacks since a lot of them have ridiculous range, size and speed. It will be interesting to see how they balance her out.

 

[ToothiestAura]

Yes, clearly she is. This is something we can totally tell with only 20 seconds of gameplay.

 

[Burigu]

I don't know if this is a kind of sarcastic, joke thread but I have hated most of these new threads in the new Palutena subforum

 

[Glaciacott]

She WILL be overpowered when I play her.

Won't hold back against anyone

 

[grandpappy]

Mewtwo... was overpowered?

Wat.
O did you meant Project M?

Wat.


Edit so to kind of be on topic: How are we going to determine what the balance of a character is before anyone has played the game? Eh?

 

[Sunnysunny]

*facepalm*

 

[ProjectAngel]

She seems to share similar traits and abilities with Marvel Vs Capcom's Dormammu. She's likely to share the same weaknesses.

So, no, she's not overpowered. You're just being judgmental based on a trailer.

 

[Banjodorf]

She's about as overpowered as Little Mac, Rosalina, Greninja and Mega Man looked after their trailer. It's designed to show off what the character can do and look fun and interesting. Just wait til the fans get their hands on her to make a real judgment.

 

[Lautsuu~]

Pfft, Palutena, overpowered? Reminds me back when people thought Pit was overpowered in Brawl.

Whatever. Palutena's gonna be one of my mains. And I don't even play competitively.

 

[Ryan.]

I wouldn't say that too soon. All the newcomers we have seen so far with their trailers look really powerful.

 

[Cap'nChreest]

Yes. Palutena is the best character in the game she is the new Metaknight/Fox/Pikachu.

 

[Anuran]

It's too early to say anything, I will say i'm not totally thrilled with the new releases today. Pal looks very stong and Mii looks to be a bit too versatile for competitive play. I agree with Tackman91 in that some of the stuff they showed us have "ridiculous range, size and speed" I think she will be the smash equivalent of a caster that has to space an time her abilities extremely well in order to overcome her terrible movement.

 

[Jerodak]

Congratulations! She seems like an interesting character, just make sure to have your mods ready for the obligatory "Palutena is the next Metaknight" thread.

So called it.

 

[StaffofSmashing]

Palutena seems like a character that runs in, beats the crap out of everyone, and then does it again. Do you know how many counters there are to that?

 

[Erotic&Heretic]

She seems not that good as close range, and moves like Heavenly light doesn't have knockback. So I won't call her overpowered. In fact, she seems to be quite the opposite of Zelda. Both are defensive, lightweight characters (I seriously don't expect Palutena to have Bowser's weight ), but while Zelda relies on strong, precise hits, Palutena seems relatively weak, but rack up percentages quickly in big zones.

The only thing I can see overpowered is her speed, as we are now. We need more informations.

 

[Ryu Myuutsu]

INB4 "She is a replacement for Mewtwo"

 

[Cpt.]

.....Well....she does look like a better version of Zelda........but probably too slow to be op.

 

[FrostShock]

I'm just going to go ahead and assume these "Is [insert new character] overpowered?" threads are mandatory now. They don't need to make sense, they just need to be there.

 

[Psychoace]

they gave her like 15 specials lol

 

[ImaClubYou]

Ignoring what you said about Mewtwo she seems to have the range of a falling Snorlax.

But she looks slow start up wise from the trailer.

 

[Koopaul]

It's too early to know anything. The trailer is showing her off, so of course she's going to look good.

 

[κomıc]

I look at it in this way: When they showed Little Mac, I'm sure I wasn't the only one terrified with how OP he looked. Like seriously, he looked unstoppable. Same thing for Rosalina. And as it turns out they are balanced from what we have seen during this E3.

 

[Morbi]

I highly doubt it; again, it is utterly obvious that one must actually play the character extensively to objectively know whether or not they are over-powered. But in the case of Palutena, I am already able to observe some detrimental aspects of her character. She seems to predominately zone, so her close range options are going to be limited, similarly to Samus (or Link to an extent). It seem as though her mobility is attenuated unless you utilize a special. I am not sure to be honest, we shall see.

 

[BBG|Scott-Spain]

I think there's some factor that we couldn't see that justifies her moveset, like requiring a charge or something...

 

[PWN3]

these "Is [insert new character] overpowered?" threads are mandatory now

This is the best thing I've ever seen and it's going into my signature.

To answer the question... What others have said, really. The character trailers exist to make the newcomers look horribly overpowered and awesome, and Palutena's was no exception. That being said, the really screen-filling nature of her attacks is probably accounted for with long charges, low damage or poor knockback. Sakurai is a smart man -- I think, at least -- and he wouldn't just go "lolwhoops" and intentionally make a basic move that deadly.

 

[firekirby]

Her moves probably require charging, or she doesn't do a ton of a damage. It's too early to call her OP, and besides, the trailer was designed to show her off.

 

[Cap'nChreest]

Honestly, Palutena looks like a really bad character...

 

[Ragna22]

If Palutena is OP in Smash then Blacheart is OP in MVC2, the two are very similar in terms of having projectile and ranged attacks that control a bunch of space, clearly Palutena is a defensive fighter.

 

[Neo Zero]

I woke up today, watched some E3, was feeling pretty good about humanity.

Then I saw this thread and the OP

There goes any hope I had left.

 

[StaffofSmashing]

I woke up today, watched some E3, was feeling pretty good about humanity.

Then I saw this thread and the OP

There goes any hope I had left.

Don't be sad.

 

[L9999]

And I though Meta Knight was broken, Palutena is OP and broken beyond belief, and don't come at me with the "she is a goddess" excuse, because we are talking about the games where a pink balloon can kill the King of Evil by SLEEPING in his head. Wait a minute.........a pink balloon can kill a goddess by sleeping in her head!!!

 

[Hokori]

I guess it's too much to ask to let everyone play the game for themselves and see how the metagame develops before reaching conclusions regarding a character's ability compared to the rest of the cast...

No need to even think that far ahead until we actually see gameplay of her like we've been seeing of the other characters these past couple of days. I'm just happy she's in the game and I can't wait to talk smack while gracefully destroying opponents and run-skipping around the stage with her.

And I though Meta Knight was broken, Palutena is OP and broken beyond belief, and don't come at me with the "she is a goddess" excuse

Thanks for the laugh.

 

[L9999]

I
Thanks for the laugh.

You welcome.

 

[GOofyGV]

she has a different customization set therefore she is broken as hell

Meta knight isn't even that good, It's jigglypuff that really has OP status

 

[bigbro2233]

Palutena is overpowered because of her moves / attack paterns.
Too overpowered than MEWTWO. Or at least, a replacement for Mewtwo for SSB4.
Anyone agrees?

Mewtwo? The light and floaty one? Overpowered?

I don't think so.

 

[KMAL]

As far as her moves go, she looks pretty op. For instance, Heavenly light, Seriously, the range on that move.