Eh........ so marth....

[Hydde]

I have been hearing that marth was shid for months.... but today allwhat im seeing is marth ****** everyone on streams

The dude is all but weak...

Just saying

 

[Ffamran]

I have been hearing that marth was shid for months.... but today allwhat im seeing is marth ****** everyone on streams

The dude is all but weak...

Just saying

So the TV Tropes pages goes: Weak, but Skilled. Marth's not a character you charge forward and hope for the best. He relies on precision and positioning. Similarly, Brawl Ike relies on timing, but since he's so strong, it was easy to just spam moves and win.

 

[Rich Homie Quan]

All of the gameplay I've seen of marth has been all over the place. Same with Lucina.

Idk what to think until I get my hands on this game. Things are really weird. I feel like I'm in some twilight zone and don't even know how I got here.

 

[roymustang1990-]

With the footage I've watched,I'm not seeing much of sm4sh Marth's potential yet

 

[TL?]

Really? From what I've seen he is still considerably nerfed like in the e3 version.

 

[Satan-]

Actually I agree with OP but I don't want to make any final judgement until I try him.

False (who's pretty good at brawl) and Keitaro were over at Shofu's house and he was playing Marth and doing really well. In fact, I don't think he lost a single game or at least not while picking Marth. Marth has a lot of potential.

 

[Fex13]

one does not simply nerf marth.

 

[roymustang1990-]

one does not simply nerf marth.

It's too late now and we all have to suck it up. XD

 

[TL?]

Here's a pretty good video with some marth play in it:

It's just one match early in the game, but I think it shows that marth is still at least decent. I like the adaptation of using full hop fair to get around landing with it.

 

[Wraeith]

Everyone was very concerned about Marth's viability before release, but it all proved to be for nothing. Marth is very similar to his previous incarnations and his only viability changes will be as a result of the meta-game changes rather than the character himself. Which is a good thing, most characters seem widely buffed in Smash 4, but Marth was already very solid. Lucina might also be the preferred character, but I still feel Marth will reward spacing more than Lucina, while Lucina will be more content with close-combat.

 

[gigio2000]

I got a jp 3ds with the full game, also i`m a marth main since melee, what I can say about him is that he plays different. Instead of comboing to death, he is more like Ike (in a way). His f-smash is stronger (when tipped), his aerials are stronger, also his horizontal reach like up-tilt and up air are bigger, but his sword size is smaller. What can I say, I like this Marth, this way of playing suits him well. He is not a non-stoppable frenetic comboing and spacing machine, but a calm and tactical sword fighter

 

[Gawain]

He's still incredibly solid. You play him exactly the same as you played him in melee, the only difference being you have to be a little closer and he sometimes has better options now than what you're used to using in certain situations(them being above you being one)

 

[Eternal phoenix Fire]

Aye.

I've been playing a lot of Marth over this weekend, and I really feel like he's really great. I'm going to make a post about it in a while.

 

[Kikkipoptart12]

I got a jp 3ds with the full game, also i`m a marth main since melee, what I can say about him is that he plays different. Instead of comboing to death, he is more like Ike (in a way). His f-smash is stronger (when tipped), his aerials are stronger, also his horizontal reach like up-tilt and up air are bigger, but his sword size is smaller. What can I say, I like this Marth, this way of playing suits him well. He is not a non-stoppable frenetic comboing and spacing machine, but a calm and tactical sword fighter

Well that great News, People made it sound like he was horrendously bad, I can relearn how to play as him.

 

[SaturnFrost]

Was watching VgBootcamps stream Last night and TkBreezy and another gentleman(can't remember his name) did a MarthvsLucina Battle. Marth Definately is still good in this game (So is Lucina who seems like she is what Roy SHOULD've been in melee). The match was super tense and showed some really fast gameplay.^_^. Most of the roster seems to be balanced so most if not all the characters seem viable so far(not so sure about Little Mac and Mega Man yet).