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A great post imo
You summed up the problem really well
Happy read
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A great post imo
MK's metagame has nearly stopped. Many other are still evolving. For my main, Sheik still has not really been refined to actually find a best way to play her yet, and Zelda has very recently found a way to momentum cancel as well as a double jump, but without using it and presenting her quicker and more powerful Bair to the stage. Admittedly, the Zelda thing is trivial to the overall metagame, she is still a a poor character, but it is **** useful to Zelda mains. People have focussed on MK and of course he has reached his peak quicker. That does not mean slower developing characters won't find a way to beat him. For example, Bowser has an infinte on MK and many others. Near impossible to practically do, but it exists. How can you say his metagame is far better when it is still developing? If you say it's because other player are swapping to MK, then that only slows progress, it won't stop it.Stuff
I still believe that a character who is good enough to not have a disadvantage against anyone, not have a disadvantage anywhere, and have the tools to make the game utterly unfun should be banned.That is called a top tier character. The fact that Brawl is different doesn't amount to much at all because top tiers will be top tiers even if the objection of the game is to destroy a building. Top tiers are simply the best of the available options to you, and that will pretty much always apply.
Can somebody with a little more patience for wrong information reply to this properly?What do you want me to say? That he can be crushed by ganondorf's utilt? That would be a lie.
I said that he is good but punishable. Specialy with mind games. And so is the fact. Will you try to go over MK's attacks like an animal? Nope, he has the priority. AND he also has the range. Otherwise he wouldn't be ubber.
But look at snake's game. He can use granades and ftilts to give massive damage and then kill with nair (that can be lagless, we all know, making an offensive MK go into the utilt trap) or utilt or sweetspot bair and etcs.
Peach can combo MK to 50%+ easily and then it's up to the player's mind game to kill.
Warios can plank (yes they can) and do like 60% dmg (that's not very difficult, it is?) and then fart.
Marth can use his range and side Bs to accumulate dmg and use fsmash in sweetspot...
So well... the way I said, it'd be simple to kill him. But that's not the way things happen. Normaly MK can do some gay early kill and etc. But some times the opposite happens, he get edgeguarded with his up B and make an error... all kind of things happens in smash.
SO. What I'm saying is that it's all up to the mind games. And MK is good but not broken. Otherwise there would only existe 2 kind of players. The MK and the suicides.
I love MK's face x3~
"Fun" is a word that you should NEVER use in a discussion. EVER.I still believe that a character who is good enough to not have a disadvantage against anyone, not have a disadvantage anywhere, and have the tools to make the game utterly unfun should be banned.
Yes true, so allow me to back him up with a few arguments that i have brought to the boards yesterday, just incase no one saw it:"Fun" is a word that you should NEVER use in a discussion. EVER.
Reason:
"Fun" is subjective. What is "unfun" for you can be "fun" for me, and guess what, playing against Meta Knights is extremely fun for me! It's a challenge to play against good Meta Knights, thus I LOVE playing against him.
I did have a talk with one of my friends about this earlier infact. MK does have bad stages, but it is character dependent. Diddy on FD would be a fast and easy example. The thing about C/P is that there is infact a chance to ban a stage, and to also strike one. MK does have a good advantage on most neutrals, and the one's he can lose to because of it being character dependent can simply be striked.There's way more CP'ing in Melee than you think, especially in the fights with top tiers. If a Marth ran into a really good Sheik, you'd best believe he'd CP Fox on Cornerria.
Granted Brawl is a different game than Melee, they both still follow the same basic principles. The "no bad matchups" argument can easily be said for other games not related to smash at all as well. Just CP to an even matchup if that's the case and pick a stage that isn't as much in Meta Knight's favor. There's your CP. It's not broken.
For one, yes, people do vote for that reason. I've seen maybe 20 minutes of this thread and the entirety of the other three, and yes, people do vote for this very reason.Shut up. This is another argument which is incredibly stupid. That we want him banned because it's good for our mains. For one, no.
I play Zelda/Sheik, I'm not gunning to see G&W and MK banned.I play bowser, I'm not gunning to see Ice Climbers, Diddy or DDD (okay, I want his shortstep and his infinite to go...) banned. I play snake, I'm not asking for a ban on Olimar. I play DDD, I... oh wait he's ****ed by MK too.
this bull****.For two, some have earned the right to be angry. Seen luigi much? Or ROB? ROB is completely invalidated by Metaknight (80/20, approximately). Marth would be top tier if he didn't have a 65/35 vs. MK. Luigi's 70/30 speaks for itself. Metaknight also invalidates a bunch of chars which aren't viable anyways, so I'll save that for another time.
May I ask what that has to do anything with his or my definition of "fun"?Yes true, so allow me to back him up with a few arguments
Oo no, in complete agreement with you on the fun part ^_^ lol. I am talking about the rest of is statements lol.May I ask what that has to do anything with his or my definition of "fun"?
I think he was just saying "Yes, you are correct. Now let me take the time to bring up an entirely different topic."May I ask what that has to do anything with his or my definition of "fun"?
Ah, I see, cause you said "so allow me to back him up with my arguments", cause that's usually meaning that you want to debunk my statement.Oo no, in complete agreement with you on the fun part ^_^ lol. I am talking about the rest of is statements.
Is it fun to watch someone plank for 8 minutes?"Fun" is a word that you should NEVER use in a discussion. EVER.
Reason:
"Fun" is subjective. What is "unfun" for you can be "fun" for me, and guess what, playing against Meta Knights is extremely fun for me! It's a challenge to play against good Meta Knights, thus I LOVE playing against him.
I haven't seen that happen so far, neither I have seen Planking to be the main reason for someone to win.Is it fun to watch someone plank for 8 minutes?
I haven't seen that happen so far, neither I have seen Planking to be the main reason for someone to win.It's objective, sure, but you can easily judge that a vast majority would prefer a fun interactive game than a plankfest.
I actually find playing Wario and aircamping extremely entertaining.Camping is even more fun than planking or air camping.
Thank you.But there's certainly more to it than that. I'll admit that, from a debate sense, that was a mistake and drop that point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4jYJ-Yjf3w&feature=channel_pageI haven't seen that happen so far, neither I have seen Planking to be the main reason for someone to win.
Reading this was the biggest waste of time in my entire life.This thread is incredibly depressing. Not because of the beginning players who don't have a clue (I used to belong to this crowd), not because of the way some people react, and certainly not because I think that the people voting no are misguided idiots. No. It's sad because even with a majority vote, it will be almost impossible to get Metaknight banned. There is no way in hell that this community will get the 2/3s vote unless a lot (in the hundreds) of disgruntled players show up all of a sudden.
And I'm definitely disgruntled. I have my group of friends, and I like to think I'm better than them. I am the best in my playgroup. My Snake, my Marth, my Luigi-all three are at really high levels. And it pisses me off that despite my knowledge of the matchup, I literally cannot beat my friend's MK with luigi. And this is the friend who is just terrible at brawl. I can manage him with my marth almost, but then there's this other friend who plays mostly toon link. I can beat him with snake about 75% of the time, but he's not easy. Then he switches to MK and if I want to beat him, I either have to get lucky or use MK myself. It's come to a soft ban here too-nobody except for the noobs use MK (the noobs being the casual guys who drop in for some 4-minute FFAs sans items and with stage legality) because MK is gay.
Now to the part of the argument that isn't based on my less than ideal skill level. The concept that MK isn't broken by the definition of other fighting games is well and good. But since when is brawl defined by other fighting games? Since when do fighting games rely on ring outs to win entirely, rather than as an alternative? Since when do fighting games have multiple jumps? Since when do fighting games not have life bars, but instead procents and it goes up and you don't die if it hits 100? You can't compare SSBB to a normal fighter. The idea that the metagame is advancing is true, it just happens to be advancing with metaknight faster than with anyone else, and while some chars have hit the "roof" of their abilities (I saw a thread about this on the ROB boards; it seemed pretty logical and made a lot of sense) Metaknight is far above everyone else and there doesn't seem to be a sign of a roof anywhere. Maybe somewhere around mars. In addition, the whole metaknight planking aspect puts a whole new turn on the "Brawl is unfun" aspect. I'm currently helping to design a game called Super Smash Flash 2, a flash version of SSB. And in a recent thread, we made it very clear-SSF2 should be more like melee than brawl. Fighting a campy metaknight is unfun. Fighting a planky metaknight is 6 seconds of getting tornado'd or damaged otherwise 7 minutes and 54 seconds of twiddling your thumbs and waiting for the match to end so you can lose.
I don't understand why he isn't seen as dominant and I don't understand why people can say no to banning him unless you play him yourself. Slippery slopes are utterly invalid because the next best char has bad matchups and bad stages; most concepts against banning him have been debunked or proven inconsequential.
MK is not a God of a character. He has his weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Just because you don't know what they are or how to use them to your advantage doesn't mean they don't exist or matter.Fakinha, the problem with your arguments is that MK can do everything you mentioned, better and faster with none of the weaknesses of the other chars.
Plank would NEVER be able to plank Ally. The only people you hear ***** about planking are MKs that don't want to be banned for it, and characters that can't deal with it.Snake has to play incredibly defensive the entire game; losing the lead means that MK can camp and plank and then snake has to either cook grenades ridiculously well, time C4 with godlike skill, or approach. And snake is terrible at approaching.
I swear....if MK gets banned thanks to your deplorable vote and your SHALLOW excuse for an argument, I'm grabbing my hatchet and hunting you and the rest of proban down.60 damage against a good MK is actually really really hard. At least, 60% and then killing him. Missing with the fart is easy; it takes a long time to charge to kill levels again. Marth is outranged by MK. Peach can't do that and even if she could, MK has the Gilde attack->5xUair->tornado 0-death on most.
That's now in my top 5 of stupidist Brawl matches EVER. That Luna was outright cowardly and what he/she/potato did was unnecessary.
yeah except MK isnt your worst match up marth and olimar are better against you than MK is. Plus regarding the validity of the low tier characters. In fact MK is making the low tier characters more viable than they would without him. Since marth has 60-40 match ups with all low tier characters and maybe more, while MK does destrory too, its not as bad as marth since MK does have a 55-45 on a low tier character(bowser). So yeah Mk takes out marth leaving a bowser main having a chance to do well in tourneys because he only has to face a 45-55 match up instead of a 60-40. Also with ness and lucas mains, GW and Marth will **** them down farther into the lower tiers because Marth and GW wont be taken out by MK. (Marth has 70-30 on lucas and ness(GW has 80-20) while MK only has 60-40's)which is why i'm maining mk if he's not banned lol to SOLVE my problems.
Peach can't do that with MK? Oh boy, you need to see djudjo, a brazilian peach player. He eat MKs in the breakfast.Fakinha, the problem with your arguments is that MK can do everything you mentioned, better and faster with none of the weaknesses of the other chars. Snake has to play incredibly defensive the entire game; losing the lead means that MK can camp and plank and then snake has to either cook grenades ridiculously well, time C4 with godlike skill, or approach. And snake is terrible at approaching. 60 damage against a good MK is actually really really hard. At least, 60% and then killing him. Missing with the fart is easy; it takes a long time to charge to kill levels again. Marth is outranged by MK. Peach can't do that and even if she could, MK has the Gilde attack->5xUair->tornado 0-death on most.
You're discrediting my post because I can't beat Metaknight with Luigi. You missed the part that he loses to me with everyone else, doesn't main MK, and beats my snake more often than not with his secondary MK. And I'm not saying either me or my friend are high level-we're at that mid-level mentioned in the OP that is slowly gravitating to Metaknight. Lrn2read. And TBH, if that's the only reason it fails, then either read it again or stop throwing pointless arguments out for no reason.Reading this was the biggest waste of time in my entire life.
Your OH SO HIGH LEVEL luigi cant beat a metaknight either because you're bad which might not be the reason, the other reason is that luigi is a bad character.
Oh, marth had more overall tourney placgings in melee than metaknight according to AA's post.
Yeah... Well MK can do it better than anyone else. And then he's still the best without these tactics.MK can plank really well, but other characters can do it too. i don't think that should be an arguement.
That's what it'll end up as. And then it'll be 3/4ths. Then mostly except for a small minimum. Did you read the arguments about mid-level players?air camping>>planking
and there is no way half the people in a tourney use meta knight
One of 2 are correct. Marth's best thing going for himself is the ability to gimp ike, and MK still does it better. Counter is a joke of an edgeguard, you can force marth to turn the other way. As for the other matchup, ike can reliably 0-death olimar. If he gets a hand on olimar, olimar dies. MK is easily his worst matchup in the right hands, since ike's worst counterpick is a player that just isn't dumb.yeah except MK isnt your worst match up marth and olimar are better against you than MK is.
What's up?I summon cactuar and mango!
How do you figure? I know at least Pit's better . . . .Yeah... Well MK can do it better than anyone else. And then he's still the best without these tactics.
First, Luigi just has a straight out bad matchup with mk. And the friend swiching from toon link to mk was being smart. That was just him counterpicking wisely. (didn't put him at an advantage or you at a disadvantage, but it went from 60:40 to around 50:50). And i saw fun in your arguement, but someone already went on about that so yeah.This thread is incredibly depressing. Not because of the beginning players who don't have a clue (I used to belong to this crowd), not because of the way some people react, and certainly not because I think that the people voting no are misguided idiots. No. It's sad because even with a majority vote, it will be almost impossible to get Metaknight banned. There is no way in hell that this community will get the 2/3s vote unless a lot (in the hundreds) of disgruntled players show up all of a sudden.
And I'm definitely disgruntled. I have my group of friends, and I like to think I'm better than them. I am the best in my playgroup. My Snake, my Marth, my Luigi-all three are at really high levels. And it pisses me off that despite my knowledge of the matchup, I literally cannot beat my friend's MK with luigi. And this is the friend who is just terrible at brawl. I can manage him with my marth almost, but then there's this other friend who plays mostly toon link. I can beat him with snake about 75% of the time, but he's not easy. Then he switches to MK and if I want to beat him, I either have to get lucky or use MK myself. It's come to a soft ban here too-nobody except for the noobs use MK (the noobs being the casual guys who drop in for some 4-minute FFAs sans items and with stage legality) because MK is gay.
Now to the part of the argument that isn't based on my less than ideal skill level. The concept that MK isn't broken by the definition of other fighting games is well and good. But since when is brawl defined by other fighting games? Since when do fighting games rely on ring outs to win entirely, rather than as an alternative? Since when do fighting games have multiple jumps? Since when do fighting games not have life bars, but instead procents and it goes up and you don't die if it hits 100? You can't compare SSBB to a normal fighter. The idea that the metagame is advancing is true, it just happens to be advancing with metaknight faster than with anyone else, and while some chars have hit the "roof" of their abilities (I saw a thread about this on the ROB boards; it seemed pretty logical and made a lot of sense) Metaknight is far above everyone else and there doesn't seem to be a sign of a roof anywhere. Maybe somewhere around mars. In addition, the whole metaknight planking aspect puts a whole new turn on the "Brawl is unfun" aspect. I'm currently helping to design a game called Super Smash Flash 2, a flash version of SSB. And in a recent thread, we made it very clear-SSF2 should be more like melee than brawl. Fighting a campy metaknight is unfun. Fighting a planky metaknight is 6 seconds of getting tornado'd or damaged otherwise 7 minutes and 54 seconds of twiddling your thumbs and waiting for the match to end so you can lose.
I don't understand why he isn't seen as dominant and I don't understand why people can say no to banning him unless you play him yourself. Slippery slopes are utterly invalid because the next best char has bad matchups and bad stages; most concepts against banning him have been debunked or proven inconsequential.
*has been moderating this thread for the last few days*What's up?
*shifty eyes*
I don't like it here.