MK has IDC.
That is broken. Thus, MK is broken.
Ban the character, not the tactic.
Tactics can be banned when they operate against the rules that were already established for us. Or are you saying that Sonic should be banned because getting a percent lead and then going under the stage and using Homing Attacks all day is classified as a tactic.
~KBizzle
Agreed. Well...let's hear what you have to say on this, anti-ban. You all seem to snap at every other argument with vigor and haste. Doesn't the quick banning of planking and IDC (I can understand the latter for obvious reasons) go against the same logic you all followed in the MK issue?
EDIT: People...forget about the ****ing IDC point. It's obvious why it is banned. Now please answer the question about planking.
~The Gifted Unknown
Someone explain this to me: If the IDC and planking weren't proven to be "unbeatable," why was it banned? By anti-ban logic, they shouldn't have been.
I think everyone's established that the IDC is clearly a bannable technique because it's a gross violation of rules dealing with stalling. Now about planking, if only there was some someone that responded to this question by making a thread about it in the Brawl Tactical Thread. Oh wait, I did that.
Planking does not need to be banned. The parts about planking that piss people off (running towards the ledge to stall for minutes when there was no reason to retreat to the ledge in the first place) is already banned under stalling. Everything else is completely viable.
The TO might ban anything, but he/she doesn't have to.
This is like, common sense. >_>
Attention TO's!
There is a character in Brawl that is in serious danger of ruining the Brawl community. This character, when played correctly, can make the game unplayable and unbearable to enjoy.
That character is Jigglypuff.
Jigglypuff was and still remains a great character in Melee because her fantastic defensive aerial game coupled with comboes/set-ups to one of the most lethal moves in the game- Rest. In the transition to Brawl, Rest had been nerfed to a shell of its Melee companion and the notion of comboes has been completely removed from Jigglypuff's game.
What we have left is a miserable character that still happens to piss everyone off.
With no ground game to speak of and no reliable kill moves on the ground, Jigglypuff is forced to remain in the air for the entire match if she desires to win anything. In essence, Jigglypuff spends all of her matches air-planking opponents and this strategy applies to every part of her game- racking up damage, escaping perilous situations, and killing opponents. That's right, while Metaknight at least has kill moves in his down-smash and glide attacks, Jigglypuff has to kill her opponents by literally air-planking them to death. With a combination of five jumps, a nice damage-racker in back-air, a strong knockback move in forward-air, and a quick interrupt with neutral-air, Jigglypuff can compete with any character off-stage, and unless the opponent has perfect prediction skills or perfect use of long-range aerials, even the mightiest of recoveries can be cut down by Jigglypuff's gimping prowress. Not to mention that even if you get back to the stage, you can get caught in one of Jigglypuff's ledge-canceled Sings, and that's just embarrasing.
Don't let Jigglypuff's awful matchups fool you- just the mere existence of Jigglypuff overcentralizes the metagame to focus on defeating her, because nobody wants to lose to such a sad and pathetic character. As for her tournament placings, tournaments have alreaady enacted a 'soft ban' of sorts on her, as anyone who is seen using Jigglypuff in an actual tournament match is going to be the object of ridicule and scorn. While other terrible characters have a rich background story of being a hero (such as Link or Samus), or are simply just too cool to make fun of (such as Captain Falcon or Ganondorf), Jigglypuff has the broken combination of being terrible, an absolute bore to use, and a history of being nothing but a complete troll (watch any episode of Pokemon with Jigglypuff in it and tell me I'm wrong).
We need to ban Jigglypuff in tournaments now, before more people realize how insanely effective using a dull and boring character to the fullest of its trolling abilities can get. Once Jigglypuff starts to get mastered, matchups against her will plummet to 0-100, as players will lose hope of Brawl after having to put up with a master Jigglypuff player and forfeit mid-match. Ban her now and save the community while we can.