Frigate Orpheon is the best stage in the game.

[Kitamerby]

Also known as Forgade Optiom.

Discuss this wonderous battleground.

It's just so amazing. The lip lets you perform ridiculous walljumps/clings if you're Lucario and allows a new form of planking due to the lip that can only be seen on that one stage. The short, stubby main stage of Frigate1 is heaven for juggle-based characters and matchups, as well as matchups dependent on intense close-combat, and the single platform on the left is just the perfect height for a lot of fun shenanigans. The temporary wall is just superb, and the floating platform on the right is just amazing to abuse against characters with short recoveries, linear vertical recoveries, linear horizontal recoveries, or recoveries with terrible landing lag.

Grabbing someone at just the right spot on Frigate during a flip so that they die and you live, and standing at just the right spot on one of the sides during the flip and buffering an aerial that connects with an opponent on the opposite side(and possibly kills/spikes) is just one of the greatest feelings ever. Same with baiting a fastfall aerial or using a spiking throw during the flip.

The side platforms on Frigate2 can save people from gimps and are common enough to have a regular effect on the match. The lowered mid-section of the stage combined with the platform above is just heaven for platform campers, and once again the height of the platform is just perfect for many fun shenanigans. The lowered mid-section also has its share of shenanigans outside of camping, such as how Ice Climbers can alternate ice blocks to form a small, impregnable fortress.

All in all, this stage is sexy. Use it more and discuss.

 

[DTK.L]

Personally i prefer smashville

 

[rolrctermaniac]

Heck ya it is! i love to use it even with Falco and lolimar. Frigate 2 is my my favorite part. the groove in the middle is Fun and the platform is a great defense from aerial appraching

 

[Miamisportsfan45]

I love this stage, too. But I like Smashville, Delfino Plaza, and Battleship Halberd as well.

 

[Raziek]

<3 the Frigate. I've been using it as a starter lately in my area.

 

[Browny]

Join the fanclub pplz http://www.smashboards.com/group.php?groupid=1365

 

[jivegamer]

My favorite counter-pick!

 

[CaptainOlimar123]

It's a great stage but I prefer smashville though

 

[DTK.L]

Personally i prefer smashville

Don't get me wrong when i say this i enjoy Frigate its my 3rd favorite stage Castle siege,smashville,frigate It causes minimum lag and it can really save when your in a vicegrip sitch

 

[Brickbox]

Not one of my favorites because of my char but a very awsome stage for sure.

 

[Mogotoo]

Wow... I never thought about it in that sort of detail.

I guess it's a fine stage, but not particularly rememorable.

 

[Variable]

I'm not a huge fan, there are better stages, but I do enjoy playing there every now and then. Doesn't compliment either of my characters too well... But if I'm playing with friends and for fun then yeah, It's a good stage.

 

[Nidtendofreak]

I hate this stage. -_- I like the music, but the stage itself is just...ugh. Don't like getting screwed over by the ledgeless side. I find it too small for my playing style, much like Smashville. Platforms don't feel like they are in the right spot to me, they feel too low or something. Not exactly sure.

Lylat Cruise's Background > Frigate Orpheon's Background BTW. :D

 

[Megavitamins]

I like playing on it.

 

[Mic_128]

It's great, and I'd love to push it as starter, but the non-teatherable ledge kills it for that :/

 

[fkacyan]

Despite what you might think, if the RNG keeps the stage to the second half this is actually the best Olimar stage in the game, due to the dip covered by a platform and the pikmin ratios here.

 

[Limeee]

i <3 this stage

snake ***** here
it really helps against marth, falco and any others with a bad recovery

 

[SSSnake]

Personally i prefer smashville

so do i, but frigade orpheon is cool too.

 

[Jon Farron]

i liek this stage, all my characters can recover while alot of people cant from the ledgeless side :D
Except peach her stupid umbrella ugh
But, it does make pk thunder2 hard for lucas in its 1st position as he can fall off if the moving platform on the right is up D:

 

[Zatchiel]

Frigate is best for my Sonic and Falcon, so thats a positive.
But when it comes to ICs, meh, FD flat stage all the way:bigthumbu

 

[Jdietz43]

It's rare for someone to counterpick this in my area, I love to abuse that fact. Also shenanigans are always good as long as you're on the giving end instead of the receiving. It has a nice tendancy to break people's ordinary playstyles as well.

 

[The Cunning Weasel]

Frigate is one of my favorite CP. Wall jumping with Lucario is too good.

 

[Darach]

Its a fun stage. Ain't gonna lie the first time I played it I swear I thought the parasite Queen was gonna jump at us @_@.

 

[Variable]

This map is amazing... And way underplayed if you ask me.. Every now and then you'll get stuck with a stage rotation though... =\

 

[Kole]

one of my favorite CPs

 

[Damage Points]

agreed. def a top map, one of my best wario maps. i can camp my a$$ off on this stage and i love all the changes that go on during the match.

 

[Huggles828]

It's an okay level. I tend to have some hard feelings on that first part of the stage (no ledge makes Link cry ), but the second part is great. Plus, it's good for practicing your DI if you play a character with a bad recovery; it forces you to learn or die, hahaha.

 

[Judo777]

Despite what you might think, if the RNG keeps the stage to the second half this is actually the best Olimar stage in the game, due to the dip covered by a platform and the pikmin ratios here.

Wrong see distant planet lol

 

[Kawaii Poyo]

Tbh, I don't like the second form too much due to getting camped crazily under the platform, but the first part of Frigate is amazing. If it never changed I would CP every time without hesitation, I still CP it a lot as the first form is my favorite stage in the game but I also have Smashville and Delfino in consideration too.

 

[KillerJawz]

As a Samus main I loath this stage. It's so small I can't really camp at all, and im limited to one ledge :/. It's fun for other characters, not for me though.

 

[*Tyson*]

I love this stage, mainly because of " VS RIDLEY" song, sooooo epic

 

[Arcade]

I really like this stage. It's stylish, it has good music, and it has a good gimmick. If I designed it I'd have to give myself a

 

[TheOriginalSmasher]

Personally i prefer smashville

Personally, I prefer the air

 

[Z'zgashi]

It's good, but not my fav. I like PS2 best :D

 

[Pony]

I always called it Freakin' Orphanage.

I really have no specific reason for liking this stage.. I just feel comfortable there.

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

When I played Brawl, it was mainly my ICs CP.

It's a fun stage.

 

[REL38]

Every tourney I go to, my opponent bans Frigate

:/

 

[MikeKirby]

Frigate is a pretty great stage! Fun and can be used competative. I agree 100% with the OP.

 

[PurpleTop]

Frigate has always been my favorite as well haha. The background is so epic, and I love the music. When the stage switches, it is really cool also. Plus it has a flat ground, which is always nice. Those little platforms that come in and out of the side of the screen on the flipped part of the stage is always fun to mess around on too.

 

[$Lil' Gerald Is In Dat Style$]

Frigate is a sexy CP to me, one of fav Cps in the game.