Yes, because goodness knows you guys have no skill over them, or anything.
And I'm looking at you, MookieMoo, or whatever the hell your name is. You sound like a complete idiot in your first post. Oh wait, you guys are too hardcore for names. Sorry, I should have said "tag".
Gamestop Tournaments are supposed to be challenging AND fun. Fun and easygoing is really where you tourneytards fall short. You use characters that are "better" and "more powerful" and "Top Tiers". What happened to using the character that you considered your "favorite" or the "coolest", like in the old days when there were no glitches to exploit?
I knew it was a matter of time till SOMEONE flamed me for what I've said. This is gonna be a pretty long post.
Lemme explain why I said all those harsh things about how casual players play melee. I like to go to anime conventions with my friends. I go to a handful of them every year. Each and every time I go to them they all have melee tournaments. Each and every time I go to these melee tournaments, I either win, or run into someone from the smashboards like GAWes and take 2nd. Not only do I beat all the casual players, but I routinely beat 3 of them teamed against me. I've been doing this kind of thing for 4 years now.
Back in the day I had a hard time playing against casual players. I would do very well in big tournaments, but have decently close matches with guys that I shouldn't even have to worry about. They seemed random, and I was used to players using the cream of the crop strategies and actually knew when to place a move at the right time. It was very frustrating for them to take 2-3 stocks off every now and then. It wasn't until a few friends of mine asked me to help train them in smash so they could go to tournaments that I figured out what I was doing wrong. Ironically, I owe a lot to these guys, cause I really learned what mind games were from these guys.
I would play these guys, notice things they weren't doing and tell them some things they should work on. I would then have them play each other and observe their matches closely. I began to see how they just run almost entirely on patterns. Whenever I would play them again I would seek out to exploit the patterns that I saw. I would point them out to them as they are playing, and I even would say "don't roll left" before they would roll left into a smash. Through this process of teaching and showing these guys to break their habbits, I learned how to thoroughly observe during my own matches.
After this experience, I was able to destroy every casual player with ease. It was no longer a competition. I would seriously just get CF and plant a knee whenever I knew they would not tech, roll, or tech to stand. I could go an entire match using nothing but knees and 4 stock a casual player and only take 20-30% damage total. This is the difference observation and adaption makes. I went from a sub par player to an excellent player JUST by realizing a few things. Ironically, I had all these skills prior, but I never used them.
It's one of those things that you don't really know till it clicks. Before I had always played smart, but I used more of a "tool set" system for playing against people. Whenever I ran into someone who countered a strategy I then changed my strategy to some other pre-determined strategy from my "tool set." I wasn't actively engaging in observing my opponent and purely adapting to his play style.
These kinds of skills... are what
really sets competitive players apart. It's not the techniques, it's not the "cheap tactics." It's the ability to gauge your opponents play style quickly and accurately through observation and exploit it.
To all those who were upset by what I said prior: I'm sorry that you don't realize that casual gamers play on instinct and use habitual patterns without thinking. It's hard for you to understand that people who actually observe and adapt would beat them senseless. I'm fully aware that there are "some" casual players who don't fit into this category, but even still, against someone who has some good experience in the tournament scene, even the rarest of good casual players couldn't hold up against them, as they simply don't have the experience that the competitive player would have.
People need to realize that competitive players, or those that actively seek competition through tournaments, are overall better players than those who play this game casually. To say otherwise is like saying that these guys you know that play basketball across the street could take on a professional/semi-professional basketball team.
The purpose of the stuff I wrote in this thread is actually for anyone attending the gamestop tournaments. My message goes out to casual players who want to win it as well. The advice I give is all about observing your opponent and exploiting their patterns. I also talk about strategies that aren't broken, but to a lesser player would seem impossible to counter. Not only that I go into ways to exploit the fact that it's a 1 minute time match and give a list of solid characters to choose from. I want you guys to succeed, and this is an excellent opportunity for you guys to discover what it is to mindgame opponents.
If anyone is considering using Ike, I STRONGLY recommend they watch these.
