infiniteV115
Smash Hero
Just something I thought of recently
What if there was a rule allowing players to pick their own % handicap at the beginning of each game? The biggest benefit to this should be obvious; it allows players of certain characters to avoid locks that they would otherwise have to worry about, such as Pikachu's dthrow/fthrow CG, Sopo dthrow CG, ZSS' dsmash chain, Falco's dthrow CG, Sheik's ftilt lock, etc. So this means people who play characters such as the spacies/Sheik/Link/Falcon/Snake/DDD/others could have a chance at making some MUs arguably less difficult, and probably less boring/mundane.
And again, they don't have to use a handicap; they could just start the game off with 0% as they normally would, if they'd like to.
This obviously comes at the cost of having a 'shorter' stock each game, and starting off with a % deficit so you're forced to approach the opponent. So it's a trade-off, more or less.
A downfall I can think of to this rule would be that this could potentially lead to very campy games. A Pikachu starting off with a 50-60% lead against a spacie might just want to run away for a good portion of the game, attempting to maintain a lead and eventually time out the opponent. However, I think this works both ways, as obviously an opponent who starts off each stock at about 50-60% takes less time to kill, and I think it's likely that the implementation of this rule is likely to make matches last less long...barring certain opponents *coughnakatcough* lul
Another downfall to this rule is that, similarly to how doubles GF of KTAR7 was played on Mushroomy Kingdom and custom stages due to both teams agreeing to it and not really caring, this rule could lead to players on stream (who also don't really care about the outcome of the set) both playing what would essentially be a bob-omb-less sudden death match through the use of ridiculous handicaps.
However, I think this is more of an issue of general TOing and stream supervision rather than an issue with the rules, and non-serious games can still happen (albeit less obviously) on stream.
What are your thoughts?
What if there was a rule allowing players to pick their own % handicap at the beginning of each game? The biggest benefit to this should be obvious; it allows players of certain characters to avoid locks that they would otherwise have to worry about, such as Pikachu's dthrow/fthrow CG, Sopo dthrow CG, ZSS' dsmash chain, Falco's dthrow CG, Sheik's ftilt lock, etc. So this means people who play characters such as the spacies/Sheik/Link/Falcon/Snake/DDD/others could have a chance at making some MUs arguably less difficult, and probably less boring/mundane.
And again, they don't have to use a handicap; they could just start the game off with 0% as they normally would, if they'd like to.
This obviously comes at the cost of having a 'shorter' stock each game, and starting off with a % deficit so you're forced to approach the opponent. So it's a trade-off, more or less.
A downfall I can think of to this rule would be that this could potentially lead to very campy games. A Pikachu starting off with a 50-60% lead against a spacie might just want to run away for a good portion of the game, attempting to maintain a lead and eventually time out the opponent. However, I think this works both ways, as obviously an opponent who starts off each stock at about 50-60% takes less time to kill, and I think it's likely that the implementation of this rule is likely to make matches last less long...barring certain opponents *coughnakatcough* lul
Another downfall to this rule is that, similarly to how doubles GF of KTAR7 was played on Mushroomy Kingdom and custom stages due to both teams agreeing to it and not really caring, this rule could lead to players on stream (who also don't really care about the outcome of the set) both playing what would essentially be a bob-omb-less sudden death match through the use of ridiculous handicaps.
However, I think this is more of an issue of general TOing and stream supervision rather than an issue with the rules, and non-serious games can still happen (albeit less obviously) on stream.
What are your thoughts?
