Is Ness getting left behind??

[DanceLouisDance]

Is ness getting left behind with all the updates and buffs for other characters?? or is he just as good?

 

[RetroGamersGuru]

Calm down. Ness is still a good character.

 

[Asa]

What buffs?

 

[EarthCrash]

Ness has gotten nothing but buffs in the previous patches, so just because he's been "untouched" this update, doesn't mean he's any less viable.

Case in point, Sheik.

 

[EarthBoundEnigma]

Sakurai has been trying to fix Ness' design since the beginning of Smash.
He has seen how Ness only succeeds early on into a Smash iteration's life, before players just learn how to exploit his dramatic weaknesses.
He's been trying to make a gimmick character more and more deadly to offset just how risky and strange he is.
He wouldn't nerf Ness until much later into SSB4's life, but I'd sooner expect a buff, that late.

 

[Lochy]

I think Ness is a special case. He does so well in the beginning and then its a spiral. The Dev team has noticed that and are trying their hardest to make Ness better and not OP. Which imo they are nailing perfectly. I think Ness doesn't need a nerf or buff. Asking for a buff just seems selfish and asking for a nerf isn't fair because of his exploitable assets.