Is playing a lot of characters a bad thing?

[GooberGaming]

Playing a large portion of the roster will give you more practical knowledge about character's weaknesses and how they can be overcome/ exploited. Playing a smaller portion of the roster will generally make you much better at those specific characters. It's about finding a good balance of both.

Generally, when I play by myself I focus on 4 specific characters (,,,). When I play with my brother we've basically split the roster so I use more (,,,,,,,,,,,, )

This is a big reason playing an assortment of characters can be very beneficial, because you gain some experience on how each character functions and you quickly learn the spacing, and ending/start up lag properties of each move of each character that you play.

ALSO. Majority of the time, if you have a good understanding of the fundamentals in Smash you can play any character on a competent level.

I tend to play a lot of different characters because it keeps things from getting stale. Playing a different character other then my mains keeps things fresh and fun for me!

 

[BlackCore8]

I don't mind playing the whole roster, it's fun to know how to play every character and it provides experience on how each character's moves work. I will always be loyal to my mains ganondorf, falco, and roy.

 

[BoxedOccaBerrys]

I used to main like 6-7 characters, Fox, Ness, Lucas, Wii Fit, Dedede, R.O.B, and last but not least Sheik.

But now, I main and , and I pocket . These are the Characters that catch my eye in smash, Wii Fit especially, I dropped all the others, because I couldn't handle them all, I felt the 3 I have work best to my play style.

It also might be that I use the Wii U Gamepad as my controller of choice and I'm a scrub who can't play more than 3 characters~

 

[Simperheve]

This is a big reason playing an assortment of characters can be very beneficial, because you gain some experience on how each character functions and you quickly learn the spacing, and ending/start up lag properties of each move of each character that you play.

ALSO. Majority of the time, if you have a good understanding of the fundamentals in Smash you can play any character on a competent level.

I tend to play a lot of different characters because it keeps things from getting stale. Playing a different character other then my mains keeps things fresh and fun for me!

I find that I can play all the characters I use pretty okay, but I do find that there is a massive difference between the ones I have focused time on/ the ones I just play casually. When I went to my first Tournament last weekend I focused on the four characters I put above, but then ventured out into other characters for the friendlies.

 

[GooberGaming]

I find that I can play all the characters I use pretty okay, but I do find that there is a massive difference between the ones I have focused time on/ the ones I just play casually. When I went to my first Tournament last weekend I focused on the four characters I put above, but then ventured out into other characters for the friendlies.

Yea, I feel the same way.

Last week I started playing on For Glory, just because I wanted to try a different character. I won a few matches and I was brimming with confidence! Then, I was matched up against a player who 2 stocked me without any issue.... I then proceeded to play R.O.B in the next match..

I always like playing different characters in friendly matches because it just makes the games more relaxed and different each time I switch characters.

 

[Dar4]

Competitively it's best to keep it to 1 or 2 characters. One if you're maining a high or top tier. I really don't think hardly any of the top 20 need secondaries with perhaps a handful of specific matchups...like ROB who gets destroyed by ZSS. But if you're facing 60/40 or 65/35 losing matchups I think you're better off just learning those matchups better with your main.

Probably dual main a top or high tier if you main a mid or low tier with some very lopsided matchups.

Three at the very most if you really need a 3rd character for one or two specific matchups that both your other characters are bad against. But I hardly ever think that's ever required. I really don't see any reason to main more than 3 as serious tourney characters. You'll spread yourself too thin.

 

[im just peachy]

i think variety is always a good thing, not just for matchups and stuff like that, but its more fun to have different style fighters to use

 

[FamilyTeam]

It's certainly better than being a solo Mario main ever since Smash 64, that's for bloody sure.

 

[ChaikaBestGirl]

It is one thing to be good at one characyer, but it is another to be able to be good at a lot of characters. Matchups are important but in the end the better player takes it.