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Well I had a spark of insanity to go read EVERY post since the beginning Jan., however I only looked for the most important. I was intrigued to see how the boards changed, posters and mains changed, and Marth's metagame in particular. Enjoy! ~
January - A bunch of random threads to start the year of. Many Marth's are honored in the Marth '08 Superlatives thread. The spam decreases quite a bit (GASP!); This in part is due to The Marth General and Off-Topic Chat Thread, and Virgilijus' (now Virgilante) sexy moderation. TKD helps some newcomers with The Do's and the Do Not's of Counter thread, pointing out the rights and wrongs of a great move in Marth's arsenal. New tier list released! Marth moves up slightly and I stupidly complained about it in our discussion thread (lmao forgive me I was dumb as hell that day). CHEESE-KUN!!! A bunch of new players wanting us to rate their Marth's avoiding our Video Thread. Speaking of, the video Thread becomes more openly public, allowing for a lot more critiques. The meat of Marth's current metagame is described in Junk's How to get way better with Marth thread. This introduces a few tricks(DB1 to Grab), suggestions to learn (shield Conservation, DI, Powershielding) and others. The ever so sexy Marth AT, discovered by 3xSwords, the DS Ledge Grab is put out into the public. This greatly improves ledge hogging speed and ability. Pierce starts a promising thread (Offense vs Defense), but isn't completed as of yet. The Marth boards gets its own Xat Chat, which will have to catch on after a few more months. A lot of random Emblem Lord threads bumped, umm ok 0.o
February - The month begins with a lot of board cleaning, due to the wonderful modding of Virgilijus (he is no longer Virgilante lol) Probably the greatest Marth event ever, the Marth Gathering at CoT4!!! Great Marth's from all around met up for friendlies (and I was at home, missing out -_-) Niko K mysteriously has tech that can stop Marth's SB, but has not yet presented it (will he ever?) **Havok** creates a great read, in his Hot/Cold Theory thread, check it out! Ulevo not only fades away from Marth, he goes completely weird, and deletes all his informative posts, including our beginners guide, which was absolutely awesome. Emblem Lord"s gone missing... again! Reason will be apparent later. The SBR decides it's time to update Marth's match ups, as some seem to be outdated (this is included but not limited to: Diddy Kong, Wolf, and Olimar). Class w/ Junk is in session, here to enlighten Marth's depending on his tourney performances and mood. It is a great contribution to the boards, and aspiring Marth's alike. Emblem Lord's departure from Brawl to SF4. The great sage moves on to another game, to **** them all. ChaosKnight presents... his own compilation video! It is filled with good **** and risky moves.
March - Brawl Marth's One Year Birthday! Bunch of random bumped threads (aka Steel2nd's). Marth is predicted to be 4th on the upcoming June Tier List, in a thread made by Darxmarth23. A few match-up changes, notably not in Marth's favor (MK 65-35, Wolf 50-50). Uprising in Wario, Diddy, and Pikachu main, due to Pika's chaingrabs. This makes Marth a very viable counterpick against them. Also regarding MK, our own Aussie Marth, Shaya, did some heavy frame crunching about Marth's lovely hair.... I mean is Air Grab release -> Spike on Meta Knight. And how can we forget the **** of UltimateRazer by our own Roy_R, just showing us Marth's mean business and we're stepping it up. Slow month on Marth's part development wise, but fast in the metagame around him.
April - Pretty dry month on the boards, but not in the metagame. mikeHAZE informs us of his upcoming Marth guide. A bunch of tournament inquiries (Apex, Road to Viridian City Monthlies) get a thread. Some new match-up discussion bumps. Now here's the metagame jumps. Shaya informs on the Spacies combo and Steel2nd discusses Marth's zones in some more depth. Shiedlbreaker fetish to the EXTREME, along with Nair. Some more focus on pivot grabbing. Almostlegendary attempts to make a guide, we appreciate his efforts to help out the community. And we see... the Critical Touch combo vid! It was created by L!te. And a blessing from heaven, we get our own General Discussion topic!
May (May be as big as 08's May) - Ok, pretty short month. We start off with a few useless threads, then a minor discussion on the extension of Marth's hurtbox during his counter. Few more bumped threads... and more bumped threads -_- Then, out of nowhere, a pinnacle of play is shown! To spark up discussion, Steel posts the match of Omni vs NEO, in which it shows two top players, an example of optimal play for Marth. Omni even drops by to lay down some tips of his own lol Next, Charoo shares some vids of MikeHAZE vs other SoCalians *cough cough dubbed too friendlies* Then, our own BengalsRZ puts out some information on recovering in his simple guide. After a combo video by Mr-R, which was pretty good, we have the meat of May, the communities (headed by takeurlife2) contribution of Marth's true combos! Oh, and more Gen Discussion spam =P How could I forget... Marth did some homework in the SBR, and gained not one, but TWO ATs this month! They are Retreating Pivot Grabs and Shieldbreaker Bouncing (not wavebouncing).
June - Slow start, with some match-up threads bumped. The June 09 Tier list is released, and a swarm of discussion ensues @ Marth being ranked 7th overall/A tier. A few bumps and locked threads here and there. Genesis takes place, where Bardull and mikeHAZE place in the top 20. Talk begins abotu the Global Character Guide project, starting conversation of finally making the Marth beginner guide. Oh, did I mention our own veteran Steel2nd's a moderator now? 0.o Finally, Marth's official match-up rediscussion is created, starting with Wario.
July(DRYYYYY...JK JKZ) - We begin the month with bumps, yippie. Match-up rediscussion #2 - #4 ( Ice Climbers, ZSS, and Sonic) begin. Snype sparks some interest when he creates the Marth Team Guide, version 1.0. Steel (now §teel) locks a whole bunch of threads, especially VietGeek infamous thread. NEO decides to lower his awesomeness for a bit to share about his personal Hyperbolic Time chamber, sparking a large movement for individual improvement between Marth's. A bunch of training mode tutorials are created, one by BengalsRZ and §teel respectively. Speaking of §teel, he started his own Q&A aka I'm cool enough, hate on it ***** thread, however just resorted to AIM chat. Hdrevolution123 shared with us some nice refresher notes in his thread.
August -
September(Best month, yeah I'm STILL biased) -
October -
November -
December -
Overview:
Thanks for reading! Comments? Flame? Suggestions? Please discuss below!
Well I had a spark of insanity to go read EVERY post since the beginning Jan., however I only looked for the most important. I was intrigued to see how the boards changed, posters and mains changed, and Marth's metagame in particular. Enjoy! ~
January - A bunch of random threads to start the year of. Many Marth's are honored in the Marth '08 Superlatives thread. The spam decreases quite a bit (GASP!); This in part is due to The Marth General and Off-Topic Chat Thread, and Virgilijus' (now Virgilante) sexy moderation. TKD helps some newcomers with The Do's and the Do Not's of Counter thread, pointing out the rights and wrongs of a great move in Marth's arsenal. New tier list released! Marth moves up slightly and I stupidly complained about it in our discussion thread (lmao forgive me I was dumb as hell that day). CHEESE-KUN!!! A bunch of new players wanting us to rate their Marth's avoiding our Video Thread. Speaking of, the video Thread becomes more openly public, allowing for a lot more critiques. The meat of Marth's current metagame is described in Junk's How to get way better with Marth thread. This introduces a few tricks(DB1 to Grab), suggestions to learn (shield Conservation, DI, Powershielding) and others. The ever so sexy Marth AT, discovered by 3xSwords, the DS Ledge Grab is put out into the public. This greatly improves ledge hogging speed and ability. Pierce starts a promising thread (Offense vs Defense), but isn't completed as of yet. The Marth boards gets its own Xat Chat, which will have to catch on after a few more months. A lot of random Emblem Lord threads bumped, umm ok 0.o
February - The month begins with a lot of board cleaning, due to the wonderful modding of Virgilijus (he is no longer Virgilante lol) Probably the greatest Marth event ever, the Marth Gathering at CoT4!!! Great Marth's from all around met up for friendlies (and I was at home, missing out -_-) Niko K mysteriously has tech that can stop Marth's SB, but has not yet presented it (will he ever?) **Havok** creates a great read, in his Hot/Cold Theory thread, check it out! Ulevo not only fades away from Marth, he goes completely weird, and deletes all his informative posts, including our beginners guide, which was absolutely awesome. Emblem Lord"s gone missing... again! Reason will be apparent later. The SBR decides it's time to update Marth's match ups, as some seem to be outdated (this is included but not limited to: Diddy Kong, Wolf, and Olimar). Class w/ Junk is in session, here to enlighten Marth's depending on his tourney performances and mood. It is a great contribution to the boards, and aspiring Marth's alike. Emblem Lord's departure from Brawl to SF4. The great sage moves on to another game, to **** them all. ChaosKnight presents... his own compilation video! It is filled with good **** and risky moves.
March - Brawl Marth's One Year Birthday! Bunch of random bumped threads (aka Steel2nd's). Marth is predicted to be 4th on the upcoming June Tier List, in a thread made by Darxmarth23. A few match-up changes, notably not in Marth's favor (MK 65-35, Wolf 50-50). Uprising in Wario, Diddy, and Pikachu main, due to Pika's chaingrabs. This makes Marth a very viable counterpick against them. Also regarding MK, our own Aussie Marth, Shaya, did some heavy frame crunching about Marth's lovely hair.... I mean is Air Grab release -> Spike on Meta Knight. And how can we forget the **** of UltimateRazer by our own Roy_R, just showing us Marth's mean business and we're stepping it up. Slow month on Marth's part development wise, but fast in the metagame around him.
April - Pretty dry month on the boards, but not in the metagame. mikeHAZE informs us of his upcoming Marth guide. A bunch of tournament inquiries (Apex, Road to Viridian City Monthlies) get a thread. Some new match-up discussion bumps. Now here's the metagame jumps. Shaya informs on the Spacies combo and Steel2nd discusses Marth's zones in some more depth. Shiedlbreaker fetish to the EXTREME, along with Nair. Some more focus on pivot grabbing. Almostlegendary attempts to make a guide, we appreciate his efforts to help out the community. And we see... the Critical Touch combo vid! It was created by L!te. And a blessing from heaven, we get our own General Discussion topic!
May (May be as big as 08's May) - Ok, pretty short month. We start off with a few useless threads, then a minor discussion on the extension of Marth's hurtbox during his counter. Few more bumped threads... and more bumped threads -_- Then, out of nowhere, a pinnacle of play is shown! To spark up discussion, Steel posts the match of Omni vs NEO, in which it shows two top players, an example of optimal play for Marth. Omni even drops by to lay down some tips of his own lol Next, Charoo shares some vids of MikeHAZE vs other SoCalians *cough cough dubbed too friendlies* Then, our own BengalsRZ puts out some information on recovering in his simple guide. After a combo video by Mr-R, which was pretty good, we have the meat of May, the communities (headed by takeurlife2) contribution of Marth's true combos! Oh, and more Gen Discussion spam =P How could I forget... Marth did some homework in the SBR, and gained not one, but TWO ATs this month! They are Retreating Pivot Grabs and Shieldbreaker Bouncing (not wavebouncing).
June - Slow start, with some match-up threads bumped. The June 09 Tier list is released, and a swarm of discussion ensues @ Marth being ranked 7th overall/A tier. A few bumps and locked threads here and there. Genesis takes place, where Bardull and mikeHAZE place in the top 20. Talk begins abotu the Global Character Guide project, starting conversation of finally making the Marth beginner guide. Oh, did I mention our own veteran Steel2nd's a moderator now? 0.o Finally, Marth's official match-up rediscussion is created, starting with Wario.
July(DRYYYYY...JK JKZ) - We begin the month with bumps, yippie. Match-up rediscussion #2 - #4 ( Ice Climbers, ZSS, and Sonic) begin. Snype sparks some interest when he creates the Marth Team Guide, version 1.0. Steel (now §teel) locks a whole bunch of threads, especially VietGeek infamous thread. NEO decides to lower his awesomeness for a bit to share about his personal Hyperbolic Time chamber, sparking a large movement for individual improvement between Marth's. A bunch of training mode tutorials are created, one by BengalsRZ and §teel respectively. Speaking of §teel, he started his own Q&A aka I'm cool enough, hate on it ***** thread, however just resorted to AIM chat. Hdrevolution123 shared with us some nice refresher notes in his thread.
August -
September(Best month, yeah I'm STILL biased) -
October -
November -
December -
Overview:
Thanks for reading! Comments? Flame? Suggestions? Please discuss below!
