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Meta Knight Officially Banned!

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UltiMario

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I guess we can give up on Brawl then.

Time for everyone to move to Melee/Project M.

Sirlin said a lot of wrong things. One of them, however, isn't wrong. A character in a fighter should only be banned if the quality of the fighting game is so high that the game is worth saving.

Brawl is not one of those games.
 
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AlphaZealot said:
For me it was a combination of the following for why I voted for the ban:
-Meta Knight being used by almost 20% of players and this number continually increased (projected for 35% of all players by next year)
-Meta Knight winning upwards of 40-50% of all money in a given week
-Meta Knight requiring multiple rules JUST to keep him legal. More and more people wanting EVERYTHING ELSE BANNED except for MK, just to keep MK legal
-The community being overwhelmingly for the ban since about 18 months ago, with polls 18 months ago at over 60% in favor to more recent polls being over 75% in favor of the ban
-Meta Knight IS broken. He has zero bad match ups on any stage and when played correctly (aka air camp or planking but we basically banned/limited planking) no one should touch him.
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AZ saved me the time to write this, but he mirrored my sentiments.
 
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Smashboards just shot themselves in the foot.

I don't know how much the rest of you know about fighting culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in competitive racing gaming (like Mario Kart) where you can become successful by being an *******. If you screw someone over in the fighting community, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the general brawl players, after hearing about this, is not going to want to participate in thisr tournament, nor will they support Smashboards. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Smashboards has alienated an entire league of competitive fighting gamers with this move.

Smashboards, publicly apologize and re-instate Metaknight or you can kiss your forum goodbye.
 
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The Empire officially strikes. Chancellor Zealot and his crew have done quite the job here. I can't wait for the other communities to laugh at us even harder because we "had to" ban a character because people aren't willing to not play on awful stages where MK is really good. I can't wait to see tournament attendance begin to decline even more next year, as MK players feel alienated and no longer want to play, while new players won't give a **** because they're too bad to think MK is top tier to begin with and have a pocket Ike in case of MK match-ups. This will do nothing good for the community, mark my words. This won't help attendance, and will get mid-tier players until they realize they still don't do any better because the top players will just use other top-tier characters and the whole ban will be a moot point.

Thank God the NW doesn't give a damn about Unity.
 
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well, as a Mexican smasher we found this tricky, I think it works the same for EU, but not quite, since we use Unity Ruleset for our tourneys, at least as an TO in sonora I do, so, I don't know what should be done about the "Only applies to USA and Canada" thingy

should MK be banned here too, should it be a decision of the mexican community, or not ban at all?
what do you think guys?
 
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-Ran said:
Members are allowed to say what they voted on, but we're not allowed to speak for others.
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So you're telling me, 15 players who don't have nearly enough experience (cept bizkit ) as most of the top players are deciding who is and who isn't allowed to be used for the other 99999 people :glare:
 
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UltiMario said:
I guess we can give up on Brawl then.

Time for everyone to move to Melee/Project M.

Sirlin said a lot of wrong things. One of them, however, isn't wrong. A character in a fighter should only be banned if the quality of the fighting game is so high that the game is worth saving.

Brawl is not one of those games.
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Who are you to say that 3 years of amazing events and a large community of mostly good-meaning competetive-spirted players is not quality?

Who are you to SAY.
 
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Budget Player Cadet_ said:
There is so much wrong with this statement that I simply have to say that you are probably a ****** with no idea how Brawl works and your underwear on your head.
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Your ignorance is amazing. I used to wonder if you would ever revert to your old ways of being a terrible poster, here's my answer.
 
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Wow. It finally happened.....I wanted it to happen...but I didn't think it would....
 
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A lot more chars are gonna show up obviously lol

Tier list will be vastly different I think. A lot of the list was more based on how well they do vs mk compared to anyone else, rather than actual character traits

:phone:
 
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Soldner Kei said:
well, as a Mexican smasher we found this tricky, I think it works the same for EU, but not quite, since we use Unity Ruleset for our tourneys, at least as an TO in sonora I do, so, I don't know what should be done about the "Only applies to USA and Canada" thingy

should MK be banned here too, should it be a decision of the mexican community, or not ban at all?
what do you think guys?
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We aren't trying to overstep our boundaries. We can't make the policy for your country, but you can look at the results of our decision and come to your own choice.
 
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people will quit and people will rejoin.

I hope M2K doesnt drop the game if he honestly wanted to stay in the community. Just use a character and bring him to the top or max.

Ally, use wario, Imma use Pit <3
 
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Krystedez said:
Who are you to say that 3 years of amazing events and a large community of mostly good-meaning competetive-spirted players is not quality?

Who are you to SAY.
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The community wasn't split in two over a game that never went as big as Melee.

Brawl is rubbish out of the series. Not worth risking its death over this.


Brawl might get three years.

Now lets see if it'll get Four.

But what's Guaranteed? Melee will get Eleven.
 
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For me it was a combination of the following for why I voted for the ban:
-Meta Knight being used by almost 20% of players and this number continually increased (projected for 35% of all players by next year)
-Meta Knight winning upwards of 40-50% of all money in a given week
-Meta Knight requiring multiple rules JUST to keep him legal. More and more people wanting EVERYTHING ELSE BANNED except for MK, just to keep MK legal
-The community being overwhelmingly for the ban since about 18 months ago, with polls 18 months ago at over 60% in favor to more recent polls being over 75% in favor of the ban
-Meta Knight IS broken. He has zero bad match ups on any stage and when played correctly (aka air camp or planking but we basically banned/limited planking) no one should touch him.
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- happens in all games its just the evolution of a fighting game
- same as before evo in 3rd strike had 20-30 ppl using Chun/Yun
-the game was never designed well to begin with
- people on forums complain all the time this is nothing new or old in any community
- many characters in games have 0 bad match ups that is why they are the best character.
 
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Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 324 (156 members and 168 guests)


There are more guests than members viewing this looool
 
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UltiMario said:
The community wasn't split in two over a game that never went as big as Melee.

Brawl is rubbish out of the series. Not worth risking its death over this.


Brawl might get three years.

Now lets see if it'll get Four.

But what's Guaranteed? Melee will get Eleven.
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We were split before this happened, I dunno what you're talking about, but the split isn't that in the middle, people who wanted mk to stay and would have stayed if he were to stay are on the minority.

Brawl is not rubbish imo, so take that subjectivism outta here bro :)

I still like melee tho. I think, with or without the ban Brawl will get the 2 years it deserves before Smash4 comes out finally.
 
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Nairo said:
brawl is never fun to watch it doesnt matter wat kinda mu it is it isnt fun its ****ing boring and chuee il **** him olimar is free ;)
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Yeah, that's cool and all, but Nietono constantly beats every MK in Japan and they have more Olimar experience than the US MKs.
 
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