(sort of) Crazy story: Yesterday I've went to a tournament and used
for the majorty of it. But at one point when friendlies were opened up and the tournament was near its end, I was among the last survivors in loser's bracket and I was pitted against one of my state's previous PR Members who mains Sheik and Rosalina (used to be Diddy Kong instead of the latter, but I think he dropped him because of his nerfs?). I got slightly (but not significantly) scared, he was on season 1's PR for our state and he pretty much bodied me the last time I played him, and I thought for sure I was going to lose and that he would knock me out of the tournament. In addition to that, I was getting bored from the multiple times I played Mega Man in a row (plus I don't like fighting Sheik as him) was pretty eager to just get to playing friendlies to have fun; so I chose
against him, a character I am still learning and have never used her in a tournament before, but I chose her because: I've been practicing with this character lately and I think she's a lot of fun, I thought my defeat was inevitable who I played, and I didn't really care about losing anyway. Nevertheless I still tried my best anyway, but the match went
much more smoothly than I expected and it ended up being in my favor for most of the game and I actually won and beat him, quite a few people were watching it too. So he switched to Rosa too and jokingly said that it was gonna be a ton of fun doing the ditto, this match was a lot harder and a little more annoying than the previous, but I
still won and ended up taking the whole set, and I got a round of applause once it was over. I was pretty surprised at well I did and I am really truly happy about how it went and I find myself wanting to use Rosie more often now, despite not initially caring about winning/losing. Granted, ditto matches aren't really a good way to indicate who's better with the character, and he was a little inactive in the scene for most of season 2 and has just come back not too long ago, but still he was on our previous Power Rankings and he still relatively well in this tournament, getting 7th out of 32 just two places below me. Choosing Rosa was supposed to be a joke, and yet I actually got away with this one against a good player. And even though she's top tier we actually don't have that many people who main her in my state, so I think that got me some of the applause from my buddies, in addition to it being the first time I busted her out. For my next match, I was placed against one of our new PR members that plays Jigglypuff and chose her again, I lost but I did take one of his stocks and got him to at least 50% as far back as I can remember so I still did fine. Switched to Greninja afterwards in an even closer set but was finally knocked out of the tournament, but I was still in a good mood and just went to playing friendlies, still using Rosa most of the time and beating a fair amount of people.
Craziest things have happened. That might not have been the most amazing feat due to those factors, but I'm seriously considering on using this character now and making a trio of the true blue guys:
. Can't tell you how how much that satisfied me