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r_greening1
Can you really blame him though? I'd imagine it to be a little difficult to rushdown and launch a successful offense against a top Shiek player. Not because she can't, but because Sheik is so fast. It doesn't help how the Sheiks are finding more ways to stay safe on neutral and to keep their offense going.
No, I don't blame him, and I personally don't mind him playing the way he does, on it's own (I personally find Sheik to be easy enough though, same with ZSS, they just take getting used to. I recommend playing as them for a while if you want to figure out how to deal with them). It's just that the entire Smash community seems to act like Dabuz IS the Rosalina meta, and disregards any suggestions that offer an alternate way to play Rosalina or anything like that. Maybe he is the only Rosalina player that is making a name for himself, and maybe he is doing poorly with the character as of late. But shouldn't that be all the more reason to listen to other players' suggestions (both in terms of mains of other characters listening to us in MU discussions, and in terms of people not disregarding opinions just because "LOL U NEVER PLAYED IN TOURNAMENTS"). I haven't played in tournaments yet, but I have played against some very good players, some of whom play tournaments and have won them before. I don't enter tournaments right now for personal reasons unrelated to the game itself, but I think it's unfair to disregard ideas just because a person has not actually played in a tournament. As far as I'm concerned, the Rosalina meta is never gonna go further if we keep relying on one or two players who are privileged enough to play in tournaments. Because at the end of the day, you don't get into a tournament because you are good, you get in because you are privileged enough to be able to take the time to do so. Winning matches shows your skill, but just because you haven't been privileged enough to enter, doesn't mean you are a bad player who couldn't potentially win.
I dunno, I just hate this attitude the Smash community has regarding players who haven't played in a tournament yet. It's an entirely unwelcoming attitude, and it's part of why the meta can be so stagnant. Especially since people mostly only care about American tournaments.
As for raids, I find them to be kind of fun. It's a fun way to interact with the other boards without having the same boring competitive dialouge that always acco.
We actually rarely discuss competitive play in the Rosalina Social, we mostly discuss other things, help each other out with things like art or whatever, and we are fairly lighthearted about it. We just don't do "lolsorandom" humour that much. Maybe that's "boring" to some but I honestly find that too much of that kind of humour gets boring way quicker.
And tbh I don't think mains of other threads should have a say in "how the Rosalina mains should behave", if they don't intend to frequent the Rosalina boards themselves. That's just being a control freak. And that was partly why they Zelda raids happened, they got pissy about the way we went about or business because it wasn't "fun", even though they normally never visit here anyway, meaning how fun these boards are to them is kinda irrelevant.
And sexual references are kinda completely banned around here, to the point where some non-sexual things are banned because mods/Xyelot don't fully understand those things and think more things are inherently sexual than actually are the case. I tried to speak up against this myself, but the issue runs as far back as Xyelot (the company that owns Smashboards), so nothing can really be done about that. That in itself limits how random you can be.
I'm much more laid back on another forum I visit since the rules are less strict there. Since the rules are very strict here though, I just try to keep sincere discussions going, or make completely non-controversial jokes and I don't really be obnoxious for the fun of it.
I still agreed that Rosalina does have bad MU against Shiek, I mean a Zero like Shiek.
I don't see how you can think that when ZeRo himself has gone on record saying the Sheik VS Rosalina MU is "either even or in Rosalina's favour". He doesn't even think it being in Sheik's favour is a likely possibility.
Inb4sonicbrawler
Is it just me or that Rosalina isn't as tall as I thought she would be? Try imagining (Or rather, size her with your fingers and move them down) her not floating a bit like that and put her on the same ground as Peach. She isn't that much taller than Luigi, even.
I thought she is taller in Galaxy 1 or something? But then again I only have played it briefly so I don't know exactly.
That artwork is based off her 3D World model, where she is scaled down to only be slightly taller than Peach for gameplay reasons. Smash also scales her down, but not as much.
Canonically, Rosalina is 7'7", an inch taller than Ganondorf.
