Though I have the primal desire to want to be in the BRoom, I'm sure there are some more qualified people out there, like GHNeko and maybe MK26, off the top of my head.
Does this count as a recommendation?
Dammit clonehat u made me feel all tingly inside when i saw that lol
And neko's already in the wbr
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EDIT: Full Application!
Your forum name
MK26/Maestro26
The character(s) you play
64: anyone
Melee: little melee experience, but sheik, falcon, and kirby
Brawl: Kirby, Sheik, ROB, Bowser
+: Kirby, Sheik, assorted randoms
Smash Bros. tournament experience
None. Too young johns. Canada johns. Nowhere near anybody even remotely interested in Smash outside family johns. etc etc
Interest and Contributions
I'd love to help out with this monumental change in the Brawl community, even being just a little part of it. I'm pretty active, and more than willing to help out, as many of you already know. I've all but dropped vBrawl and i never got into competitive Melee, so splitting time and resources is not a problem.
I'd try to find a happy medium between competitive balance and fun, where very few fundamental changes are made to characters, but their individual playstyles stay intact. That means the heavies stay heavy, slow, and powerful. I'm also
almost as knowledgeable as cam when it comes to kirby. Not only do i have several ideas, out-there or otherwise, Im willing to test new things, figure out if chanegs seem excessive, and so on. Beta testing on characters, if you will. Unfortunately, i can't get hitbox data firsthand, as i dont have a usb gecko.
Links
Snapshot Hacking Guide:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=226649
A page of people praising my stuff, and 7 more of other people asking for help
Brawl+ Tweaker:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=222151
Ideas, ideas, ideas, testing. I'm basically lead tester, debugger, r&d department, and #1 fan of the tweaker. Mucho <3s to Shortfuse.
(Retired) Kirby Matchup Thread: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=195032
I saw it all the way through, and i think the Kirby board was the first board to go through every matchup twice
Discussing NAT: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=6911025#post6911025
My first post in what eventually became a flame war between me and five people who now have
purple magenta names about something completely unnecessary
Custom CSSes: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=226010
I'm adding this just because 20% of the posts in the entire thread are mine...ive provided tons of troubleshooting help for nubs and not-so-nubs alike
Bonus
Recommendations...uh...if anyone wants to recommend me, I'm here...
Meta Nerfs
Anything i dont put here is unchanged. Assume the starting point to be vBrawl.
First off, i believe there shouldnt be any major playstyle changes to characters in the switch from Brawl to Brawl+, outside physics alterations (ie lrn2sweetspot, momentum jumps). That means metaknight shouldnt fall like a brick, or go into freefall from a glide, or whatever. However, simple little changes need to happen, such as:
Uair: its primary aim is a disruptor, not a silly little self-combing machine. Slight increase in bkb, moderate kbg increase, add a few frames of endlag
Fair: Make the angle a bit more diagonal, slight endlag increase
Dair: Cut down the hitbox size, and a few frames more starup, but no other changes
Decrease damage by 1 on all.
Dtilt: Keep the endlag the same but make the iasa window a bit later; slightly higher bkb and just slightly lower kbg to compensate
Utilt: (just a wacky idea of mine) Slightly more than the usmash's bkb but little kbg, at a 60 degree angle, to make it more of a positional reset that can conceivably combo into a shuttle loop if you read your opponent's di and get a little lucky. Also, slight damage increase
Dsmash: startup lag on the first slash. Shorten the rest of the animation (including the animation for the second hitbox) to keep it the same length in total
Tornado:
Moveswap with Meta-Kirby's tornado do what the plussery did. Also, remove the autocancel window on landing just after finishing the move
Dimensional Cape: remove IDC for good...somehow
Shuttle loop: I'd nerf the reverse hitbox much more than the forward facing hitbox. Reverse has a fair amount less bkb but a little higher kbg, while Forward has slightly less of both. Increase the angle a little bit too. Also, make the initial (vertical) hitbox around a 75 degree angle but otherwise unchanged
Bowser Buffs
I see him as a tank that can take a lot of damage but punish in return. To polarize the playstyles of heavyweight versus lightweight, id make several of bowsers moves more damaging (kb increases do not take into account damage increases)
Uair: faster startup but more endlag, keeping overall length the same
Fair: bkb and damage increase
Bair: slight angle lowering, damage and kbg increase
Dair: increase damage on all hits by 1; change last hit to be the same as other hits, but with a high bkb and a moderate amount of kbg. slight hitbox size increase.
Dtilt: Either first hit (damage decrease) is slightly faster and combos into second hit (which has a slight bkb increase) OR first hit has slightly increased bkb and size in exchange for a slower startup, and time between two hits is increased in exchange for less cooldown after second swipe (which has increased damage and kbg)
Utilt: moveswap with Kir- *shot* what the plussery did
Ftilt: what the plussery did
Fsmash: again, i cant think of a better way to do it than what the plussery did
Usmash: slight size increase and increased damage; if the hitbox that hits on the way down is different than the one that hits on the way up, make it spike a la Dedede up-b
Up-b: change gravities so that it can rise about 1.5x higher at the beginning and reaches the apex around halfway through; also, can sweetspot around 3/4 of the way through the animation
Down-b: increase size, bkb, kbg, and damage while being slightly slower. Either that or make aerial hit combo into a supercharged version of the ground hitbox, resulting in massive lulz when you spike someone with the air hit and cancel the attack by grabbing the ledge.
Endnotes
Oh. Given the power to change
anything? in that case, id make sonic say "you're too slowwww" every time a dsmash, shuttle loop, uair, dair, tornado (each individual hit), and dtilt connects with the opponent. And each time you connect with a grab. And I'd edit throws:
Dthrow: slightly lower angle and a tad more bkb
bthrow: more bkb and kbg
For Bowser, i'd add 'C'mon! Show me your moves!' to the end of each of his taunts, and 'YEHS!' each time an fsmash or suicide claw hits. Throws:
Dthrow has a slightly higher angle and extra hitstun, but also a more bkb and a bit less kbg, to make it more 'techchasey', much like mk's above
Bthrow: see mk bthrow
And I'd make kicakss textures for every character and stage, and hack custom music into the game. Obviously. And lengthen Kirby's HIIII! to HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! like in Melee, even though that has nothing to do with buffing Boozer or nerfing MK. Which reminds me, I'd make Bowser's CSS icon read 'Boozer' for the lulz.
As you can see, I'm much more of an ideas guy than a discussion guy. Notice that I didnt make
any massive changes, but simply provided optimizations of moves for bowser and slight, subtle nerfs for most of meta knights moves, which will add up when applied together.
(Almas has moved quite a few of my posts...sorry man.) Also, the general knowledge of the majority of people posting on the Workshop seems very low at times and sorry I just lose my temper when dealing with annoying people >.< I need to work on that.
