Indeed. Then you should probably learn how to play MK dittos well, or find another character you want to use to counter MK. Surprisingly enough, many characters in the game have hard counters. If you don't want to try and play that matchup... then switch characters when someone chooses MK. Is it really that hard to do?
Yes, it is.
Your advice is to play one character on the side... to deal with the opponent's main who is the same character? -_^
How long do you think you could keep that up? Something tells me that the opponent might have a bit more Meta experience
And anyways, this is irrelevant for this tournament or any local tournament at all. Nobody plays MK other than Rofa in MI. Nobody planks with MK in MI. Everything you're saying here is irrelevant to the MI smash scene.
I want to travel, and don't play in tournaments just for fun. I play to win, and to continually improve myself. It's a challenge I enjoy that is absent when MK is in the mix. MK is the end result, no matter which path you take.
Also, Scarecrow plays MK. I play MK. Omni now plays MK. Kel plays MK.
I didn't plank at the last tournament because it doesn't work particularly well against Pika or G&W and I didn't
need to against anyone else, but I'm planning on stalling the timer out on every single match including pools at the next tournament to accent what MK can do, so you won't be able to say that for long
Do you see what I'm getting at with this? While what you're saying may be true for other regions, its not true for the midwest, and certainly not true for MI. So why do you care?
The MW isn't the world. I have to drive 4.5 hours for a tournament for every single one... that's a huge time investment, and if I double that I could go to the EC which I was originally planning on doing with Vayseth, Bloodhawk, Anther, and a few others... but I don't feel like wading through MKs nor do I feel like maining MK.
You're not wrong at all. You're just looking at a much larger scale than you probably should be in this situation.
Looking at it locally is blinding. If we don't have a problem with Shadow Moses at all simply because we don't have any D3's but Joshu, does that mean it should be unbanned?
I've participated in these debates enough to know exactly what your reasoning is on this issue. And for the most part, I completely agree with a lot of your logic. But there is one thing that I never understood... Why don't you just pick MK for MK dittos? If MK is the problem, then switch characters solely for MK. Pour your time and research into learning how to win in MK dittos, and then use ROB for everything else. Whats wrong with that?
I could do that... but what's the point? That's limiting myself. There's no reason to do that. If I'm going to limit myself, I shouldn't be playing in tournaments. I know I'm good enough to win a fair fight, and I know I'm good enough to overcome a disadvantage. I don't have anything to "prove" to myself... so why waste my time with a character that is garbage compared to Metaknight, especially when it takes so little effort to play MK?
Other than yourself, there aren't any other key names in the midwest that want to quit this game because of MK. Although I do hope you reconsider quitting altogether.
Give it time.
Uh... there is a jump in logic right there. Why is maining MK or leaving the only option for players that don't have a chance to win but just want to improve? Given, maining MK is the "best" option right now, but it is far from the only option.
It's not a jump, it is a sequence. Of course, another option is to continuously lose... but if you think "getting better" is an option in comparison with "pick Metaknight", it isn't. People will just pick MK and that'll be the end of the conflict for them.
I haven't thought about a single matchup since I picked up MK. I just up+b at the right times, d-smash at the right times, retreating fair and f-smash, and tornado over and over again.
Again, you're making a jump in logic by saying all mediocre players will chose MK. With a Pikachu winning nearly every midwest event he goes to, I think that the diversity in the higher level players (and the lack of MK) in the midwest is becomes something of a goal to these mediocre players to play with the character they want to. Anther, Joel, Tink, yourself, and a few others are the role models for the mediocre players. And none of you play MK. No, not even you. A mediocre player will continue to see you as the ROB main, even though you're playing MK at the moment.
I haven't played ROB in a while... I played two games with ROB against smash64 this weekend (lost one, won one), and before that I had a MM with Legan that I won unconvincingly, and before that it was the tournament with DSF. I'm not a ROB main anymore, there's just no reason to play him.
btw, Tink will end up picking up MK and winning. I'm calling it now. Give him two tournaments maining MK.
While the situation you're describing is most definitely a possibility... I just don't see it happening in the midwest, or at least not for quite some time. And who knows? With other tournaments starting to ban MK, it may catch on and spread across the regions. But only the future will tell for that.
I won't be there though. I'm not playing catch-up like I did in Melee, and I'm not sticking around to wait for people to get their heads together.