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I never said I was pro- or anti-ban. If you've been paying attention to my posts, I'm actually neither. I'm all for Ultimate Power to the TO!
Actually, that's just up to the preferences of the community. The Impacts had MK banned but they still didn't have Brinstar and PS2 legal. Just because MK's gone doesn't make these stages any more appealing. The problems with PS2, for most people, had nothing to do with MK. I could assume that a lot of Brinstar's problems aren't only fueled by MK as well. I could believe that other regions have Delfino and Frigate banned, even with MK gone. Frigate's flips are janky and can cause instant KOs at any %'s. I know that can be avoided, but some people/communities may just not want to deal with that. Delfino actually does make certain other characters really, really good. DDD is borderline broken here, IMO, and Jiggs gets a huge boost in viability from the stage.Youre telling me that theres mk banned tournaments that have delfino and frigate banned?
Im gonna need some verification on that. Because I run MK banned tournaments and delfino and frigate arent even close to bannable without mk. I even legalize brinstar and Rainbow cruise with a full list stage strike process and all of my events have played out fantastically. ive even had people strike to game one on rainbow cruise and frigate in tournament. thats how fair those stages are without mk.
That's why you learn a secondary or you figure out how to stage CP, or otherwise fight, your way past bad MUs.Actually I dont agree, anyone that can compete with MK would likely be happy to have an MK vs a character that CP's theirs.
As I explained in my previous post, that's actually the most unfair thing ever. The fact that he doesn't even have to suffer soft CPs is pretty ridiculous. In a game with this many characters, absolutely NO ONE should be able to get a 'free ride' through all the MUs without being CPd at least once. For instance, Seth is probably the very best char in SSF IV: AE 2012, but even he has about 5 or 6 losing MUs. Heck, even Fox in Melee has multiple even MUs (Falco, Marth, and arguably Samus). How does MK get by with only one even MU (which is questionable, no less).I'm not sure if my reply to delta-cod answered this. All characters that can compete with MK wouldnt need to ditto MK. The most unfair thing about MK is that hes the only fair character and doesnt have to suffer counterpicks.
The latter is not what Brawl would degrade to without MK, though. That kind of radical shift in MUs only really exists for DDD, the Low Tiers, and a few select Mid Tiers. FGs are always going to have their Low Tiers with their trash spreads, bodying some MUs and getting destroyed by others. Smash is particularly bad in that its Low Tiers don't even have that many winning or even MUs. They just lose. However, this doesn't change with MK in the picture. With MK gone, we still have "multiple distinct characters that all fight evenly with each other" and then we can have even more chars, like DDD, Lucario, and Pit, join this 'even mix'. If something turns out to be imbalanced, THEN you start shifting stagelists around to keep things somewhat even.Well I wasnt trying to reference brawl specifically. Think of this in more general terms. Which type of game do you prefer:
one with multiple distinct characters that all fight evenly with each other (maybe something like starcraft)?
or one with multiple distinct characters with half their MU's being at a strong advantage and another half being strong CPs?
Is anyone here actually arguing for a national ban? I know I'm not. What the heck does a "national ban" even mean? Another scenario where if your tourney doesn't 'follow the rules', you lose out on benefits? No, thank you! I think many of us are saying that TOs should consider creating more MK-banned tourneys and we're giving good reasoning as to why that is the case. Nobody wants a sweeping law that rules the TOs the world over, as far as I know.I agree, but at the same time Pro-ban needed a stronger argument since they were hoping for a national ban while anti-ban was not.