EDIT: Kewkky: They don't base MU's around planking and scrooging because those tactics hardly ever occur with most tourneys having LGL's.
They still occur. Scrooging originated during tourneys with LGLs, in case you forgot... And even at tourneys with LGLs, planking occurs. You really don't NEED to live on the ledge t plank, you can just do so when you feel threatened. And Mk has 5 jumps and an invincible downB, he can grab the ledges in a variety of different ways and timings, enough to make sure he doesn't go over the LGL.
People just want to see their character do good vs MK, and saying "tourneys around are doing LGLs" or "every other board isn't counting planking and scrooging so why should we?" makes them feel like they're justifying their faulty MU conclusion. The fact of the matter is... If you're on a competitive smash website with official rules on competitive smash, and you're discussing Mus in the competitive smash website, wouldn't you have to base the MU around the rules in the website? It should always take priority over everything... And I know that a rampaging MK who can plank and scrooge, will not be a near-even MU for him, but in fact will be a bad MU.
Oh, and in my opinion, ZSS doesn't have a "good MU" vs MK. She has tools to do things, as does every character in the higher tiers, but MK just has an easier time doing anything. To beat MK consistently, you have to outskill them by a margin large enough for you to outplace the mainer you're playing against. Taking into account their skill and the MK multiplier (him being the unanimously unarguably best character increases your performance the most), you have to make sure you're THAT much better than them, or smart enough to stay one step ahead of them.
I bet SFP's gonna appear any time now to try and make me eat my words. I hope he reads that I said "in my opinion", which means in my own eyes as a ZSS player.
dekar, how realistically good would you be if diddy was banned?
I know the answer is definitely not close to how you are now
Its unfair to set players back 2 years since he is popular
So, are you saying that even if it's eventually proven true that MK is a hindrance and a vast majority of the competitive brawlers want him gone, you won't do it because people spent lots of time maining him, and it's unfair? You'd be willing to let the game die simply because people spent 2 years maining him? It would be THEIR fault for maining a character to this day which has been brought up for banning more than 4 times in the past without thinking that he COULD get banned at some point later, right or wrong?