People who keep seeing this new patch as a "failure" and a "mistake on Sakurai daddy san's side. . ." are so sadly wrong. This patch is great, it fixed things that made matches become as one sided as Fox / Falco matches were back in Melee when chain grabs were involved. Also, these fixes are phenomenal, they fixed the things that were otherwise GAME BREAKING, and they also changed A WHOLE WAY OF THE GAME WORKING, and brought back a feature MANY PEOPLE were wanting to return. . . Welcome home, Directional Influence. (not confirmed yet, but debated!) Vectoring has been removed from Smash 4 as a whole, but in return, Directional Influence (or, DI) has been brought back, allowing us to play the game a whole different way, AND not have to worry about Wario becoming the new "Deep Kong" around here, letting him recover from Tokyo to New York. Realize, they removed Vectoring and (Wectoring as you people called it for Wario), which involved removing a WHOLE SYSTEM from their game, and replacing it with an old one (for DI support). (Again, THIS IS NOT CONFIRMED YET.)
Now, onto the 'banter' in the opening headline: Someone was very unhappy about their main (Greninja and Toon Link) getting nerfed like they did, he says it "changed my meta game and mind on Smash 4 as a whole." Now, this made my palm exercise extended force upon my face (face palm), because ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MATE? Smash 4 has only been around for 2 MONTHS, and people found out some pretty game breaking tricks in 2 MONTHS. "Shadow Sneak cancelling for Greninja put the other character at an unfair advantage, if you whiffed an attack with long lag on it, while Greninja does a laggy aerial like down air but then Shadow Sneak cancels out of it, he can punish you like a masochi-- like a professional." As a great youtube commenter once said: "That's the community."
And along with that, someone else also complained about Toon Link's and regular Link's and even Peach's (Toss cancelling) being removed, now, to you all who don't know what that is, it's when you can do ANY aerial in the game besides Up special and Down special. You could do it from a neutral special aerial, side special aerial, Fair, Dair, Uair, Bair, Nair, any attack that has lag on it or some at all, and you could cancel the lag automatically into a throwing of your bomb with Link(s) or your Turnip with Peach, causing again, UNBALANCED match ups. It gave Link WAY MORE OPTIONS than it should of, because he could arrow you, then bomb you, then run in and follow up with something that's not supposed to work in that order THAT FAST. Or it even gave Peach a 0 - Death (from 0% to 130%+ and a free Kill) set up combo. Which again, got patched along with Toss Cancelling being patched, and I'm glad to see it go, as I never even played Smash 4 yet, but as a player who has seen how annoyingly broken it can be, I'm just happy it's gone.
Now, I approve of the BUFFS they put in place too, Falco's Lazer being shot faster (want to see a video of this though!), Shulk's monado being stronger on every attack by at least 2% - 3%, Yoshi getting more damage on his Dair?! (Also, Yoshi's Egg teleport and Hyper Ground Pound are gone.) And also, the removal of Hyper Rollout with Jiggly Puff is always welcome, it wasn't game breaking and just seemed harmless but when it happens and you're at a high %, it becomes (shiver). One of my favorite things they didn't remove, just nerfed though, is Rush Cancelling and Thunder Cancelling (Look these up). Rush cancelling isn't removed, you just can't do it on the first frame anymore, it has to be on about the 3rd or 4th frame of Megaman being hurt now, so you gotta spam that Up B A LOT faster now for it to activate, but it's there still. And Thunder Cancelling is the same, on a different frame of Pikachu being hurt.
Now, I hope this clears up why Sakurai does what he does though, I mean look at all the stuff you people found in 2 MONTHS of the game being out, I'm sure it'll be 2 - 3 months more until you all find out MORE stuff, besides, not all advanced techs are gone. Sheik still can bouncing fish technique all over the place, from using it to "Platform skip" or "Platform hop" to some insane onstage off stage tactics. There's so many more "techniques" to be found and evolved into a Metagame, you won't believe. And as someone else said, I'm sure there won't be patches every 2 months because of the fact that when the Wii U game is out in 2 days, Sakurai will most likely be wanting to rest up and take a breather. Give the game a chance to 'live', unlike people who want Smash 4 modded to be like other Smash mods ALREADY, like are you people that obsessed with Super Melee Brothers that you can't give a BRAND NEW GAME time to evolve? Yeesh, anyways, thanks for reading if you did this far, you deserve a medal.
Now, onto the 'banter' in the opening headline: Someone was very unhappy about their main (Greninja and Toon Link) getting nerfed like they did, he says it "changed my meta game and mind on Smash 4 as a whole." Now, this made my palm exercise extended force upon my face (face palm), because ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MATE? Smash 4 has only been around for 2 MONTHS, and people found out some pretty game breaking tricks in 2 MONTHS. "Shadow Sneak cancelling for Greninja put the other character at an unfair advantage, if you whiffed an attack with long lag on it, while Greninja does a laggy aerial like down air but then Shadow Sneak cancels out of it, he can punish you like a masochi-- like a professional." As a great youtube commenter once said: "That's the community."
And along with that, someone else also complained about Toon Link's and regular Link's and even Peach's (Toss cancelling) being removed, now, to you all who don't know what that is, it's when you can do ANY aerial in the game besides Up special and Down special. You could do it from a neutral special aerial, side special aerial, Fair, Dair, Uair, Bair, Nair, any attack that has lag on it or some at all, and you could cancel the lag automatically into a throwing of your bomb with Link(s) or your Turnip with Peach, causing again, UNBALANCED match ups. It gave Link WAY MORE OPTIONS than it should of, because he could arrow you, then bomb you, then run in and follow up with something that's not supposed to work in that order THAT FAST. Or it even gave Peach a 0 - Death (from 0% to 130%+ and a free Kill) set up combo. Which again, got patched along with Toss Cancelling being patched, and I'm glad to see it go, as I never even played Smash 4 yet, but as a player who has seen how annoyingly broken it can be, I'm just happy it's gone.
Now, I approve of the BUFFS they put in place too, Falco's Lazer being shot faster (want to see a video of this though!), Shulk's monado being stronger on every attack by at least 2% - 3%, Yoshi getting more damage on his Dair?! (Also, Yoshi's Egg teleport and Hyper Ground Pound are gone.) And also, the removal of Hyper Rollout with Jiggly Puff is always welcome, it wasn't game breaking and just seemed harmless but when it happens and you're at a high %, it becomes (shiver). One of my favorite things they didn't remove, just nerfed though, is Rush Cancelling and Thunder Cancelling (Look these up). Rush cancelling isn't removed, you just can't do it on the first frame anymore, it has to be on about the 3rd or 4th frame of Megaman being hurt now, so you gotta spam that Up B A LOT faster now for it to activate, but it's there still. And Thunder Cancelling is the same, on a different frame of Pikachu being hurt.
Now, I hope this clears up why Sakurai does what he does though, I mean look at all the stuff you people found in 2 MONTHS of the game being out, I'm sure it'll be 2 - 3 months more until you all find out MORE stuff, besides, not all advanced techs are gone. Sheik still can bouncing fish technique all over the place, from using it to "Platform skip" or "Platform hop" to some insane onstage off stage tactics. There's so many more "techniques" to be found and evolved into a Metagame, you won't believe. And as someone else said, I'm sure there won't be patches every 2 months because of the fact that when the Wii U game is out in 2 days, Sakurai will most likely be wanting to rest up and take a breather. Give the game a chance to 'live', unlike people who want Smash 4 modded to be like other Smash mods ALREADY, like are you people that obsessed with Super Melee Brothers that you can't give a BRAND NEW GAME time to evolve? Yeesh, anyways, thanks for reading if you did this far, you deserve a medal.
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