Wreckarooni
Smash Apprentice
In general I'd just like to know everyone's individual thoughts on these characters in Melee. And if your opinion has maybe changed over the course of watching and playing this game throughout the years.
My thoughts:
Initially I didn't respect Puff as a character because for me it was way to easy to learn her and do well with her: rest setups aren't that difficult, easy safe autocancels and spacing, rinse and repeat neutral game, simple effective edgeguarding on all characters. But over the past year I've definitely changed my mind, there are creative and hype things that can be done with her. I mostly attribute HBox to my change of heart since he used to be such a lame textbook Puff but he's really become fun to watch since he's now injecting his own style and unique personality into the character. Almost all other Puffs really just copy what Mango and HBox were doing YEARS ago.
As for Ice Climbers, in my eyes are just lame and I doubt my opinion will ever change. I watch someone like Dizzkidboogie who basically just wobbles all 4 stocks and I'd rather watch paint dry while blowing my brains out. Wobbling is legal and I agree it should be since ICs are free even with that gimmick, but it brings Melee down a level below Brawl in terms of hype and respect. I know I have an extreme bias against them though because everything about them makes me nauseous down to their irritating jumping sounds and death screams. Fly Amanita almost makes me change my mind - he seems to intentionally drop wobbles (when it's obvious he can) and his SoPo is amazing.
My thoughts:
Initially I didn't respect Puff as a character because for me it was way to easy to learn her and do well with her: rest setups aren't that difficult, easy safe autocancels and spacing, rinse and repeat neutral game, simple effective edgeguarding on all characters. But over the past year I've definitely changed my mind, there are creative and hype things that can be done with her. I mostly attribute HBox to my change of heart since he used to be such a lame textbook Puff but he's really become fun to watch since he's now injecting his own style and unique personality into the character. Almost all other Puffs really just copy what Mango and HBox were doing YEARS ago.
As for Ice Climbers, in my eyes are just lame and I doubt my opinion will ever change. I watch someone like Dizzkidboogie who basically just wobbles all 4 stocks and I'd rather watch paint dry while blowing my brains out. Wobbling is legal and I agree it should be since ICs are free even with that gimmick, but it brings Melee down a level below Brawl in terms of hype and respect. I know I have an extreme bias against them though because everything about them makes me nauseous down to their irritating jumping sounds and death screams. Fly Amanita almost makes me change my mind - he seems to intentionally drop wobbles (when it's obvious he can) and his SoPo is amazing.
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