In a way I was always considering things with your opinion. You are not able to win against a spammy ennemy ? Then this is harsh to say but he did the right thing to win, his play style is better than yours. That's it, end of the story.You aren't as good as you think you are.
As boring as you personally find the play-style to play, your opponent is not striving to excite you. He's striving to beat you. If he sees that beating you is as easy as rolling from edge to edge while repeatedly hitting a projectile, then there is only one person at fault here for losing : you. It could even be that what they're doing is working on you, it's causing you frustration, thus he's winning the mental game. Surely, you understand that the players committing to these strategies would stand no chance versus a competent player. What they're doing is predictable and easy to read. Then there's you, who loses it. That is on you.
Keep training and get better, because before the next time you decide to whine about a "spammy" character or talk about how it's no fun to play against, take a moment to realize that you are losing to it. So what does that make your play style? Maybe you need to show your opponent that such a strategy will not work on you? Maybe your opponent is doing it because it's the easiest, most low-effort method possible that is proving to be effective.
Now if you consistently defeat these types of players and simply are annoyed at their existence because you feel they are irritating and simply provide no outlet for you to improve, that's another discussion. However, if you consistently beat these types of players, it's unlikely you have any issue in the first place. It's a free win to your %. If you're losing though, you need to take a good look at your game, and improve it.
I never thought of myself as an excellent smash player, but I never had any problems to deal with some spammy adversaries in "for glory". So when I found out that so many people were complaining of such players, I said to myself : "ah if these guys are really struggling against these kind of opponents, they should suck ! I'm not that bad I guess !" Yes, I was haughty. But also innocent at that time being.
Then some hours ago I realised after a couple of awful matches that I was wrong. Terribly wrong. By chance, all my previous versus against spammy adversaries had happened without any significant lag. Lag is very disruptive against any kind of adversary. But a spammy adversary with lag is the worst thing that can ever happen to you. It's like everything on this freaking planet has turned against you.
You try to block, you're late. You try to approach by jumping, you're late. You try to punish a mistake, you're late. Of course the roll is a lot safer now (which IMO is not necessary a bad thing) so the ennemy roll and roll like hell and since you're not Shulk and can't exactly predict the future before it's happening, you miss the opportunity to give a hit, because of course you're late. Now, all your efforts are ruined and the ennemy is in the opposite corner of the stage again like at the beginning of the battle except that you are at 40%, because this *#@! shield was late. The only thing in your mind at te endof the match is : "Geez ! There should have been another game for these kind of people named Super Spam Brothers"
Of course your ennemy is late too but eh, when your only things to do are spamming boomerang/missiles/arrows/laser beam, and ehm... roll, it's not that much of a handicap. And that's not like if FD was not the perfect stage for a spammy character.
Well since this terrifying event I'm a proud member of the "please Lucifer, you got my soul, so kill slowly and painfully any spammy guy" community.
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