Well, had an interesting weekend, as far as Smash goes...
Was told that there would be monthly tournaments at the hobby shop on the west side of the island, and one of them was scheduled for yesterday. Turns out, not enough people showed up, so we just played a ton of friendly Free For Alls with 3-4 players at a time. I played Shulk for most of them, throwing in Robin or random a few times.
And over two hours of play... I won about 90% of the free for alls. xD Hawaii has a
very weak competitive scene... Can count the serious players on this island on two hands. In any case, I DID see the guy who kicked my can in the first tournament I was ever in (he took second), and he joined for a few FFAs. Happily, I won the FFAs he was involved in, so I know I'm growing.
Someday, I could very well learn the Monado's power... In my dreams.
In any case, they got pretty sick of me winning so many battles, so for the last three games, we did team battles.
G1: One of the three other players chose to join my team, and he uses a Kirby that spams copy abilities, Down B, and Up B. About 30 seconds in, his 3DS dies (which was his controller; we were playing on Wii U though), leaving me to fight the other two alone. Shulk wins without grave peril.
G2: Now all three of them are on Blue Team against poor defenseless Shulk. Shulk vs. R.O.B., Kirby, and ZSS. Blue team won, but only after I took one of them out, and brought the other two down to 1 and 2 stocks each.
G3: Still 3v1. Up against Wii Fit Trainer, Kirby, and I can't remember if the third was Falcon or ROB. WFT just sits at the stage edge, spamming Deep Breathing, Soccer Header, and Sun Salutation, lol. The other two gang up on me, trying to keep me between them. By the time they both were eliminated, I was on my last stock, and around 120%, while the remaining Wii Fit Trainer had two stocks and medium damage. After eating a fully charged Sun Salutation, I saw that he was ONLY using Salutation, Header, and Breathing. I power shielded his projectiles, broke in, and combo'd him into an edge-guard kill. One stock left, I'm at 169%. I go for Buster and Shield, swapping them and dodging/blocking everything, and having a ball whenever I got WFT into the air. Understand that this person had zero air game... Eventually, I sealed the stock with a Smash Art FSmash, winning.
Thankfully, i was quick enough on the draw to save the replay at the results screen. For having to leave at that point, I'm happy I went out with a bang. :3
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go get knocked down to Bronze II on Anther's Ladder...