Snake bandwagon...

[StoleUrCar]

^^^
Not really. There are tons of Snake players and he's currently ranked at the top. A lot of people are going to play him because he's just an all around good character and it probably going to be high if not top tier.

And the dash attack cancel really isn't hard at all. I did it on my first try and can do it consistently even though I don't main Snake. He doesn't require a lot of tech skill and mainly just takes smart playing. Compared to the learning curve on say Melee Ness or Melee Ice Climbers he's pathetically easy to learn. But in anycase who cares if you're on the "bandwagon" if you're winning?

Well....considering all the early Snake players helped develop what his meta game is today, the new snakes are jus playing off what's been laid out plain and obvious in front of them. All the guides 'n stuff are basically holding their hands and pointing them to the exact/most efficient way to do things ( Note that there are barely any random how-to questions asked here on the snake forums, all da essentials are in the stickiez.)...i guess that's what a good guide does...but surely early snakes did not find it as easy coming up with playstyle from scratch. I guess thats where the big learnin curve mentality comes from.

On a side note on those melee examples..
-ness - DJC aerials and good spacing was all u needed. not hard.
- IC's - umm..wobble = cake...then its jus WD to grab/smash. Desynch to mix it up which was much easier than in brawl now.

top teirs = newbie magnets.They flock to them jus from a single video of pwnage or word of mouth. end of story. I know that weekly character discussion thread sure attracted some ppl. Please don't call me a hypocrite either, i picked snake of my own accord back before any hype.

 

[Mom]

When Brawl came out (or at least when I got it) i tried Snake being a fan of MGS, and realized this cat was extremely difficult to play compared to my old main in Melee (Cpt. Falcon). So immidiately i turned him off, then heard from my brother (Divine Seraphim or Sera Smash, something or the other i forget) that Falcon is pretty much lowest tier, which then made me get turned off from Falcon and back to Snake. I think there will be an overwhelming amount of Snake players, but how many of them would be good enough to be even considered to be in "actual' tourneys? And if there are many snakes in tourneys, he is gunna be F'd from anybody that has a decent projectile (imo) i.e. snake. From online play i honestly mainly just see fox, ike, and meta knight; i rarely see a snake, or a good one at least. (Those are just free for all thoughs not Friendlies) So over all i would actually imagine that tourneys will have a fair amount of chars. rather then just Snakes :D.

 

[Pseudoshot]

Only chars I play well with are snake, marth, mk, toon link, and maybe some ddd...
Lol @ them for being high tier.
I'm still trying to sort out who i should main, either snake or marth. Snake is truely broken cause I can 3 stock my friend with FS's on with snake. Snake is usually the better matchup for most characters because of his all of his broken projectiles/tilts/mines/everything/smashboost/c4 recov/grabs. Just too good.
Marth on the other hand requires more precise spacing.
And i was lmao today when I ko'ed my friend's last lucas stock with DDD chaingrab->Dair->footstool. No edgehogging required lol.

 

[Illussionary]

No need to fear Meta Knight is here. who is actually the best character in game with zero lag.

 

[Mom]

And i was lmao today when I ko'ed my friend's last lucas stock with DDD chaingrab->Dair->footstool. No edgehogging required lol.

lol, i have a Video of my little brother (8 yrs) Toadstooling me at 0% and giving him the win. I'll post it when i move to SC.

If i were in your situation i would play against more people online with more competative play (not saying your friend is bad or anything, just more diverse players)

,but if you do want to main as Snake just because he is "Solid," go for it :D.

 

[Mom]

No need to fear Meta Knight is here. who is actually the best character in game with zero lag.

We all know that Meta Knight is the best toon to play as, HE IS A BALL OF NOTHING! but i mean, honestly, i just got tired of winning and started playing as snake.

 

[Pseudoshot]

lol, i have a Video of my little brother (8 yrs) Toadstooling me at 0% and giving him the win. I'll post it when i move to SC.

If i were in your situation i would play against more people online with more competative play (not saying your friend is bad or anything, just more diverse players)

,but if you do want to main as Snake just because he is "Solid," go for it :D.

I don't have brawl D:
Hopefully I can get a job and buy a wii and brawl lol. Meh, I'll be 20 before I can get my own place. I don't think all colleges have wifi... well kinda hopeless with what i can do. Lol I need a part time job before i turn 17.

 

[Mom]

owned........

 

[mr_kennedy44]

No need to fear Meta Knight is here. who is actually the best character in game with zero lag.

There's no denying the fact that MK is a great character, (he is in fact my fifth). There are a few things though that MK lacks that Snake more than makes up for. For instance Mk has no projectiles. Snake has 'nades, nikita and the mortar (not really a projectile but I'll group it here anyways). MK is extremely light. Snake I believe is the fourth heaviest in the game. Snake tends to live well into the 200% range while MK lasts into the 110% range. MK has qualities over Snake (not much lag, a fantastic aerial game), but its more of a personal opinion. I think Snake is the best character. I'm sure many people agree and many more disagree. Snake and MK are both great but Snake has the edge IMO.

 

[napZzz]

mk is just a *****y noob character. snakes arm alone is longer than mks puny sword. wait until other chars meta games develop and his noobiness is obsolete. and yeah, snake is the best character

 

[Shibby]

I fear that many many MANY people will jump on a sort of "Snake Bandwagon" due to the fact that, lets face it, he's the best character in the game. Tournaments will be like this...


"No one expected Snake to go all the way. Remember when Snake came back and upsetted snake? or in the next round, where snake had a close match against snake. The finals, Snake vs Snake was one of the best games we have seen in a while, even better than Snake vs Snake in round 3, congradulations Snake, you have proved them wrong!"

That is just horrifying. Once the tiers are out, it will be like this, most likely.

I'm going to use Snake as a second main if I can figure him out.

hehe

 

[napZzz]

play smart thats it shibby, and omg an mn smash player!

 

[Shibby]

play smart thats it shibby, and omg an mn smash player!

I can't F-Tilt for the life of me with Snake, the F-Smash always comes out.


Bleh, I just need to put some hours into him and read up on the guides.

Yeah MN! (For the school year at least)

Check out this MN forum if you don't know about it already.


http://z6.invisionfree.com/MNSmash/index.php?act=idx


(scroll down to the chat box)

 

[abit_rusty]

Ironic how the thread warning about the Snake bandwagon is slowly turning into one.

 

[Tyr_03]

Snake is ranking higher than MK right now anyway regardless of whether he's a "noob" character or not.

And StoleUrCar: Melee Ness - " DJC aerials and good spacing was all u needed. not hard."

No...just no. You obviously have no concept of pro Ness in Melee or you wouldn't have neglected to mention the insanely difficult sweetspot depending on where you were, blastzones that made your recovery pretty much impossible, yoyo glitching, PK Thunder reverse edgeguards, tailwhipping or the insane mindgames needed to pull off a PKT2. DJC is the simplest part of Ness's game and it takes way more to even have a chance against the top tiers if they're decent players. Just wanted to point out your ignorance. IMO learning Snake in Brawl doesn't even compare to that learning curve.

 

[DiasFlac]

I brawl a Snake player every day and the players who probably don't play him play him when they lose often.

He's the "I can't beat this guy with my main so I'll use Snake" character.

 

[ICANTCOUNT123456]

^Yeah it's kind of sad. They think Snake = auto win.

 

[Illussionary]

My previous post in this thread was wrong. I have been noticing an increasing amount snakes since the Character Ranking List. Its really getting annoying since 75% of them suck... and suicide half the time because they used the Missile Launcher instead of the C4.

 

[ICANTCOUNT123456]

Yeah it really is annoying, I always look at the characters icons, and see snake 99% of the time.

 

[~Kaworu~]

his attacks are soo strong, tahts y hes so good

 

[Tyson651]

sigh, i knew this would come. my friends are already bandwagoning snake cause i main him and ****.

and snake doesnt have a hard learning curve. if u were somewhat decent in melee, everything with snake should be picked up in like a couple minutes. mortar slides, gernade dropping, etc. take like 10 seconds.

 

[Master Raven]

If noobs swarm the easy to play ones, that means overall intelligent , patient ppl will take up snake. that shud be a good thing i guess. Or MGS fans.

still will be a bandwagon...but a smart one with a good deal of fanboys/gals lol.

I hope that's sarcasm, because I'm afraid my detector is broken.

hes not like mk, wolf, or tl. he requires time, which means noobs will swarm to those cheap easy to use characters, not snake

mk is just a *****y noob character. snakes arm alone is longer than mks puny sword. wait until other chars meta games develop and his noobiness is obsolete. and yeah, snake is the best character

Lol, were you butthurt by Meta Knight players or something?

And for the record, Snake may not be broken (although it may feel like it at certain times), but I won't be surprised at all if he makes it top tier. His Ftilt and Utilts have gargantuan hitboxes and are incredibly strong (hell EVERY single one of his moves have KO potential), he's got a great, great recovery, he's got that Mortar Dash, he's incredibly strong in general, he can pretty much take over the stage with mines and grenades all over the place, his dash A is just evil, etc.

And I cannot fathom how Meta Knight can be a difficult matchup for Snake. Trust me, I main Meta. Maybe I just suck against Snakes (oh trust me, a good Snake scares the **** out of me), but Meta Knight's light weight makes him a punching bag.

 

[AquaTech]

I heard about how dominant Snake was so I gave him a tryout.
I just couldn't be effective with him. It takes too much planning and anticipation. I'll just stick to my normal characters and try to beat all the other newbies who shouldn't be playing as Snake.

 

[Terios the Hedgehog]

Screw the "bandwagon" I was going to play Snake originally because I'm a big Metal Gear fan. But then Sonic got announced and I went to him.

Just as well. I don't mesh well with Snake. T_T

 

[PKboy89]

Yea...there are a ton of MGS fans, nothing wrong with playing a character you like...
It doesn't matter if Snake gets broken or the bandwagon starts to overflow, nothing wrong with playing to win, nothing wrong with playing a character you are good with and last time I checked, people enter tournaments to win, not to play crappy characters they don't like when they can play a character they love...

Stop whining over the fact that everyone is using the character you like, you aren't the only snake fans and mainers, if someone wants a good character to win, then so be it

 

[BbqCombo]

Dont worry, there'll always be some people who prefer other chars to snake, mk, marth etc etc...

Hopefully something game changing will be discovered just like wavedashing was discovered :O

 

[Cat Fight]

Yea...there are a ton of MGS fans, nothing wrong with playing a character you like...
It doesn't matter if Snake gets broken or the bandwagon starts to overflow, nothing wrong with playing to win, nothing wrong with playing a character you are good with and last time I checked, people enter tournaments to win, not to play crappy characters they don't like when they can play a character they love...

Stop whining over the fact that everyone is using the character you like, you aren't the only snake fans and mainers, if someone wants a good character to win, then so be it

QFT.

Also... Everytime someone mains Snake it's a victory for America.

You people don't support your own country? >:"O

 

[xxxTruthxxx]

I was the first person to use Snake. everyone else copied me.

 

[abit_rusty]

QFT.

Also... Everytime someone mains Snake it's a victory for America.

You people don't support your own country? >:"O

lol.

10patrioticsnakes

 

[Infamous Chimera]

QFT.

Also... Everytime someone mains Snake it's a victory for America.

You people don't support your own country? >:"O

Agreed. *salutes flag*

 

[hizzlum]

The same thing happened in melee with Fox and Sheik

 

[bman in 2288]

QFT.

Also... Everytime someone mains Snake it's a victory for America.

You people don't support your own country? >:"O

I don't get it. Snake is made by Konami, a Japanese company. That doesn't sound like an American victory to me. Is there something I'm missing here?

 

[StoleUrCar]

I don't get it. Snake is made by Konami, a Japanese company. That doesn't sound like an American victory to me. Is there something I'm missing here?

Technically it's not lol.

I guess it's the video game standpoint. >.>