NESSBOUNDER
Smash Master
With all this tier talk about Snake being at the very top, I've noticed a lot of people panicking about him dominating tournaments and being too powerful and whatnot. But being an amazing character and quite deserving of a spot in top tier aside, it's not like there's nothing people can do to counter pick against Snake. There are certain characters who have a few devious tricks against him.
My secondary being Lucario, I know there's a 0-90% inescapable chain grab combo that can be done on snake at the start of a match or stock, and any time I'm under 50% with that character. He is also tall and heavy enough to be hit by the shorthopped Fair>Nair combo every time. Likewise, the Ice Climbers, Dedede and Pikachu also have similar chain grabs against Snake.
I've 'nade countered a Snake with his own grenades once. Quite often, people are too scared of these projectiles to pick them up and throw them back before they explode, which often actually works better than you'd think.
Snake also seems to be effected by real combos that wouldn't work on other characters for the most part, all because of his height, falling speed, weight and slow aerial game. While it doesn't make these characters counters against him at all (because after all, you still have to deal with his close-range game.) they have more of a chance of putting the hurt on him due to these tricks than others who can't do it.
Snake is an awesome badarse character, but I wish people would stop complaining about him. He does fall victim to some dirty tricks that other character's don't. Lucario can usually only chain throw half of the cast to 60% before they can jump out of it. Snake is just one of the unlucky ones who is affected by the 90% variety.
My secondary being Lucario, I know there's a 0-90% inescapable chain grab combo that can be done on snake at the start of a match or stock, and any time I'm under 50% with that character. He is also tall and heavy enough to be hit by the shorthopped Fair>Nair combo every time. Likewise, the Ice Climbers, Dedede and Pikachu also have similar chain grabs against Snake.
I've 'nade countered a Snake with his own grenades once. Quite often, people are too scared of these projectiles to pick them up and throw them back before they explode, which often actually works better than you'd think.
Snake also seems to be effected by real combos that wouldn't work on other characters for the most part, all because of his height, falling speed, weight and slow aerial game. While it doesn't make these characters counters against him at all (because after all, you still have to deal with his close-range game.) they have more of a chance of putting the hurt on him due to these tricks than others who can't do it.
Snake is an awesome badarse character, but I wish people would stop complaining about him. He does fall victim to some dirty tricks that other character's don't. Lucario can usually only chain throw half of the cast to 60% before they can jump out of it. Snake is just one of the unlucky ones who is affected by the 90% variety.
