So, This Was Interesting

[Solo Popo]

I'm playing this Fox in FG as Link. It's a pretty even game. We're both high percentage. I pull my bow out to fire an arrow, but pause because the Fox starts holding his reflector. So we're at a stalemate. I can't loose my arrow without killing myself, and he can't stop reflecting without me killing him. We each sit like this for a while. I glance at the clock and see that there isn't too much time left, so I wait patiently for the Sudden Death. Just before the game ends, "you have been disconnected for idling."

How can I be idle if I'm holding a charged shot?

... wow Nintendo... wow

 

[Purin a.k.a. José]

I remember watching a FG video of a member from Smashboards (I think it was Moon Monkey), using Diddy's Peanut Popgun to punish a edge-stalling Spamus. HE was banned, not Spamus!

 

[NefariousShyGuy]

I'm pretty sure that Fox you faced also got disconnected for being idle, so consider that a "No Contest".

Btw, this also happened to me once, but I was the Fox.

It happens to me all the time when I play Fox vs a Link. I hold down B until the Link I'm facing fires his bow, but if the Link decides to hold it, I simply jump out of my reflector to avoid being disconnected, or better yet spam my down B to bait the Link to fire the bow.

 

[srn347]

I think fox is able to drop the deflector, take a small step, and immediately use the deflector again in time anyway, so he may have actually had the forced win there.

 

[blue_flavored]

I played against a Ganon as Fox once. Right at the beginning of the match I ran at him and he jumped back on the ledge and kept jumping up and grabbing the ledge. I stopped knowing that he was going to try to over B suicide me. I backed up to the other side, started walking around back and forth doing a couple short hops and it kicked me for idling. So yeah, great job, Nintendo.

 

[dahuterschuter]

This happens to me regularly.

Link's arrow should auto-fire after three seconds held at full charge. I literally have a collection of replays of Links just refusing to fire and take their punishment for locking themselves into a bad option. Eventually we either get kicked or they man up and take their self-KO, or sometimes they KO themselves and then I taunt and then we're kicked immediately after.

By the way, using one input over and over or just holding an input counts as idling.

 

[IGottaStick]

This happened to me before, I was playing as Wario and was on my bike for about a minute and I got banned for idling. How is turning around and doing wheelies idling!?

 

[Sean²]

I guess they think that someone could possibly attempt to beat the idling system by forcing a button to be held down, or something. Or if someone has to walk away and doesn't leave matchmaking and drops their controller so a button gets stuck down, they would get disconnected so their W/L doesn't drop, and so other players aren't dealing with AFKers.

I don't know the logic behind some of the online choices, but even if I did, I don't think I'd understand it.