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[Professor Pumpkaboo]

So Nintendo France banned Hero for the European Team Cup
TFW even Nintendo itself is pro-ban

oohh noo, honey what you doin

 

[Deleted member]

I don't really care one way or another since a lot of Hero's moveset depends on luck.

That being said, I do think Sakurai's team could do better on balancing strengths and weaknesses of DLC characters. Between Smash 4 and Ultimate, I feel like every DLC newcomer has been insanely good (Cloud, Bayo, Joker) or a little subpar (PP, Banjo)

I think Ult's DLC has been pretty balanced so far. Joker might be top tier but he's nowhere near as oppressive or meta-shaping as Cloud and Bayo were, and both Banjo and Hero are pretty good characters and have actually seen results in tournaments. The only outlier is PP, but even then Brood got 2nd with it at a Japanese major so you could argue it isn't even that bad.

oohh noo, honey what you doin

What do you want me to do about it I don't work for Nintendo

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Personally, I prefer the more traditional holidays where you go to your grandparents' house for dinner and socialize with your family. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter - y'know, holidays like those.

I dont have grandparents anymore so womp womp. I actually dont like celebrating holidays at all. All the cooking and cleaning annoys me

 

[BlueMonk]

So Nintendo France banned Hero for the European Team Cup
TFW even Nintendo itself is pro-ban

seems like its actually just a ban on all DLC characters, with Hero being the example

edit: I am wrong

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I think Persona 4 music just broke my rabbit because since I started playing it, its been in ita cage staring at me

 

[TheCJBrine]

I guess you’re never too old for costumes.

For some reason I got the idea that people think you look silly if you’re an older teen/18+ and wearing a full costume, but meh whatever, who cares what people think. Some adults around town still do it, anyway I guess I’m technically an adult too after the last two years, but ehhhhh...

Not sure if my family could afford one, though. I wanted to make a Papyrus costume the last year or two but never got around to it or having my family help.

 

[Lollipopped]

Oh hey, page 2069. Haha it's funny. Am I funny yet? No? Okay.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

What do you want me to do about it I don't work for Nintendo

Oh no, that was to Nintendo of France, my bad

 

[Deleted member]

seems like its actually just a ban on all DLC characters, with Hero being the example

From this comment in the post;

From the Official Nintendo French Tournament ruleset (which is a part of the European Team Cup, if I understood everything correctly. If I'm wrong, can someone correct me on this please ?) :


> a) Personnages :
> Les personnages jouables durant de Championnat sont uniquement les 74 débloquages de
> bases, ainsi que trois des personnages disponibles en contenu téléchargeable : Plante
> Piranha, Joker et Banjo-Kazooie. Ainsi, et sans que cette liste soit limitative, le Héros, et tout
> personnage pouvant provenir d’un autre contenu supplémentaire tel qu’un DLC sont
> interdits.


Translated, it gives :

"The playable characters during the Tournament will solely be the 74 unlockables in the base roster, as well as three of the characters available through downloadable content : Piranha Plant, Joker, and Banjo-Kazooie. Therefore, and without this list being limiting, **the Hero, and any character possibly coming from other downloadable content such as DLC are banned.**"


I think it's mainly because of the language barrier. But still, it's kind of insane to see Big N dropping a sneaky ban on a character like that.

It is actually specifically Hero + future DLC that is banned, Joker, Banjo and PP are fair game.
I wasn't really trying to start anything here, just found it kinda funny.

 

[TheMightyP]

So Nintendo France banned Hero for the European Team Cup
TFW even Nintendo itself is pro-ban

Considering that it's Europe, probably the language barrier over anything else.

 

[Deleted member]

Considering that it's Europe, probably the language barrier over anything else.

Probably, I doubt Nintendo is going to just tell someone from Germany to learn how to read French for a Smash tournament

 

[Lollipopped]

Yeah, it's definitely the language barrier that got Hero banned. Still gonna be people insisting that it's because he's too overpowered regardless

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Brain: "A New World Fool might be in BBTAG because Adachi is in thr game now"

Me: "Oh ****"

 

[TheMightyP]

Regardles, r/SmashBros is gonna start the Ban Hero circlejerk up yet again, so be ready for Round 2.

 

[Schnee117]

You'd think Sakurai and the team working on the DLC would have considered having some easy way to identify what spell is what for people who travel a lot for competitive play.

 

[Lollipopped]

Regardles, r/SmashBros is gonna start the Ban Hero circlejerk up yet again, so be ready for Round 2.

I'll be sure to bring plenty of popcorn and rolling eyes emotes

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Back from my daily wiping on the house. What I miss?

 

[Cutie Gwen]

You'd think Sakurai and the team working on the DLC would have considered having some easy way to identify what spell is what for people who travel a lot for competitive play.

But making symbols is haaaaaard, just because Dragon Quest already uses symbols for spells doesn't mean Smash can!

 

[Deleted member]

This is really good. A chorus version of lifelight!

Hey, I’m friends with one of the guys in this. (SlickSlack) Really happy for him that he gets to do things like this.

 

[Slime Master]

You'd think Sakurai and the team working on the DLC would have considered having some easy way to identify what spell is what for people who travel a lot for competitive play.

I imagine he opted out of that in favor of being more faithful to the home games. Particularly in Japan, DQ menus tend to be very minimalist.

 

[Deleted member]

Regardles, r/SmashBros is gonna start the Ban Hero circlejerk up yet again, so be ready for Round 2.

Dawg if you dislike the subreddit so much you should probably just stop paying attention to it

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I imagine he opted out of that in favor of being more faithful to the home games. Particularly in Japan, DQ menus tend to be very minimalist.

But... Those have symbols for spells too

 

[TheMightyP]

Dawg if you dislike the subreddit so much you should probably just stop paying attention to it

There's a reason why I stopped going there.

 

[Slime Master]

But... Those have symbols for spells too

In, like, 2 games sure. And they're not spell-specific, they're just healing vs. buff vs. debuff vs. damage. I don't think that paradigm would fix the problem.

 

[Deleted member]

But... Those have symbols for spells too

The real tragedy is that Sakurai used up all of his budget on Dragon Quest music to afford symbols.

 

[Schnee117]

I imagine he opted out of that in favor of being more faithful to the home games. Particularly in Japan, DQ menus tend to be very minimalist.

Being faithful to the games is a pretty weak excuse for not considering accessibility.

 

[DerpingPikachu]

Here's a song to help everybody get ready for october
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlMcF7T7lz8

 

[Slime Master]

Being faithful to the games is a pretty weak excuse for not considering accessibility.

I don't really agree with it, but I also am not confident Sakurai values the competitive scene that much, yet am certain he values faithfulness at least to some extent. It seems plausible he considered the tradeoff worth it.

 

[Dyllybirdy]

Here's a song to help everybody get ready for october
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlMcF7T7lz8

But that's just someone singing about Arizona, how's that supposed to help get me ready for October

 

[SnakeFighter64]

God. Mr. Patch sucks no matter what game he's in.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Id highkey love to have all 3 Danganrompas on switch

 

[Noipoi]

Oh damn, we’re almost in October.

Which means we’re gonna see the starter evolutions, which is good. But after that I start my self induced internet exile, to avoid Pokémon spoilers. That means I won’t be around for a good long while.

I’ll need to do something special for my last day, maybe it’s time to give the people what they want.

 

[Deleted member]

My birthday’s at the end of this week.

Most kids want a toy or a game, but me?

I want a new microphone.

 

[TheMightyP]

Have you guys ever considered that no symbols was more of an accidental oversight and not of faithfulness or trying to screw over comp players?

 

[Noipoi]

My birthday’s at the end of this week.

Most kids want a toy or a game, but me?

I want a new microphone.

Same

 

[Deleted member]

Same

You go get that microphone my man.

Trust me, b-day money can work miracles

 

[osby]

Have you guys ever considered that no symbols was more of an accidental oversight and not of faithfulness or trying to screw over comp players?

I think they didn't even considered people playing the game in different languages locally. It's such a tournament specific problem that I can see why they didn't think about it.

 

[Lamperouge]

I’ll need to do something special for my last day, maybe it’s time to give the people what they want.

You're giving out Pokemon spoilers yourself?

 

[PsySmasher]

Have you guys ever considered that no symbols was more of an accidental oversight and not of faithfulness or trying to screw over comp players?

Well yeah, I don't think Sakurai would intentionally try to screw over competitive players.

He just didn't take into account people who speak different languages playing on the same console (which is mostly a competitive thing but not exclusively).

Edit: 'd

 

[Noipoi]

You're giving out Pokemon spoilers yourself?

No you dinkmaster.

Something I promised I’d do a while ago.