This is informative and all, but I have a few nitpicks.
The best way to deal with this kind of crasher is to send the most skilled taunter(or the taunter who wants to fight them the most) out to fight them, while the other two continue the taunt party.
One: Stay separated!
I cannot stress this one enough; .....
No, no, no, and no. This is a terrible idea. The whole purpose of a taunt party is you work as a
team and be cheap and fight together against the crasher. I can't stand it when taunters just sit back and chillax and let the sole taunter do all the work. IMO that's probably the worst kind of taunter. You guys go ahead and flame me for that but it's true.
If their damage is high, you can also charge up a smash attack and kill them in a more flashy way.
No. Jabbing is one thing, but something like this is another. If I accidently KO another taunter, chances are that I attack them back anyway and start a brawl if they try to repay the favor and smash attack me. However, basball bat repay KO's are usually fine as long as they're mutual. Or, for example, Luigi ladderers or Link Bombers, etc.
6. Home-run Contest: The stage from Home-run Contest. It would be an awesome stage to pick if it weren't for one thing: You can't die. Each side goes on past the camera for a long time, and eventually there is a wall. If you get knocked over the wall, you will fall forever. Because of this, the game can't end, and the only way to get out of the game is to leave. It can still be an awesome stage, though, if you want to end the taunt party with, IMO, the funnest hacked stage. It's also good if you have to leave, and want to show everyone one last stage(or if you're just bored of the Taunt Party). Unfortunately, the game often ends with everyone freefalling below the stage... 7/10
This deserves a 0/10 for obvious reasons. IMO There is nothing cool about ending a taunt party with indefinition. Assuming the taunt party wasn't fight-y.
1. NEVER ATTACK SOMEONE UNLESS THEY ATTACKED YOU FIRST. This means that if P2 decides to attack P3, you should NOT attack P2, and if P2 and P3 start ganging up on P4, you should not join in. The reason so many misunderstandings happen in Taunt Parties is because people do not follow this rule.
If my partner is P2, and we get along swimmingly, and P3 wants to come in and attack either one of us, I'm raising hell on P3 if P2 does. If it's like 1/2 hits then I'll probably just attack once or twice and go back to taunting.
And I don't know if this is mentioned here, and I'm sorry for being outrageously blunt but you know what I hate? Lone taunters. Typically chooses Marth/Snake/etc and stand at the center of the stage and do nothing. All the do is hide to themselves, and when one player accidentally hits them or something they go all matrix reloaded and unleash hell on the accidentalist. Oh how I hate those. Or just read this:
Gah, no offense to any Zelda/Peach/ZSS players out there, but how come usually every one I come by as of late has been really stuck-up and snooty? I'm not saying all of them are like that, but a decent majority will just go off to the side every round while everyone else is having fun taunting around, and they act like they're all elegant and stuff. They won't commit suicide like everyone else to even out the score if one person accidentally SD's, they won't commit suicide in Sudden Death, and they go absolutely ape**** on someone if they've accidentally attacked them and act like they can get away with it.
I just had a room like that with this one person switching between all three females and we had about 15 matches total maybe, where this person would do exactly this each and every game. He/she even went out to attack the single person left in Sudden Death (who wasn't even trying to win) one round. Then the next match, as this person was standing off to the side as usual, he/she accidentally got hit with a green shell and immediately attacked me (as I was the closest one nearby, though I wasn't even the one who threw it), then went back to the side and acted like nothing ever happened, back facing me and the other players. I was eventually like, "Okay, screw this," and absolutely demolished him or her (as it turned out he/she sucked) the next round, taunted till the timer went out, then left. I've been seeing this stuff a lot lately and never really did anything about it till now, but yeah, I find it really annoying and arrogant.
Or when you come across two supposed taunters, and they taunt all by themselves, and when you friendly walk up to them and start ducking, then run away from you. And tehre was this one time where I accidentally KO'd one of them (either that, or they SD'd and I got a +1) and then they try to make it even by samshing attack me, I dodge'd, and they ganged up on me. I wouldn't have dodged if they would have done a single jab.
Anyway, off of that tangent, I really love taunt parties and think it's the best thing to do online.
