The actual purpose of Conquest Mode

[Ryu Myuutsu]

Do you think Sakurai and co. implemented this in order to gather data on the characters' battles? To see who is too strong, who is too weak and perhaps provide balance patches in the future?

 

[Ampetrix]

I for one think it's a popularity contest, but popular fighters are the more powerful ones, so I guess your assumption may be right.

 

[Ryu Myuutsu]

I for one think it's a popularity contest, but popular fighters are the more powerful ones, so I guess your assumption may be right.

I hope that's the case. This game doesn't unbalanced so far but that doesn't mean that there aren't characters out here who need an extra boost. Sakurai even once said that balances updates could be a thing even though it would take a lot of work.

 

[Comeback Kid]

They should patch the buggy characters like Wario and Yoshi before worrying about balance.

 

[Ryu Myuutsu]

They should patch the buggy characters like Wario and Yoshi before worrying about balance.

What bugs?

 

[Poxnixles]

What bugs?

That one Wario bug where he can reverse his knockback and the weird high Yoshi jump thing.

 

[DeiSakuChris]

If they truly implemented Conquest Mode for the sake of balance, then I'm scared of the future patch, because if it's really the Conquest Mode purpose then they don't know how balance work.

You can't say "This character has won the Conquest. so he's more powerful than the other one !" it doesn't work like this.

If they truly want balance then they need to analyze match up of characters at very high level skill.

People don't understand that even if they beat Sheik with Charizard this means that Charizard is top tier.

 

[helado caducado]

i dont think that, if one character win the conquest is because the people chosed him and are more skilled

 

[Raijinken]

It's far too popularity based, though I guess there's a chance they'll treat it as a balance thing. Only time will tell.

Personally, I hope they look at higher-level 1v1 For Glory when they're making balance calls. And, y'know, tournaments.

 

[Ryu Myuutsu]

If they truly implemented Conquest Mode for the sake of balance, then I'm scared of the future patch, because if it's really the Conquest Mode purpose then they don't know how balance work.

You can't say "This character has won the Conquest. so he's more powerful than the other one !" it doesn't work like this.

If they truly want balance then they need to analyze match up of characters at very high level skill.

People don't understand that even if they beat Sheik with Charizard this means that Charizard is top tier.

Some of the battles online are recorded. Perhaps they also use that for reference.

 

[Gamingboy]

Nah, I think it's partly a popularity contest and partly just another thing for people to do. To use conquest to find balance is a fool's errand, since of course a skilled player of a character that will end up being low-tier competitively will still beat a crummy player who is using a top-tier character.

 

[TaRtOoN-Hand94]

I they're using it for Balance, why can you still contribute in For Fun Mode?
at face value it's a popularity contest,
but who knows, maybe they split the data up and look at the For Glory matches for balance reference

 

[Space Stranger]

That one Wario bug where he can reverse his knockback and the weird high Yoshi jump thing.

Do you mean "wectoring"? That was removed in 1.0.4

 

[Khao]

I doubt it's for balance, you still get points for the character you're playing as even if you lose.

 

[Poxnixles]

Do you mean "wectoring"? That was removed in 1.0.4

I made that post before it was removed, man.

 

[Space Stranger]

I made that post before it was removed, man.

My mistake, I didn't read the time it was posted.