Social The Ganonic Grimoire - Kongregation of Kings

[_Magus_]

Sir, you have good taste in music, but I have a more fitting suggestion for the King of Evil.

I love that song! :D
But I do think the dark, brooding nature of Magus' Castle fits the Ganon boards better. It really nails Ganondorf's evil mystique.

 

[ToonWaker]

Hello everyone pay no heed to my name it may bear a certain tunic wearing elf boy but none the less I am of Ganon and nothing else if anyone is up for it may I interest them in smash 3DS or so and is there a way to change my name actually?

 

[ToonWaker]

Hello everyone pay no heed to my name it may bear a certain tunic wearing elf boy but none the less I am of Ganon and nothing else if anyone is up for it may I interest them in smash 3DS or so and is there a way to change my name actually?

 

[Shmeckie]

'Ey folks! Long-time Ganon player here! I like what I've been seeing around here on the Ganon boards, so I thought I'd join up, talk shop, learn a thing or two, maybe teach a thing or two, who knows. I want to get as good with Ganon as I possibly can without completely obsessively devoting myself to Smash, and I've got as far as For Glory is gonna take me, I feel.

I'm always up for learning a thing or two, so anyone who wants to add me, my NNID is in my little profile doohickey to the left there. I have Smash for 3DS, but I rarely play it these days. Might put my 3DS FC on there in the future when I'm not feeling lazy.

Looking forward to Smashing with you guys, and demonstrating the Gerudo King's superiority to the rest of the world via various boots to their collective asses and skulls!

 

[_Magus_]

'Ey folks! Long-time Ganon player here! I like what I've been seeing around here on the Ganon boards, so I thought I'd join up, talk shop, learn a thing or two, maybe teach a thing or two, who knows. I want to get as good with Ganon as I possibly can without completely obsessively devoting myself to Smash, and I've got as far as For Glory is gonna take me, I feel.

I'm always up for learning a thing or two, so anyone who wants to add me, my NNID is in my little profile doohickey to the left there. I have Smash for 3DS, but I rarely play it these days. Might put my 3DS FC on there in the future when I'm not feeling lazy.

Looking forward to Smashing with you guys, and demonstrating the Gerudo King's superiority to the rest of the world via various boots to their collective ***** and skulls!

...I like this one. XD

Welcome! Good to have another among us who truly appreciates the King of Evil.

 

[ToonWaker]

Also I apologize on that double post I was trying to only post once then by mistake it copied twice.

 

[THE 6r]

Also I apologize on that double post I was trying to only post once then by mistake it copied twice.

You're forgiven

 

[_Magus_]

The other day I was thinking to myself: "Why is the Ganondorf Community so awesome? Why is it so well-developed and fun to be a part of?"
I thought about it for awhile, and I came up with 2 answers:

1) We're one of the most active character communities.
We develop our meta, share our secrets, discuss MUs, and hang out a lot more than most other characters' players. We want our character to be the best he can be, and so we put a lot of work into developing him.

2) We love our character.
We really do. It's Ganondorf for life. We love his sophisticated brutality, and his evil playstyle. We love the reads, the techchases, and the punishes. We love placing our boot squarely between the eyes of our opponent. Most of all, we love making them fear him, as they should. After all, he is the King of Evil.

 

[A2ZOMG]

We play a character that has a very huge emphasis on intelligent mind games and remaining calm under pressure. I believe it says a lot about the people who appreciate maining him.

The main thing that is really curious to me is the virtually complete lack of women who main Ganon. I feel this trend is especially noticeable in the Ganon community.

 

[Shmeckie]

Are there that many women in the Smash community to begin with, comparatively?

Either way, I mean, the dude is both pure evil and pure testosterone incarnate. Makes sense he appeals more to male players.

The other day I was thinking to myself: "Why is the Ganondorf Community so awesome? Why is it so well-developed and fun to be a part of?"
I thought about it for awhile, and I came up with 2 answers:

1) We're one of the most active character communities.
We develop our meta, share our secrets, discuss MUs, and hang out a lot more than most other characters' players. We want our character to be the best he can be, and so we put a lot of work into developing him.

2) We love our character.
We really do. It's Ganondorf for life. We love his sophisticated brutality, and his evil playstyle. We love the reads, the techchases, and the punishes. We love placing our boot squarely between the eyes of our opponent. Most of all, we love making them fear him, as they should. After all, he is the King of Evil.

I can vouch for the second one, I've been a huge fan of the character since they changed him from a fat pig to a buff black-irish-arab warlock. Young me took one look at that artwork of Ganon about to punch Link in the face from OoT and was instantly won over. Plus I've always been a big fan of villains...!

 

[the king of murder]

I have personally never seen any girls maining a male character other than Marth. Not saying there aren't any but from what I have seen, they usually main the strong female charas(ZSS, Peach, Zelda ect..) or the cute creatures like Pikachu or Kirby. Same thing in Pokemon where the female players never use the male trainer but quite a lot of males use the female trainer.

That said Ganon as a character is not really made for girls, so I agree with @ Shmeckie . Also, do I see another One Piece fan here?

 

[THE 6r]

Also, we are devoted to our craft to the point that even our character was low tier, we continued to main him no matter what. Now that he's buffed, we can show our true power. *evil laugh*

 

[A2ZOMG]

Are there that many women in the Smash community to begin with, comparatively?

Either way, I mean, the dude is both pure evil and pure testosterone incarnate. Makes sense he appeals more to male players.



I can vouch for the second one, I've been a huge fan of the character since they changed him from a fat pig to a buff black-irish-arab warlock. Young me took one look at that artwork of Ganon about to punch Link in the face from OoT and was instantly won over. Plus I've always been a big fan of villains...!

If we include casual players, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there were only slightly fewer women who play Smash compared to men. Granted going by that, the relative number of Ganon players is even smaller.

I can imagine women playing characters like Link, Mario, and Captain Falcon casually. Not seeing that for Ganon in contrast.

 

[_Magus_]

Ganondorf isn't a pick up and play character like Mario, Link, or Falcon. He requires experience and matchup knowledge to be played effectively. If a casual tried him out, they would most likely assume he's bad and move to another character. So since we have a disproportionate number of males in the competitive Smash scene, it would make sense that the only females to try him out would likely be casual players, and thus assume he's bad.

 

[HeavyLobster]

I don't mean to stereotype people, but my own experience with girls playing Smash is that they usually either gravitate towards cutesy(Pika, Kirby, Yoshi) or animeish(Link, Pit, FE) chars. When it comes to casual players, they tend to pick characters they find appealing moreso than who is good, and Ganon and Bowser do not exactly fit into that mold for most girls. If a girl picks a villainish character in Smash it is almost always Dark Pit.

 

[THE 6r]

The other day I was thinking to myself: "Why is the Ganondorf Community so awesome? Why is it so well-developed and fun to be a part of?"
I thought about it for awhile, and I came up with 2 answers:

1) We're one of the most active character communities.
We develop our meta, share our secrets, discuss MUs, and hang out a lot more than most other characters' players. We want our character to be the best he can be, and so we put a lot of work into developing him.

2) We love our character.
We really do. It's Ganondorf for life. We love his sophisticated brutality, and his evil playstyle. We love the reads, the techchases, and the punishes. We love placing our boot squarely between the eyes of our opponent. Most of all, we love making them fear him, as they should. After all, he is the King of Evil.

Today on the Marth MU board, we proved this. We are probably the only playerbase that could legitimately take over smashboards (not that we will.

 

[_Magus_]

Today on the Marth MU board, we proved this. We are probably the only playerbase that could legitimately take over smashboards (not that we will.

Oh we definitely will. This was too fun to not repeat.
TODAY THE MARTH BOARDS, TOMORROW THE WHOLE SITE!!!!!!!

 

[HeavyLobster]

Today on the Marth MU board, we proved this. We are probably the only playerbase that could legitimately take over smashboards (not that we will.

Not so sure about that. The Zelda boards have been pretty aggressive. And who says we won't take over Smashboards? Conquest is in our blood.

 

[_Magus_]

Not so sure about that. The Zelda boards have been pretty aggressive. And who says we won't take over Smashboards? Conquest is in our blood.

In the Marth MU thread, I tagged some people to lead a full frontal assault with me on the Link boards. Unfortunately it looks like not too many people are up for it tonight, so I wanted to gather some people here to lead the attack tomorrow. The target is the Link Social Thread. We're gonna storm in and do what we do best - bring doom, death, and impeccable techchases and MU knowledge. And plenty of trash talk. It's time to let the Links know what's up, and that no green clad, tight-wearing fairy is going to oust the King of Evil, the Lord of the Gerudo, and the Master Thief.

Ganons, it's time we had ourselves a war.

 

[etecoon]

Are there that many women in the Smash community to begin with, comparatively?

Either way, I mean, the dude is both pure evil and pure testosterone incarnate. Makes sense he appeals more to male players.



I can vouch for the second one, I've been a huge fan of the character since they changed him from a fat pig to a buff black-irish-arab warlock. Young me took one look at that artwork of Ganon about to punch Link in the face from OoT and was instantly won over. Plus I've always been a big fan of villains...!

Villains and antiheroes are often the most interesting characters but it seems to be especially true with Nintendo, Ganondorf and Bowser are my favorites out of the SSB4 cast and no one else really leaps out at me after that

 

[PSIBoy]

In the Marth MU thread, I tagged some people to lead a full frontal assault with me on the Link boards. Unfortunately it looks like not too many people are up for it tonight, so I wanted to gather some people here to lead the attack tomorrow. The target is the Link Social Thread. We're gonna storm in and do what we do best - bring doom, death, and impeccable techchases and MU knowledge. And plenty of trash talk. It's time to let the Links know what's up, and that no green clad, tight-wearing fairy is going to oust the King of Evil, the Lord of the Gerudo, and the Master Thief.

Ganons, it's time we had ourselves a war.

I partly wish to join in your endeavor because the Link boards are just... But I don't have enough matchup info and I'm not fond of participating in an internet war. I wish you luck though, and don't break the rules either.

 

[_Magus_]

I partly wish to join in your endeavor because the Link boards are just... But I don't have enough matchup info and I'm not fond of participating in an internet war. I wish you luck though, and don't break the rules either.

It's not an internet war so much as it's instigating a rivalry. My thread illustrates my purpose a little better:
http://smashboards.com/threads/council-of-war-target-link.390103/
If you do decide to join me in this endeavor, please let me know in that thread. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Shogger]

The other day I was thinking to myself: "Why is the Ganondorf Community so awesome? Why is it so well-developed and fun to be a part of?"
I thought about it for awhile, and I came up with 2 answers:

1) We're one of the most active character communities.
We develop our meta, share our secrets, discuss MUs, and hang out a lot more than most other characters' players. We want our character to be the best he can be, and so we put a lot of work into developing him.

2) We love our character.
We really do. It's Ganondorf for life. We love his sophisticated brutality, and his evil playstyle. We love the reads, the techchases, and the punishes. We love placing our boot squarely between the eyes of our opponent. Most of all, we love making them fear him, as they should. After all, he is the King of Evil.

True words. I came and lurked for the Ganon ATs, but stayed for the culture and community.

 

[HeavyLobster]

@ Ray_Kalm was that your Ganon that bodied me in FG earlier today? My mii was named Heavy.

 

[the king of murder]

Sooo, how does Link's infinite jab affect the Ganon MU?

 

[HeavyLobster]

Sooo, how does Link's infinite jab affect the Ganon MU?

Can't say. I don't think most Links have mastered it yet, either because there hasn't been enough time or because they believe it's just going to be patched out so there's no point in bothering.

 

[the king of murder]

Can't say. I don't think most Links have mastered it yet, either because there hasn't been enough time or because they believe it's just going to be patched out so there's no point in bothering.

I would't count on it being patched out as they would have to drastically change the properties of jab. Also, who knows. There are a lot of dedicated players so it wouldn't be a stretch to say that there will be quite a few people mastering it. I am kinda worried for Ganons future(not just because of Link though)

 

[Naroghin]

I would check the MU thread on the Link boards. As far as I understand they are compiling the data on when and how the jab works on different characters over there. I haven't checked it out myself (waiting for them to finish all the lab work) but it works on most heavy characters at higher percents. We can definitely kill him before he initiates it but we'll have to be careful.

Some were saying that they would really only do 3-5 jabs before initiating the smash, so good DI may be able to save us.

EDIT: Correction, it's the Link's Metagame thread.

 

[Regralht]

Heya, I just created a Skype chat where I'll be gathering people from every char specific group, for MU discussion or friendlies.

Edit: link for some reason autocorrects to something else, just copy and paste this...

skype:?chat&blob=8dWUcz__4ed4SlQymHkEdKXQzCIElq_cW318zWNGWFxg03IFNk28BI1AaOBZVy2rL-bn0H7LQmXTlxTRXxmo9jE

 

[Ray_Kalm]

@ Ray_Kalm was that your Ganon that bodied me in FG earlier today? My mii was named Heavy.

Nope. I'm usually just on FG with my 3DS.

 

[_Magus_]

Brothers, I apologize for throwing us into this mess with Link. I acted too swiftly, and am sorry. On the upside, it's led to interesting MU discussion.

 

[Lozjam]

Brothers, I apologize for throwing us into this mess with Link. I acted too swiftly, and am sorry. On the upside, it's led to interesting MU discussion.

You cannot just run into battle blindly like that Magus!
You need to plan before we use our strength to tear everyone down!
Luckily, I managed to completely diffuse the situation.
We are raiding Toon Link,
Come Join Us
http://smashboards.com/threads/happ...cial-skype-group.376731/page-11#post-18538063

 

[_Magus_]

So, following this hectic turn of events, apparently an alliance has been forged between the Links and Ganons. @ Vermanubis would it be possible to create a thread that would appear on both the Link and Ganondorf boards? Like an alliance thread where we can chat and share info.

We also could get Zelda in on this alliance to complete the Triforce Tier. But no Tink. Everybody hates Tink.

 

[Lozjam]

So, following this hectic turn of events, apparently an alliance has been forged between the Links and Ganons. @ Vermanubis would it be possible to create a thread that would appear on both the Link and Ganondorf boards? Like an alliance thread where we can chat and share info.

We also could get Zelda in on this alliance to complete the Triforce Tier. But no Tink. Everybody hates Tink.

Zelda has already been included in this whole deal, and this alliance has been in the making since Brawl.
Anyway, I am a representative of the Ganondorf boards, as I have been doing this particular job for a long time now. @Mocha is our Zelda representative, while @ Naroghin is Links representative. We all have our respected leaders as well, being Ray, Elessar, and Kurogane Hammer. In the meantime, I believe I should see what damage Zelda's have done towards Rosalina.

 

[Vermanubis]

I don't think such a think can be done (at least, not at my level of moderatorship).

The idea of associating with Link is heretical, by the way.

 

[HeavyLobster]

The idea of associating with Link is heretical, by the way.

Well there is precedence for offering to form an alliance with him.

 

[A2ZOMG]

I placed 2nd in an 8 man Round Robin tournament today and basically reclaimed my entry fee.

The only player I lost to was a Sheik, and the games were close. I believe I could have won if I was slightly more careful about managing my recovery, but I made a lot of technical errors due to nervousness and lack of experience.

Most of my opponents were clearly less skilled than me, and I didn't save any replays on my Wii-U. I was however happy that I beat a Ness player. This person was not bad at the game, but he called the game "Trash 4". Even after SDing, I convincingly beat him with good U-air edgeguards and ledge trump B-airs, and I believe I got to play the matchup pretty close to how it should play out on paper. Ganondorf does better against Ness than some characters because he has to respect Wizkick at all times, and his strong aerials can trade favorably with Ness with good spacing.

Everyone who participated was impressed by my Ganon, and said things like "Ganon is good?!"

 

[Shmeckie]

Haha, oh, the doubters...

But yeah, nerves are why I could never play in a tournament. I always choke when a match actually means something, or has something on the line. That, and my skills are directly tied to how much fun I'm having, and when a match isn't about fun anymore, my abilities drop like a stone.

 

[Naroghin]

I don't think such a think can be done (at least, not at my level of moderatorship).

The idea of associating with Link is heretical, by the way.

Hey, Dark Link is Link, too. That's probably the only reason I'm allowed to tread these halls without being immediately smote (that and maybe my long-time-coming switch to focusing on Ganon).

Edit: Btw, feeling honored to be both considered a brother to the dark masters (@ _Magus_ ) and a representative of the Link boards (@ Lozjam ).

 

[Lozjam]

Hey, Dark Link is Link, too. That's probably the only reason I'm allowed to tread these halls without being immediately smote (that and maybe my long-time-coming switch to focusing on Ganon).

Edit: Btw, feeling honored to be both considered a brother to the dark masters (@ _Magus_ ) and a representative of Ganondorf to the Link boards (@ Lozjam ).

Fixed that for you good sir. I am a representative of Ganondorf, not of Link.
It is also nothing, you have earned your right amongst us.

I don't think such a think can be done (at least, not at my level of moderatorship).

The idea of associating with Link is heretical, by the way.

It will make our quest of world domination much easier! We may finally complete the legacy of Demise, so we may free everyone of the curse of Hylia!