Falco&Victory
Smash Champion
Let me start by saying, melee > brawl competitively. It's not even close. It's like Asafa Powell racing Steven Hawking... There is no point to the "Brawl is more competitive" argument, because ultimately having to use "better mindgames and more thought" just means camp more and shield drop like you're on speed.
However, we are comparing two games that have grown 7 years apart and believe that Brawl is peaking it's metagame or something, which is NOT true
MELEE AT's WEREN'T FOUND ON PURPOSE
Here's how certain melee techniques got discovered
Wavedash: Early melee tourney, luigi player airdodges towards item to grab
SuperWaveDash: random samus mistake much later
JC Grab: A few years after release someone with a sharp eye caught himself doing this on accident
JC Usmash: Phanna discovered this a few MONTHS ago
Granted, Brawl has thousands more players searching out more techniques, but they are searching for way to break MELEE's engine. They are trying to break lag, move faster, create invincible approaches and find endgame ZTD combos. This will not break Brawl, which had a physics engine created to PREVENT these sorts of things. The first month into Brawl's release and we already have:
Increased the ranged on characters fsmash's(most notable Sonic's)
Discovered you can do a turnaround grab
Found ways to abuse shields
And done a lot of **** with Squirtles dash turn around shell slide thingey...
Granted these techniques blow pretty hard, but just wait until we can string them together. I've blown my friends to hell by cluster f***ing them with banana/dash attack approaches into turnaround grabs. However, that does not stop my opponent from escaping.
BRAWL COMBOS ARE TWO-SIDED
In melee, miss an fmash and despite your best efforts you were probably dead
NOT TRUE 4 BRAWL
Now, get thrown by MK and what can they do? Uair->uair->uair->fair/upB
What can YOU do? DI->DI->DI->punish. Hard, yes, but quite doable. I don't want my stock to go away because i got grabbed ONCE, and now i can fight to hold on to it. My friend kept ****** me with uair until i was able to DI just right with wolf and bair the final attack, effectively saving my life. Not a great example but it gets the point across. Combos are not solid attacks anymore.
TRIPPING IS GAY
and unavoidable. It is, by nature, anti-competitive.
I gtg to bed, i will look over everything, add stuff and make it flow better 2morrow
Night all
However, we are comparing two games that have grown 7 years apart and believe that Brawl is peaking it's metagame or something, which is NOT true
MELEE AT's WEREN'T FOUND ON PURPOSE
Here's how certain melee techniques got discovered
Wavedash: Early melee tourney, luigi player airdodges towards item to grab
SuperWaveDash: random samus mistake much later
JC Grab: A few years after release someone with a sharp eye caught himself doing this on accident
JC Usmash: Phanna discovered this a few MONTHS ago
Granted, Brawl has thousands more players searching out more techniques, but they are searching for way to break MELEE's engine. They are trying to break lag, move faster, create invincible approaches and find endgame ZTD combos. This will not break Brawl, which had a physics engine created to PREVENT these sorts of things. The first month into Brawl's release and we already have:
Increased the ranged on characters fsmash's(most notable Sonic's)
Discovered you can do a turnaround grab
Found ways to abuse shields
And done a lot of **** with Squirtles dash turn around shell slide thingey...
Granted these techniques blow pretty hard, but just wait until we can string them together. I've blown my friends to hell by cluster f***ing them with banana/dash attack approaches into turnaround grabs. However, that does not stop my opponent from escaping.
BRAWL COMBOS ARE TWO-SIDED
In melee, miss an fmash and despite your best efforts you were probably dead
NOT TRUE 4 BRAWL
Now, get thrown by MK and what can they do? Uair->uair->uair->fair/upB
What can YOU do? DI->DI->DI->punish. Hard, yes, but quite doable. I don't want my stock to go away because i got grabbed ONCE, and now i can fight to hold on to it. My friend kept ****** me with uair until i was able to DI just right with wolf and bair the final attack, effectively saving my life. Not a great example but it gets the point across. Combos are not solid attacks anymore.
TRIPPING IS GAY
and unavoidable. It is, by nature, anti-competitive.
I gtg to bed, i will look over everything, add stuff and make it flow better 2morrow
Night all