no u
seems like a boost was necessary but 2 ranks was abbeit short of expectations?
Not really.
With the recent hype of the D-throw issue, I'm kind of ... well,
mostly sure that if it came up to SBR members, they'd probably have skimmed the "oh, Luigi can fire punch and Jigglypuff can rest Sonic out of a correctly-DI'd D-throw" and thought of it as a significant issue.
Though, AlphaZealot's "so what?" kind of response to that thread sheds doubt on that. As for the funny few that we love to quote, it's probably true.
But the second and most realistic situation is that they didn't really care and just put more characters below Sonic.
>_>
but at an equal player level a bottom tier character will usually have a very tough time against a top tier character.
Alot of the Sonics that have placed recently - I've played alot of them on Wi-Fi via allisbrawl, some of them even before some of you guys had even heard of them (Phoenix Dark, Shugo). The ones that play on AiB play a wide variety of players because there are people who main like, everyone. Or were. We have an idea of character tendencies and adjust their behaviors to what we can expect offline in matchups. Though, Shugo
did mention the IC issue. There aren't many IC's on wifi for obvious reasons, but trust me, the few IC mains that
do go online tend to know how to make use of desynchs and do many more things than just bumrush you for a chaingrab.
That said, even as we entered our
first offline tournaments, we did very well. We have experience trying out different strategies and exposing ourselves to player habits (example, edge or roll habits).
People can say there are tons of Sonic mains that enter tournaments, contributing to his placing, but either that's not true and there are 1-2 Sonics in that region, or the Sonics they play are trash (I wouldn't dare call someone who isn't read up on or explored Sonic's capabilities a Sonic
main). But from how I see it, it's just the onslaught as a few of the good 'wifi-Sonics' are finally entering the tournament scene.
You'd think,
Oh, but it's their first offline-tournaments, and they placed really high, and/or even won! Doesn't that say something about Sonic as a character??
Here's where it breaks down.
The people they play against didn't have matchup experience against Sonic.
You've seen the trash that prominent members throw around. You laugh at the matchup discussions when people are sprouting on about how Sonic has low priority since they outprioritize Sonic's spindash, while we destroy them with our U-airs and B-airs, and outspace them with tilts and outmanuever their spacing with our movement options and shieldgrabs.
And finally, they see a Sonic main for the first time and they get destroyed.
good game.
And we win.
Seriously, you see the same garbage for Falcon and PT. No, any of the mid-low tier characters.
"Falcon has little priority! lolol" then you come across a Falcon who aggrorushes, punishes your attacks, and outprioritizes you with some surprisingly decent-priority moves and grab followups.
"Charizard is slow! Ivysaur sucks!" Then you come across a PT player who can time Rock-Smash as a counterattack (it explodes on contact), make use of Charizard's 'finished' ('autocancelled') aerials, and grab game. Or someone who can competently use Ivysaur's spacing tools, and Bullet Seed out of spotdodge/shield, or even up-B as an edgehog/kill move. Or even just a PT main who continues to fight you even when low on stamina, whittling away until they can get that D-throw or something to switch, or just straight up take you to a high % and kill.
And I'm sure everyone's familiar with Yoshi, and hopefully Samus players and abilities.
I'd take this season/year as being a more telling time for Sonic, especially if the Sonic mains who just recently entered the tourney scene go to more tourneys and start to go up against people who begin to and finally learn the matchup.
