I'd be interested in seeing a Meta Knight player attempt to plank with a percent lead while Food was spawning onstage.
We recorded that data too. Small help. Works when someone's like "lol 1% lead", but it could take up to two minutes to regain health from a 50% deficit on low. We tried the various settings and really none of them stopped it at its core. Plus if MK just got a stock lead, it was over.
It's more MK than planking itself though. Despite people's claim that planking is broken, even MK's planking hasn't ever really done too much in tournament; we've only had one tournament where planking was a huge aspect of someone winning throughout the tournament, and that was pretty early on.
SB said:
The problem there is that some people believe that the restrictions on MK are not necessary if items aren't restricted, which is a decent enough argument. The notion that MK should be banned due to the supposedly necessary restrictions on MK is not justified, as their necessity is caused by other restrictions.
I'd love items tournaments to show up again and they're fun when we play in them and are still pretty skillful (assuming the right rules; no final smashes...). Catching thrown items with air dodge and aerials, doing an aerial instant-throw to throw that turtle shell back and forth? Pretty cool. More importantly, it gives characters with really low KO potential that are MEANT to kill with items a fighting chance, and gives characters that aren't meant to chase, like Bowser, the ability to fight ranged.
Unfortunately, the item spawning system is borked in Brawl. Items seemingly spawn closer to the
losing player, meaning there is a kind of rubber-band effect. More importantly, due to aerials automatically picking up items if timed properly, we've seen characters actually just straight up do an aerial, item spawns as the aerial starts, and then the player picks it up mid swing. We can get rid of the items that do the craziest stuff, but the end of it is that item spawns are deliberately meant to spawn for the losing player and the argument of "it is about stage control" kinda falls apart when you can pick up items with inputs before they spawn.
players.
