I like wavedashing. A lot. I like any movement trick in most any fighting game, from wavedashing in Tekken to instant airdashing in Guilty Gear (and 3rd Strike with Twelve). I love characters with mobility, it makes the game fun.
And I'm saying to any of you that this applies to, right now, that you don't know what you're talking about if you think that the lack of wavedashing as we know it in Melee will kill Brawl. Let's review.
Too used to wavedashing? Go from Super SF2 Turbo to Alpha 3 and try throwing the same way. Then play 3rd Strike. And then go play CVS2 afterward. Don't know what I'm talking about? Throwing is different in each of them. THROWING. Not some glitch, not some game-breaking move, not some ridiculously hard tactic, not some movement trick, no. Just throwing. And yet you see people managing to play each and every one of those games well at tourneys using the same character in each (FYI, you can play as Ryu, Ken, or Chun-Li in any of those, and a multitude of characters in 2 or 3 of them). If they can manage it among all those games, you can manage it in the transition from one to one other. Heck, you probably won't even play Melee anymore, so that limits it to ONE game. If you can't muster the skill to do this, then keep playing Melee. We'll be playing Brawl. Have fun.
Think it'll ruin the depth of the game? Please. There will be other glitches to exploit, other movement tricks to use. Characters will move up and down the tier list. The game will develop, just as Melee did, over a long period of time. I'm gonna miss wavedashing/landing (and djc-ing, since I main Yoshi), but I'll live and enjoy what will be a fine game in four months.
Think that the difference between scrub and pro will disappear? I sincerely doubt it. There used to be a French Soul Calibur II player named Dan the Nightmare. Won Evo 2k3. His strength? He used down+forward B (a high-priority upwards-launching slash). A lot. In fact, he used the move 95% of the time. Move IS pretty good, but it's not game-breaking by far. He just knew how to use it better than anyone else. He's beaten people with JUST that move. Is he a scrub? God no. He outthought you, outsmarted you, and just outplayed you. With one move on a mid-tier character. Even other Nightmare players couldn't do it like him. Wasn't fancy, wasn't flashy. Was just better than you.
Trust me, the game isn't going to crap just 'cause they changed airdodging.
With that said, the people on here who blast pros for wanting to keep wavedashing also don't know what they're talking about. No good pro JUST wavedashes, and I'm pretty sure that they'll own you in whatever mode you can cook up in your "this is the way the game was intended" little mind. Start using items if you're not gonna make any sense in this thread.
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