Competitive players play many characters. You aren't the only guy who plays 12-13 characters. It's not contrarian to say you play 13 characters. However, when it comes to competitive play, many players pick a 'main'. The 'main' is the character they have is singled out from that pool of many characters they play (the same pool that you yourself has, as well as the OP). So all you are doing is not singling out 1-2 characters from your pool of played characters.
You don't have a 'main', because you just have a pool of characters you play.
Well you see, this thread was about people who have multiple mains, even the OP has thirteen mains, the same amount as me. I don't care if you have one main or fifty mains, but a lot of people came in here saying "you can't have more than one main," "you can only have one main," "I can't take you seriously if you have multiple mains." I'm not exactly the one starting things with comments like these. But like I said, I'm cool with competitive people having a single main, but they don't need to restrict everyone else, you see what I'm saying? Main is singular, mains is plural, I have mains, not
a main.
That's awesome. Nobody really cares that you don't have a main and, instead, you play many characters.
It's not 'better' for you to have a main, or to call those characters your 'mains'. We don't care, you probably shouldn't, and it means nothing.
It's just a word, but it does have a use. You can't just use it how you want due to how you view the competitive community as being lame for making 'main' have a definition that you don't like.
Nobody cares? Well, then nobody cares who your main is. This is a forum where people can state their opinions, this is a specific thread about multiple mains. "Main Train" surely implies more than one, wouldn't you think? If you don't care about people who have many mains, why would you specifically go into the thread that pertained to such a topic?
I never said anyone was lame either, don't put words in my mouth. About using the word, if competitive people can use the word how they please, then why can't I?
But those 'many characters' aren't all your 'main', because the word 'main' implies they are the one and only. Hence why we say 'secondary main' when someone has a secondary mains. You wouldn't say you had TWO mains, though, because you can't. Main means "HEY, I've singled out a character."
As I've stated above, I said main
s, not main, singular. As the definition of the word states, a main would be the most important thing, or
things in my case. No reason to get mad.
Someone who plays 13 characters didn't single out a single character, so they don't have a main. There are many competitive players like this, it's no big deal. Nobody cares, so there's no reason to get combative over insisting your pool of characters be considered 'mains'. They aren't, and it's doesn't matter.
If nobody cares, why are you arguing about it in the first place? I'm not trying to get on your case, so you don't need to get on mine. Let's just leave it all well and good, we play the game for different reasons. I don't want any hard feelings, especially over a video game on an internet forum, so no hard feelings right? Do what you do and I'll do what I do.
Uhh, loads of people play Smash for money. You are aware all majors and even most weeklies have a pot, right?
Even if you would never play the game for money you can imagine that prestige or something else desirable rests on the outcome of this match.
If by loads of people, you mean a niche group that doesn't include me and therefor has nothing to do with me. I said that I would never be in a position to make money from a video game, unless by some miracle I actually go to a tourney and by another miracle, actually do well enough in the tourney to reach the point of making money.
But like I said, if you're going to make money and you only want to use one character, good for you! But I'm not making any money and I prefer to use many characters for fun, rather than get good with a single character for no practical reason only to end up bored with the game. Winning is great and all, but if I lose I'm just going to tell you "good game, mate!"