What if they added a real duel mode?

[Doomrider911]

Yesterday my friend and I were talking about Brawl and we came up with an idea. What if they made a duel mode where it was stamina mode, on a stage like Final Destination, but you couldn't knock eachother off.That was you are forced to just attack eachother until one of you loses all your health. Anyways, my friend and I thought it might be kinda cool so i was wondering what you guys think.

 

[Sinvoid]

I agree with you and 2nd that that shoudl be an option, that would be a very intresting way to fight, they could use the sandbag barier around final destiantion so you couldn't fall off.

 

[Solharath]

Go play Street Fighter if you want to do something like that...

 

[royinator]

yeah

and maybe they could make a rule banning projectiles... or maybe only projectiles

 

[ShortFuse]

Um... they already did make it. it's called Stamina mode
http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/gamemode/various/various04.html
Look at the picture. It says mario has 150HP

 

[RocketDarkness]

Um... they already did make it. it's called Stamina mode
http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/gamemode/various/various04.html
Look at the picture. It says mario has 150HP

He's quite aware of Stamina Mode, as he mentions it in his first post. He's simply asking for a mode which, in addition to stamina, also puts a barrier around the arena so you can't win by the traditional smash means. Which, I think, would be a fun option to have, even if it pales in comparison to normal smash.

 

[ShortFuse]

Yeah, i'm sorry. i too hastily replied. i don't think that'd be too much of an issue. having HP would probably have you permanently set somewhere around 0% to 30%. you wouldn't be KO'd. (unless you get killed by good edge play)

 

[KirbySSB]

lol just play in the MGS stage or something

 

[Jammer]

I haven't played stamina mode in a while. As your stamina goes down, do you got knocked further when hit? If not, then I don't really think a caged match is necessary. The only way you could die would be to walk of the stage.

Also, if they do what you're suggesting, I imagine the mode will become another Coin Battle. But then again, options are always a good thing.

 

[Ch-Akruru]

I play Stamina with the damage ratio set to .5 all the time, unless you suicide you never really get knocked off at all

 

[ripa9]

you never get knocked off at all

Stamina mode with that would be cool.

 

[SkipSandwich]

What I've always thought they should add to stamina mode is, obviously, the ability to increase the amount of stamina you have. However, I think instead of dieing if you fall off, it should either take a set amount of HP away from you, or slice your HP in half.
If that was done, they could either have a % meter hidden and building as normal, or display it under your HP amount.

 

[Jammer]

However, I think instead of dieing if you fall off, it should either take a set amount of HP away from you, or slice your HP in half.

That's actually a quite good idea. I prefer losing a set amount of damage (maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of your starting HP). And I think we should definitely be able to increase the starting HP by 100 HP increments. That way we could make 500 HP matches that would last about as long as 4 stock matches.

Also, welcome to the boards, SkipSandwich.

 

[SkipSandwich]

Thank you.

I think a set amount would probably be favorable too. If it were a percentage of your current HP, jumping off the edge would become a strategy for escaping damage once lower HP was reached. Also the invincibility from the respawn could be abused, unless it was turned off (Which may be a good idea for stamina matches)