Why did they shorten Marth´s Sword? (dont miss understand it!)

[walla_homie]

Why is Marth´s sword so short?
is it some technical glitch or because they didnt want to overpower Marth.
is there any answer since halv the time i try to do a Spike his sword is to short and it dosnt hit
or i am trying to do a Dancing Blade but im to far from the opponent so he charges a smash (it sucks if opp. is Ike) and send me flying to my death.

Has anyone else had these problems?

 

[neon..?]

so u could go back to melee.

 

[Amide]

He's already high tier as it is, why does he have to have more range? It's just a minor difficulty to overcome.

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

All of his hitboxes are disjointed anyway (with the exception of a few on Usmash and a few others) so why does it matter, you can go back to melee if you want to use him with more range.

 

[DKKountry]

Here's the story: It was the last stock of the last match of a Melee tournament destined for greatness at an undisclosed location, Captain Falcon vs. Marth, both characters between 600% and 700% damage. After what seemed like an eternity of fighting, Marth began charging a shield breaker and the Captain charged him. Each fighter thought that they had the other right where they wanted them and in a flash of light that blotted out the sun and blinded the weak, the tip of the tipper's sword collided with Captain Falcon's knee and the rest is history.

There were two valuable things lost that day; Marth lost about 2 and a quarter inches from the tip of his sword and the Captain's knee will never be the same.

 

[DKKountry]

Laggy double-post powers activate!

sry

 

[Pierce7d]

Here's the story: It was the last stock of the last match of a Melee tournament destined for greatness at an undisclosed location, Captain Falcon vs. Marth, both characters between 600% and 700% damage. After what seemed like an eternity of fighting, Marth began charging a shield breaker and the Captain charged him. Each fighter thought that they had the other right where they wanted them and in a flash of light that blotted out the sun and blinded the weak, the tip of the tipper's sword collided with Captain Falcon's knee and the rest is history.

There were two valuable things lost that day; Marth lost about 2 and a quarter inches from the tip of his sword and the Captain's knee will never be the same.

You just won this thread.

 

[magikguy]

Here's the story: It was the last stock of the last match of a Melee tournament destined for greatness at an undisclosed location, Captain Falcon vs. Marth, both characters between 600% and 700% damage. After what seemed like an eternity of fighting, Marth began charging a shield breaker and the Captain charged him. Each fighter thought that they had the other right where they wanted them and in a flash of light that blotted out the sun and blinded the weak, the tip of the tipper's sword collided with Captain Falcon's knee and the rest is history.

There were two valuable things lost that day; Marth lost about 2 and a quarter inches from the tip of his sword and the Captain's knee will never be the same.

that story was epic.

 

[Dairantou boy X]

i know what u mean. i mean, 2 me, playing as marth is not the same in brawl as it was in melee. i guess its because the creator felt that marth was 2 powerful and wanted 2 tone him down a bit. Or probably he felt that shortening marth's sword would make playing as marth more challenging. personally, i think they should've kept marth as he was in melee and didn't bother shortening his sword.

 

[IDK]

that sounded like a comic book, man. you should write...things...

 

[takeurlife2]

if marth had his melee range, he would be Meta-tier

 

[illinialex24]

Why is Marth´s sword so short?
is it some technical glitch or because they didnt want to overpower Marth.
is there any answer since halv the time i try to do a Spike his sword is to short and it dosnt hit
or i am trying to do a Dancing Blade but im to far from the opponent so he charges a smash (it sucks if opp. is Ike) and send me flying to my death.

Has anyone else had these problems?

Its only annoying against Metaknight because his sword is longer but it isn't a huge deal. What I'm asking much more often is why is Game and Watch's hitboxes so large, and Jigglypuff's so small.

 

[phi1ny3]

Here's the story: It was the last stock of the last match of a Melee tournament destined for greatness at an undisclosed location, Captain Falcon vs. Marth, both characters between 600% and 700% damage. After what seemed like an eternity of fighting, Marth began charging a shield breaker and the Captain charged him. Each fighter thought that they had the other right where they wanted them and in a flash of light that blotted out the sun and blinded the weak, the tip of the tipper's sword collided with Captain Falcon's knee and the rest is history.

There were two valuable things lost that day; Marth lost about 2 and a quarter inches from the tip of his sword and the Captain's knee will never be the same.

This is too good.

Oh, and if Marth had his old range with Melee frames as well, he'd be uber.

 

[grandmaster192]

Marth still has like 80% of the range he had in melee, lol.

The only attack I see a big difference with is the fsmash. Other than the fsmash, the range difference is so small it doesn't even matter. What would make Marth devestating is a safe kill move. I would take that over a tiny bit of more range any day.