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Actually, I heard a number of high profile community members bring up the wonderful idea of seasonal stages. It's a win/win for everyone. Admittedly, there is benefit to keeping the selection small. (It makes striking meaningful.) However, by having a rotating set, we'll see many great stages throughout the year. I don't think we'll see nearly as aggressive of bans this time around. That hazard toggle is a miracle all its own.
Seasons are a terrible idea. What committee would dwcide on the stages used per season? What is major TOs disagreed and just went their own ?
Sounds like a non-issue. So, stages vary by region at times. As long as everyone agrees on the master list, what's the harm?
Besides the fact that Ridley is brand new and no one is playing him optimally, I feel we're not looking at the whole picture here. Yes, on the surface he
I worry that seasonal stage lists would cause their own set of issues. For example:
These aren't issues. They're just... questions. The community has been pretty good at agreeing on rule sets. There is always disagreement. (The 2-stock vs 3-stock debate raged on for quite a while.) Things settle down. As for how stages will be picked, I'm sure we can form a relatively balanced formula for what structure stages need to have for each seasonal pool.
Wow... now I’ve heard everything.
You gonna actually say something? Or just throw out snide remarks from the dark without substantiating your comment?
No character with a large hurtbox as the size of Ridley has been viable in Smash ever. Ridley will at best be a counter-pick character
There are some merits to the idea, there are several possible issues, one of the major ones being that this could affect some characters significantly (they might be significantly weaker in certain seasons).
That's a bit of a gross oversimplification. Size was the least of their problems, the main thing holding them back was poor mobility and frame data, neither
Donkey Kong and King Dedede was counter-pick characters at best and King Dedede became irrelevant as Meta Knight / Icies became supreme in Brawl anyway. DK gets thrashed in Smash 4 by Bayonetta, Rosalina, Zero Suit Samus, Sonic, Ryu and loses to many more characters, When was the last time a solo or close to solo Donkey Kong/ King Dedede ever gotten into a top 16 / top 8 in any national tournament? if ever. I was referring to Top Tier viability for heavies anyway; but they're not even prevalent at higher level to any significant degree due to their aforementioned weaknesses. Counter-Pick at best for Donkey Kong. Did I mention Bayonetta ?
I mean, the snide remark kind of speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Obviously it means that I don’t think this is the case, and that this community is laughably bad at coming to consensus.
Well, the projectile is a frame 20+ move at minimum and can backfire if anything hits him in the face during startup. It doesn't exactly look safe
Compared to what other communities? How much fragmentation is there in our rule set? What regions diverge from the common rule set in significant ways? Sure, there's lots of arguing leading up to the official rule set, but once it's out, the community generally falls in line. The biggest counter culture move I'm aware of is that upcoming tournament that will ban Lylat and Bayo.
It’s actually this right here what made me say that. “Falling in line” isn’t what I would consider coming to a consensus. It’s more along the lines of a group of self-important people create an arbitrary ruleset and label it “official.”
Eh, I can't agree with that. It's true most everyone eventually falls in line with one ruleset, but it's less for idealistic purposes or truly agreeing that one ruleset is the best one, and more for practicality, players want to be able to practice for big events, and if you don't have the same ruleset as the big events in the region, they either A. might not go because the practice will be inadequate or B. the event may not even count for the regional PR if it differs to much from the norm, both of which disincentivize using opposing rulesets with a few exceptions (Mainly stuff like banning Doubles Cloud that a vast majority thinks should happen). Then of course you'll also have the big regionals deciding to follow the biggest tournaments even outside of region because they don't want their region's players to be ill-prepared for those events. Also, there was that big huge poll in which the majority voted to legalize Guest XXXX Miis, and numerous other polls after that pointing in favor of Guest XXXX over Guest 1111 (Source Ctrl + F or find "The Public Opinion on Miis in Smash 4 " and read from there), but Guest 1111 is still the standard because the ruleset committee didn't/doesn't agree with those players' opinions.
Pretty much what I wanted to say but elaborated on much better.
Thank you. I hate people that say that heavies can't be good just based on size. It's like they think it's impossible because fighting game developers are terrible at balancing their games.
It's certainly not a universal tool, but it does work with Ridley's kit. (Ground pressure and command grabs)
You do realize landing lag in Ultimate is the equivalent to L-cancelled landing lag in Melee right?
I feel like I've got my hopes up too high for the training mode. When the launch trajectories display option was revealed, I took it as a tease that BIG things are in development for this mode. There's much I want to see, but sitting at the top of my wishlist are tools to expedite the building of simulations for the full range of combat scenarios. For example, if all of Evo 2019's gameplay was submitted to Ultimate's Replay Channel, every player could grab that data and set up training modules quickly and easily without needing to record all of the dummy's actions.
Obviously these challenges come from the developer and they would be updated periodically. BUT (and here's where it gets juicy), going even more complex, allow players to also import AND modify match replay segments into Custom Training Challenges. "What if my or that person's opponent had done this instead? What should my or that player's response in that situation have been?" You can choose parts to keep as is and modify the situation as you see fit.
is gonna be ass but so will , sure she'll always have good moves, but they have more time to balance her this time around, she was revealed, tweaked a little then left alone, which was horrible for Smash4, shouldn't be the case here.
Star KOs and Screen KOs had an equal delay before removing a stock/point in Smash 4, which removed the scenario of a match being decided by the RNG of which top-blast-line-KO animation played if two characters crossed the blast line nearly simultaneously at the closing moments of a match (i.e. one character getting lucky and being "saved by the bell"). That was a good call, and making Star and Screen KOs not happen towards the end of a match was also a good call. I'm just not sure why they thought it was a good idea to also have top blast line KOs randomly play the ordinary explosion animation rather than a Star or Screen KO at any point of a match, considering that this adds in the same "dumb luck 'saved by the bell'" scenario that they tried to remove by making Screen KOs be as long as Star KOs, nor am I sure why Screen KOs are slated to be faster than Star KOs again in Ultimate. They had a decent idea for toning down the randomness of the game, and then they half-assed the execution. Just... why...?
