Little Mac actually gains a tool to deal with platform camping with one Side-Special Custom lol
Pikachu's stuff was nowhere to be seen unless the opponent screwed up.
Villager's ledge thing only won when the opponent didn't know how to play against it.
"Jank" is not a real word, STOP USING IT.
Also, I can't take seriously an argument that implies Brawl is bad. Brawl isn't even the point of the argument.
You're just dodging my points.
Little Mac is completely nonviable with customs. With customs the jank rises to the top.
Can someone please post the game where pikachu (maybe ESAM?) used paralizing jolts to 0-death the opponent? I think it was a finals. Anyway, this reminds me of the Brawl phrase "don't get grabbed"; there's a reason ICs were the undisputed 2nd best character. They got grabs.
Villager's planking became the key element of his metagame. I didn't say it wasn't possible to beat.
Jank, powerful exploits, call it what you want. The point is at high levels of play you must abuse exploits as much as possible. The metagame will revolve around camping and exploits rather than good fundamental play.
Great completely ignore my other points because I implied brawl is bad.
(Overall customs make SSB4 more like Brawl: more campy, gimmicky, polarized MUs, with longer setup time, and less balanced than SSB4 vanilla.
The whole pro-custom argument seems to be "customs aren't OP so people can get used to them (true)" but not taking into account how much jankier they make the game. It was never about "banning customs" it was about "trying customs" because vanilla SSB4 is the original game. Pro customs (not anti-customs) people want to change the rules to make SSB4 less balanced and more janky.)
PS
Brawl was bad, extremely janky with chain grabs, planking, grab releases and only a handful of viable characters. SSB4 is better because it lacks that stuff.
