Ones that measure each franchise the same, or have extreme bias for/against a genre rub me the wrong way.
Rosters that place more value in third parties rather than first parties also rub me the wrong way in a way. I like the third party inclusions, but Smash at its heart is still a Nintendo crossover.
I also don’t like rosters that place much more value in seniority over everything. Perhaps that just differs from my perspective of Smash being a ‘time capsule’ of more recent endeavours.
the ones that put far too much emphasis on appealing to the Western side of the fanbase at the expense of genuine creativity.
I concur. Western gaming is neat, but I think people forget Smash should appeal to Japanese fans as well, considering it’s… developed in Japan, with major partners being Japanese third parties, or characters with global influence, not just in the West.