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Actually, I believe it dates back to Brawl where Ganon- and Bowser-cides had one character die before the other or at the same time based on the relative size of the character models. It also brings things back into line with the principle of tactics and causality. I will agree with dav3yb in...

I see your point completely and there's a big point to be made for the efficacy of these discussions. My frustration is basically--why AREN'T any high level players/big names advocating for **** like pXp1? Why AREN'T big names in the community actually caring about things like stage diversity...

Agreed. Initiator wins suicide moves is the way it should be imo, but the only way to keep it objective is for it to only apply to moves that can't be mashed out of. Afaik you can't mash out of Ganondorf's Side-B? I'm not sure if there are any others, but that would be my take--narrow "Initiator...

I agree with you on trying as many stages as possible and being open to stage features that were considered unfavorable in past games. But I think there's a lot of value in Tex's intention in this thread to create discrete and objective systems with which to articulate stage quality. Yes we all...

I'm at work right now so I haven't had time to read the entire thread yet, though I plan to, but I wanted to weigh in quick on one point in particular that Chaos Lord made: I want to add myself onto the flame list of old players that think the stage list should be more liberal. Of course I...

Also hydroplane fsmash crossups are a hilarious gimmick mixup.

I personally have a lot of trouble with the G&W matchup as squirtle, so Ike covers that nicely for me. G&W just has so much random ass priority and range and a lot of his hitboxes stay out forever so it's hard to get in on him as squirtle. And it speaks to how much random ass priority he has...

Ike? Not Viable? xD Definition of viable being...? (Let me guess: "Spacies") But alas, this thread isn't about Ike's viability, so I digress. I also agree that Squirtle's spacie matchups aren't bad. He has a better time running over Fox than Falco, but you can do the job with both. I just like...

I don't necessarily mean who else do you play in general. More like, let's have a discussion about the viability of certain characters as alts to cover squirtle's bad matchups. Personally, I've been picking up Ike lately, and I think he's a near perfect complement to squirtle. He's literally...

Agreed on uthrow, its followups could be more solid. Disagree on Uair. It's an amazing combo move at low-mid %, and it the backbone of squirtle's vertical combo game (and leads into waterfall) Would love for SH watergun to be wavelandable. That would kick ass. Nair has a cool trajectory, but the...

It's important to separate personal biases from competitive decisions. The random saves may be a very fun part of the game for people, but it's still a competitive detriment (especially on Yoshi's Island (brawl)) This is why we started with the largest list possible and are narrowing it down on...

This is the truest thing about squirtle that has ever been said.

DC, SV, Norfair, GHZ, and FoD are all fine, in my honest opinion. The most Borderline one I guess is Dracula's. Norfair's plats give slight help to recoveries, but no more than SV does, and much more consistently than SV. Striking could be P1 P2 P2 P1 P1 P2 P2 P1 P1 P2 P2 P1 Alternatively...

^Yeah, that's what I took from it.