Recent content by Faora Meridian

Firstly, I'd like to thank you for your well-thought out and appropriately verbose reply. Dialogue about this experiment helps keep me interested. Secondly, while I see the point you're trying to get at (if I might summarize it as: "Diverse training is better than specialized, limited...

Hey! Actually, it was worse; the clutch was gone, which cost me a buttload of money to replace, and while there they discovered that there was a crack in my radiator that was going to cause completely failure in short order... and that added to my bill, of course. They also found some...

So, just a heads up for those interested in the continuation of this experiment, good news and bad news! The good news is that I will be working on it at last again tomorrow, by resetting Gen 2 completely and training it up myself to use techniques that are not apparently hardwired into the...

Whew! Gotta love real life and frustrating roommates when it comes to inhibiting my ability to play Smash. On the bright side, the friend whose ZSS play I'm improving is showing more viable play than my Amiibo! I spent a couple hours recently when the power was on (damn Australian storms...

Well, now I'm rested and back again, and I can consider things a little better. I think at this point the best chance for the experiment is for me to take Gen 2 and directly interfere. As it seems to be more experienced and more capable in general than Gen 3 (despite the win, Gen 3 still...

So. The storm passed. What did not, however, was my curiosity. As the lightning raged outside, I had a thought that led me to a very unsatisfying observation. I can show you all, each and every one with Smash, what my Amiibo Best-of-5 bouts were like. I can do this very simply. Step 1: Put...

Facing the Amiibo myself would contaminate the experiment going forward. I'm willing to do it with Gen 2's Amiibo before I wipe it to become Generation 4, but not Gen 3 just yet. Also, Gen 1 was never able to defeat me. It could only ever take one stock. Yay me! While this is an...

I would need more Samus Amiibo if I was to do that and, frankly, that's just a waste of money. I'll probably hold onto Gen 2 for a bit after this and see what happens to it if I train against it for a bit personally. I should be able to teach it a few things. Primarily, I'm tempted to go at...

Not so! For as I'm doing, I'm going to wipe Gen 1 back to a clean slate and use it for Gen 3. You only need two Amiibo of the same variety to pull this off! Thanks; glad you like it! I'm about to get started on Gen 3 at the moment. Should have some results in a few hours! It's always good...

Generation 3's training is complete and, frankly, the results have been some of the most interesting so far. I'll let my notes speak for themselves, and then we'll move into my thoughts on what it means. - Gen 3 started at lv1 with aggression. It's getting its backside kicked, but it was...

So, there's a lot more notes from the raising of Gen 2's Samus to lv50 than there were for Gen 1. This is partly because I wasn't an active participant in the matches themselves, and so I was able to more readily take notes as well as notice details I'd missed before. In this post, we're going...

I've just finished training the first Samus Amiibo (named THEBABY) to lv50. I stopped at this point to share the baseline for Generation 1, before this experiment goes further. But first, a note on my playstyle and the control elements as I'm the one instructing Generation 1 and the elements...

I believe that the learning rate for Generation 1 compared to Generation 2 would be slowed. Generation 2 would be learning from Generation 1 in how to best counteract it, and it would be learning from a pre-defined method. Generation 1, by contrast, would be using the existing method...

Hi, I'm Faora Meridian. You might remember me from the Hey, Who WAS That? Player-Finder Thread, or random For Glory matches online. I'm here today to posit a different theory regarding the nature of Amiibo learning patterns. Before I begin this experiment, I'd like to point out that I'm...

Cripes! This blew up a LOT faster and bigger than I thought! I go away for a while, playing my Smash and being an overworked and underpaid scrub, and come back to twenty-six freaking pages. Bloody hell! I'm so thrilled everyone's having a blast looking for (and even finding! *squee!*) their...