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I don't know how much this contributes, but DH is one of the chars Tweek struggled with early on. But recently he has vastly improved vs the character. We was playing Ozone recently & winning the majority of matches - I'd check that out for that conversation.

It's funny that I see ESAM's tweet about how he might start believing in Kirby just as I see people in this thread talking about how Kirby wasn't buffed properly.

Smash is a very simple game, and they're buffing the unique options of each character. I think your argument would have more room if superheavies even approached a threat in high level play. As it stands, they're at best an annoyance. Really, the superheavies are designed in a way that matches...

It's actually massive for the meta, though. Why do you think people don't parry projectiles? There's so much pressure that gets destroyed with parrying being implemented properly. Chars like Pikachu and Mario won't be able to just toss out neutral b and run up. You get extra frames to move in...

Kirby's 13 frame fair oos punishes just about everything Mac does with the exception of like... cross up dash attack? Which takes a bair. It probably depends on the character he's facing, but his shield safety is pretty rough. There are tons of characters that have safer buttons vs shield. He...

It's not every other fighting game series. The issue is that the majority of fighting game series - particularly those originated in Japan - don't have it. And that's whether it's a new game or not. Rollback has been around for ages, but games are just starting to implement. Even recent ArcSys...

Naw, in S4 people thought he was a mid tier with some people (like myself, ZeRo, and Tsu I think) believing he went as far as top tier. Mid tier is vastly too generous in this game. If I'm to give you my most honest opinion, I think he's worse than Kirby. Though Kirby has more volatile MUs, he...

Oh, yeah, Lucario. So, I practiced him for a bit before realizing he was kinda meh and moved back to Kirby. Basically, why he's not great: - Grab sucks in comparison to S4. Losing shieldgrab as an option in neutral is HUGE - Oh, and it's frame 7 in this game as opposed to 6 in S4 - Lucario...

I'm probably not being clear - they definitely don't play the same. The point is that Leo was able to demonstrate "here's how this character is strong," and people can take it and run with it. Comparatively, people still struggle to understand how Pikachu kills, transitions from defensive to...

Whatever this is a response to is definitely not what I was saying. Re-read what I said, please. EDIT: Let me restate it: ESAM is the best Pikachu, but doesn't get "best char in the game placings" On top of that, ESAM's style is hard to emulate, as it's based on a lot of his strengths (see...

One other thing regarding Pika/Joker... Joker didn't really start having consistent results until MKLeo started to play him. There was a good period of time where people did pretty much everything wrong with the char. But having the #1 player to look up to probably helped a ton. In comparison...

A major issue with Pikachu is that everyone who claims he's broken or #1 - with the exception of ESAM - doesn't play him. It's a weird situation like Inkling, where a bunch of top 15 players will say "this character is literally broken" and supposedly the better you are as a player is the more...

Dabuz once said that Roy is the type of character that gets better as your understanding of the game gets better, and man do I see it. People will use this to call Roy busted, and by virtue of being a top tier, he kind of is... But Kola did well through smart decision-making combined with Roy's...

Oh, another entertaining note for you. ZeRo was playing friendlies with people at Frostbite, using Diddy and Mario. Sadly no VODs, but I heard he's still amazing - no surprises there. Anyways, I could personally see Diddy somewhere in high tier - but not at the peak yet. EDIT: And Player-1...

I wouldn't toss best Link title to YL. Both YL and BotW have proven to be able to top 8 majors. TL would be the... *sigh* weak Link here, but even he does well in Japan. All three are high tier minimum, which is crazy progression from the days of Hyrule tier. Alas, poor Ganondorf. On a...