im gonna keep away from the typical guide with 10% useful information and 90% fun facts
Nicely said. What's funny is that those guides are usually the "official guides", a.k.a. guides written by lazy *****es who get paid for writing lots and lots of basic info that won't get you anywhere. Here, I'll even give you an example since I'm such a nice guy. I got the official Diablo II guide by BradyGames when I bought the game, and here's a sample of what they have to say to help sorceress players all around : "Chain Lightning : Sends out a streak of lightning that bounces and jumps through several targets, doing damage to everything it hits along the way. As skills points are added to Chain Lightning, both the amount of damage and the number of hits grows. For example, when this spell is at level 10, it branches out 11 times! Remember that it even bounces off of walls, so put it to good use when you're in a cramped dungeon!"
Notice that everything they tell you would have taken you 3 seconds of playing around with the spell to find out. Nothing to tell you whether the skill is actually worth investing into or if you could simply go for something that's strictly better. Look around the Internet for guides made by people who actually play the game, though, and you'll find everything you'll ever need to know about this spell, such as the fact that unless throwing lightning around makes you happy in your pants, there's no point in wasting your skill points on this filler when there are better things available. Also notice how the guides that will help you are free, while the crappy, useless guides written by "professionals" usually go for 20 bucks.
The point of all of this :
If useless-but-fun-to-read stuff is what you're looking for, go there :
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/gamecube/game/516492.html
If you're into serious play and making money through playing Smash, then stick to guides that actually matter, such as Tipman's