I wish this was a joke, that I could say and join into the train of Roy sucks so hard he shouldn't be played.
However this isn't.
I play mainly with Falco and Sheik, Falco being the character for when my brain is working at full percentage and Sheik for when my hands and brain aren't quite synced up. It's been an interesting road learning Melee (originally starting off in PM and before that competitive Halo).
It's only been a year of taking Smash seriously and putting in training, in the year that I've played I've put in over 2,000 hours, something that I'm not particularly proud of. That's a lot of time that could have been spent on something else but when something becomes a sport it's simply what you do.
Why I'm picking up Roy:
Why would I pick up Roy when there's Marth right? I see it and hear it at tournaments all the time when I play friendlies (I used to not play Roy in tourney because it's disrespectful or something something). Marth is the better character. I'm not denying that, but the short answer to this is--I'm ten times better with Roy than I am with Marth.
Now I don't know if this is something that comes from when I started out, but I played with Mario and got used to having no range with his attacks, or maybe it was from learning Falco when Mario just wasn't cutting it anymore and I needed to get into people's faces more hardcore than I already was with stubby-arms (). I'm not sure.
So I wish this was some super-pro player making this thread to give people hope for the Meta of Roy, but that's simply not the case. I live in the boondocks of Georgia where the closest tournaments are two hours away and with working two jobs [now] it's not possible.
However from now on I'm going to be playing Roy in any tournaments that I enter, I think he can win, especially after having about sixty hours of practice against some Marth mains in both Melee and PM it's doable, just a different playstyle is needed than one might expect.
Roy has it in him to be good, but not in the same way that Fox and Falco is good unfortunately, but he's good enough to win. It'll just take around three-minutes instead of One.
TL;DR Long story short. Roy's my boy now. My main squeeze and baby making machine and I love him and you can hate our love all you want and it'll never make a difference, because we're meant for each other. [kiss]
However this isn't.
I play mainly with Falco and Sheik, Falco being the character for when my brain is working at full percentage and Sheik for when my hands and brain aren't quite synced up. It's been an interesting road learning Melee (originally starting off in PM and before that competitive Halo).
It's only been a year of taking Smash seriously and putting in training, in the year that I've played I've put in over 2,000 hours, something that I'm not particularly proud of. That's a lot of time that could have been spent on something else but when something becomes a sport it's simply what you do.
Why I'm picking up Roy:
Why would I pick up Roy when there's Marth right? I see it and hear it at tournaments all the time when I play friendlies (I used to not play Roy in tourney because it's disrespectful or something something). Marth is the better character. I'm not denying that, but the short answer to this is--I'm ten times better with Roy than I am with Marth.
Now I don't know if this is something that comes from when I started out, but I played with Mario and got used to having no range with his attacks, or maybe it was from learning Falco when Mario just wasn't cutting it anymore and I needed to get into people's faces more hardcore than I already was with stubby-arms (). I'm not sure.
So I wish this was some super-pro player making this thread to give people hope for the Meta of Roy, but that's simply not the case. I live in the boondocks of Georgia where the closest tournaments are two hours away and with working two jobs [now] it's not possible.
However from now on I'm going to be playing Roy in any tournaments that I enter, I think he can win, especially after having about sixty hours of practice against some Marth mains in both Melee and PM it's doable, just a different playstyle is needed than one might expect.
So far my win ratio against Marth is around [Wins 10 games:Losses 2 games] in actual tournament setting in Melee however my opponents weren't exactly the best, but good enough to make it through about thirty other people and into top 8 where I played both and won in WF's and somehow won in GF's.
However, after this I was told I was an ass for showing off and playing with Roy instead of my main squeeze, my main baby-making machine, which is Falco because I played exclusively with Falco instead of Roy in friendlies leading up to the tourney.
Roy has it in him to be good, but not in the same way that Fox and Falco is good unfortunately, but he's good enough to win. It'll just take around three-minutes instead of One.
TL;DR Long story short. Roy's my boy now. My main squeeze and baby making machine and I love him and you can hate our love all you want and it'll never make a difference, because we're meant for each other. [kiss]