It happens to all of us, really. If you go decide to take the risk of playing with people considerably less skilled than yourself, then at least take the initiative to abandon whatever pride you have, beforehand; i.e, just have as much fun as you can. Normally, I honestly cannot take Brawl seriously, because it's just far too silly for my tastes. As a result, I usually sandbag around with taunt parties until coming across a good player -- which, surprisingly, are populous in BB. Once I engage a competent player, I'll get off of my *** and do everything in my power to win (johning about lag, items and / or stage choice is well below me, so if I'm to play against anyone with enough skill to last a while, I'll place as much effort and determination into winning as possible. Even if I'm shrunken to a harmless size, or have been absolutely screwed by another player in the room, I'll still charge at my opponent, like a warrior
), even if I'm at a large MU disadvantage. Playing this game doesn't give me the same sense of satisfaction and joy that it did in '08, but that doesn't stop me from messing around with scrubs with very little knowledge of the competitive side of vBrawl -- not to mention, having a lot of fun doing so. Just be patient. You can use those players as pseudo sandbags, really. If those kinds of players really become an annoyance to you, then just leave the room.
The players who decide that it's a good idea to "triple team" any person 'ballsy' enough to approach their fun party in an aggressive manner are pretty easy to deal with. Personally, I have no problem dealing with players like that, because they're so easy to figure out. Even the better players have regrets about attacking one of their fellow taunt goers / allies, which makes it insanely easy to CP their characters. Normally, I just mess around with Snake and camp until someone's in kill range of an Utilt -- and, lol, just spam that until someone dies. If I get a pretty gay room (everyone giving each other KO's so I never get one), then I get a free laugh. Those kinds of players are pathetic, but rather than losing my cool and raging / disconnecting the group, I'll calmly just wait for one of them to **** up, and capitalize on said mistake. Honestly, I mostly aim for mental wins if I'm in a 3v1 position. Hurting the pride of scrubs is so easy.
On a related note: Are you a "projectile happy" Tink that almost
never uses Zair? If so, I might've run into you once. Do you remember a purple Lucas that chased you around Temple for a couple of matches? I also dittoed said Tink in order to test my understanding of his projectile game (I'd sensed a pattern the first time he'd decided to get 'serious', and had to ensure that I had the correct idea of how to approach); I also went Pika, but stayed away from MK, due to having little experience in that particular MU. The Tink I remember playing against knew enough about this game to get by (LC Arrows and clever use of bombs), and KOed himself whenever I lost a point to him.
I'm sure that ran into that same player a while ago. We'd played some worthwhile friendlies after the player who'd held a grudge against them finally decided to leave -- post-anal poundings, of course. That jerk knew the ICs|MK MU so well that I
had to use Lucas until I could figure out what their playstyle was (which turned out very well, btw).