white peachy
Smash Ace
the only time i played time matches was when one of my friends would forget to change the game type to stock. even then....that hasn't happened in years. stock>>>>>>>>>>>>>time
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I wholeheartedly agree, for the fact that i was fighting a friend on time and wasting him. He got a homerun bat, though and it went to super sudden death. I ran to him, he ran away and a bob-omb killed me. I then had to go home so i never got a rematch.Guildenstern said:I should add that even though in 1-on-1, Stock or Time makes little difference, I still prefer Stock because it avoids Sudden Death. I don't particularly like having a match decided because a Bob-omb happened to materialize in front of me while I was in the middle of an attack.
What you mention is yet another one of the things that balancing the scoring system would fix, at least partially. Suiciding would only cost you one point, and kills would earn the attacking player 1 point with no effect on the other player's score, so it would not be nearly as much of a burden to even it up again. You are also forgetting that even with the current scoring system, the game only counts killing yourself with certain items as suicides, so even setting the suicide penalty to -2 will not make things any worse for you - accidental suicides will only cost you 1 point. No one intent on having a decent, evenly-matched game uses items, either. Getting a kill during the waning seconds of a match is not overwhelmingly difficult if you know what you're doing (I've been in as many of those situations as anyone else), and like I said before, running is the least effective way of preventing your opponent from wasting you. In instances like being down by a kill with only 20 or so seconds remaining, and your opponent is holding you off by simply fending you off with a combination of attacks and defensive techniques without the intent of killing you, I see your point. However, the odds are not always against you, especially if your opponent has a high damage percentage.AlphaZealot said:Dr. actaully hit one of the main things. In Time, killing the opponant isn't nessasary. In fact, if your opponant suicides just once (on the -2 scale), that effectively loses him the match. That means, with minimal time, you would have to kill the other person TWICE to return to even. If someone has half a brain and is playing say...Fox, then its they'll run away most of the match. You may even succeed in killing them once, but you have to do it twice, and there are many players who could easily run out 3 minutes of time and only lose 1 stock.
I've heard you talk about high level play, so, wanna offer what sort of expierance you have?
Geno007 said:Stock is better because if Time was really better, tournaments everywhere would be using that format.
Holy crap you are right. *thinking* why can't i say clever things like you guys?Tempest 01 said:i think time=stock.
Stock: its good for one - one. its impossible to run away and let everyone else kill each other. u HAVE to face ur opponent eventually. (5 stock match)
Time: its good for FFA. If somone kills a little and runs away, chances are that- A, everyone will follow him to kill him; B, the other players will rack up points so that the run away guy will have to fight or lose. (8 minuets match)
but, overall, if your all playing fair (in fray), i think time is best.
In stock though you get those campers which stay in a corner of a stage until everyone except for one gets killed. By then the character (not the camper) has already got severely beaten and he`s just a pushover for the camper. This can be avoided by one on one but there are always going to be people using unfair almost cheating strategies no matter what kind of match there is. Stock helps cut down on that so that`s why I prefer it over time.[Silent_Wolf] said:I really hate time match because people i play w/are kill stealing ****tards.I prefer stealing kills in stock. plus in multiplayer stock, the opponents die out and make less destractions.1on1 is so much better either way.
Now I'm thinking hat stock is better, because you can play Timed Stock Matches.Armygeddon Bomb said:I would say time, because
1.You have unlimited stock.
2.On teams, you will always have your teammate.
3.This is useful to unlock Mewtwo.