Uh, while these are all things I already knew, I found it an excellent read. Neo, you're ODing. If you really knew Jason you'd know that if MK got banned, he'd keep winning anyway, because he'd still **** with the rest of the top characters, and that he honestly wants people to get better. Seriously, I'd expect you to know that.
The thing about MK is, you need to know your options. I've been saying this for a long time . . . Dsmash is NOT safe on block. Learn WHAT you can punish with, and punish.
For those that said you're never above the tornado, learn to DI. Seriously, if you get hit by the first part, and DI up and toward the center, you can either then attack or footstool out. Learn to angle your shield up, and down for dtilt. Angling the shield is super important in this game, and I bet almost NONE of you practice it ever.
Seriously, MK has awesome gimp options, but you need to learn to DI really well. Truth, M2k gimps me pretty well. Also truth, he doesn't even do it 1/4th as easily as he used to, ever since he told me to improve my DI. That's real talk. Also, when I get gimped, I usually have good options, and I was just out-guessed, or had bad DI. I've seen gimps that are impossible to evade, but against characters with even halfway decent recoveries, you have options.
Standing from the ledge is a good option. Probably the best most times.
Learn your options out of shield. Jumping out of shield is very effective. especially if you block a dtilt after angling your shield down. Learn it.
The other day, while fighting M2k, I learned that his glide attack CLASHES with Marth's jab, and puts Marth at advantage. I don't remember what we found when we tried D3's utilt. EXPERIMENT AND LEARN YOUR OPTIONS. Try unusual stuff, and learn new things.
Seriously, I only lose to good MKs (and btw, Inui is a good player NEO. You're better, yes, but not everyone has to be amazing just to be good. It's a relative term. I lose to players that are better than me, but even good players don't think I'm bad. People need to stop disrespecting each other for poor reasons).
Now, IMO, MK should still be banned. His option ratio vs. the rest of the cast is still ridiculous. Some people say the top characters in Melee aren't banned so MK shouldn't be. Well, I'm not good at Melee, and don't know it nearly as well. Maybe there are characters in Melee that do deserved to be banned. I can't say because I didn't play Melee. In Brawl, there are less reliable answers to MK, and fighting him is very often a guessing game, in which the odds are extremely stacked in MK's favor.
However, I do agree with M2k that for the vast majority of the cast, there is no hope even if MK is banned. Welcome to competative fighting. I don't even play other fighters, but to me this is an obvious fact. I think that waiting until next year to ban MK is a good idea. Even if there are options, it's better for the community on a whole if, on the level of play that 99% of the players play at, MK is a broken entity. Even if he's on the godly level which players such as M2k play at, he's not as broken, he's still broken in a real way to most of us, and it's still plausibly reliable to easily win with him. We're talking real players, with real skill, levels, at real tourneys, spending real money. Realistically, it's pretty dumb to say "Well, if you use these characters and play perfect, you could win." Guess what, if I was amazing, I could win with C.Falcon by perfect shielding almost everything, including physical attacks. From there, I could proceed to punish, and eventually K.O.. This is theoretically possible, but simply too unlikely to ever come into fruition to even consider. For most of us, even on highest level of play (right under m2k god level), this is NOT reality, and this game would be funner, more plausible, and dare I say more competative without him.
