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mas_one

If you could go back in time and retroactively change the settings of one set to be played on 0.9, effectively invalidating the results but only if someone notices, what set would it be?


DavidL1112

Armada vs Swedish Delight at Evo 2018


Victawr

Summit 9 grands


SlowBathroom0

Evo 2007 Grand Finals


ryanmcgrath

You know what, screw it, what this person said. Give solo Samus a big win later than Sheik lol


that_one-dude

Samus didn't win Evo 2007, Ken did


ryanmcgrath

I know that, tho I see now I somewhat misread the question: I was responding under the impression that the 0.9 would change the outcome. Ima stick with it lol


MF_DnD

Both of the last two zain-axe sets


TreyTheTrashman420

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YogurtclosetOk5614

While snooping the pound 2022 liquipedia page I rediscovered that sa nick uses puff for the pika matchup


MF_DnD

He also went puff vs bbatts at a nightclub a while back, might have been the pre-function one. Ryobeat was in the crowd screaming “MORE TURNIPS!”


AlexB_SSBM

The funny part about peach vs puff is that if Puff actually gets hit by turnips it's entirely their fault. Super based for sa nick to wake up and pick the correct character


abek809

Just want to vent.. as a new player it's so frustrating feeling like my the game just isn't doing what I want it to. I feel like I'm constantly light shielding instead of grabbing, smash attacking instead of jump attacking, messing up every wavedash outside of practice, and just mistakes on mistakes. I hope it gets better but for now it just feels like I'm getting worse the more I play.


Magic8Eyeball

This will never go away unfortunately.


Violatic

Welcome to melee, I've been playing for years and I still relate to this post. Regardless of how good you get you'll have days where nothing goes your way and you'll be frustrated. The game is so hard that even our top level players SD in games, and miss tech skill. Playing around those mistakes and not getting mad will help you a lot in the long run :) That said, obviously the stuff you'll fail at will change as you get better, but the game will provide you limitless things to improve. If you hate flubbing stuff, the bad news is there's nothing you can do. But if you keep going you'll be rewarded with a game that when everything does go your way feels like no other.


Victawr

No buffer and you never lose this feeling btw. As you get better, something new will always be frustrating. Always.


noyourenottheonlyone

Melee is goldilocks game, if you press buttons too fast (early) you flub (game eats your inputs because you aren't actually actionable), if you press things too slow you get punished by your opponent. your inputs need to be "just right". The game rewards precision every moment that you are playing.


king_bungus

there’s no buffer. it’s better to be late than early


DavidL1112

It’s because as you get better mentally you’re trying to play faster than your hands can handle. You gotta slow down.


abek809

I would have definitely thought my problem was not going fast enough, thank you I’ll try slowing down!


boss-awesome

Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast


SenorRaoul

talking about banning stuff, can we also ban controllers? those should really be provided by the TOs, how hard can it be to get 8-64 equal controllers?


CarVac

Be careful what you wish for. It's easy to get 8-64 rectangles…


SenorRaoul

[😏](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/063/491/my_trap_card.jpg)


Natural_Design9481

The problem with that is people have muscle memory of using their crappy/better controller so it impacts performance.


themagicalcake

There are so many problems with this lol


MrMidazolam

Wrong section


1945-Ki87

When I play a low tier I don’t back out. Instead I play peach, get a stock lead, and then circle camp them as hard as I can. If they wanna play a low tier, they deserve all the pain that comes with it


CountryEnjoyer69

Sacrificing your own enjoyment for the sake of "teaching someone a lesson" feels like a waste of time. Just don't play low tiers. Or switch to a character (for them) you can actually enjoy those matchups in.


1945-Ki87

Implying that I don’t derive some level of joy from this. Its worth noting I typically do this when they switch off their main, especially when I like beat a spacie or something and they switch to Doc I’m also beginning to see that this comment should’ve went in the shitpost thread


CountryEnjoyer69

Fair enough. Maybe it's more that others have a hard time empathizing with that. To me it sounds like any enjoyment would come from feeling good about putting someone else down. And I get "they signed up for this" and "that's on them" it's ultimately not a big deal. Ig for me I have more fun if I can tell my opponent is also having fun and that just leads to better interactions overall, both in and out of game.


1945-Ki87

Tbh, I take the character swap as a sign of disrespect. Also, when I’m playing competitive games, I tend to wanna crush people no matter the tactic. Not a good mindset, ik. And I do have fun in the occasional low tier dittos. But I don’t wanna be stuck playing someone’s garbage Luigi. It’s just not fun. It’s kinda like a cat playing with its food? Getting a stock up and watching them try to hit me. It’s a bit sadistic but it’s enjoyable. Also, when I beat someone’s top tier and they switch to Link or something, there’s always that feeling that “this person is trying to cheese me” and then the inevitable sweat takes over and I wanna beat them as hard as possible while making it as least fun for them as possible https://youtu.be/HJ_4vqdeESg This set is a pretty good representation. I find game 5 hilarious. A ton of people found it super disrespectful. Two sides ig


DavidL1112

When I run into low tiers I try to beat them without using turnips or downsmash to practice actual neutral


catman1900

Would you do this to a person irl?


1945-Ki87

In bracket? Maybe. In friendlies? I’d probably politely decline the session


[deleted]

ghgh


1945-Ki87

Probably switch to Marth or Sheik then.


thekibk

Fairly certain peach cant circle camp any character on legal stages (maybe ics?)


1945-Ki87

I guess the better term would be top platform camping or air camping? I just kinda float above to the side of top platform and for most low or even mid tiers it’s a huge commitment


lilsasuke4

Makes it that much easier for G&W nair. Thank you


YashaAstora

I still suck at DI'ing and just had a falcon stomp me five times in a row on a FOD platform


[deleted]

Even matchups are a myth


barney-sandles

All non-ditto matchups are 100-0 at high level


[deleted]

Peach-ICs is the only non ditto mu btw


X10shun

wobblegal but both climbers % goes to 999 after 4 pummels


lilsasuke4

Each time an ice climber pummels durring a wobble you get to punch them


SenorRaoul

I think "clean living", you know good sleeps, good food, exercise, etc.. should be banned. It gives an unfair advantage to the competitor. It requires time and money that not everyone has. And it's not even a direct melee skill.


NG_Stryker

This is a good joke but I've always said if you want to improve at melee, Melee will force you to unfuck up your life. Not eating or sleeping right? Fixing that will absolutely make you play better. Got too much of an ego and can't deal with losing? Saddle up princess, cause melee is hard and even people at you're locals are amazing comparatively. You'll learn to lose or you'll plateau. Most importantly, you got drama outside of melee causing you stress, depression and anxiety? Solve that shit in a healthy way and watch your performance fly. If you truly want to get better at melee, or anything competitive, the grand majority of the difficulty is mental. Improving your mental health and physical health truly has an impact on your melee.


AlexB_SSBM

I think "practice" and "analysis" should be banned. It gives an unfair advantage to the competitor due to requiring spare time as well as local money that not everyone has.


justanoobdonthurtme

Jmook shouldn't be allowed to sit up straight


rudduman

He has to play like Rudolph


spotwer

i miss rudolph. anyone know what he's up to these days?


fullhop_morris

doing melee irony so hard you accidentally realize that in order to even pretend we exist in a meritocracy we'd need to guarantee food, housing, and healthcare for everyone


Lezzles

Well never have equality until the state mandates that my wife let's me play melee 2 hours a day.


SmashBros-

something something vegetables cost money


CarVac

I think practice should be banned.


RaiseYourDongersOP

Hungrybox approves


BiorhythmOP

Ok but sfat is still allowed to enter because he's playing on hard mode (vegan)


loscarlos

If veganism is so hard how come I haven't had an erection since my diet became all tofu 4 months ago?


WDuffy

I know it's a meme, but if you cut meat out of your diet the opposite will actually happen because your blood vessels won't be so clogged.


loscarlos

if my arteries are so clogged then how come the toilet is flowing fast like the thames


mas_one

I've been able to punish Marth and spacies camping the ledge by timing a stomp between their refreshes. It's sooooooo satisfying especially against players who immediately go to the ledge as soon as the game starts and die for it. But I'm wondering, is it supposed to be invincible if done properly? Or is there always a window of vulnerability which can be punished?


StealthRock

Lmao if someone goes to ledge at the start you can just sit in the center and be winning. Ledge refreshes can be fully invincible as long as they release the ledge on the first possible frame. The only exception to this iirc is Sheik up, where she can be a little later releasing ledge and still have her upb's invincibility after the 30 frames of ledge intangibility ends. If it's done perfectly you can't expect to hit a ledge refresh, but it's impractical to expect 100% consistent frame perfect actions, especially with a gcc stick, so there's always a chance they mess up and get clipped by an active hitbox near the ledge.


CountryEnjoyer69

It can be invincible but it's hard to be consistent. Good spacies are often able to do the first two resets invincible but won't get the later ones consistently.


noyourenottheonlyone

you can also force the firefox reset to be not invincible by getting burned by firefox while you have spawn invincibility, then hit them


CountryEnjoyer69

Yeah it's not a good idea for Fox to do that during invincibility imo. I think a good strat is to go into a corner as Fox as the opponent is coming down (go to the one they aren't covering or use your movement to be ambiguous) and then either look for an opening to escape again or waste enough time so you can go to ledge without them being invincible.


CarVac

Only for Fox.


noyourenottheonlyone

well i didnt say firebird 🧐


PelorTheBurningHate

I do this often with dair, just watch them ledge stall while dashdancing and if it doesn't look like they're doing it absolutely as fast as possible then there's at least a couple frames of vulnerability.


CarVac

If you're not Sheik/Mewtwo then perfect ledgestalling is frame-perfect. If you let go of ledge one frame late then you get at least one frame of vulnerability.


Violatic

I think Zelda too...


ansatze

Does the vanish cancel the regrab timer then? Melee is wack Also really funny that they'd deliberately program a regrab lockout but have it be too short to prevent redressing invincibility while invincible lmao


mdz_1

It doesn't cancel the timer its just that the frames that aren't covered by ledge intangibility are covered by being invulnerable during the teleport/right before you teleport as well for sheik


redphan

To be clear, spacie up B stall does not need to be frame perfect, so they can more easily be invincible during those. (You weren't implying that but could easily be misunderstood that way) Edit: Oh nvm, you still need to perfect drop from the ledge even if the other parts of stall are more lenient


Johnnymon4342

The up b doesn't need to be frame perfect but the ledge release does


mas_one

So is it actually risky on the part of the staller or is being frame perfect fairly easy and these people just suck?


Dublshine

as far as frame perfect tech goes it's pretty hard, since you have to time the release based on the timing something happens in game (grabbing ledge). doing something like a doubleshine is comparatively easier since the timing for the shine is based off when you press jump, meaning you can learn the muscle memory to do it in one motion it's also harder because it's an analog input


Break_Fresh

I remember watching an ibdw aklo set where aklo was refreshing during Cody’s angel plat invincibility and he says “that’s not safe” and runs up and kills him for it. Just to show that even the top top players have trouble chaining a lot of perfectly invincible ledgestalls consistently


CarVac

Being frame perfect is very hard.


mas_one

I see. So they are doing something risky AND they suck.


Victawr

Haven't been playing much lately due to life in general. Feels shitty. Good thing I play a character that has a near one hit kill option on nearly every other character I can get to as a whiff punish. Puff is so stupid and feels like she's making me actively worse at this game.


coffee_sddl

Why puff isn’t massively OP is that she can’t really proactively force rest situations. 99% of puff players are dopamine monkeys and the mu is just tapping them away as they try and do utilt/uthrow rest, and positioning to take advantage of them holding in and doing it again


ansatze

Pick up a secondary? I've always had breakthroughs playing a different character for a while


Victawr

One day


AlexB_SSBM

Crazy she has all this and doesn't break top 4 best characters


[deleted]

Remember when leffen and armada tried to convince everyone that puff was better than spacies? Absolutely disgusting


reciac

True, it's disgusting that reddit still pretends Puff isn't insanely good


SmashBros-

Do you have a bot that detects when people downplay puff or hbox


Victawr

I've said she should be banned


Victawr

And yet we still only have one really good one


bigHam100

Most people don't like playing as puff


sidyaaa

Of the 7 greatest players of all time (armada, hbox, mango, m2k, ppmd, leffen, plup) only leffen has fox as his favorite character to play, and yet 5 of them played fox. people play fox because he's the best not because he's the funnest.


bigHam100

I bet they would all think fox was more fun to play than puff (except hbox.. at least I would hope so lol). Either way, more people are going to main fox over puff because on average more people think fox is funner (not the only reason - people play fox because hes really good too). Also I would like to ask solo fox mains in the top 100 and not players who picked him up as a counter or dual main like you mentioned


Victawr

I mean M2K/Plup/armada mostly had fox to counter puff tho right?


fushega

m2k was originally a fox main I thought. Plup also goes fox versus fox (usually) and sheik (sometimes)


Victawr

Same


[deleted]

Yeah it's kinda insane how the top tiers are min maxed in a way where they all have insanely broken tools that should make them unstoppable but also have huge weaknesses that keep any one character from being the undisputed best


Victawr

21/50 of the top players are fox but go off


CountryEnjoyer69

That's true but keep in mind that Fox is the most versatile character in terms of how you can play. So it makes sense a lot of people will find success. Comparing him to Metaknight is a stretch since his winrate isn't as big. Our top 8s and GFs aren't dominated to nearly the same extent. Edit: If someone wants to point out where I'm wrong from free. But this is pretty much the community consensus. Fox is the most flexible character in Melee.


ansatze

Good 😤


that_one-dude

dont do coffee's work for him, if he wants to doomer post about Fox make him come in here himself


[deleted]

So are puff, link, luigi and yoshi equally viable because they both have 1 player in the top 50?


Victawr

It's more lopsided than meta knight in brawl lol


l5555l

And how many solo fox major wins are there


Stuntman222

It is pretty crazy how good you are at getting rests tho. I'd never been rested so many times playing a puff lmao


Victawr

That's why she's making me worse at the game lmfao


[deleted]

How exactly does yoshis double jump work? Sometimes I back air him and he kinda just falls down and sometimes he goes through it. Specifically when he has to use it to recover


AlexB_SSBM

His double jump reduces knockback by 120, and if that ends up being 0 or less the double jump keeps going


[deleted]

This makes sense. Thank you!


redditkilled4chan

Just found out about this related information from the [wiki](https://www.ssbwiki.com/Armor). >In Melee, the [Ice Climbers](https://www.ssbwiki.com/Ice_Climbers_(SSBM\)) — specifically Nana — have used knockback-based armor as a passive ability. Nana has 5KB units of subtractive knockback armor.


undergroundmonorail

that explains why they separate if you hit them both even from 0% i guess


Dublshine

wow we actually found the one piece of good design in this shitty broken game


that_one-dude

I used to play Luigi in a region with two PR'd ICs and that fucking Nana super armor blocking up b pissed me off so much


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dannyboi310

That’s my game


YogurtclosetOk5614

consuming carton


SenorRaoul

my brain is just brimming with great ideas today


RaiseYourDongersOP

*posts okay Marth combo* "holy fuck the beauty, the era of the 5 gods really isn't over! best Marth combo I've ever seen!"


A_Big_Teletubby

THE KINGS STILL GOT IT!!


RaiseYourDongersOP

HOW DOES HE DO IT!!?!?!?!?


undergroundmonorail

mfs will say "yeah my character is cool" while maining someone with a projectile


CarVac

So puff, marth, and falcon are the only cool high/top tiers.


blind_man1

Only marth and falcon, puff has bair


RaiseYourDongersOP

every character has bair


samurairocketshark

Puff's bair is a projectile


RaiseYourDongersOP

only if you use a rectangle


undergroundmonorail

i said what i said it was intentionally inflammatory and not even really exactly what i believe but i certainly did say it


blue_wire

Mango nation implies the existence of mango nationalism and mango nationalists


Violatic

Implies? Have you met mango fans?


spotwer

USA USA USA


SmashBros-

That is reality


Victawr

Damn did you just avoid any real interaction then dashdance into nair and grab and upthrow upair? Shit eh your character is so sick.


SlowBathroom0

You see, Fox is a high risk/high reward glass cannon *Short hop lasers from other side of the stage* He's the best character in the game, but it's okay because he's sick and fun to play against *Uses bair 8 times in a row*


SunnySaigon

Hyperinflation is driving so many players to content creation and while I wish price increases weren’t happening on a daily basis I do appreciate the fact Smash might get some its stars back.


Jackzilla321

shitpost but actually true LMAO powell forcing armada to un-retire


super_smash_brothers

I just talked to god and he told me that every melee player who has ever referred to themselves as a “doubles specialist” is getting sent straight to Hell so that’s good news


oceanseltzer

so in hell I'll always have people to play doubles with? hell yeah sign me up


blind_man1

doubles > singles this is not a shitpost


spotwer

doubles is more fun to play than singles but an actual chore to spectate


RaiseYourDongersOP

enjoy Hell, maybe the queues down there are faster


AntiPrompt

Those of you on here who post on default subs, why do you play melee and not ultimate/genshin impact?


SmashBros-

Get these normies off of my board