Dollars said:
The last time I checked the numbers, Metaknights won over 40% of competitive Brawl tournies. In a game with 35 characters, having one that dominates that badly is ban worthy.
Yeah but those players are simply going to move to the next “highest tier” character and you’re just going to have a repeat of the same thing. Those metaknight players are going to be looking for new “balance issues” to take advantage of and they’re going to find one.
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The problem isn’t that the characters are “broken” so much as the mindset that to be “the best” you have to take advantage of that. Even if Nintendo had patched and “fixed” meta knight, those people would have moved to another player. It would become a constant struggle to keep the game “balanced” and once that happens you can forget the SSB series because it’ll be too high maintenance for them to bother with.
Since the original SSB, some characters have been vastly superior to others. A good Fox or Pikachu player could destroy any other character, often regardless of the other character’s skill. We used to test this crap all the time back in middle school. It’s just the nature of the series and it isn’t going to change. If you can’t cope with that there are plenty of other fighters, maybe you should pick one and stop whining.
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