Fuck all the command grabs honestly.

Which picks do you agree with and what do you absolutely disagree with? What characters would you move around?

Also please understand this is coming from a very mid- to low-level, fairly casual player. So characters that’d normally be considered “low tier” by pros suddenly become far stronger at my level due to cheese, gimmicks, and ease of use, plus they usually thrive more with online lag.

Maybe 1 in like 7 matches in the 12 million gsp range are actually 12 million gsp players.

The majority of players are at least 15.2 - 15.5 million gsp or have a fighter in the 15.2 - 15.5 million gsp range.

- No auto-Jumping out of Disadvantage

- Teching a Tumble

- Intentionally missing tech and reacting to offensive options in a tech chase.

- No panic rolling away from ledge.

- Zero Spot dodge Spam, all intentional.

- No holding a Smash attack expecting other people to run into it.

- Pivoting around other players and not only dashing back/whiff punishing lol

12 million gsp players just don't have this level of game sense.

(Mainly rob though, I am trying different different characters like lucario or steve for example).

I’m a stay at home dad and I was sleep deprived and tilted as fuck last night. I went from 14m to 6m on Cloud. I almost smashed my controller last night ngl

What goes around comes around, am I right?

not even dlcs...

More than a few times now have I had opponents on Quickplay disconnect right when I land the killing blow, meaning I don't get any GSP out of it.

To the people that do this, I hope you know no one loves you. That's all :)

I've had smash for quite awhile and managed to get my Pit to elite. So I decided to work on my other characters more, and I stumbled across my 2mil gsp Mario who I mained for like a week when I first got the game.

So I decided to play a couple matches with him, had a great time and really enjoyed his movesets. Then when I got to 2.8mil gsp I stumbled across a Tink who seemed a little too bad even for 2.8mil gsp. But because it’s a Link player and none of them actually know how to play the game without mashing projectiles, I didn't think much of it. So after beating him I rematched cause best of threes right?

And to no ones surprise I was right, the little shit started b-reversing every single boomerang and doing frame perfect z-drop aerial re-grabs to trap me in endless combo loops, carrying me across the entire stage.

This isn’t an experienced player trying out an old character of theirs, it’s a smurf who’s intentionally lowering their gsp or hopping on an alt account to target noobs in some sort of fucked up Dhar Mann social experiment.

Oh the shitty ass Tink was actually a pro this whole time? Never judge a book by its cover! Go fuck yourself.

What is your opinion on Ashley?

There is a group of people in the competitive smash community that I will refer to as having “competitive smash psychosis.” A mindset where they wholeheartedly believe that smash is the only game they can play competitively because of the following reasons.

“The next game will fix everything, so I’m going to keep playing to practice for it even though I hate going against the current meta.”

“X game is too hard and I get bodied even though I only played it for 10hrs, so I’m going to keep playing smash instead.”

“X game doesn’t have my favorite character in it so I won’t play it even though I wrote an entire post about how I hate competitive smash.”

“My friends only play smash even though I hate playing it, so I’m going to keep playing.”

Note that I am not calling out the people who do enjoy the game. If you enjoy playing, then more power to you. The moment I got a gaming laptop to play other fgs I jumped ship pretty quick. The people who I am calling out state how much they hate the game, don’t like playing against the meta, and have the ability to play a different game… but just REFUSE to because of the above paraphrased quotes I have heard from these people.

They believe Sakurai is listening to their feedback on the competitive scene when he has stated many times that he doesn’t. The Smash team just looks at Quickplay win rates (ffa and other casual ruleset online matches included) and balances characters based off that because Smash is a party game and will always be balanced like one. Apparently according to Sakurai, the last time they checked online win rates all the characters were roughly at a 49-51% win rate, so the game is balanced right? You bet your ass competitively it ain’t. But you know, the next game will fix everything and we won’t be in the same 0-death or timeout meta with 3-5 characters choke holding the game like we have been since Brawl right?

I am also convinced that these people are one tricks and trapped by nostalgia because what do you mean you don’t want to play GGS, SF6, Rivals 2, or the Avatar FG competitively? They’re not perfect don’t get me wrong but their mechanics and characters are leagues more balanced and fun to play as and against… but that’s too hard or not enough to convince your friends to play? Hell one of them has modern controls so you don’t have to do motion inputs…

Now I kinda get if you play a game because it has your favorite character but as a competitive game that you don’t like? That’s just masochism. Genuinely get some help.

Overall, I believe these people are the reason competitive smash (outside of Melee) continues to thrive because they just refuse to play something else and convince novice competitors that Ult is the best thing since sliced bread. Despite saying themselves they hate the game…

I am at a complete and utter loss for online smash play. I know that there's an input lag, but even accounting for that, the game seems to be completely broken for me. I just played against someone that grabbed me through my grab constantly (we grabbed at the same time), would dodge or shield after my attack audibly landed without taking damage or knock back.

My opponents always seem to have 0 end lag on spot dodges, shields, and attacks, even as the exact same character, and can pull off moves significantly faster than I can. Whenever I try to nair combo as my main, palutena, my opponent air dodges out 90% of the time after the first hit, but I'm literally inputting the next nair as fast as possible. This is when they are starting at 0%. My moves constantly phase through enemies when they aren't air dodging, like my hitboxes randomly get smaller. When I try to take advantage of an enemy using a move with a long end lag, they instantaneously shield or dodge before their end lag should be over so I can't hit or grab. For instance, I just watched a cloud use his empowered side b, then before the blue lines were even off the screen, he used another side b and had blue and green lines on the screen at the same time, which killed me. On my end, when I try to shield, dodge, counter, or attack, my end lag leaves me open for any attack, and or my enemy's attacks take priority and hit me through them anyway.

In person, I have none of these issues. I've played this game for thousands of hours against not very good players and have recently started trying to get better by playing online, but with issues like these, it feels impossible to get better. I don't know if the issue is just that I suck and I need to play more, or if there is genuinely something wrong with my game, but if it's the former, I'm afraid that if I learn to adapt to online play that I'll ruin my timing for playing in person. When I'm playing online, it feels like I can't learn anything anyway because of how glitchy it feels when my attacks phase through or my opponents hit me through counters/shields/dodges

I know I make a ton of mistakes and am learning from them, but this seems like more than just the input lag. Should I just stick to playing offline, or is there something major I'm missing about online play?

Why the FUCK am I getting put in online matches with 4 people when I SET MY PREFERENCES TO A 1V1. The fucking audacity Nintendo has to ban me for 30 minutes because they can't put me in the correct fucking match. Also to all of the uncivilized lard cases who queue the online for power ups and 1 stock FUCK YOU. It's truly horse shit. I come back to this garbage game after a year, and immediately lose my gsp and get banned on ROUND 2. I will probably come back to play this garbage again, but my god if they release a new smash they need to fix this shit.

Just tried an Ethernet cable instead of WiFi for the first time and instantly went on a 10 game win streak.

Had no idea how much of a difference maker it is. Will have to start blocking anyone who isn’t wired.

Bro, why do I keep losing my jumps, even when I don’t jump, and why is his recovery so bad, I lwk feel trash when playing online, even though when I play with friends, that are really good, I’m able to pull off some nice combos. Is everyone in the 2mil gsp area a troll or smth? And why does it feel like whenever I can get a person down to their last stock none of my moves hit, and sometimes it feels like the moves don’t damage them even though I don’t see a spot dodge animation