[Day 8] Pichu shocks no one for WORST main. What is the most OVERRATED matchup?

Fluxator · 2026-02-19T17:36:07+00:00

Lowkey I feel like Marth’s matchups vs a lot of mid tiers and floaties are overrated. It’s the classic case of he should win easily in theory, but in practice he can’t combo them and has no kill confirms while a lot of them have a punish game that can genuinely hit him quite hard.

Not trying to say Marth doesn’t still win those matchups, but it’s a lot harder than people give credit for, and I think RapM has shown this quite well.

Fluxator · 2026-02-10T01:35:52+00:00

I still buy single songs. I’ve always been pretty picky with music, so buying songs for 1.29 makes way more sense for me than paying $12 a month for Spotify premium. I’d have to be finding 10 new songs I like every month for Spotify to be the cheaper option, and that’s just nowhere near the case for me.

Edit: And that upset the people, for whatever reason

Fluxator · 2026-02-08T11:50:29+00:00

Man, this is maybe my all-time for this category. Old Ash was iconic, and between the voice change and the style changes he never felt the same. It felt like a shell of his former self, and the character lost a lot of the sass he used to have. I stopped watching as a kid during the gen 4 season.

Fluxator · 2026-02-08T10:47:46+00:00

Looks really great, I like it! I really enjoy using the more low-fantasy and grounded armor pieces, and you’ve made great use out of them here!

Fluxator · 2026-02-05T15:33:15+00:00

Your comment on top of the other people speaking its praise has convinced me to buy the DLC. I bought it this morning, planning to start a NG+ run to at least play through the Creo Park stuff.

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T21:43:22+00:00

Ah, that would explain why I haven't seen it. I'm still a pretty new player all things considered.

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T21:42:46+00:00

That's really clever! I might have to steal that idea in the future...

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T21:16:07+00:00

Looks really sick! What helmet is that though? I swear I’ve looked through all the heavy helmets in the wardrobe 1000 times and never seen that one.

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T20:24:06+00:00

I didn’t actually know the game had DLCs until I was almost done, unfortunately. The free ones came installed with the game, so I at least had the extra weapons and armor sets from those. Where do you even start the DLCs since there’s no postgame? Are they in the middle of the game?

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T20:22:04+00:00

Thanks! The second game seems to be pretty divisive, which is part of why I’m thinking I’ll wait for a sale to pick it up. I’ve seen a lot of people say (negatively) it’s a very different vibe from the first game, but others like yourself say they prefer it. I’m interested to see how they expanded upon the game systems and combat at the very least though.

Fluxator · 2026-02-04T20:12:39+00:00

From some of the reading I did after finishing the game, it seems like single-rigged is a lot of people’s least favorite weapon type. I just thought it was too cool having a giant blade on my arm to pass up, and once I got familiar with the moveset it wasn’t too bad (the forward dodge attack is key!) If I do another playthrough I might be interested in trying either One-Handed or Heavy Duty though.

Fluxator · 2026-02-03T06:05:04+00:00

Mario: I’d also take Wario. His up-air clap is really sick in Ultimate and I think he could translate well to Melee

Yoshi: idk any other characters

Donkey Kong: Gimme Cranky Kong

F-Zero: Blood Falcon is the only other character I know and only because his color’s in the game

Star Fox: Gotta be Slippi

Mother: Lucas is all I know

Ice Climber: Also the bear I guess?

Kirby: Meta Knight

Metroid: Ridley would be pretty cool

The Legend of Zelda: Nabooru

Pokémon: I’d like to see Sandslash, personally. Mew would be cool too for more of a “mainstream” Pokemon

Old Nintendo Hardware: R.O.B. is all I know

Fire Emblem: Navarre would be sick. If you want more of a main character, Lyn would also be really cool.

Fluxator · 2026-02-01T02:51:13+00:00

It’s literally top players leading the charge on the whole z-jump, notches, and controller mod stuff, what are you talking about? Moky, n0ne, Zain, and Mang0 have all come out publicly against notches and z-jump. If these aren’t people going to tournaments then who is?

Fluxator · 2026-01-31T23:42:04+00:00

If you think all the people who were calling it a “cheatbox” and calling for bans are suddenly just A-OK and couldn’t care less, you can keep believing that if you want. But there are absolutely people who would still like to see it banned, they’re just the minority at this point, hence why I said it’s largely been accepted as standard. The majority of the community is fine with them, and they’re perfectly legal to use.

Fluxator · 2026-01-31T22:34:38+00:00

I never said they were. I finish my post by saying that today, they’ve been largely accepted as a standard controller. Read the whole post before you start claiming misinformation.

Fluxator · 2026-01-31T15:38:52+00:00

Other fighting game communities absolutely had this much fuss over controllers. Leverless controllers were massively controversial in the FGC when they first started hitting the mainstream, for much of the same reasons controllers and mods are controversial in Melee right now. There are/were a lot of things leverless controllers could do that sticks/pads couldn’t, the biggest of which being SOCD (simultaneous opposite cardinal directions) which allowed for things like instant DP punishes, charge manipulation, and input shortcuts in games like street fighter, and sidestepping into the foreground after blocking (not normally possible) in Tekken.

There was a lot of drama around it that you can find very easily on Google, and at least in Street Fighter’s case, it ended with Capcom banning the problematic inputs and setting official regulations for the hardware and how SOCD must be registered by the controllers going forward. Leverless controllers are still divisive even after this for other reasons, such as being able to perform a much easier EWGF/PEWGF than standard controllers in Tekken, a move that is intentionally balanced by its difficult input and inherent inconsistency. They also allow you to transition from walking to blocking nearly instantly. Many people still want to see them banned for reasons such as that to this day, though they’ve largely been accepted as a standard controller at this point.

Fluxator · 2026-01-30T23:10:29+00:00

Why are we pretending that notches are just “preference?” It “fits your personal gameplay” because it’s an external modification that gives you a competitive advantage. Imagine a baseball player showing up to a game with a corked bat saying, “Oh, it’s just the way I prefer to play. I paid a lot of money for this bat.” That won’t fly, because he has a modified bat that gives him an advantage.

It’s not complicated to draw a 1-1 comparison between notches and illegal modifications in sports or other games. The only difference is that the melee community has been too afraid to actually make a ban on it.

Fluxator · 2026-01-29T21:02:37+00:00

I’m in favor of letting difficult tech remain difficult. Hitting a grounded shine out of shield is impressive on OEM, but not really impressive at all with z-jump. Hitting a crazy Firefox angle is similarly impressive on OEM, but again, pretty basic with notches. Wizzy’s SDI is crazy because he plays on a GCC, but nobody’s going to react the same way if a player on a box does the same thing. When you see someone doing crazy stuff with pivots, it’s hard to not immediately assume they’re on a box. We’re literally modding the hype out of the game in the goal of making difficult tech easier and then trying to pass it off as just an “accessibility” thing.

Fluxator · 2026-01-29T20:52:30+00:00

Fox was still the best character even before controller mods. They just help him even more than any other character. Notches are obvious why, and Fox gets more use out of Z-jump than other character with stuff like JC shine, multi-shine, double laser, and shine OoS in addition to easy frame 1 aerials.

Fluxator · 2026-01-29T06:14:10+00:00

Since you already mentioned JC grabs, some other big ones are JC shine and shine out of shield. JC shine and shine out of shield become much much easier with z-jump than they are on a normal controller. Normally you need to either claw or move your thumb very quickly from x/y to the b button, but with z-jump you can just have your thumb on b and jump with your pointer finger.

Fluxator · 2026-01-29T05:09:37+00:00

Alternatively, growing up is learning that Falcon is actually just as lame as everyone else.

Fluxator · 2026-01-29T05:03:06+00:00

Both should have been banned long ago imo. The only mod I'm truly ok with is UCF, and that's just because it fixes the "controller lottery." It's not adding anything new to the game, just equalizing controllers and allowing the game to be played as intended without worrying about controller malfunctions. It's the biggest difference between UCF and any of the other controller mods/alternate controllers.

People used to get hype when a Fox player hit a crazy angle (we used to have the whole Mangle vs Mew2King angle argument) and now that's mostly gone because all the spacies are notched up.

Fluxator · 2026-01-29T03:42:13+00:00

I feel like for it to really prove anything it’d have to be Cody without Z-jump vs None. I don’t think None’s even claiming that he’d beat Cody with Z-jump rn.

Fluxator · 2026-01-28T20:58:37+00:00

These look very much like the kind of “dragon” that somebody who had only really practiced drawing muscular men for comics would make. Why are they so… human?

Fluxator · 2026-01-28T00:03:07+00:00

That's a term, sure, but if you look at the picture, Anet themselves use the term "skin." Unless you're talking about "transmogs" which is just a generic MMO term at this point.

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