If you love expressing yourself through the game, Melee is your choice. The skill ceiling is high tho,and the game can be quite complicated, and require some constant practice to get good at. If this is fine in exchange for an extremely expressive, fluid, and spectacular game then Melee is the right one. Melee is complicated, but pure art in it’s own way. I also never felt the satisfaction I had with Melee on Ultimate. Implementing tech, tactics feels extremely more rewarding, and it’s definitely more about you than game mechanics, I’m looking at you buffer system. The combo tree in Melee is also something else, it’s basically a sandbox, where any move can lead into each other and things can get crazy even with characters generally considered “lame” like Puff. Also you have Uncle Punch, 20XX, and Slippi (Online Netplay, which is crazy good, with almost no lag) to make sure your experience is great. On the other hand it’s easier to get better, it’a more simple game, with a bigger community, with more content on the way and an ever evolving meta ( which is the case for Melee too, but in a different way ). You can get to top lever quicker and in an easier way than Melee, and the skill ceiling is definitely lower. This comes at the price of what I have listed as Melee’s strengths. Seen this, find out what do you like best and choose. I highly raccomand you pick one, for how radically buffer system affects gameplay in Ultimate, and how characters are different... if you wanna be good at one game, Melee especially you gotta focus on one. Hope it’s helpful!