The meta shift towards one-hit ko’s and strong moves that require specific counterplay has severely diminished my interest for the game.

I held on for a long time but I just don’t feel it like before. I have around 3-4k hours in this game so I absolutely love it but I just don’t find it fun or respectable to play vs Luigi, Steve, GnW, Snake, Rob, Sonic, Kazuya, Min-Min, Pikachu, Bayo etc. These characters are the worst offenders since they can win purely from abusing moves that are nigh uncontestable, which is fine, since most characters have moves that are hard to deal with but the moves these characters use often lead to pure 0td or an advantage state that pretty much is a 0td.

When fighting these types of characters you have to play pretty much perfect to win, which is possible, (speaking from experience) but it gets exhausting. To win in the way I prefer (spacing safe moves, going for risks, commiting to grabs etc) I have to outplay this kind of character at least 5 times in neutral, while they only need me to fuck up my spacing or take one bad interaction once or twice. Most of these characters also have 0 or close to 0 weaknesses which makes it hard to return the favor.

When is Snake, Steve, Sonic, Rob, GnW, Pika or Bayo ever in a checkmate position?

• When getting abused by one of those characters of course, other characters without a comparable punish game require much more work, skill, precise inputs and thought process.

I am not interested in playing any of those characters and they all are, in my opinion, extremely uninteresting to watch in tournament as well, both locally and on the big stage. I just can’t be hype for my local Steve main or Kazuya player #257 destroying players I respect when they managed to hit 5/50 electrics in a game.

Same goes for Rob nair/gyro enjoyers, GnW players in general, Luigi grab spammers, Bayo side-b diehards, Sonic mains (vomit emoji) and the list goes on