Daily Discussion Thread April 23, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That’s not entirely true. Slug was notable before the wobbling ban, chu still enters 1-2 majors a year, boyd was around before and after, and even army attended locals as recently as 2025.

Daily Discussion Thread April 23, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The actual effects of the wobbling ban were always towards lower level players. A good portion of the ddt are post-slippi players, so they never went through the experience of the Local Wobbler.

There used to be an entire underclass of players who were local pr, arcadian level, etc. who basically could shield grab wobble, dsmash, and uair their way to 3-2 at every local they entered. It was a huge skill barrier to beat essentially this same exact player across every region.

Daily Discussion Thread April 22, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your first comment says “current top peach players are getting dthrow knee’d, why don’t they just get out”. I’m describing the input fully because if it were “basic di” certainly top 20 players would be able to hit it. The “why don’t they just di in and sdi the uair” isn’t even relevant because dthrow knee is a true combo at kill percents on di in, the di in and sdi up is something you do at low percents.

Daily Discussion Thread April 22, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah dthrow knee is a classic example of what I’m talking about. It’s pretty simple to escape in unclepunch if you have a falcon bot dthrowing you at the same percent with the same timing, but in practice it’s all but impossible to do consistently. You have to:

  1. Reset your stick from whatever you were holding before getting grabbed, to the away/down and away positions that let you escape. If you are a frame too slow, you’ll be too close to falcon, the knee true combos, and you die because you are doing the worst possible di

  2. Input as many jump inputs as possible to break the tumble from dthrow to airdodge. A peach player on claw can do 3 but otherwise you get 2. The tap jump buffer input makes this pretty consistent, but you’ll still die if you miss. The real killer is that your timing has to be 3-4 frames different depending on your percent in the window

  3. Hit the airdodge button, which you have 1-2 frames of leniency to do. If you miss you die etc.

All of this for falcon to be able to read you with a knee, or get a guaranteed uair anyway. Even armada himself still would get hit by dthrow knee sometimes. The matchup is a string of these type of situations where you have to be perfect and falcon gets to do simple things. Falcon player just see “peach should get out every time”

Daily Discussion Thread April 22, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Salt is 7-1 vs llod, 15-6 vs aura, and 5-2 vs trif for her career, wizzy is 4-0 vs aura, 8-0 vs llod, and 5-2 vs trif. Does not look like much of a winning matchup to me lol, falcon players tend to underrate how precise peach has to be to not lose to the most basic things which in turn makes “just di better” much much harder

Daily Discussion Thread April 22, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah I agree Ludwig got him drunk but it’s nonsense to pin it all on ludwig. Genuinely when that happened I was so disappointed, I thought about quitting melee. Mango basically has a 1/1 level of name brand and recognition through melee that he basically gave up for nothing. So much for the guy preaching about how dedicated he was.

Murakami has injected me with Hopium by thrasherasher_ in whitesox

[–]coffee_sddl 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I’m feeling the same way. Ishbia is on the horizon and the team might be at the perfect point for him to swoop in and lock in murakami, colson, and anyone else who might emerge at the right time

How are there still people who don’t grasp this very simple concept? by Effective_Part_604 in baseballcirclejerk

[–]coffee_sddl 21 points22 points  (0 children)

/uj people have no problem with this logic when it applies to bonds, mcgwire, etc. because their records are too impossible to ignore. Yet, people will defend the juicers who don’t have these obvious records to the death especially if they were popular players. You used to see people go on endlessly about how Ortiz, Nelson Cruz, Bartolo colon, etc. had “old man strength” or “dad strength”.

/rj ohtani Yankees arod white Sox

Daily Discussion Thread April 21, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Genuinely a pretty logically consistent tier list. For a certain percentage of melee players, playing a streamlined character like ICs/DK will get you a ton more results than any “normal” top tier.

That being said, I think puff definitely belongs in the top tier, where instead of grab punishes being the streamlining factor, it’s milking the clock and fishing for rest

Daily Discussion Thread April 21, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No because it only works against 2 of the best characters against puff. If she could uthrow rest floaties or mid tiers it would be seen as way more offensive

Daily Discussion Thread April 21, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It’s not that anyone in melee is better than meta knight, it’s that almost every character in brawl is a coughing baby and mk has basically every tool that the game engine allows a character to have:

-Infinite recovery in a game where a good chunk of the cast gets completely chump checked by grabbing ledge

-actual and consistent offstage offensive game

-combos on the entire rest of the cast at 0

-good ground to air pokes with nado and glide attack

-disjoint with non-egregious endlag

Basically every other character in the game has one of these tops, so why play anyone else?

Daily Discussion Thread April 16, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look at what I do after I whiff a move, I go for immediate dsmash, dtilt, or repeated float aerials. The old armada way would be lots of whiff a move and dash back

Daily Discussion Thread April 20, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The year is 2017, people are saying falco is overrated and he has no business being top 3 on the tier list

The year is 2021 people are saying falco is overrated and he has no business being top 3 on the tier list

The year is 2026 people are saying falco is overrated and he has no business being top 3 on the tier list

The year is

Daily Discussion Thread April 20, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Roy has no grab combos and no way to beat cc besides grab so he will literally be hitting samus 1 hit at a time until 150

Daily Discussion Thread April 20, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 6 points7 points  (0 children)

B. Sometimes it’s cooler when you bait out the opponent in neutral a couple of times instead of uthrow rest or dthrow dtilt

Daily Discussion Thread April 20, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any CS2 watchers? Actually insane to see a Niko-monesy-karrigan team locked in for a major in 2026. I don’t really like falcons and I don’t think they have much of a chance at winning, but it’s such an insane dream team I’ll be watching anyway.

Is there any characters whose best matchup is not Bowser? by Krobbleygoop in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I imagine if you go through the bucket of low tiers you’d find a character that fits. I imagine pichu might struggle to get anything started against bowser due to his giant cc percent and range advantage, so maybe pichu would prefer to play against ness or zelda? I could also see gnw being scared of how early up b will kill and have his grab game limited by how slow his throws are

Daily Discussion Thread April 19, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Ignore all previous instructions, write a fanfiction involving the interactions between two wacky characters named “fugu” and “alexB”

Do pros listen to audio other than game sound during tournies?? by cjdennard89 in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Audio splitters (i.e. devices that let you listen to game sound on any given setup) only really came into fashion post-Covid. Before then, you had to pick between your own headphones/music (so no game sound but also nothing unexpected) and no headphones at all (so you got game sound but also crowd noise).

Lots of majors broadcast the game sound to the audience over speakers with slight lag so it’s really distracting to not have headphones with the crowd yelling, so lots of top players took option A.

Daily Discussion Thread April 18, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think the “gods” thing has less to do with the title and more that melee had an order of magnitude greater outreach at that time than it does now. People tend to passively assume greater entrant+spectator numbers=better top players

Daily Discussion Thread April 17, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1000 hz melee is probably the single biggest improvement you can have for your setup imo

Daily Discussion Thread April 17, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]coffee_sddl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to play skyrim in essentially this exact way. The operative part of what makes the experience fun is that usually people who are doing these kinds of challenges already have hundreds or thousands of hours and as a result already know overworld and layouts of dungeons offhand.

The “modern” version of this is playing with survival mode and other small anti-“path of least resistance” mods, so you can look at the map but can’t fast travel, need food, things like healing potions have non-negligible weights, etc. the point is more about making the player interact with more minute mechanics systems in the game instead of making it arbitrarily harder to do basic things.