EVO 2018 Thread (Aug 3rd-Aug 5th)

[GhaudePhaede010]

mZuzek said:

GhaudePhaede010 said:

Did you even read my next sentence?

Yes I did, and I can appreciate where you're coming from, but it's true. If you've played competitive Smash, you know. I know I already missed out on a national top 8 on a day I was playing amazing because I got 0-to-death'd twice in under a minute... and yes, I know many characters can do that, in fact it's usually called good play, but with Bayonetta it's not the same. Hers is a true combo which she can do OUT OF SHIELD. It's just stupid.

Try to name me one matchup she loses, for example. Just one. Yeah, there isn't one, right? So you can't complain about people's complaints, a character with no losing matchups in a 58 character game is just undeniably broken. She's been winning majors for a long time now, won Evo 2017 and 2018, and is basically guaranteed to have at least a 3/8 presence in every Smash 4 top 8. What's worse, more often than not the players who do get to top 8 as Bayonetta are different between each tournament, which suggests that it's not so much a certain player or two being truly great, but rather just dudes getting their witch times and 0-to-deaths right on the day.

I was a competitive Smash player during the whole of Brawl. It was, "ban MK" well, until 9B came along and everyone started hating Ice Climbers. This mentality is one that is not just with Bayonetta. I watched it happen with Dedede (Brawl), Snake, Metaknight, Ice Climbers (seriously, watch the 9B set with Mew2King or his set with Nario and look in the comment section... Fuck the fact that 9B dominated Japan in Brawl using 6 different characters for nearly two full years) and into Smash 4 with Diddy and now Bayonetta.

 

And do not start me on other fighting games like Street Fighter where they complain about characters but even worse, weird stuff like 6 frames of button delay (even though it is balanced because EVERYONE has the same button delay). People will complain when they know they cannot win. Lets denounce the person's triumph by saying they used a bad character.