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[Runa216]

mZuzek said:

padib said:
Am I going to have to buy a Switch and Smash just to kick all your asses?

It does seem like the only choice, yeah.

Runa216 said:

I played some online last night and got infuriated with players online. Any time it was a stock battle, the two other players would stay at opposite ends of the screen, I'd have to chase them down to make them engage, they'd gang up on me and fight me till I died and lost all my stock, then would basically run out the timer waiting for the other one to attack. I gave them 30 seconds. If they didn't engage and fight with honour, I'd just disconnect, ending their fight. 

Fuck them. Play the goddamn game, you cowards. 

This is the issue with free-for-all stock battles at a competitive level. The optimal strategy is to camp your opponents until there's only one left. I agree timed matches are best for when there are multiple people involved, but in terms of being competitively viable, it introduces a lot of other issues, mostly regarding the "randomness" of getting kills where only the very last hit matters. It works when you just wanna have fun, because if the optimal play is to get that last hit in, well, people will be trying to hit opponents at least once. So it's better than stock.

But yeah, multiple player matches are flawed in both stock and time modes, which is why there are no free-for-all tournaments. 1v1s or 2v2s are quite good competitively with stocks, but that's a wholly different dynamic, I get that. Either way, doing anything more than 1v1 online is just a bad choice, there's so much extra lag with each additional player.

Either way, are you going into Quickplay for online matchmaking? If you are, I'd suggest you stop doing that immediately and go for Battle Arenas instead. Quickplay is trash.

are there ways to go into battle arenas with people who aren't my friends? I always did quickplay because that's what I thought was best. 

Also, I wish I could chose Random. I'm always just playing for fun and If eel the balance is pretty good this time around so I love playing as everyone but Wario.