Unlocked ROB, last of them all. Now i need to vet my new mains. First i trained with the characters i was totally unfamiliar with (Megaman and Villager i knew from the demo, Greninja, Palutena, and Little Mac i tested out in Classic Mode, which still left me a good handful of characters i was totally unfamiliar with, deliberately avoiding the learning curve characters like Shulk or Dog)

The way All Star mode works now, i think it would be a good way to vet first-round eliminations. I was going to use Unlimited Smash, but the way the multi-man teams work, certain moves from certain characters are good to sweep them up, regardless of how skilled you are otherwise. With All Star they seem to have merely toyed with the handicap instead of making them Multi-Men-esque as they did before. So i can do a Hard Mode All Star run and see how far i get and what sort of score i can rack up before I am eliminated. Only round one losses will get a mulligan (higher likelihood of it being a mere stupid mistake on my part).

That will eliminate 25 of the 50. Second i'll drop it down to the top 10 with a series of CPU Smash battles per character, with the final score added up across three matches, culling a further 15 characters.

With the top 10, i go online to test each against the real deal, and bring it down to the top 5

I'm assuming for now that Kirby and Game and Watch will make it. They were the only two who held over from Melee to Brawl, and Kirby is still a natural for me, and with a bit more practice i've already adjusted to the minor edits from Game and Watch. Ike seems like he might hold over as well, but i very much doubt Dedede will stay.

Cruel Smash is indeed cruel, managed to kill 5 and could have got more but I let my guard down. Used buster to power up Shulk's counter and chained them.

I just did the thinking on my plan and realized that if i play at only about an hour a day, it's going to take me something like 2-3 weeks to run this vetting process.

But then again, it's time i won't need to spend on the process when the main attraction comes out.

Great, Palutena is my main, she is awsome, I mean, in local play....

Am I the only one pissed that you can't use custom palutena moves online?

I understand about the others characters, but she should be an exception, it really kills her concept.

you can with friends :0

Thanks tbone, I didn't know that, I just played online against anyone, I have no tried with friends yet. Less bad.

yeap, i like customizatins, just not the equipment (added effects). Having 12 moves to choose from is awesome. Palutena i like her lighweight custom move :)

I don't care much about the lack of customization, I found fun but it's not primordial.. But for Palutena it really affects my play style.

I use her with Heavenly Light for space control, and some ledge damage.

Reflect barrier against Projectile types or Super Speed against Swordmans...

Warp is very effective to avoid being smashed.

And Counter, that really saves a lot against Little Mac, Falcon and Bowser.

P.S: I am online for the next two hours, if anyone wants to play.

Hoping to be able to get the game this weekend, played a bit of friends copy some of these stages, especially F-Zero

Link 110
DK 98
Marth 94
Peach 93
Diddy 92
Mario 90
Luigi 90
Pit 84
Palutena 81
Fox 72
Falco 50

My rankings so far for 3-minute smash (all star was taking WAY too long as a first-round vetting process. It's easier than i thought and I assumed i would be dying around the 3rd or fourth round in hard mode, not beating it with historical non-mains Mario and Donkey Kong).

Falco i died with in 3-minute smash, which is a shame because i was doing better with him, but the ruling stands