General "Smash" Discussions

Not into competitive melee due to the fact that you have to be pro or you're gonna fail.

This is what kinda pushed me away as well. It's more so a "You have to be a master of SHFFL or you're boned" thing and I was only semi-decent with WDing let alone SHFFLing lol

This is what kinda pushed me away as well. It's more so a "You have to be a master of SHFFL or you're boned" thing and I was only semi-decent with WDing let alone SHFFLing lol

Agreed, while WD is really just getting used to using it (at least it was for me), SHFFL's timing I just couldn't master. And the ground lag pretty much destroys you, then...

Call me immature, but I giggled slightly when they first called him PP.

Not into competitive melee due to the fact that you have to be pro or you're gonna fail. I do play semi-competitive brawl with friends, though. I could probably hold my own in a lower level tournament. Lucas main, his techs with PK Fire crack me up and he's really fun to play.

You don't have to be Pro level at all, it depends on whether you have friends that plays the same game or not. Most of my IRL friends plays it competitively, so I eventually did. I play against casuals too, and I actually go easy unless they want me to get serious. If you plan on going to tourneys though, then yes, you'd have to play quite a lot..

@Seanny: Yeah, intense sh`it is intense. I was paying close attention to details for the majority of the time. PP knows how to play dat mindgaem.

What happened to the old smash thread haha

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Non-TAS

I just watched this now. I'm shocked that it's non-TAS, because holy sh`it, the speed he's going at is amazing. I've seen some Lovage videos of him doing some nice tricks, but it didn't even seem anywhere near as fast as this. Wooow.. ._. Mind. Blown. Guy must have near robotic hands.

After a while, watching the same overused top-tier chars battling it out gets boring. I gave up ZSS and picked up Zelda. Love playing Zelda so much <3

As for Melee, my friend has had my copy for quite a while... years probably lol. Too bad I have no competitive blood in me

SHFFL is so easy compared to WD, I'm inclined to believe that people who talk about terms like this are scrubs trying to pretend they know pomegranate. The most recent thing I've followed about Smash is MLG dropping Brawl and the Finals scandal before the National Championship. That was a good laugh.

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Bumping this thread up. To those that plays Smash regularly (regardless of whichever you prefer), how many hours on average do you play per week? Also, where do you play it at? I'm going to take a guess and assume that the majority of you guys play at home.

As for me, I used to play anywhere from 10-20 hrs / week with close friends, now I'm barely doing 3 hours / week. I also play at a public Cafe in my town. Haven't participated in any tourneys yet, I'd get destroyed anyways.

I still can't believe how you'd play 10-20 hours a week but still not go to a tourney despite having competitive level friends. (As well as being not technical LOL :>)

Used to be an hour-or-two a day. I stopped now mainly due to school. (And soku during the night with ken). I should probably start my routine practice again though... L>Dedicated melee friends. Once a month sucks, but I guess that's what happens when the entire scene here is in engineering -_-"

Call me immature, but I giggled slightly when they first called him PP.

Not into competitive melee due to the fact that you have to be pro or you're gonna fail. I do play semi-competitive brawl with friends, though. I could probably hold my own in a lower level tournament. Lucas main, his techs with PK Fire crack me up and he's really fun to play.

The only thing you need to play any competitive game and have fun is friends that play the same game and a mutual desire to use rules that make things as fair and non-random as possible.

Games that are old as dirt and that have very well-established metagames already are a bit harder to get into, though.

I still can't believe how you'd play 10-20 hours a week but still not go to a tourney despite having competitive level friends. (As well as being not technical LOL :>)

Used to be an hour-or-two a day. I stopped now mainly due to school. (And soku during the night with ken). I should probably start my routine practice again though... L>Dedicated melee friends. Once a month sucks, but I guess that's what happens when the entire scene here is in engineering -_-"

You'd probably love the people in my area then, someone's always looking for a ton of matches. They can play for hours on-end too, it's insane. I don't play really consistent though, it depends. I switch characters a lot when I play because I d`ick around a lot, same thing for Touhou too, I guess. Guess that's a noticeable habit, I switch around a lot, haha.

Still no tourneys on my end since most tourneys ends up being in Pittsburgh, and getting there always sucks balls.