Main: Snake
Alts: Pit, Zero Suit Samus, Link, Toon Link
Mario, Falcon, Pit
No main yet, I try to play everyone to get a feel for who works best with my playstyle.
I’ve shown proficiency with Mario, Ganondorf, Zelda/Shiek, Falco, Falcon, Pikachu, and Ness. I’m thinking of just choosing a main for a bit, then switching to a different character to keep things interesting.
Don’t much care for Pit or Meta though, just don’t like their playstyles.
After last night my main is Samus, followed by ROB and the Pokemon Trainer.
I’ve mained Ike for a while (Fire Emblem fan here) but I’ve also used Luigi, Meta Knight, and Sonic. I play Snake for kicks ( I really suck as him). I also sandbag with Falcon and Ganondorf. There’s this friend of mine who can’t beat me even when I’m using those two.
I’m still trying to find a reliable “main”, but Ike seems to be getting me the best results so far.
Snake is my main …because he’s the shit…link is probably my second best character and i feel he’s completely underrated but whatever… Fox and Marth also get Honorable mentions.
Ness has been my dude since 64.
I don’t play very competitively, so his mid-tierness is no big deal… I hear Lucas is basically a better version of Ness, but I play Ness for the nostalgia.
Metaknight
Updated List
Tier 1
Yoshi
Wario
Falco
Pikachu
Tier 2
Bowser
Peach
Pokemon Trainer
Snake
Tier 3
Samus
Wolf
Pit
Ike
Sonic
1st main: seriously…you guys know who it is
2nd: toss up between dedede and wolf
Characters I’ve dabbled in: Luigi, Snake, Link, Rob
God Tier:
Link, always have since SSB64 through Melee and now Brawl, white color
Other Tiers:
Zero Suit Samus, default
Zelda, default
Peach, default
Ike, Domon colors
Metaknight, white color
Toon Link, purple color
Fox.
I only have 2 mains right now, If dont do well with one, I choose the other, although I prefer speed over technical fighting.
- Fox
- Kirby
Characters im working on right now.
Marth, Pikachu, Sonic, and Ike
Main:
G&W
Diddy (blue)
2nd:
Wolf
Falco
Peach (white dress)
Dedede
3rd:
Zelda (white dress)
Fox
ROB
If you see a Toon Link GORE player thats my bro, thats all he picks!
I just set up my U-verse with my Wii, now I’m ready to play again.
:wonder:
- Olimar
- Marth
- Wolf
- Zamus
Olimar is usually the character i use in tournaments and the rest just for counter picks if i need to
Ganondorf
Zelda
Bowser
Snake
Olimar/Sonic
That order.
I like to hit hard. These characters supply that. Also it’s hard to not have fun with Olimar or Sonic.
Warning: Hidden Wall of Text May Cause Cervical Cancer.
I’m still having trouble deciding on a main, as per usual, and this is especially true since I’ve been quite frustrated with everything lately, including Brawl. (I really need to find a legitimate Gamecube controller to replace my old one since it acts subtly wonky.)
It doesn’t help that I don’t really like anyone for one or more reason and I’m still trying to get through most of the cast, even though there are already quite a few people who I don’t want to ever play. More on that later.
Since this is going to be a long, complaint-filled post, so I’m just going to put everything spoilers for the two people that care to read text death wall.
I need to take a hiatus from Brawl for a while
[details=Spoiler]Snake (my supposed main and best character)
- Excellent ground game. I need to Utilt more.
- His crawl actually fucking crawl under things, unlike some people’s. (*glares at Ivysaur and Bowser). It’s probably the lowest one in game (tied maybe with Squirtle and ZZS).
- Good projectiles for zoning (through fear). He reminds of more reasonable version of Testament that way.
- Quite heavy.
- Has an above average recovery.
- Quite a few disjointed hitboxes, including that none
- Quite a bit of power
- Great dash attacks and generally great options out of dash.
- Ghetto tech chase through down-throw.
- Average speed.
- A lot of his moves can hurt himself.
- C4 often can’t be used to help you recover due it being on the ground already and mines being able to be destroyed.
- Cypher becomes at best decidedly average against people with (decent) spiking moves.
- Big and weighty and thus easy to chain-throw. (So god damned easy.)
- Even though his aerials are powerful, they are slow in recovery and need precise spacing for half of them to fully come out. Bair and Uair, often though to be his best aerials, are as laggy as everything else.
I do have quite a lot of fun with Snake, but having never played any of this games makes me have no other “emotional connection to him”. On top of that, he’s easily a great character, which means lot and lots of mirror matches and the continuation of uncertainity that I have about whether I’m actually “good” or not. (I’m leaning towards “not” at this point.)
Moving on to the person who would likely be my current main if it wasn’t for an issue with him that bugs me to no end.
Luigi (a.k.a. Everyone’s Favorite Man in Fire Flower colors)
- Has perhaps the best most deadly special move in the game thanks to Jigglypuff’s Rest being nerfed.
- Has a great approach with Tornado, multi-dash attack, (hilarious looking) crawling and even Green Missile (against himself, at least, for reasons I will go into in cons).
- Has great jump height and probably the highest jump high (maybe tied with Falco) from a Footstool Jump, which aids his improved recovery that can now use Tornado, Green Missile, and FireJumpPunch to all get back to the ledge.
- Decent projectile with rapidity.
- Great aerials and significantly effective short hops that allow for any two aerials to chained together without there being landing lag.
- Sex kick (and a damned powerful one too).
- Great KOing power.
- Too much traction. Too much traction. Too. Much. Traction. I swear, this is single most annoying thing about any character in the damned game for me and it of course would have to be on the character that I would otherwise main. Fuck you too, universe. What I mean by this complaint is that from every attack, even shielded ones, Luigi slides more than everyone else. Everyone. This sliding applies to even his dashing, which is why he continues on for .5 seconds after you let go over the direction. It’s so goddamned annoying not being able to punish people for things that other people can, especially when Luigi has great KOing power. That and falling off of ledges that you’re literally 2 or more character spaces from.
- Sub-par throws.
- FireJumpPunch has more lag now.
- Green Missile still is random in its misfiring.
- Is horrible on walk-off stages due to the traction issue (grrr…) and the just aforementioned Green Missile issue.
- He seems kind of light, but maybe that’s because I play Snake and Ganondorf quite a bit and I’m sure that the traction thing shouldn’t be an issue in the air. (“Sure.”)
So, yeah, Luigi is easily my favorite character franchise-wise in this game after Sonic. But the unavoidable traction thing makes me a really sad panda. I mean, other cons you can usually make up for, but how the fuck I am suppose to overcome that outside of maybe using ground dodge more? Speaking of disappointments…
Pokemon Trainer (You thought I was going to say “Sonic”, didn’t you?)
- Three characters-in-one. Thus he theoritically has no bad-matchups as a whole, but…
- All three differ greatly in play styles and weight.
- Charizard has three jumps, gliding, and an Up+B with Super Armor.
- Ivysaur can rack up damage almost as easily as Charizard despite playing rather differently.
- Many of Squirtle’s moves have Super Armor.
- All Pokemon have at worst average aerials.
- Down+B takes forever at times and cannot be done in the air. Thus, it means you will either have to known when to “take the hit” (i.e. get KO’d) in a bad-matchup and who to start with or switch when you could be edge-guarding the opponent.
- All Pokemon only have 3 Special moves, with Squirtle easily having the worst set of all three.
- Ivysaur is the second most easily gimpable character in the game, second only to Olimar.
- Squirtle is relatively horrible at KOing people.
- Charizard is easy to chain throw.
- You’re forced to switch character after you get KO’d. You also cannot switch characters when you’re invincible, a time when it would be useful even if you though you would use your invincibility like Zelda/Shiek does.
- Although a minor issue, stamina makes it so that even in advantageous match-ups, a Pokemon can lose the advantage, especially provided its speed-based. (Tired Squirtle is tired.)
Yeah, Pokemon Trainer is surprisingly average at the moment, so I have to say they did a good job “balancing” him. However, given that average characters tend to eventually fall out of favor and Down+B is really annoying to use without items on and that I suck with Squirtle (and gliding with Charizard), it’s rather discouraging. Add on to the fact that I’m currently liking Lucario quite a bit right now means that they’re the second or third likely Pokemon character for me, with Jigglypuff being dead last at the moment.
Lucario (the Pokemon that I wanted in the game since I wanted a Fighting type, but not at the cost of replacing Mewtwo without fixing him)
- Can harass people with uncharged Aura Spheres like Mewtwo.
- Has many disjointed hitboxes like Mewtwo, except that they’re quite easy to use.
- Has quite a few legitimate combos.
- Has great aerials and great pseud-air control through Dair and Side+B.
- Despite not having that much power initially, he has quite a few good KOs available at all times provided you don’t spam them.
- Since it’s difficult to directly KO people in Brawl and edging guarding is more difficult now, Lucario should at least live to 100%, where he gets a x 1.5 power boost.
- Doesn’t start out at full power, getting stronger only through 50% damage increments that cap at 200%, where his damage and power double. Too bad you’ll never see that since Lucario is kind of light.
- Despite being floaty, none of his moves help his recovery for the most part and his Up+B is far inferior to Mewtwo’s, even though both aren’t attacks. (Although that’s probably an unfair comparison since Mewtwo’s recovery is literally the most perfect non-attack Up+B there ever was.)
- Theoritically does horrible against heavy hitting characters and often you’ll get a power-boost just as you get KO’d by someone.
- Relatively slow for the amount of power (or lack thereof) that he initially possess.
- Double Team is easily the most useless counter move in the history of Smash What the fuck.
Outside of that last problem, I’ve come to quite like Lucario, and even though Double Team is annoying, it’s not nearly as annoying as Luigi’s retarded traction. He is currently most likely to be my main tied with Ness.
That said, I’m sort of tired of typing, so I’m going to give relatively one sentence blurbs for the other people I’ve played around with and then the people I never plan to play as (except maybe for very basic figuring them out and how to better destroy them).
People I’ve played as.
Zelda - Technically the first person I’d ever played as in Brawl since I went to the SF tournament. I like her and the potential that she and Shiek have to counter match-ups without needing to change like Pokemon Trainer should be able to. I’m not much of a fan of Shiek, though, but I am trying to change that, especially since Shiek seems like the weaker one now.
Ganondorf - Originally inspired by Ezekial45 (who doesn’t seem to play Ganondorf anymore), I’ve been sort of spurred on by Giza to play the one true grappler in the game. (Just not against Giza himself. Stupid Falco.)
Sonic - Similarly spurred on by Zan-kun and still inspired by Zan-kun, I don’t think he’s as bad people think he is, though fighting Wario as him seems to be the most lopsided match-up in the entire game at the moment.
Peach - Currently still trying to get a feel for her, especially since they nerfed the hell out of her 2nd “jump”, which doesn’t really even more vertically. Somewhat sad despite her having that retarded down-smash last game.
Captain Falcon - I don’t like him. I don’t think I ever have, and all the overhyping and bitching about “Where’s Captain Falcon?!” before Brawl’s release only for most people to drop him like a bad habit when the game finally came out made dislike him significantly more.
Ness - I’ve always liked Ness, even though I never got the chance to finish Earthbound. :shake:
Lucas - I think I’m one of few people who thinks that Ness is equal to or slightly superior to Lucas, but oh well. I’d probably play them side by side as mains if I picked Ness as main.
Shiek - Currently trying to like Shiek.
Wario - Wario’s kind of fun to mess around with.
Mario - Depresses me, but I’d like to keep trying.
Link - Why did they get rid of bomb jumping?! If it wasn’t for that, then I would probably have mained him by now.
King Dedede - Much better than I thought, but I still don’t like the lag on a lot of him moves. Inhale is fun to play around with, but I use his Up+B too much.
Zamus - It’s funny that I’ve pretty much never played around with my supposed initial main. I should go back to her for a while.
Ike - Surprisingly, I like Ike.
The People I Will Probably Never Attempt to Play as
Ice Climbers - They’re cute AND deadly, but they get separated too easily (and I’m not talking about desynching) and chain throwing isn’t really my thing. Besides, I’m barely competent enough to keep one character live, much less keeping Nana (or Popo) from dying even with their (greatly) smarter AIs. Also, I think they’re only characters in the entire game that cry like little bitches when they lose.
Jigglypuff - Without Rest, even with the strengthened Rollout, it seems like she can only be annoying at best.
Diddy Kong - Reminds me of a more annoying, less powerful version of Snake. His projectiles are too easily turned against him and he’s far too noisy for my tastes (even though I thought that it was a good move by Nintendo to make him sound like an actually monkey).
Yoshi - Also annoys the hell out of me sound-wise and is the only character in the game that I think looks geniunely retarded.
Wolf - I hate the Space Animals, but he’s pretty much the only other actual “villian” besides Ganondorf and I would probably only play him to get used to his spacing.
Olimar - Too easily gimped.
The People I Will Definitely “Never” Attempt to Play
Pit - Is retarded and really boring. That is all.
Metaknight - Is also retarded. That is all.
Falco - Is also retarded and almost as boring as Pit. That is all.
Fox - Not horribly broken now, but I still don’t like him at all.[/details]
Yeah…I’m neurotic.
lol someone else noticed the Ice Climbers crying when they lose. They’re such bad sports while everyone else is clapping.
Fuck that real men cry!