Kyouma-Blade

He isn't, but he's not the only character getting the spotlight either. Yes, Diddy Kong is one of the only characters that can execute true, reliable, applicable combos. Anything else you've heard is either a string, works 10% of the time, or just not easy to use in a actual match. You haven't followed the competitive scene at all, and I can't blame you if that's your experience. Your friends don't look like people who actually follow the competitive Melee scene, and just copy what they heard in a circlejerk of "Fox only, Final Destination." They don't limit choices. Once again, tiers show who can give the person playing them the highest skill ceiling. Fox and Falco are extremely technical, and require a lot of frame perfect inputs. You play them perfectly, and you will win. I'm really sad a lot of people here don't understand why tiers exist. I don't like misinformation spreading around. There are plenty of people in the scene who try characters besides Fox and Falco. I can list 5 people who are in the top 8 right now who don't main Fox and Falco. Mew2King - Everyone. He's crazy. Mostly Marth and Sheik though. Hungrybox - Jigglypuff AsmA - Yoshi Pluplue - Samus Armada - Peach Mind you, I'm not listing people who are being silly or losing tourneys. These people consistently get top 8 with these characters. Don't group Melee fanbois and the actual competitive scene together. They aren't the same. The competitive scene finds fun in playing the game seriously. I'm sorry you don't find their way of playing fun, but it's plain wrong to say that playing seriously isn't fun. More power to you man. Playing who you want to play is nothing wrong. Sm4sh tiers right now aren't worth anything. Anyone who makes one is ignored by the community right now, because the metagame is still a bit too young right now. I would like to state this here, if I wasn't clear before. I don't have anything against people who don't care about the competitive community or play casually. I do care when people spread misinformation, and I'm just trying to clear up your thoughts on the community.

Please. You're over-exaggerating and you know that. The Melee scene is not only Fox and Final Destination. I'm already sick of Diddy Kong at the very least, because his gameplay is very bland, but reliable for winning games. I can't fault the players for playing the game to win, because they get money by doing so. I will fault how so little characters get combos though.

This hurts me on a spiritual level. Please Osu.

I love it too. But anyone with their head screwed on right will ever play Pichu in a tourney. They put money on the line so they can show off their skill and get the big pot. Using such a bad character will limit their skill. No way you can argue that. They may look good, but at the end of the day, it's never practical, and will get bodied by someone who's using a higher tier character with the same amount of skill. You're saying you'd rather see Rosaluma over Fox because you've already seen Fox a lot before. The same thing will happen to Sm4sh. I will get sick of the Diddy Kongs, the Rosalumas and the Zero Suit Samuses. I will, if no one can mix up how they play with the character.

It's far too fast to be able to react to it every time he uses it. Whoever you're playing against clearly isn't using Diddy to his fullest extent, which is another example of characters giving potential only. Here's a person who looks like he knows far more about Diddy Kong's side-b than I do. ShinadoSlash: The air grab part of this move makes it vital for Diddy's mixup and conditioning game. The natural reaction to a Diddy holding a banana is to block a lot. Knowing the opponent will be sitting in shield waiting for the banana toss means you can do a side B instead which not only does decent damage but is also a kill move at higher percents. The kick portion also plays into this conditioning game. Once you successfully side B grabbed them a few times they will likely start to spot dodge a lot. If they do you simply cancel the side B into the kick portion which has a lot of active frames and can often punish it. This move is also a good recovery tool. In most situations a Diddy Kong should commit to this if they are forced to recover with a special instead of up B because up B is far more telegraphed and easier to react to (and thus more likely to be interrupted).

You're right, but I think you don't understand why tier lists exist. The character gives them the potential to be good. Using a bad character essentially gimps your ability. If you're good enough, you'll be able to beat anyone with any character. But that's humanly impossible. (At least for right now. Mew2King might become a robot.) Characters like Fox and Falco are so high because they give players the ability to have the highest skill ceiling. They have options for almost every character. To put it in sm4sh terms, Diddy Kong is so high right now because he is the one of the only members in the sm4sh cast that has a true, reliable combo. Down Throw to up air. He also has side-b, which is probably the best move on Diddy Kong. It can grab, hit, and recover. If you expect a kick and shield, Diddy can just grab you. If you expect a kick and jump, he can just up air you. He's crazy good right now.

Sm4sh right now is still developing, which is why you'll see a lot of characters in the mix up right now. Once it develops, you'll start to see players picking the higher tiered characters, because they're just better. Hell, a lot of people can agree Diddy Kong, Sheik, ZZS and Rosaluma are the best right now. Unless we see something that can rock the metagame for Sm4sh, I don't see it changing anytime soon. I actually think that's a lot of viable characters. (You also forgot Peach, Yoshi, Sheik, Jugglypuff, Dr. Mario, and Samus.) The reason you'll find those characters in Melee a lot is because they're objectively better. Pichu isn't even good character. The reason you see people playing him is because they're messing around.

Don't know how many of you follow the competitive smash scene, but EVO announced a couple of days ago that both Sm4sh and Melee will be at their event! I personally think that Melee is the better game to spectate, but I fully support both games at the event. Hype!

Lingering Will pls.

Maplestory x Attack on Titan? Seeing how boring the SAO event was I'm hesitant on this.

Lucina and Robin Hype! And thanks to Project S.T.E.A.M. Marth is going to be reprinted, so i can get him as well. So excited.

Here's my osu! profile btw. http://osu.ppy.sh/u/4920781

It's pretty hard to get used to. I keep on lifting up my hand too much so it can't read my pen.

My sister got a drawing tablet for her birthday, so now when she's not using it i can use it to play osu!

For those who don't know, Yoko Shimomura is the composer for the little known video game Kingdom Hearts and its sequels. She also worked on the Mario RPGs and a small amount of work on the Smash Bros. Series.

GG, Hiroyuki Sawano's music became stale to me after it replayed the same song every other anime episode.

Decided to grab that t-shirt Qwertee was selling.

Celebration for Best Girl!

I'm glad we came to the silent agreement that Rin is indeed Best Girl.

Whelp, I guess that destroys my hopes of learning on how to become an archer. Edit: I'm a rebel.

So far so good. I'm actually surprised I haven't accidentally spoiled myself yet, seeing as I frequent a lot of sites that can spoil me very easily.

I'm still watching Fate/Stay Night UBW by ufotable. I'm on episode 6 right now. I'm watching it in accordance to this recommendation (Anime-Only), because I don't feel like playing the VN. Might go back to it later, but it's way too much of a time investment for me right now. Really nice so far. Hype action scenes. I can see why people love it so much.

Demolition-D, a known anime youtuber, has made a video on this OVA. I don't really follow him, but I agree with his thoughts on the matter. At first, I dismissed it as 2deep4you usual japan stuff. But I can see his viewpoint on it as well.

If ESRB thought Tharja's trophy was bad, Bayonetta would be way past it.

I don't follow the Zelda fandom, but I do know that a formula is made when a pattern is formed. He could be just doing it unintentionally.