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In your opinion, what are the most important things that happened in the Sm4sh Metagame?
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v3ga
Smash Cadet
In terms of what? What changes? You mean patches to the game? They are done for balancing purposes based on how the community reacts and tournament placings, therefore patches are generally fine as it affects the entire player base and creates an environment in which all players have to accommodate to.
Pretty much any patch that nerfed a certain character could be seen as somewhat significant as it reduced the threat of that character marginally as well as the base of players who use that character...
What exactly are you asking?
The 
nerfs, if you think they're busted now I wouldn't say you're entirely wrong, but they were on a whole other level back in their respective primes. They were both heavily nerfed, but still are pretty much the best characters in the game, just how dominant do you think they'd be without those nerfs?
nerfs, if you think they're busted now I wouldn't say you're entirely wrong, but they were on a whole other level back in their respective primes. They were both heavily nerfed, but still are pretty much the best characters in the game, just how dominant do you think they'd be without those nerfs?
Lonky
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Stuff like Marth, that is now considered Top Tier, while some months ago he was at max Bottom of the High Tier.
Lola Luftnagle
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Yeah...the buffs that and had been blessed with over time, as well as garnering significant tourney results and representation to put them just inside the top tiers. I'd say those are among the most notable changes in the metagame.
and had been blessed with over time, as well as garnering significant tourney results and representation to put them just inside the top tiers. I'd say those are among the most notable changes in the metagame.
MarioManTAW
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Maybe among the top tiers, but don't forget aboutYeah...the buffs that
at EVO and at Frostbite.
Ravengeance
Smash Apprentice
The metagame hasn't really seemed to deeply develop tbh. A few characters have risen bc a player who plays them performs well but it still hasn't really changed who people play or how they play. There's such a wide character list people seem to finding trouble with matchups and it's making it so I don't think people are fully confident with a single character and a lot of people are turning to secondaries and even tertiary characters. People don't have good answers to things like bayo or diddy or dk ding dong and other early percent KO combos.
The best characters have all been nerfed at one point in time or another diddy bayo sheik and the patches happened so frequently it kinda prevented meta from really developing when the game was in a stage of flux with new characters and patches and legal stages.
Nerfs have affected the meta a lot. Buffs have kinda only seemed to help mewtwo and marth/lucina at a competitive level with a few outliers here and there. But tbh, DLC has probably affected the meta the most. Bayo and Cloud especially. The doubles meta almost revolves around having a Cloud and mewtwo bayo cloud ryu, those characters find their way into top 8 a lot.
The best characters have all been nerfed at one point in time or another diddy bayo sheik and the patches happened so frequently it kinda prevented meta from really developing when the game was in a stage of flux with new characters and patches and legal stages.
Nerfs have affected the meta a lot. Buffs have kinda only seemed to help mewtwo and marth/lucina at a competitive level with a few outliers here and there. But tbh, DLC has probably affected the meta the most. Bayo and Cloud especially. The doubles meta almost revolves around having a Cloud and mewtwo bayo cloud ryu, those characters find their way into top 8 a lot.