Topic: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - OT

Speaking of which, I just joined the Tourney and I'm awaiting anyone that wants to come have a few matches.

It's actually not my internet, really. Seems to be someone out there that slows everyone else down, so...yeah.

In 4 player smash everyone was just taking advantage of me hopefully it's not like that in NL tourney. Hopefully they allow customs and miis later.

Went and played a couple more tournaments, one 1v1 customs and one FFA, both For Glory. The first round I was up against a painfully bad Bowser. Like, trying to Bowsercide bad. I had my custom Ike out. Mildly annoying match with a hilarious suicide death of Bowser Down-Bing off the side of the stage on the first stock and then meeting the end of my side-smash, later. And this Ike has all stat boosts with specialized attack and defense, so... lulz. Second match was against a Yoshi. I don't know WHAT kinda stat boosts he may have had, but it didn't matter. This guy was abusing the ever-loving mustard out of Yoshi's ridiculous levels of priority. I hesitate to call him good, but he did manage to win the whole tournament with relative ease. (Mind you, I watched all of his matches. I was the only guy he fought that wasn't trying (and failing) to play cheap tactics.) Second one was a match between Me, Roy, Lucas, and Villager. Lucas went out quick leaving the rest of us with one stock. I managed to break Roy's shield, but fearing Villager's wrath, I decided to let Villager kill him, which left me at 120%+ and him at about 22% and only about 30 seconds on the clock. After fighting for twenty seconds we both just kinda let the clock run down, since we knew I stood no chance at that point. Good Villager. I regret nothing except that it was FFA and not 1v1.

Still wish tournament mode was better than this... I have never found a 1v1 For Glory that's not full. Many flaws but I guess that's that.

Sounds like Reggie's idea as a counter towards all the Federation Force hate!

So in other words, it is handled the same way it was in Mario Kart 8? Doesn't seem like I'll be using it then and just sticking to regular "For Glory" matches.

@Rexcalibr: Well I think there's some misunderstanding about the Mario Kart 8 tournaments. Sure, most of those tournaments had no match limit in which it was just really a way to have fun without losing lots of VR but the better tournaments had key restrictions that made it fair, namely that there's a specific number of races you can do before it kicks you out and that is your score. The GameXplain tournaments were like that for example where everything is default settings except the CPU difficulty set to hard, class at 150cc (200cc after the April update) and you can only play 16 races that count towards your score (a disconnect during a race counts as a race).

The setup is similar here for Smash, you can set a limit on the number of matches per day and if you set it for a realistic number it is a case of skill rather than "those who play the most wins".

I can't say I like the idea of tournaments like that. I like to compete against somebody. Like a one on one match, or just a king-of-the-hill style lobby. This just sounds like like a bunch of people playing a bunch of matches with random people and whoever has the best overall score or stats at the end wins, meaning two people in the same tournament aren't even necessarily playing with each other.

@Rexcalibr: If you'd read my comment before, you'd see there's the Regular Tournaments which progress like normal brackets. Single elimination style.

@Rexcalibr: I think it works well for Mario Kart 8, especially as there's an option in which the game finds you a new lobby after every 4 races (also implemented in the later GameXplain tournaments). For Smash, I think the setup the regular tournaments have is better (the ones that Nintendo create).

I did two regular tourneys. I failed at the quarterfinals with Dr. Mario at FFA For Glory, thanks to the lag. And won 1 vs. 1 custom For Glory with Ryu. Manage to beat Lucas at his second life with two hits, one with focus attack that dealt 31%, and finished him with enhanced shoryuken KO'ing him at %72. Another match in the same tourney was against Jigglypuff beating me till I had 218% damage. Then ony Shoryuken, and it's all over. Boom, I became the champion!

I don't really get why taunting in Smash Bros is a "bad" thing. Is it because it makes someone a jerk or something? I know some people really fine with taunting, but some people get offended by taunting for no reason...

Hi all, I just wanted to point out that the Mewtwo DLC offer from Club Nintendo stated that the codes they sent out expired on 7/31/2015. Silly me, I found the email today (8/1/2015) and went to put in the code on my 3DS and it still worked! Just thought I'd let this board know in case anyone still had a code laying around they forgot to put in.

@3DSWiiUFanatic: That's sounds interesting. Maybe Nintendo decided to increase the expire date. I almost got my Mewtwo code on the 31st, but someone got into my account and used all the rewards and the code.

Well, for me, it depends on how taunts are used.
Used at the start of the match, for example, serves as a sort of Smash etiquette "May the best win" gesture. Taunting after KO'ing someone every time makes me see you as a cocky jerk that will get what's coming to you.

In the end, taunting's not bad; never was. All a matter of opinion. Me? I admittedly can be total taunt bait at times. Most people that taunt after KO'ing me typically lose.

@Grumblevolcano: Ha. If only that were true. Sadly, Samus has been that way since launch.

Does anyone want to try to get into the same regular tournament? (They appear to be separated by region though so NA and Europe are separate)

I taunt at people after I K.O. them because it's funny to me. Ahahahahaha!

Though this is all to do with competitive natures and taunts isn't harmful in anyway, but it can be pretty rude and unsportsmanlike. You're wrecking some guy and then they lop you in the air and they taunt? Why? I have a lot of matches where people like to Double Taunt me when I miss play KO myself and it just wasn't that funny. Then I throw the match and go for a rematch and they leave the lobby afterwards, laughing in my face by flashing on and off. I see most Japanese players do this. It's just the competitive smash community being really uncalled for.