Melee is one of those games you have a trillion fuckers trying to copy and they all fail because they all find out the hard way no one except melee tards want to play melee, and everyone that wants to play a platform fighter that isn't melee is just going to play smash ultimate like a normal fucking person. The execution floor for melee is insanely high and the scene is dead. Melee tards will look at the game and then just go back to slippy or whatever.

the only reason you'd play Rivals 2 instead of Ultimate is if you're a PC only poorfag, and then you have to deal with a cast of mostly boring flat characters (with near zero sex appeal on purpose, despite having cute girls and big guys), lack of content beyond just compfag hardcore grinding and endless amount of MTX.
I loved Rivals 1 because the workshop is super fun and there were modes beyond ranked compfag shit, but its clear the Rivals 2 devs don't give a flying fuck for anything except milking comptards that grind a thousand hours on ranked and nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cMjwWWxKxI