This game is so horribly unbalanced it's not even funny

Just play with your friends. It's a party game.

>>715308295 (OP)
Filtered.

>>715308381
LOLtimate sucks as a party game. The final smashes are lame-ass cutscenes and there's too much smoke and shit all over the screen.

>>715308295 (OP)
The overall balance between characters is not the issue. There are overly strong yet simple strategies which are very difficult to play around and hurt the game. It's very difficult to punish many things even when you know the other player is going to do them ahead of time. There's a lot of jank where bad players are randomly rewarded. There's also way, way too many invincibility frames so players can do things like roll, spotdodge, or airdodge and it's more likely a player trying to thread the needly and punish them will put themselves into a bad position rather than be rewarded. Very, very difficult to punish on reaction.
>moves like steve minecart, spindash, GW smashes, etc
>Lots of comeback mechanics which are overly strong like Terry, Joker, etc
>Many recoveries are absurd/impossible to edgeguard for other characters
>Passive/campy play is rewarded
>Only out of meta characters placing recently are ones which are absurdly campy like Megaman and PIkachu
>Nobody approaches online even if they are losing

>>715308295 (OP)
It's literally the most balanced Smash game, besides maybe Smash 64.
All fighting games are unbalanced.
Hell, any game that has unique attacks/abilities if any kind os unbalanced.
Get used to it.

>>715308926
>It's literally the most balanced Smash game
doesn't mean its not shit

>>715308879
My four friends and I play all the time and have fun just fine, items or not. Sorry you can't find enjoyment out of anything and have to be a hyper autist every waking moment of your life.

>>715308926
People hate it because what's good is extremely fucking boring to play against.
>Steve goes to camp with a literal wall
>Kazuya spams the same combo in hopes that it lands
>ROB
>Sonic spindash

>>715308295 (OP)
just play this instead, it's way better.

>>715309204
You're right, but they'll tell you you're wrong

>>715309680
Bro, just download Project M/Project +.

>>715310331
those mods are boring, this is the one you want.
https://youtu.be/dEVZ3Cy2tVE

>>715308295 (OP)
Is the AI fun? Since I don't like playing online and I have no friends

>>715308295 (OP)
Wrong. Now hold this dragon arm.

I miss Smash 4, I'll take down throw to up airs and strong shields over nair spam.

>>715308295 (OP)
less about it being unbalanced and more about it being full of dumb bullshit that isn't fun to deal with. It's one of the least satisfying games I've ever played. Also for some reason there's so much visual clutter that it makes the whole experience worse especially with items. In general it feels like the overall design philosophy of the series got much worse after melee but they used lazy bandaids to try and fix it

>>715308295 (OP)
Smash Ultimate is probably the most balanced one though.
In all the other smash games there's these huge power gaps. In Brawl, Meta Knight is so good he is banned in tournaments.
Melee is probably the most unbalanced one and I still liked it tho. People literally just don't even bother using the bottom tier characters in Melee because they have no chance of winning unless you get lucky.
In 64 literally every single stage has at least one stage hazard so only one map is even legal and it still has a hazard it just has the least annoying hazard, and I think Pikachu and Kirby are broken in that game.
In Ultimate most of the characters are still viable lol.

>>715308295 (OP)
That's fine. It is a 4 player chaotic party game that tryhards want to artificially turn into a soulless EVO game.

>>715308295 (OP)
The bigger issue that it isn't very fun. I would love to enjoy playing as Banjo after all these years, but why bother when the character requires significant effort just to be mediocre (and hated by randoms)?

Ult is the poster child for quantity > quality.

>nintendo make competitive fighter

>starts by removing competitive

Ive used G&W since Melee and i dont wanna show my face with how disgusting he is in this game.

Ult is the fighting game full of "that move" dethroning even tekken.

Not even Ultimate players like the game, if it wasnt for Japan (and Mexico to some extent) the game would be dead by now.

>>715308295 (OP)
>sends smashies into a sputtering seethe in your path

>>715308295 (OP)
I want to buy it but it seems getting all the DLC will make this game cost somewhere over $100 total. I'd mainly just be playing it alone anyways. Who is the top tier characters?

>>715309680
I loved this game. I was never one of those autistic Melee only competitive fags. I played casually with friends so Brawl was plenty of fun for us.

>>715318516
https://www.ssbwiki.com/Tier_list#Super_Smash_Bros._Ultimate_tier_list

>>715315661
I somehow doubt the third best selling Switch game would be dead

>>715309146
Why do trannies like you always make such outrageous assumptions? Ultimate blows. Period. Play Brawl for the patrician's party choice, retard.

>>715318860
>non-Nintendo characters are in the S+ tier
kek

>>715310814
this shit looks awful man

>>715319052
It's already pretty sparse online Anon. Not totally dead, but at certain times of the day, pretty damn dead

>>715308295 (OP)
This is the worst Smash game to play as a sweaty, but one of the best if you actually enjoy the party fighter (also known as FUN) elements of the game. I think Melee is better in both regards but Ultimste is still fun with the bros, local play for fun is top tier.

>>715320007
Worst for a true, grind it out, be the best sweaty is 100% Brawl. No fucking contest. Timeouts, stalling, handoffs, planking, mindless infinites. It's fucking suffering.

>>715320286
You got me there. I tried comp with that for awhile but I just wasn't feeling it once I went beyond locals. I didn't stick with it long enough to be subjected to that 'high level' of play very often, so my memories of playing the game aren't as tarnished as the reality of it.

>>715310331
That community is 90% trannies. Why?

4 was so much better

>>715320286
Tr4sh or Ultishit are worse than all of that.
Just look at Evo grandfinals where two literal fags stand still for two minutes with the dyke SS-tier character Bayonetta.

>>715321036
Those are players being cocksuckers. I hated 4 and I think Ultimate has a ton wrong with it, but nothing in 4 necessitates stalling. Terrible DLC balance and terrible auto-combos that players fish for. Terrible airdodge spam. Still more healthy at top meta than Brawl. People parrot that Brawl was better because at mid-high level it is indeed a way more interesting game to play than 4 or arguably Ultimate. However, it's way more cancerous the higher you go. Brawl sets took fucking FOREVER and the longer the game went on, the worse it all became. There is just no comparing two dicksuckers holding buttons and snickering to themselves (and getting threatened by TOs for not playing) vs MK doing uairs over and over while ICs sit on a platform and wait to 0-death at a mistake and each of those sets takes a fucking hour. Take it from the oldfag that competed in the first three Smash games and play every platform fighter casually because Melee fucked up my brain.

>>715308295 (OP)
literally the most balanced fighting game ever made, wide range of characters at the pro level, all characters viable if good enough. steve is the only 100% op character bruh

>>715308879
>final smashes are cutscenes
Kys compnigger

>>715309204
This is a matter of tournament ruleset exploitation. We would see other characters succeed in different formats. The stamina meta, for example, doesn't look like post-covid majors' top 8s. Doubles and squad strike too, which are literally official game modes, but no one wants to play them for some reason.

>>715312803
They're decent. Some of the characters' bots will be very confused on certain maps. Level 9 Jigglypuff bot on smashville will go to the middle platform and spam jumps toward the blastzone until it runs out, falls down, and tries again. The bots can also react frame 1 to your actions, so using items and whatnot can be ineffective depending on bot difficulty level.

>People thought Steve would be zoom zoom fodder if he was ever added
>Sakurai made him so fucking powerful stinkies had to ban him
Uhhh based?

>>715323793
Smash does routinely have the worst special/ultimate move animations among its contemporaries though. They don't feel cool.

>>715323134
>all characters viable if good enough
Pity (You)

The vast majority of characters can't compete at top level. At a certain point, it becomes a numbers game, and those characters simply don't have the kits to compete.
The current ranked 1# player in the world is a plays Min-Min, and ~90% of the cast have zero counterplay to her.

>>715324067
The vast majority of players can't compete at a top level though. Most of smash happens at what people consider low and mid skill levels, which is absolutely where any character can compete. It's not just about "skill" (a vague, nebulous term anyway) it's about matchup experience and strategy and mixups, and yeah character tier can be one factor, but only one, and there are plenty of other ways to influence the match.

>>715320007
I don't even think Ult succeeds as much as it should in the casual department. The rule set selection is annoying as fuck, and it's retarded that they didn't give you all of the customization options from spirit battles.

>>715319384
you look like shit, faggot.

Just play Rivals if you want a well-balanced platform fighter

Specifically in two months when the developers finally pull their heads out of their asses and nerf floorhugging to death

>>715320007
>This is the worst Smash game to play as a sweaty,
why do retards still say this shit when Brawl exists?
4 sucked balls competitively too.

>>715321471
>MK doing uairs over and over while ICs sit on a platform and wait to 0-death at a mistake and each of those sets takes a fucking hour.
So Sonic vs. Steve, good to see that the traditins never die

>>715308295 (OP)
>unbalanced
You have no idea what you're talking about.