ShinRPGamer
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So this new rule set for competitive Smash 4 just came out around an hour ago with some major changes and as you can imagine just by reading the title, it's had a rather divisive response. Bear in mind this is not set in stone just yet.
Here's the ruleset with the explanations for the changes here
There's quite a bit of changes to the ruleset such as formally allowing coaching or 30 second timeouts and removing Dave's Stupid Rule (a rule that prevented players from picking the same stage they won on), but the one that has received the most scrutiny is the new stagelist. Duck Hunt (A counterpick) and Lylat (a starter) have been banned while in turn Town and City (also a starter) has turned into a counterpick. Dreamland under this new rule meanwhile, would be treated as the same in stage striking despite having several key differences that makes DL stand out from BF (wind, blast zones being smaller, placement of the three tri-platforms being different from BF, and the "pineapple"). In other words, we've basically gone from having 7 legal stages to just 4, less than Melee's 6.
Me personally, I think this new ruleset as it stands now is garbage. It's bad enough that players have even less stage options to choose from but now Dream Land is treated the same as Battlefield despite the clear differences between the two. On top of all that, the new stagelist only serves to help top tiers like Diddy and Shiek, since they lose their worst stages and are more likely to force opponents onto their best stages like Smashville while nerfing characters such as Corrin, Charizard, and Shulk who either liked the now banned stages or are more likely to go to stages that hurt them.
Edit: Update on the stagelist.
Here's the ruleset with the explanations for the changes here
There's quite a bit of changes to the ruleset such as formally allowing coaching or 30 second timeouts and removing Dave's Stupid Rule (a rule that prevented players from picking the same stage they won on), but the one that has received the most scrutiny is the new stagelist. Duck Hunt (A counterpick) and Lylat (a starter) have been banned while in turn Town and City (also a starter) has turned into a counterpick. Dreamland under this new rule meanwhile, would be treated as the same in stage striking despite having several key differences that makes DL stand out from BF (wind, blast zones being smaller, placement of the three tri-platforms being different from BF, and the "pineapple"). In other words, we've basically gone from having 7 legal stages to just 4, less than Melee's 6.
Me personally, I think this new ruleset as it stands now is garbage. It's bad enough that players have even less stage options to choose from but now Dream Land is treated the same as Battlefield despite the clear differences between the two. On top of all that, the new stagelist only serves to help top tiers like Diddy and Shiek, since they lose their worst stages and are more likely to force opponents onto their best stages like Smashville while nerfing characters such as Corrin, Charizard, and Shulk who either liked the now banned stages or are more likely to go to stages that hurt them.
Edit: Update on the stagelist.
