Smash Ultimate Never Ask Me for Anything Again

What's up fellas.

Squeamish Straight, huh?

Whoo boy. Honestly did not expect that smashing of a directly, even if it is for Smash. Sakurai said not to expect too many new characters, and dropped 5 of them on u.s. at once, and more are probably coming afterward these equally well. The phase list is crawly, the amount of music forth with the fact that yous can make your own playlists and use your Switch equally a music role player is a really neat feature.

All that is great, but today I wanted to talk most something I realized while watching and discussing the Direct with my friends. This game is going to have a ton of potential for new side events. So today I wanted to talk about the new modes and features that could brand for fun side events at tournaments. A lot of these could also brand their way into the standard ruleset, but may not for one reason or another.

We'll exist talking almost these modes' and features' potential to be side events besides as new rules for standard competitive play, since for a lot of these I could see either happening. I'll too have a department at the end discussing the stage list. With that being said, let's become-- *sneezes in Spanish* Hola.

Multi-stock stamina matches

Let's start with stamina mode. Dissimilar previous games in the series, stamina mode is a standard match pick alongside time, stock, and coin battles. In every other game, stamina mode was a Special Nail option. Not just that, but you're now able to play stamina matches with multiple stocks, a brand new feature to the serial. Which means as shortly as you run out of HP on your first stock, you respawn with full HP and one fewer stock, just like in regular stock matches.

This could be a very interesting side event, considering now instead of thinking, "Alright, I've taken 95 harm. I tin can probably survive a few more hits with skillful DI," you lot have to remember, "Alright, I've taken 95 damage. At present I meliorate be sure non to get hitting past anything other than a jab or something otherwise I'll hecking disintegrate."

I've always really enjoyed stamina mode, because instead of worrying nigh how much knockback an assail will deal, y'all now take to worry about its impairment instead and how much you lot'll have. Once you have a certain amount of damage in stamina mode, y'all dice. End of story. No DI or teching or crawly recovery angles will relieve you. And now with multiple stocks, we could have 3 stocks of 100 damage each per character and accept a proficient side event on our hands.

I don't think this one is suited for a normal tournament bracket, considering it does take abroad basically everything in the game that has to do with knockback. Things similar edgeguarding become harder. Hiigh percentage combos go incommunicable because, fun fact, in stamina style, knockback is always calculated with a negative number for your damage. With 100 HP, your damage is calculated equally -100%, with 25 HP you're at -25%, and and so on. And then most likely not a skilful mode to use for tournament matches, but all the same could be fun to play on the side.

Team Strike

Squad Strike is the blazon of way I've been hoping for for quite a while (which is something yous would know if you've been reading my garbage posts since I started in 2016). In Squad Strike, each player picks 3 or 5 characters. When their first grapheme dies, they move on to their side by side character, and whoever keeps at least 1 character alive at the terminate of the friction match wins. Pretty straightforward stuff.

I think this could be a good option for competitive matches. If we practice use three stocks in Smash Ultimate (because let'due south exist real, there's no way this is gonna exist a 5-stock game), players could take the option to gentleman to Squad Strike.

As a side event, Squad Strike has some potential in a couple of ways. Team Strike tournaments could be three-stock sets, or ane-stock crew battles. The sometime would require players who enter to be skilled with multiple characters to win, which could as well be more interesting to watch. Squad Strike can besides be used for 5-character fe mans, although traditionally these types of iron mans take more stocks per character.

Stage morphing

Welcome to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where not only does every stage have a Battlefield course, not only does every stage have an Omega form, non only practice you accept the option to plough stage hazards off, merely now you lot tin play on two stages in the same lucifer. Also in that location are now approximately 3.8 zillion stages in Smash Ultimate. Never enquire me for annihilation always once more.

-President-Elect Masahiro Sakurai Jr. III, 1718

A lot of people don't think stage morphing will come across whatever employ in competitive play, but I'm feeling optimistic almost this ane. We already have something similar in our Smash 4 stage listing in Town and City, where one phase layout transitions into some other and back. Stage morphing gives the game the potential to have tons of Town and City-esque stages. Wanna play on Smashville simply morph to FD after a minute? Go for it. Do you desire to start on Battlefield and set up the stage morph to switch to Dream Land at a random time?

Not sure why yous would wanna exercise that, simply the option is there, so go for it.

The ane trouble I see with legal stages morphing into each other is that there volition be And so MANY potential legal stages in the game, but we'll get back to that in due time.

Who knows? Maybe morphing stage battles could exist a side event at tournaments. Jeez, Sakurai is doing Smash The Tape's work coming up with lots of events for them by this point.

Chargeable Concluding Smashes

This is another thing I've been wishing would come to Smash with the new game, and information technology's finally hither. If you plough the Final Nail meter on, each character will have a KO Meter/Limit Gauge-esque meter that fills up equally they deal or take damage. Once the meter is full, they can activate a weakened version of their normal Terminal Nail, dealing less damage and knockback than if they got it from a Blast Ball.

This one seems like it has some potential. A meter was i of, if not the most pop solution among the community to make Final Smashes more balanced for competitive play. Not only did they add together that to the game, but making the moves weaker farther ensures that games won't get too out of hand.

One concern I have is how balanced these Final Smashes will be. If y'all rewatch the Straight, yous'll notice that once Marth's Final Blast meter fills upward, his Critical Hitting still kills Lucas at a whopping twenty%. Granted, this isn't the final game, but information technology is a little bit apropos. It'south possible that all the Final Smashes' strengths were multiplied by the same amount to weaken them when they are activated with the meter, which is still a fleck of an result for i-striking KO Concluding Smashes like Marth and Lucina's. We'll see. Maybe they'll nerf information technology even further past the fourth dimension the game comes out.

hopefully ;-;

Then information technology may non be the best feature for the competitive ruleset, just it would make for an crawly side consequence. This is definitely something I'm interested in checking out to see how balanced it is, and whether they are better suited for side events or the main tournament bracket.

Who knows? Perchance if the TOs of the world do decide to include the Final Smash meter at their tournaments, we could push the number of stocks per friction match to 4, although it is a bit of a stretch. So far, Smah Ultimate is looking like a game we'll end up playing with 3 stocks, but Final Smashes, fifty-fifty if weaker, could prove to help brand matches even faster than they already will be. Over again, another thing to test out and come to a determination on when the game comes out and we have time to experiment.

Tourney manner

No.

Smashdown

More no.

...

Actually....

Maybe?

Smashdown is a newly introduced mode in Smash Ultimate, where whenever a character is selected, they can't exist chosen once again. And so you lot can keep going until every character has been selected and in that location are none left.

Making characters unavailable by choosing them could be a pretty corking thought, simply I don't think information technology would exist a very good idea to have information technology as the mode nosotros use for competitive tournaments. Mayhap as a side issue of some sort, or an later hours stream where two players go through the whole roster and go along count of how many games each person wins.

I love the idea of a character not being playable more than once, since information technology can lead to some interesting strategies. Like they mentioned in the direct, you could pick one of your opponent'southward best characters before they can in order to forbid them from using them. Although I would imagine to make things somewhat fair y'all would accept to play stone paper scissors or something before you start to decide who picks their character commencement.

The hecking stagelist.

Battleground. Final Destination. Yoshi'south Story. Dream Land. Fountain of Dreams. Smashville. Town and Urban center. Lylat Prowl. Duck Hunt. Yoshi's Island. Maybe a few more that I'yard besides lazy to go looking for on the phase select screen because I'm besides lazy. All these stages are in Smash Ultimate and will most likely all exist legal. Merely hither's the thing.

Boom Ultimate too gives yous the pick to turn hazards off, which has the potential to make stages like Wily's Castle and Pilotwings legal every bit well. Combine this with phase morphing and we have a TON of possibilities for legal stages. We've essentially gone from too few stages to manner too many.

One affair I think could exist done if stage morphing does end up being legal is having a small pick of starter stages, and then all the other legal stages and morph combinations tin can be counterpicks. This would preclude the stage striking process from existence 5 heckin minutes long or something crazy like that. Again, it depends on what ends up being legal and what doesn't. So we'll have to wait and run across what the TO's of the earth make up one's mind to practice.

Y'know, assuming they're not ninety years old by the time they attain a conclusion.

Decision

All these new modes and options are awesome, just likewise pretty concerning. With all this new stuff, it'due south going to exist very difficult to come up with a ruleset for Smash Ultimate tournaments, and decide what should be in normal tournaments and what should exist restricted to side events. A lot of this is stuff nosotros're going to take to exam out for ourselves when the game comes out, so we'll just have to stay tuned for now. Or build a time machine to travel to December vii and exercise all this nonsense correct away.

Welp, that'southward all I take to say for now. Imma go crawl dorsum nether a stone now.

Bye fellas.

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