Week 10

Read the following blog posts from Maj.

http://sonichurricane.com/?p=263
http://sonichurricane.com/?p=2930

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At what point do you feel that a game becomes imbalanced? How do you feel about Maj's viewpoint?


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I think a game is imbalanced when, like Maj said, there is simply no reason NOT to choose a certain character. A Melee example would be selecting Pikachu over Pichu. If your goal is to win, it just makes no sense to select Pichu. If the entire roster is overcome by this Pikachu-Pichu phenomenon, then it creates a problem.

Fortunately, most games don't experience this imbalance. The problem, however, is that the community does not realize this. Lots of Brawl scrubs cry about Metaknight, but if he wins so effortlessly as people say, why are they not beating everyone and anyone with the character?

The bottom line is, games in general do pretty good. 4 top tiers is a great amount. It creates 10 matchups. 5 top tiers creates 15. And then there are the many high tier characters that are still competitively viable in several games.