Melee's one of those cases where there aren't that many viable characters but the ones that are viable are so much fun to watch that no one really cares. See also: Mahvel.
I always compare Melee to Marvel Vs Capcom 2 as well. Two universally loved games that are considered the greatest fighting games since Sliced Bread Fighter in their respective fandoms, in sheer contrast to their arguably lazy and definitely terrible character balance.
Granted, I bet if either of them came out today their respective problems probably could've been fixed by a patch or two (if Nintendo were doing patches, anyway).
edited 9th Apr '15 7:43:16 PM by KnownUnknown
Diddy is not nearly as centralizing as Meta Knight, at least and so far Sm4sh has been shown to be the most diverse game so far in terms of character representation.
A majority of the cast is viable in this installment, which is already a lot more than in Melee or Brawl. Even the ones considered unviable like Zelda have been getting results around.
I think the balance in Smash 4 is mostly because of the larger number of characters, honestly, making it harder to find game-breaking techniques like the hoo-hah. And even then there hasn't really been a character in the game like 64!Pikachu, Melee!Fox, and Brawl!Meta Knight.
Call me Willy Whistle 'cause I can't speak, baby. Something in TV Tropes really drove me crazy.Yeah, as nasty as Diddy currently is, a lot of it is down to him being less predictable than everyone else-Lots of counters for him but none are sure-things.
Ungreat as that might be, it's leaps and bounds ahead of Meta Knight in the bad ol' days.
edited 9th Apr '15 8:33:45 PM by Pulse
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Yeah, Mario's up tilt juggling isn't so bad, if only because the opponent needs to be at a low percentage for him to perform the combo.
edited 9th Apr '15 8:22:14 PM by BurntMario
Call me Willy Whistle 'cause I can't speak, baby. Something in TV Tropes really drove me crazy.So yesterday there was a lot more views on my Greninja montage that I usually have, which left me really confused
Turns out, apparently my video reached
the Japanese
That's surprising to say the least.
@Full Moon: Man, that's lucky.
Who knows, one day you could be representing TV Tropes at Apex someday!
Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?
edited 9th Apr '15 9:14:19 PM by TroPartner
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Fun fact: In the match prior to that one the G&W guy killed me with a 9 right at the beginning of the match.
That's just Greninja's way of saying "payback time"
I do want to go to next year's APEX but I'm sure it won't be easy to get everything ready to go there

It's nowhere near Diddy's only boon, but it would be a pretty big hit.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.