20XX MELEE FULL
20XX MELEE PRO
20XX MELEE PROFESSIONAL
20XX MELEE SERIES

While the character itself hadnвЂ™t changed in the three-year window, a few dedicated players discovered a special technique they dubbed вЂњWobbling,вЂќ which ended up being so powerful that it made Ice Climbers viable in the competitive scene.

Take the gradual rise of the Ice Climber characters, who bottomed out in 2003 and grew into top 10 placement just 3 years later. Viewed in their entirety, these tier lists show the dramatic shifts in the Melee psyche, hinting at some of the seismic discoveries that drove them.

The annals of Melee history are most clearly visible in the form of tier lists, which rank characters based on their current competitive viability, and serve as an ongoing вЂњState of the GameвЂќ report. This is one of the main reasons why Melee has stuck around: Despite its fixed system, players have prodded at its innards, some destined to chisel their own styles into the way the game is played. Although Nintendo hasnвЂ™t pushed out a single Melee update, one could take a look at Melee five years ago and see a completely different game from the one theyвЂ™d be watching today. The Melee metagame-that is, the strategizing that goes on outside the gameвЂ™s prescribed ruleset-is famously deep, and has provided enough quirks and hidden techniques to fuel its growth over a fourteen-year period. One of the most notable features of Super Smash Bros. The is simply to slow, I will always keep having her for certain ! Peach mains, sorry, I think this wont make it in this meta. With 20XX almost assuredly at the back of his mind, ArmadaвЂ™s official вЂњTaking my talents to FoxвЂќ Twitter post read like more than just an announcement-it was an apology:

For the Melee community, watching Armada switch to Fox was like watching Michael Jordan put on a Wizards uniform or watching Steve Carell leave The Office: It was a clear, almost forceful signifier of an era now gone.

20XX MELEE PRO

While the conversion of one pro player seems like a drop in the bucket, Armada is one of the top three Melee players in the world, and the quintessential Peach player. At this yearвЂ™s Apex 2015 tournament-the biggest Smash competition of the year-longtime Peach specialist Adam вЂњArmadaвЂќ Lindgren turned in the pink dress for red lasers, and started playing as Fox. Still, as the game has continued to evolve and the overall quality of play has drastically improved, the arc seems to be headed in that direction.

20XX MELEE PROFESSIONAL

With the unpredictability of any human-versus-human matchup, the idea of a вЂњskill capвЂќ will always be more of a hypothetical bogeyman than a tangible threat, and even the best professional players are nowhere close to hitting frame-perfect reaction times. Realistically, the game will never reach a point of complete Fox saturation. One of the big debates in Melee is whether or not 20XX is a legitimate concern. In this world, there can be no logical character choice but Fox, so in 20XX, Melee essentially becomes a one-character game.

20XX MELEE FULL

In October of 2013, a few Melee broadcasters jokingly tossed around the idea of 20XX, a hypothetical year in the future where players are all precise and consistent enough to take full advantage of FoxвЂ™s capabilities. Because Fox is only as precise as the person controlling him, his biggest problem is that nobodyвЂ™s that precise or that consistent. Lots of players simply donвЂ™t mesh with this style, and would rather use characters who more closely fit their skill sets.

This is FoxвЂ™s main flaw: While heвЂ™s the most capable character in the game, it takes precision and a shit-ton of button inputs to see any level of success with him. The only reason why everyone doesnвЂ™t just play Fox is that heвЂ™s extremely tough to master: If your speed and reaction times arenвЂ™t constantly at peak levels, youвЂ™re actually at a disadvantage against other players, who can destroy you after every slight mistake. Fox is too fast, and his moves are just too good.

20XX MELEE SERIES

HereвЂ™s the setup: For the past few years, itвЂ™s been widely agreed upon that Fox (of the Nintendo series Star Fox) is the best character in Melee, to the point where no other character in the game is actually favored to beat him. Inspired by the dystopian robo-future science fiction of Mega Man, 20XX is a thought experiment that takes us to the fringes of eSports, to a time when all players have reached machine-like levels of technical skill. for Wii U is threatening to steal their competitive spotlight, but because of an imaginary year in the future they call 20XX. Not because Nintendo is trying to shut down their next tournament, or because the new Smash Bros.