You can also see other levels used in some tournaments, including Fountain of Dreams and Dream Land. Some tournaments even allow Minecraft World. Each tournament, whether it`s a local or major tournament, will have its own list of legal steps, so always check ahead. The following is Smash 64`s ban list for stages in tournaments. As of mid-2015, four levels – Dream Land, Hyrule Castle, Congo Jungle and Peach`s Castle – were legal. Currently, Dream Land is the only stage that can be used in tournaments. However, as tournaments have moved from the vanilla version of the game to mod 19XX, in some tournaments such as GENESIS 5 or GENESIS 6, the Duel Zone and Final Destination levels, which were not available without piracy, saw some presence in doubles tournaments, although this is usually rare. Level lists vary by tournament due to various factors, such as: how many Counterpick levels are available or what levels of downloadable content are allowed (or approved). This section covers the levels used in the competitive games Super Smash Bros.
for Wii U. for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS stages, see below. The legality of the stages refers to the playable status of the different stages of the general public tournaments. Music tracks are not tied to specific phases. My Music in the sound settings allows you to select all the songs in the series to which the scene is linked! Legal levels can be divided into three categories: a neutral/starter phase, which is always played in the first game, a counter-choice phase, which is chosen after the first part of a set that offers slight advantages to certain characters, and forbidden levels, which cannot be chosen at all for various reasons. In Counterpicks, the winner of the previous game beats 2 legal levels after character selection and the loser chooses one of the remaining levels. Since the release of its Wii U counterpart, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS has had minimal exposure to tournaments. The following levels are used by Anther`s Ladder for 3DS netplay and most online 3DS tournaments: In general, due to the wide variety between stages and types of scenes and the series as a whole, very few levels are balanced enough to be legal for professional competitive play. For this reason, a large part of the stages will be prohibited in all games. These forbidden levels in singles and doubles are generally allowed in competitive triple or team fights.
If you are in the next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Competitive Players, you need to learn about the different legal steps of the game. Tournament Legal describes the rules and parameters accepted for use in competitive smash tournaments. While in SSB4 many elements of tournament rules are generally consistent in major tournaments, some details vary from tournament to tournament. In Super Smash Bros. The brawl tournaments soon realized that Meta Knight possessed powerful traits that put him on his own level and were considered cheap by many. Over the years, massive debates have raged over whether or not he should be banned from tournaments, with the ultimate general consensus being that Meta Knight would be legal, but teams with two Meta Knights would not. In the current Smash Back Room rulebook, all levels are definitely listed as Starter, Counterpick or Forbidden Level, as follows: Tournament Legal refers to stages, promotions, and sometimes even characters that can be used in tournaments. Each game has different standards for what is legal for the tournament, due to a variety of levels and the fact that the characters and physics of the game are modified in each game. The following phases are legal in the full set of recommended rules of the PMBR 2018 [1] The term legal step can also be used to describe any neutral or counter-selection phase, or equivalently, any non-prohibited phase. In most cases, each tournament organizer or smash community may have their own idea of what`s doable, and most will likely use different levels depending on where you go. Therefore, we recommend that you ask your local competitive community what their legal steps are before attempting to compete.
In the past, the following steps were legal counter-choices, but are now prohibited: Despite the list of prohibited levels, most tournaments include a variation of the “gentleman`s rule,” a rule that allows players to choose any level, including prohibited levels, if all players in the game agree. This is usually the only way for forbidden stages to watch serious tournaments. But even if this rule is in effect, it rarely makes sense to play on forbidden stages outside of a much more skilled player who allows a more opposing or very young player to choose any level, as most competitive players never want to voluntarily play on the forbidden levels, for the same reasons that the rulebook had forbidden them. Even if the rule is in effect, TOs can still prohibit certain stages via the gentleman`s rule if the scene tends to delay the tournament by causing much longer games (such as Temple, New Pork City and The Great Cave Offensive). The following levels were once legal as a counter-choice, but are now generally prohibited in tournaments. Due to their previous legality and the prohibition of certain stages as controversial decisions, they can still watch some tournament matches via the gentleman`s rule. All levels used in competition always disable hazards and level transformations to eliminate RNG from the game. This gives stages like Pokémon Stage 2 a chance to be potentially viable. I can understand the logic behind bringing all the Omega levels together, but people realize that they`re not all exactly the same as the final destination, are they? Some allow stage arrows, some don`t, some have walls that go all the way down, some have edges that are harder to grip like Lylat Cruise.
I think I read somewhere that some stages also have different soil textures (like grass), which leads to slightly different physics. The stages are divided into tournaments into Starter, Counterpick and Banned. Startup steps are the only steps used in the first game of a game. After that, the loser can choose any level, starter or counter-selection that is not prohibited. Each player can also prohibit the opponent from choosing a level throughout the set, as explained earlier in the set procedure. Legal steps can also change over time to account for external factors, such as when a character is too overwhelmed on a particular stage. The rise of Meta Knight in Brawl is an example of this, as players banned any level where he had too much of an advantage. The commonality of the characters can also play a role in which the phases are legal or prohibited. Also in Brawl, Meta Knight`s growing importance in the metagame meant that stage lists were becoming more restrictive in most regions. In the Tri-State region, Meta Knight was not excluded from tournaments and, as a result, the Tri-State tournament scene banned or restricted stages such as Delfino Plaza, Hallebard and Rainbow Cruise due to Meta Knight`s overwhelming power on these stages.
In some areas, however, Meta Knight was not as widespread as the tri-state region; As such, some of the above levels have different laws, with the halberd sometimes being a starting level and the frigate Orpheon moving from a forbidden level to a counter-choice. WHOBO 4, the first American major banned MK, had a long list of stages that included Delfino Plaza, Hellerd, Rainbow Cruise and Brinstar as counter-choices, although most of these stages were banned in legal MK tournaments at the time. There is a different list of steps depending on which part of the game you are in. There are starting levels that can be selected before the start of a match: After the first battle, the losing player can now choose a counter-choice phase. These are levels that cannot be starting stages, but in most tournaments can be selected as counter-choice in addition to the starting stages mentioned above, which can also be used as counter-choice: Some tournaments prohibit certain stages that are allowed in others. Most tournament organizers agree that stages that change shape during combat should be banned.