Brainfreeze
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I understand the argument, I just think it's wrong. Early kills aren't necessarily broken just because they're powerful, and I'm not sure why people use that as an argument against them. Obviously these customs aren't that easy to use, or we'd see more players doing well with them. And even if they do start to look a little overpowered: so did wobbling or shinespikes in Melee, your default reaction shouldn't be to ban them. We need to let the meta develop a little bit before we take such drastic action. I think Evo has been a big boom for that, so I'm glad they allowed customs here.
And just because people are used to playing one way doesn't mean that's a legitimate argument for keeping things that way. They stick to defaults either because they're used to or they like them best, and that's fine, but I like players having the option to do more.
Static Manny timed people out at CEO too, the customs aren't changing anything in that regard. Honestly, the changing customs were the one interesting thing to watch in that whole set, to see how Ally reacted.
I think I'll lose a lot of interest in Smash 4 if they remove customs and switch to 3 stock matches, like a lot of players want. I just think it loses a lot of what makes in unique and fun that way, and I'd rather just watch something else most of the time.
