Daniel Kim

If Ultimate was in Melee's perspective Sakurai’s vision of smash was for it to be a party game that players of all skill levels can enjoy and have fun. He sees Ultimate’s competitive scene not fitting in his vision so Nintendo tries to cancel Ultimate streaming Evo despite many people donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to have it in Evo. Sakurai, then makes a new smash game, dubbing it the best in its franchise in order to combat this competitive scene that doesn’t fit into his vision. Sakurai proceeds to take out jumping out of shield, airdodging, ledge trumping, ledge trapping, less hitstun, every character more floaty, adding more buffer and added more rng to Ultimate’s new successor in order to kill the Ultimate competitive community. Ultimate community would hate the new game and the successors of that game that follow the same format. People might like that new slower, rng based gameplay, especially casuals where they can win without learning how to nair, ledge trap,etc. However Ultimate players would hate the new game as it’s actively discouraging them to stop using competitive tools (like aerial attacks or combos) that worked in Ultimate. However more and more of the Ultimate fanbase starts to die out as the newer smash is graphically fancier and has 1000 characters! Popular pros like Nairo, Marss, Samsora and Mkleo quit because they don’t enjoy the new game and the fanbase is essentially dead or moved on to this new successor of Ultimate that is supposedly better in every way. However a new generation and a documentary revive ultimate’s competitive scene. Ultimate is Sick! Ultimate doesn't have a proper sequel so they stick to it. Ultimate players enjoy the newer smash games a bit but it’s nothing like ultimate. There’s no combos, no hitstun so you stick to Ultimate. However these fans from the newer smash games start hating on you for your belief that your game is more fun. The new game fans can’t cope with the fact that people would play the 20 year old Ultimate over their new game that has better graphics and +1000 characters. “Why would you play a 20 year old game that looks so old and has such little characters?” And fans of the newer smash game that tried Ultimate say, “I played ultimate and it feels so clunky! Learning how to nair and fair is so hard and it’s clearly a glitch not intended by Sakurai.” “All you Ultimate players are elitist and we feel like you hate our game despite your players playing it often and your pros even attending tournaments for it.” (one star'd for a specific audience to read, obv melee deserves the 5) The ultimate player receives backlash from this new smash community for saying, "I like this new game, but it's not like Ultimate." This is the storyline of Melee, think twice before spreading hate on melee.