3rd December 2005, 4:14 PM
If a newbie has a perfectly equal chance of victory, then the game is based on luck. A game based on luck is barely a game at all rather than an excercise in randomness.
From my own experience, the good players will kick the arse of the newbies every single time in SSB. It takes a while just to get the hang of smash attacks, and generally the new players do have to work at it to be able to compete. In the end, skill does determine the winner. Health, or SSB's version of it, doesn't determine the victor that much though. The match can turn around at any time because being at 300% doesn't mean one hit kills, it just means it'll be a challenge and you'll need to make sure whatever hits you take send you into the ground.
From my own experience, the good players will kick the arse of the newbies every single time in SSB. It takes a while just to get the hang of smash attacks, and generally the new players do have to work at it to be able to compete. In the end, skill does determine the winner. Health, or SSB's version of it, doesn't determine the victor that much though. The match can turn around at any time because being at 300% doesn't mean one hit kills, it just means it'll be a challenge and you'll need to make sure whatever hits you take send you into the ground.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)