>>51515707>why did it die so quicklyIt didn't. You can still get matches on ranked within 1-2 minutes during most times of day, and the community still runs multiple online weeklies and monthlies and there are still places that run locals.
Obviously it's not as active as Tekken or DBFZ and such, but for a game that's 6+ years old locked on Nintendo consoles it's pretty damn good in terms of being active. There are fighting games on more platforms that came out more recently that come from more established series that are less active. (BB: crosstag for example). And before COVID we still had multiple majors with 100+ entrants a year.
>and get snored out of EVO for being too boring to watchI'm not gonna lie, our EVO showing was shit. I mentioned this in
>>51515697, but basically, the game had only come out a month or two prior, and the scene was still figuring the game out. Nobody knew what they were doing and a lot of the game's systems weren't understood. zoners like suicuine and gardevoir dominated, and because smash ran overtime before us it threw the whole schedule off and made Pokken run extra long too.
As I said in the other post, though, within even a month later the way the game was played at a high level was totally different from how it was at EVO, let alone now. Generalist characters dominate, not zoners; and typical BNB combos and optimals do way more damage then anything people were doing at evo, there's much more optimized use of PSP, there's way more setups and tech people use, etc.
If you want examples of actually good matches that show the game off at a high level, I'd suggest Kira FR's matches in LCQ from this past worlds (3:25:35 and 6:27:53 in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVsL3eLTGg). Her use of Pikachu's mobility tools and cancels to both trip up the other player and apply pressure at the same time was nuts, never seen anything like that by any other pika player. I can give some other suggestions as well if you want them.
