TEAMING

Teaming is ridiculous, and I do not understand how it is not a bannable offense. Teaming is essentially exploiting the system of ELO, and being an exploit, should be bannable.

Teaming is when two players get into the same game/lobby and work together, not attacking eachother, to eradicate the competition, thus boosting their ELO. A good example of a similar tactic is "Boosting" in Call of Duty. This is when a player(1) on a team gets a friend(2) to join the other team. 1 then repeatedly kills 2 for XP and levels, and then they switch, 2 killing 1 for levels and XP. In Call of Duty, this is bannable, and is enforced by the games developers. So in Smash, with such a similar tactic, why isn't it bannable? It is a cheap exploit used to get to the top of the leaderboards.

While it may seem difficult to enforce a "no teams" rule, any video proof should be enough to get these players temporarily banned. The ban system for Smash could work as follows:

1st Offense: 3 day ban (from smash at least)

2nd Offense: 6 day ban " "

3rd Offense: Full ELO reset to 1000

4th + Offense: Full ELO reset to 0

Of course the admins would have final say on the bans and punishments, these are just suggestions.

MAPS While I agree with most of the map choices for Ranked Smash, there are two maps in particular that I feel (along with many other players) need to be removed from Ranked.

SWAMP

FTL

ITEMS

In particular there is one item I would like to look at. This is the "Jetpack". This item essentially allows players to get multiple lives out of just a single life, by flying back from certain death. While the item is great and needs to stay in the game, many players hold onto it for the whole game, and it can be the difference between a win and a loss. A fix for this, as I saw in another thread, would be to have its durability decrease without use (over time) after its initial use.

Thank you for reading my thread. Feel free to reply with any suggestions you have to the proposed topics. If you have other things you would like changed, please voice your opinions and I will add them to the thread.

-Lime