Underleveled posted...
That being said, I think if that poll were held again today, Melee would demolish Brawl. Brawl didn't even get into BGE3 and is so old now that its fans care more about more recent Smash games. Plus Melee can be easily rallied.
Yeah, I'm of the opinion that Melee didn't lose to
Brawl
, it lost to "the most recent Smash game". I think Melee would've lost to SSB4 in 2015 as well, and certainly loses to Ultimate if there were to be a contest match right now.
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