And I will say that in like... 80% of the possible locations for a Smash Ball to spawn at any given time there will be skill involved.
But still, 20% of spawns flipping a match is pretty dumb.
Though I mean even if they spawned the way you say I'd say axe them because the match turning into "grab the smash ball or lose" at random points would be bad. Now if they were something resembling balanced and spawned the way you said, like you were saying would be cool, then yeah, they'd probably be allowed.
Items in Brawl are kinda just botched. I almost think the designers put stuff like tripping and absurd items in to actively discourage competitive play, hearing the dude's stance on competitive play. Not sure why they'd intentionally piss off part of the fanbase but what are you gonna do.
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