In all fairness, Brawl is probably the GOAT when it comes to fighting games. Tekken, Mortal Combat, Street Fighter... those are great, but Brawl is on another level. It's the 1% difference on the tail end of a limited logarithm.
Brawl is probably the worst smash game. Not only is there a near complete loss of all the tech skill from melee they added random tripping. Random tripping is single handedly the stupidest game design choice I've ever seen. Brawl isn't all bad though. If you use the project M mod or legacy XP then the game becomes the best of the franchise.
Nah none of my friends played Diddy or meta knight. There's a reason most tournaments either straight up banned meta knight or diddy or everyone picked one of them. The game was unfairly made, it had a very poor rock-paper-scissors system. If you never approached you were more likely to win. Then the random tripping... Don't worry smash 4 was still worse. Brawl could've been great revamp the combat system a little and remove random tripping and you have a good game.
I actually prefer legacy XP. Ultimate could've been the greatest there ever was but Mashed potato Soccer guy didn't want to put in some options to disable the auto short hop attack and the buffering. If they gave some options to remove that it would be great. What would've been best in my opinion would be to have all of their games physics systems as being selectable.
I started off as a Kirby enthusiast, but then I switched to Yoshi because I find shitting eggs funnier than shitting bricks... and I'm not actually trying to win, just have fun I'm the random.
Melee fanboy alert