Aug 29, 2022 · Best boxx style controller for playing melee + traditional fighters (gg strive) Looking into getting a rectangle and wanna hear from people who use them for things other than melee. Of course melee is the priority but being able to play traditional fighters would be a plus.

The boxx has sort of ruined the illusion of melee for me, and in a very weird way. I tend to play a lower tier character, and play more to enjoy myself than to win. If you know much about low tiers, you'll know that a lot of them struggle with fox and falco's up tilts in general.

Aug 21, 2022 · The latter especially because some techs must be performed in a particular way since the boxx has nerfs, rectangles have weird behavior (eg socd), and for hand health reasons. In terms of a gameplan, just start with every move and basic motion (I found turnarounds especially hard at the start), then basic techs, then advanced techs.

Dec 25, 2020 · And then you have the added benefit of not forever coupling Melee rules to the poorly-defined reference implementation that is the Nintendo GCC. If the mechanics are that big a problem, UCF-style patch in a ban on pivot utilt + add SDI-per-hitlag rate limits.

May 7, 2021 · A competitive Melee focused extension of the reddit Super Smash Brothers community. Members Online Fiction's post-win interview: "I played Fox for an hour this week, played Gio for half an hour twice— easiest character of all-time.

Jan 31, 2024 · Melee really is a game about the interactions with another player more than the basic mechanics imo. That said, if you have some money and are really interested then buying a rectangle is good too. The main reason I bought one was that I was excited to relearn the game and break some of my bad habits, you don't have those habits and you do have ...

Apr 16, 2018 · This file contains my design philosophy for the B0XX, an ergonomic controller intended for Super Smash Bros. Melee. To produce and engineer the B0XX, I work alongside Stephen "Streamlord" Kasmir and Kyle "Simple Controllers" McDowell. The B0XX will be commercially available in July 2018. Here is a list of relevant URL's for staying up to date:

Oct 29, 2023 · Boxx player opinions are routinely ignored in this. I think neutral socd feels awful, and it creats a bunch of other problems that then have to be specifically fixed. Imo, a well implemented travel time simulation could produce all the desired nerfs without requiring nsocd.

May 10, 2021 · "Boxx controllers, in addition to physical therapy, severe limiting of play time, and consistent, conscious effort to correct bad posture and habits has a good chance to let people with severe hand injuries play melee again."

Sep 10, 2020 · There aren't any top player(s) using a b0xx to compete either. People break out of pools with smash boxes. Leffen uses hit box products now (he's using the cross up for tekken, and he's used a hit box clone for dbzf) but you don't see him or anyone else in top 20 using any sort of b0xx contro