Smash Ultimate pro ESAM explains why Hero shouldn\u2019t be banned ESAM\/NintendoSuper Smash Bros Ultimate pro Eric \u2018ESAM\u2019 Lew of Panda Global has weighed in on the controversy over the game\u2019s newest fighter Hero. Hero\u2019s legality has been a highly debated topic within the Smash community ever since it was shown that RNG or luck plays a big factor in getting value out of him. The Dragon Quest character has the ability to land critical hits which result in double damage and doubling the distance an opponent can fly off screen. This can lead to kills at 0% even for heavy fighters. Additionally, Hero uses magic and can choose from four random spells at any given time. Some of these are stronger than others. For instance, thwack can potentially kill a fighter right off the bat and snooze can sleep a target, resulting in a free smash attack for Hero and with it, as previously discussed, a critical hit. For ESAM, these elements are not enough to warrant a ban, though he agrees some parts of Hero\u2019s kit are silly. \u201cI\u2019ve seen matches end where like you get the first kill and then you Hocus Pocus and you become big and then hit someone twice and kill them two times. Like, that\u2019s kinda stupid and I don\u2019t necessarily disagree, but the chance of that happening is incredibly low,\u201d he said in a video. \u201cThere are much more likely chances that a misfire is going to ruin a Luigi game or stitch face is going to appear or a bomb for Peach and you\u2019re not going to try to ban those characters. And I\u2019m not comparing the effectiveness of one bomb or one misfire to a Hocus Pocus \u2013 clearly that Hocus Pocus can be better, but the RNG is still low of that happening\u2026\u201d he added. Read More: GimR explains why Hero is \u2018broken\u2019 in Ultimate The Pikachu master went on to say that he takes the biggest issue with Magic Burst \u2013 an ability that uses 100% of Hero\u2019s MP, but even it has drawbacks such as it only being a good option when a player is up a stock. \u201cZero MP Hero is going to be one of the most easily edge-guarded characters in the entire game,\u201d he explained. He isn\u2019t the only professional against the ban. Legendary Smash player Gonzalo \u2018ZeRo\u2019 Barrios recently spoke out against bans, calling it a \u201cknee-jerk reaction\u201d. Some tournaments have already decided to ban Hero. South Australia made the decision earlier in August and in their reasoning stated that the character\u2019s RNG is anti-competitive. Super Smash Bros pro Leffen defended the ban and wanted more regions to follow suit. It will be interesting to see how things play out and if players end up having success with Hero, resulting in even more discussions about the fighter\u2019s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Smash Ultimate pro ESAM explains why Hero shouldn\u2019t be banned ESAM\/NintendoSuper Smash Bros Ultimate pro Eric \u2018ESAM\u2019 Lew of Panda Global has weighed in on the controversy over the game\u2019s newest fighter Hero. Hero\u2019s legality has been a highly debated topic within the Smash community ever since it was shown that RNG or luck plays […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}