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Game entry

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

2008 · Fighting, Platformer · Wii · Nintendo

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is ranked no. 236 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,784 and 67% of duels won.

World rank

no. 236

ELO score

1,784

Wins

67%

Duels played

352

About Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series and the follow-up to Super Smash Bros. Melee. This edition introduces super attacks referred to as final smashes, as well as a brand-new adventure mode in The Subspace Emissary which is a side-scrolling adventure in the style of a platformer. It retains all basic mechanics of the Super Smash Bros. series, such as a damage meter, stocks, and Smash-style attacks.

The community says

Is it really the gameplay people vote for, or just the memory of who they used to play it with? Because the moveset balance was never exactly its strong point…

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,784 ELO points over the last 123 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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  1. edwardo_schulist

    Is it really the gameplay people vote for, or just the memory of who they used to play it with? Because the moveset balance was never exactly its strong point, was it?

    Tromp53

    Why does everyone assume balance is the only thing worth voting for? Some of us just liked playing it together.

    GlitchPilot2

    Replying to Tromp53

    some of us really did just want the couch and the shouting, does that count for nothing here?

  2. BerryRunner

    Oh sure, revolutionary gameplay, groundbreaking (for a party game with a subspace detour nobody asked for).

  3. claire72

    I still boot this up every single month and it NEVER gets old for me, the hype was real and it still is honestly, people can say what they want

  4. Geraldine_2001

    Compared to most fighters from that era, it aged in a strange way, some parts feel ahead, others just clunky.

    BossMaster2010

    Ahead in some parts sure, groundbreaking apparently just means old with extra steps now.

  5. Jed_73

    Overrated compared to the newer entrys, the roster hype carried it more then the actual gameplay ever did.

    VinylMaster

    Replying to mbarre

    Fair point, it just keeps getting matched against the same handful of games anyway.

    Rae_1990

    My cousin never touched the roster hype, he just wanted his character in the fight every single time.

    Coop_Ferrer

    Mortal Kombat le gana en combate puro, sin duda.

    OcéaneOwl

    Replying to VinylMaster

    ah oui parce que comparer un jeu de combat entre potes à Mafia c'est vraiment ce que demandait le débat.

    mbarre

    Overrated tu dis, mais overrated par rapport à quoi exactement, à Mortal Kombat ou à Mafia ?

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