SuperLink said:
Brawl isn't a fighting game, it's a party game that some competetive players try to pretend is a proper fighting game.
Party games don't need proper balancing, because the idea of them is to just have laughs. Smash Bros could probably be a fighting game, and if they wanted to make it one then they could do balancing, but it was never intended to be that way.
Sounds like bollocks, to me. You might want to call it a party game, and you might be right in that respect (to me, it's a four-player fighting game), but since when are competitive multiplayer games excused for poor balancing? Also, you have no idea whether they intended the game to be well-balanced or not. You can't just state that "it was never intended to be that way" as if that's some sort of fact. It's nothing but your opinion.