Official Custom Moveset Project: Difference between revisions

The project was started by former ''[[Balanced Brawl]]'' developer Amazing Ampharos in 2014, and it was accepted by a large number of local and regional tournaments in March 2015, with [[EVO 2015]] being the largest tournament that used the project. Following EVO 2015 in July 2015, it was decided by the majority of [[tournament organizer]]s to place a general ban on custom moves, for a variety of different factors. As a result, the Official Custom Moveset Project was officially discontinued in late 2015.

Some players also claimed that the extent custom movesets helped characters was unfair. A number of bottom-tiered characters, such as {{SSB4|Zelda}}, {{SSB4|Jigglypuff}} and {{SSB4|King Dedede}}, were argued to gain little to no benefit from custom movesets, and some high-tiered characters, such as {{SSB4|Diddy Kong}} and {{SSB4|Sheik}}, were also argued to actually gain even further benefits from their custom movesets, leading to further [[tier list|imbalance in ''Smash 4'']]. Some custom movesets were also argued to have created [[broken|degenerate gameplay]] for some characters, with characters such as {{SSB4|Sonic}} and {{SSB4|Donkey Kong}} gaining powerful options that most players found unfun or frustrating to deal with. {{SSB4|Villager}} especially became controversial for his custom movesets, with {{Sm|Mew2King}} citing [https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2015/mar/22/mew2king-not-all-custom-moves-should-be-allowed-custom-villager-ruins-game-cites-actual-example-smash-4-tournament/ him as the reason certain custom moves should be banned], specifically referencing a match where {{Sm|ADHD}} defeated {{Sm|Nairo}} with a custom Villager, despite considering Nairo the stronger player. The release of {{SSB4|Mewtwo}}, the first [[DLC]] character, was also claimed to have created further imbalance, as Mewtwo and all other DLC characters lacked custom moves of any sort, preventing DLC characters from gaining any potential benefits.  

Tournament organizers also felt that the need to create custom movesets, regardless if they were pre-set or not, reduced the number of potential setups players could bring to tournaments, as unlocking all the potential custom moves required considerable time and effort from players; unlike [[unlockable character]]s or [[unlockable stage]]s, [[custom part]]s could only be attained through specialized methods that did not guarantee a new custom move. As the Official Custom Moveset Project also required a "master" 3DS console for each Wii U setup, this meant that players who owned a Wii U, but not a 3DS, to  be unable to use their Wii U as a setup. Furthermore, the laborious process of unlocking custom moves was made slightly more efficient with the 3DS version of the game, meaning that players without the 3DS version of the game would likely have greater difficulty in unlocking all the custom movesets.

Outside of the above, there was debate over how effectively the Official Custom Moveset Project could police itself; on top of having 52 characters with 8 movesets each, it was questioned how well the staff behind the project could monitor which movesets proved too weak or strong, as well as who would get a say in what moveset combinations were too strong.

Following the conclusion of EVO 2015, it was decided by the majority of tournament organizers to place a ban on custom moves entirely, starting with majors such as [[Low Tier City 3]] and [[Smash Factor 4]], and custom movesets have not appeared as part of a ruleset in major tournaments since then, which included [[EVO 2016]]. The Official Custom Moveset Project was discontinued in response, and thread on the project was later locked.

Despite the ban, some tournaments, such as [[Glitch (tournament)|Glitch]] and [[Glitch 2]], have  allowed the use of custom movesets with the original Official Custom Moveset Project, though only in separate side events. A few regions, such as the Australian scene, have also allowed the use of custom movesets in varying degrees, but this is generally only restricted to Mii Fighter and sometimes Palutena.

Each character has ten preset custom moveset combinations available in addition to the default combination (except [[Mii Fighter]]s, who additionally have more movesets available), transferred from a master 3DS with every custom unlocked, all without [[equipment]] and named by number of the combination's [[neutral special]], [[side special]], [[up special]], and [[down special]], respectively. The combinations were chosen with input from each character's playerbase, to be the 10 most competitively-viable move combinations possible, and thus be the moveset combinations the vast majority of players would use if given their own free reign to select. These combinations can be selected immediately via the character select screen on each Wii U that has been set up to accommodate, which not only eliminates the time that would be spent by players putting their custom moveset together manually, but also ensures players do not run into issues with their preferred custom moves not being available on a Wii U setup. Smaller tournaments may still choose to allow players to replace the last two custom moveset combinations with their own preference, which is explained further below.

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