Bidou: Difference between revisions

Bidou was brought into the spotlight by [[My Smash Corner]] from a [https://youtu.be/avr9CQlSqRI video] previously uploaded by a Japanese smasher, and is believed to have the potential to affect the [[metagame]] sometime in the future if a player masters its capabilities. Its full potential requires the usage of advanced techniques, which become much easier to perform. Bidou is a unique method of playing ''Smash'', since it requires a dedicated control scheme, and involves holding down buttons for extended periods of time, an input that is otherwise unheard of in ''Smash''. It is currently unpopular in terms of usage among most players attending tournaments due to the difficulty and dedication in having to adapt to the unique control scheme into muscle memory, particularly for ''Smash'' veterans who have played with relatively unchanged controls for years. Nevertheless, it has gained a lot of attention, due to several useful applications that are often too difficult to pull off consistently with a default control scheme. However, the use of Bidou in modern tournament settings can be limited; while most local events allow wireless controllers (most of which are the most compatible with Bidou), they are often banned at major tournaments for their unsyncing complications delaying the ''Smash 4'' events. Northern California has even issued a ban on the technique altogether, for the reason that it gives players that have control over it an unfair advantage to those that do not.