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*'''[[Pocket character]]''': A secondary character the player doesn't properly practise with, who they explicitly use when it will give them a significant advantage over the opponent's character, or in a desperate bid to try throwing the opponent off with matchup unfamiliarity. | *'''[[Pocket character]]''': A secondary character the player doesn't properly practise with, who they explicitly use when it will give them a significant advantage over the opponent's character, or in a desperate bid to try throwing the opponent off with matchup unfamiliarity. | ||
*'''[[Power Rankings]]''': A ranking of players based on their competitive success over a defined period, referred to as PR for short. A PR's scale can range from covering only a city's local scene, all the way up to covering the entire world (such as [[SSBMRank]]). | *'''[[Power Rankings]]''': A ranking of players based on their competitive success over a defined period, referred to as PR for short. A PR's scale can range from covering only a city's local scene, all the way up to covering the entire world (such as [[SSBMRank]]). | ||
*'''Professional smasher''': Also just '''Professional''' or '''Pro''' for short. An antiquated term used to describe a player that is skilled enough to make a real profit playing Smash, or for any high level player. While a prevalent term in competitive ''Smash''{{'}}s earlier years, coming from [[MLG]] formally using the term to label players that placed highly at their events, it fell out of favor over time, and around after the release of ''Smash 4'', it primarily only saw regular use on SmashWiki, until the wiki finally made a formal decision to phase out its usage in 2023. This is partly for being more of a mouthful than to just say someone is a "good player", and partly because the common definition of the word "professional" is | *'''Professional smasher''': Also just '''Professional''' or '''Pro''' for short. An antiquated term used to describe a player that is skilled enough to make a real profit playing ''Smash'', or for any high level player. While a prevalent term in competitive ''Smash''{{'}}s earlier years, coming from [[MLG]] formally using the term to label players that placed highly at their events, it fell out of favor over time, and around after the release of ''Smash 4'', it primarily only saw regular use on SmashWiki, until the wiki finally made a formal decision to phase out its usage in 2023. This is partly for being more of a mouthful than to just say someone is a "good player", and partly because the common definition of the word "professional" is someone who does something for a living, of which there have been very few people that have ever made a legitimate living playing ''Smash'', causing confusion and mockery for using the term to describe players that ''Smash'' was supplementary income for at best. | ||
**'''Semi-professional smasher''': Also just '''Semi-professional''' or '''Semi-pro''' for short. An antiquated term used to describe above-average competitive players that could rank highly in their region and win some money from their local tournaments, but wasn't a threat to place highly at larger regionals and majors. Like professional, it fell out of favor in community usage around the later ''Brawl'' or ''Smash 4'' era, and SmashWiki made a formal decision to phase out its usage in 2023. | **'''Semi-professional smasher''': Also just '''Semi-professional''' or '''Semi-pro''' for short. An antiquated term used to describe above-average competitive players that could rank highly in their region and win some money from their local tournaments, but wasn't a threat to place highly at larger regionals and majors. Like professional, it fell out of favor in community usage around the later ''Brawl'' or ''Smash 4'' era, and SmashWiki made a formal decision to phase out its usage in 2023. | ||
**'''Top professional smasher''': Also just '''Top professional''' or '''Top pro''' for short. An antiquated term used to describe the very best players in each respective ''Smash'' game, who can place very highly at any tournament, including major-level events. Like professional, it fell out of favor in community usage around the later ''Brawl'' or ''Smash 4'' era, with people just calling these players "top level players", and SmashWiki made a formal decision to phase out its usage in 2023. Aside from the aforementioned issues with the usage of "professional", this term caused additional issues as the level of player it was used to described was gradually diluted over time, with the wiki at one point labelling over a thousand different players as being "top professionals" in at least one ''Smash'' game, causing farther confusion and mockery when so few of these players ever actually made serious money from playing ''Smash''. | **'''Top professional smasher''': Also just '''Top professional''' or '''Top pro''' for short. An antiquated term used to describe the very best players in each respective ''Smash'' game, who can place very highly at any tournament, including major-level events. Like professional, it fell out of favor in community usage around the later ''Brawl'' or ''Smash 4'' era, with people just calling these players "top level players", and SmashWiki made a formal decision to phase out its usage in 2023. Aside from the aforementioned issues with the usage of "professional", this term caused additional issues as the level of player it was used to described was gradually diluted over time, with the wiki at one point labelling over a thousand different players as being "top professionals" in at least one ''Smash'' game, causing farther confusion and mockery when so few of these players ever actually made serious money from playing ''Smash''. | ||