This is the feature that everyone forgets about but it makes for some hilarious stuff. “It makes every character either like Sheik or Ganon” from Little Z pretty much sums it up.
@@diuxteranima4096 Go to options in the ZL or ZR tab, and there you can find Custom Balancing. From there you can nerf or buff the characters to your extent. I know this is really late but hopefully it helped lol
@@orenkallay3243 on one of his last videos he said something about going on holiday or something along the lines of no daily content for a little while
@@brain_tonic Yeah, but you only gotta set it up once, maybe make it a series where he can do like, a row of rebalancing so the effort gives a fair bit of content. Then the roster can be used forever
You can pretty easily set up Ganondorf to not flinch, have super armor, and buffed damage so you just charge up smash and the opponent can't do anything about it.
Hopcat is out here secretly developing patches to keep the game alive over the years. Very fun idea that I mess around with at times: Put Pikachu at max buff, turn on spirits, and give him a full grab build (make sure the other player uses a spirit with similar power level but no abilities). Put on the Pikachu Libre skin. Win with *grabs, pummels, and throws only* while the other player is free to use whatever they want.
About time someone bring this feature up, it's actually underrated and turns Smash Ultimate from kinda dull to me meta wise to a more unpredictable and fun game that everyone is actually on even footing, and this video sure has entertained me a lot, I want this to be explored more and see if this can be a part of an extended competitive meta like Ultimate EX or something.
So when me and my roommates first got Smash Bros, we bought it and the Switch from someone who had custom balances on. Isabelle was at the highest buff and we all thought she was OP as hell
Hopcat perfectly balanced smash, as all things should be.... On a completely unrelated side note, can someone Photoshop Hopcats face onto Thanos for me???
I came here to write "you usually deserve your victories these days, Hop" and then realized it's canonical to say "HopCat deserves his victories unless they're HopCat Victories"
the reason being so many characters are in top tier is simply because smash ultimate is so balanced. so many characters can hold their own against even the worst mu’s, even captain falcon vs pikachu
This isn't necessarily relevant to Custom Balance, but I recently replayed Adventure Mode on Hard, but I didn't use any of the skill tree buffs. Also, I tried to either use weak spirits or spirits that had less power than the opponent. It was brutal, but I think it helped me improve. For example I HAD to learn whiff punishing since my attacks did like 5% per hit. I'd recommend playing an "extreme" playthrough of Adventure Mode to anyone. It's super hard, but it'll practically condition you to get better at the game.
I think only the low tiers should've been buffed because now the low teirs are as good as high tiers without de-buffs but do to the de-buffs the high tiers are worse than the low tiers.
I'd agree with that, if up smash wasn't a thing. Min Min keeps you away for half the match, and then your reward for getting in on her is contending with a massive frame 8 anti-airing out-of-shield option, and if you get hit by it, you're back to the keepaway game.
@@chacha4343 something people complain about is the fact that it also reflects but something I thought was worth mentioning is that it’s a very committal reflector. You’d be better off straight up avoiding projectiles than trying to reflect them with up smash. Plus the fact that she can’t use it in the air means she’s pretty vulnerable to projectiles all together. Unimportant but just something I thought was worth mentioning.
A. I'm honestly surprised they finally did it. B. I didn't expect Hop to "balance" smash, I half expected him to just crank all values to the max and just watch the chaos. C. This was honestly really good, and I genuinely hope they screw around with custom balance more in the future. D. Do this again, but crank everyone up 30%. Edit: I forgot to mention this. If you have Ganon's CB at +30%, reverse warlock punch does 63% and kills everyone at 0%, and if you do Kirby's warlock punch with +30% it does like 76% and super kills everyone at 0%.
This is the feature that everyone forgets about but it makes for some hilarious stuff. “It makes every character either like Sheik or Ganon” from Little Z pretty much sums it up.
I use to use it then turned it off and forgot
Speaking of which I would like there to be another video of this where they play Sheik at least once because it would be NUTS.
how do I use this??
@@diuxteranima4096 I wonder too, this is standard in the game?
@@diuxteranima4096 Go to options in the ZL or ZR tab, and there you can find Custom Balancing. From there you can nerf or buff the characters to your extent. I know this is really late but hopefully it helped lol
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
All hail the hop of house cat
Just a heads up.... it doesn't work for online....at all....even battle arenas.
Just so you all know
Perfectly balanced, as all things should(nt) be
balance is a fools master
Thanos no
I love how this buffs Ganon by giving him the one thing he does *not* need more of
Ddoyyahhh
Ganon is slow and his recovery sucks, guess he needs MORE POWER!
No period, WOW so uncultured.
@@gramerpolice6429 u can’t even spell grammar right my boy.
@@brain_tonicngl thats what Nintendo would do. I mean they never fixed falcon's dashback
Nintendo: *Doesn’t buff Gannon*
Hopcat: “Fine I’ll do it myself”
This video was actually hilarious 🤣Hopcat's face when he died to plant up-throw at 100% was amazing
To be fair, plant up throw kills around that percent normally anyway
@@awesomeeevee133 Pichu player, huh?
@@IccyFreeze I play Cloud and die at around 110%
Now time for all of the characters to get a 30% boost to all of their moves…
This mechanic is basically "You balance the game if you're going to complain".
hopcat saving us from the holiday content drought
People say I should "socialise" but like bruh smash Content
Every loner ever ig
Does anyone know where poppt went
@@orenkallay3243 on one of his last videos he said something about going on holiday or something along the lines of no daily content for a little while
@@emberpowertcg7692 ohh I watched but I must have missed it. Hope he has a good holiday
you guys should make spirit sets for every character, so that everyone has buffs specific to their character.
That would be awesome like giving little Mac ho oh so they get a third jump
That’s pretty high effort.
@@brain_tonic Yeah, but you only gotta set it up once, maybe make it a series where he can do like, a row of rebalancing so the effort gives a fair bit of content. Then the roster can be used forever
You can pretty easily set up Ganondorf to not flinch, have super armor, and buffed damage so you just charge up smash and the opponent can't do anything about it.
@@dmillz5501 I think the subject was to make them balanced not to make them a win button
That’s probably one of the best balance changes I’ve seen. I forgot about that mechanic.
Pretty sure everyone did
Ohhh this is actually in the game lol I thought it was a mod
@@shiningskies47 nope its on the game.... all it does is increase/decrease damage and resistance
How do you do that?
@@3BigChins somewhere in smash rules or something, idk I don't have smash ultimate
Gotta slap on underdog boost alongside this next time! I wanna see that ganon killing people at zero with an f-tilt!
That’s where spirits come in
@@ultimateabsol1268 max brass has entered the chat
Fun Fact: Water bottle expiration dates are for the bottle, not the water.
This was stupidly fun, now I wait for the inevitable "BOSS!" Series. Can we beat Lv 9 Kazuya with 30% Buff?!
Yes
They could also revive the sephiroth challenge
@@kiingflash1212 Seph with custom balance maxed is honestly cracked as hell, especially if he gets wing sauce
Hopcat is out here secretly developing patches to keep the game alive over the years.
Very fun idea that I mess around with at times: Put Pikachu at max buff, turn on spirits, and give him a full grab build (make sure the other player uses a spirit with similar power level but no abilities). Put on the Pikachu Libre skin. Win with *grabs, pummels, and throws only* while the other player is free to use whatever they want.
I am Ferdinand von Aegir
Who would've thought someone with such stubby limbs could be such a good wrestler.
That actually sounds kinda fun
Yeah I'd like more of custom smash, it's fun to see the underwhelming characters be usable and it's such a treat to watch.
“Balanced” we say.
Holy shit its missingNo
Kenshi
You GOTTA play this with the other underdogs!
And the twist would be called: "Smash Ultimate: Balanced as all things should be."
5:45 the fact that Zack is complaining about flame breath only doing 30% is proof bowser deserves the double nerf
This is actually a really cool idea! More people should do this!
Costom Balance seems really fun. It's just that no ones tried it because nobody really cared. Kinda like Underdog Boost.
Does anyone else just turn on custom balance without changing things just to have the different character select screen colours?
About time someone bring this feature up, it's actually underrated and turns Smash Ultimate from kinda dull to me meta wise to a more unpredictable and fun game that everyone is actually on even footing, and this video sure has entertained me a lot, I want this to be explored more and see if this can be a part of an extended competitive meta like Ultimate EX or something.
So when me and my roommates first got Smash Bros, we bought it and the Switch from someone who had custom balances on. Isabelle was at the highest buff and we all thought she was OP as hell
Thanks for this video man. I was in a dark place this week and you guys made me laugh. It really helped. And nice idea, now I wanna try it too.
I like how the K.O Punch at 9:55 sent Peter up with the force strong enough to see Pluto in person.
Please do more of this. This is the correct balance of ultimate.
'what's the best tier list?'
Underdogs should make a tier list tier list
"Please Johns" killed me 😂😂😂
Seeing poppt play this would be so funny, wish there was a way to hide the changes though
I completely forgot about this. This is great.
Just me or is this video like SUPER crispy clean w the visuals. Always a fan!
“Worst of your best characters” Underdogs play Roy on a walk off, no more SDs (hopefully)
I did this w/ my cousins once, and I gotta say... this makes everything better and perfectly balanced
Fun fact: swimming is just flying in water and flying is just swimming in the air
Hopcat perfectly balanced smash, as all things should be....
On a completely unrelated side note, can someone Photoshop Hopcats face onto Thanos for me???
why would you need someone to do that
Zack struggeling to sneeze made me struggle to sneeze
This was a surprisingly fun video, would love an doubles with a twist of this
I came here to write "you usually deserve your victories these days, Hop" and then realized it's canonical to say "HopCat deserves his victories unless they're HopCat Victories"
Bro really said "you didn't buff ganon so I'll do it myself"
Can't wait to see this in a Underdogs video
Congratulations for being the first underdog to upload in 2022!
Honestly, I love this idea. Totally forgot about this mechanic
Smash? balanced? IMPOSSIBLE.
Hungry Box would be very proud of the Jyglipuff's buff in this video
It’s the first “ you can’t complain of No John January
This is basically like fighting an amiibo
3:21 He Hopped on the Cat lol
the reason being so many characters are in top tier is simply because smash ultimate is so balanced. so many characters can hold their own against even the worst mu’s, even captain falcon vs pikachu
They really went crazy with this last patch didn't they
Seeing viable Doc makes me happy
This was great. Would love to see more of these
Now we need buff tier list
Idk who edits for this channel but they're really good at it
This was awesome!!!!! Do more!!! With poppt1?!? Sounds like the best video ever!
This is a really good concept, and a great video.
Thanks HopCat
id like to see a version of this where you only buff characters up and dont nerf any.
if everyone's buffed, no one is.
damn, that little z sneeze had like a minute of startup
I wonder how giga bowser would be like with a 30% boost
This isn't necessarily relevant to Custom Balance, but I recently replayed Adventure Mode on Hard, but I didn't use any of the skill tree buffs. Also, I tried to either use weak spirits or spirits that had less power than the opponent. It was brutal, but I think it helped me improve. For example I HAD to learn whiff punishing since my attacks did like 5% per hit. I'd recommend playing an "extreme" playthrough of Adventure Mode to anyone. It's super hard, but it'll practically condition you to get better at the game.
Oh my god I just realized this was in the game again. Thanks for reminding me. Again.
5:12 bowsers actually really good he has ridiculously strong attacks, not too slow for a heavy, and good hitboxes
Fun fact: if you stab a bowl of cereal you will be a cereal killer
Finally, Little Mac is viable competitor. I would like to see more Little Mac madness.
Now this should be the next doubles twist
Fun fact: a bear without teeth is a gummy bear
You should do smash doubles with a twist but the twist is that you are using custom balance changes
10:25
He really just said "if my roy was good it'd be good"
Fun fact: if you work at security at a samsung store you will be a guardian of the galaxy
This is really creative didn’t even know this mode existed
As a Dr Mario main, I agree with this balance
Man this NEW final patch looks…SPECIAL…
For 2 years I played like this thinking it was a rating system. Finally, a few months ago, I figured it out…
I can't believe I forgot about this feature, that was amazing!
Bring this to a present day tier list
Underdogs doubles with a TWIST
I think only the low tiers should've been buffed because now the low teirs are as good as high tiers without de-buffs but do to the de-buffs the high tiers are worse than the low tiers.
Disagree, most top tiers are good for their frame data.
@@DunkTasticMan True, but as the video represents you can have the best frame data but one hit evened up the game.
I'd actually love to see a tournament of this ruleset
Next you should bring poppt it would be cool seeing him not know what to play because the top tiers are nerfed.
13:40 Two of my favourite characters fighting? I'd pay to see that at grandfinals.
7:36 oh yea that'd be night night for peter from jigglypuff
oops, jiggly-*buff*
I love how some of these "adjustments" feel so random
Hell yeah Hopcat videos that aren't stream highlights
They should totally make a tournament with this. Just imagine...
Fun fact: if you fall out of a plane without a parachute you will fall for the rest of your life
0:27 man idk with these picks. Pacman,diddy,marth,falco. Idk about em
This needs to be the doubles twist on underdogs
Man, it seems like every mechanic in Smash that has "custom" in its name is NEVER talked about on YT. Custom moves and Custom Balance (until recently)
Finally my Doc getting some love
Rest in neutral being viable is the funniest thing since 69
I would love to see this as a Twist™ on underdogs doubles!
Say what u want but Min Min is a "Kill or be killed" kind of character. I appreciate this archetype. It keeps the match feeling fast paced
I'd agree with that, if up smash wasn't a thing. Min Min keeps you away for half the match, and then your reward for getting in on her is contending with a massive frame 8 anti-airing out-of-shield option, and if you get hit by it, you're back to the keepaway game.
I suggest watching mockrocks video on zoners, it sums it up really well
@@chacha4343 something people complain about is the fact that it also reflects but something I thought was worth mentioning is that it’s a very committal reflector. You’d be better off straight up avoiding projectiles than trying to reflect them with up smash. Plus the fact that she can’t use it in the air means she’s pretty vulnerable to projectiles all together. Unimportant but just something I thought was worth mentioning.
finally, smash ultimate balancing
Suggestion: Just custom balance everyone at 30% strength. So if everyone's busted, no one's busted.
This is what Thanos wanted
This was cool, show hopcat vs poppt1
A. I'm honestly surprised they finally did it.
B. I didn't expect Hop to "balance" smash, I half expected him to just crank all values to the max and just watch the chaos.
C. This was honestly really good, and I genuinely hope they screw around with custom balance more in the future.
D. Do this again, but crank everyone up 30%.
Edit: I forgot to mention this. If you have Ganon's CB at +30%, reverse warlock punch does 63% and kills everyone at 0%, and if you do Kirby's warlock punch with +30% it does like 76% and super kills everyone at 0%.
The sneeze had 4800 frames of startup.
so happy for zach's sneeze coming out
or is it zack
i do not know
Can somebody make a compilation video of LittleZ’s face every time he tries to sneeze? Please and thank you
Little z's wario is just mashing on hops shield