i've gotten into watching videos explaining stuff about the meta of super smash bros and they keep using terms we don't understand and why is there all this jargon

@Felthry Fighting game terminology is pretty ridiculous

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@socks some of it makes sense, i've figured otu what the move names are at least, that's easy enough

but what's "neutral game"? also some attacks are called a "gentleman", and i can't even think of any others right now but there are definitely other confusing terms

@Felthry They aaaare, and Smash is particularly bad about this from what I've seen. I've learned some of the terms from exposure but I don't actually know if they're correct

The neutral game is when none of the characters are in a disadvantage state. When a character gets hit and needs to recover, that's a disadvantage

As for the gentleman, I've only heard it referring to Captain Falcon, but he has two different jab attacks, I think one is if you simply press A and another if you hold it? The gentleman is the attack without the multihit. It might also refer to similar moves on other characters, I dunno

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