The competitive Ultimate community has a negativity problem
I've thought this for a while but seeing the reactions from Kagaribi 15 sealed it for me.
The competitive community for ultimate has the whiniest loudest group of players I've ever seen. Apparently every top player is carried by their "broken" character even though they're 1 of a few reps at the top competitive level.
In the span of a few days I've seen countless
"Acola is carried by his broken character"
"Doramigi is carried by his broken character"
"Zomba is carried by his broken character"
And people said the same thing about Leo and Sonix when they were at the very top too. I can go on. At this point what top tier character do these people not cry about?
Yes, there are really OP characters in Ultimate, I'm not disagreeing, but sometimes the amount of negativity just ruins the hype and feels like people aren't able to respect how great these players are. I think most of it comes from saltiness that their favorite player lost to one of these characters, so they blame it on the character rather than skill.
For example, Acola has a bunch of secondaries he wins with all the time and yet he still gets disrespected. ROB isn't even close to as strong as Steve yet still zomba gets trashed on because apparently only Leo's Joker is a valid character to use.
I swear this is the only game where the community is mad that good, competitive players use good, competitive characters. What do you expect?? It's not like we got 5 Steve dittos lmao, there's clearly solid character diversity a majority of time. This is far from a Meta Knight or Bayo situation.
Kagaribi 15 top 8 was cinema for smash enjoyers. The top 4 were all past #1 players, and grand finals was amazing, yet there was so much negativity surrounding it.