{"id":900100,"date":"2026-04-18T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/smash-community-angry-after-pro-claims-melee-is-competitive-ultimate-is-casual\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:17:23","slug":"smash-community-angry-after-pro-claims-melee-is-competitive-ultimate-is-casual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/smash-community-angry-after-pro-claims-melee-is-competitive-ultimate-is-casual\/","title":{"rendered":"Smash community angry after pro claims Melee is competitive, Ultimate is casual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Super Smash Bros. is often seen as a united esports scene from the outside, there has always been a bit of tension between Melee and Ultimate players. The two games cannot be more different, and their players are different as well. Recently, the FGC noted that Melee players seem to have a \u201csuperiority complex\u201d \u2026 Continued<br \/>\nThe post Smash community angry after pro claims Melee is competitive&#8230; Olivia Richman <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2026\/04\/smash-melee-versus-ultimate-competitive\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Super Smash Bros. is often seen as a united esports scene from the outside, there has always been a bit of tension between Melee and Ultimate players. The two games cannot be more different, and their players are different as well. Recently, the FGC noted that Melee players seem to have a \u201csuperiority complex\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3393,22082],"tags":[5331,7397],"class_list":["post-900100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community","category-smash","tag-community","tag-smash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}