She did manage to beat a (former) top player who was using one of the best characters. Keep in mind the Palutena that beat Zero in smash 4 also placed 33rd in that tournament. If anything it shows how little representation the precious pupper has.
I suppose that's true. Kirby is the worst character in Melee (and by a lot), but a player by the name of "Triple R" I think is noted as the best Kirby player in the world yet he still gets exceptionally underwhelming results in tournament. Isabelle is one of the more weaker characters in Ultimate, so it's a similar scenario. In both situations, the competition for "best players of [X character]" isn't particularly rough since nobody else would dare try it, so I'm personally not particularly impressed.
I'm more intrigued by the drama this is all causing. It's a positive feedback loop: people hail this inane scenario as some revolutionary feat, causing people to mock or criticize the player in question, causing the original party to overreact and try to defend them, causing the latter party to continue making fun of both of them or argue back, and it all just makes an otherwise dull and vapid situation spiral into hilarity.
From what I can observe, their bullying is nothing more than people asking "aren't you a man," and then people jumping in to get offended for them. Needless to say, this isn't the best way to handle this reaction. Even worse is writing article after article about it--I'm pretty sure this is the exact opposite of what you should do, as a matter of fact. I'm not saying the people being so mean spirited towards this player are right, but the community defending them are equally at fault for adding fuel to the fire.
Make no mistake, this "controversy"
would not exist if people didn't make a disporportionately huge deal both out of the upset and the reaction. I brought her up in another thread, but a player named
Jade is a female player who's made a number of upsets during her career in Smash. There's no doubt that she's received negative attention somewhere, it's inevitable that she would. But since nobody wrote any articles, made any videos, or created any Twitter posts over the fact that she did, any "controversy" it would've caused was dead in the water since there's no fuel to the fire. It's just how the world works--if you put yourself out there, of course somebody's going to say something upsetting about you. It's how you react which dictates whether or not they'll keep doing it.
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