Seeing the debate over Megaman shows that we all have some extremely different opinions on the matter. Many people say Mega just made his matches long and that's why he won, whereas others say that his matches were amazing to read. So what makes a match worth reading to you guys? What aspects of match-writing do you think makes a writer amazing?

Entertainment to me is the top factor in making a match great. Behind that is storytelling and then realism. After that, description.

I don't care about the length of a match, unless it's way too short or way too long. Don't care about entrances, commentary, SPAG (unless it's borderline unreadable), etc.

Having stories that are told through actions - not actions that are actions for the sake of actions. Making it entertaining is essential as well...

What Snoopz and Ian said.

Not the length, but the actual story-telling...realism and entertainment.
Who cares about entrances and how many moves were used in a match.

Yeah I like Entertainment, Realism and Storytelling. Pretty much what Justin and Ian said.

I can't read long ass matches. I usually skim it, unless it's good.

The title is "what classifies a writer as great" but everyone's talking about match types.


What makes a writer great is that they can come up with good, original ideas, they can describe the action in a proper manner and not "he jumps then he turns around and throws him then he suplexes him then he picks him up and rko's him", they don't no show too much, and they find ways to captivate the reader.

What makes a match good is that it has a good story behind it, it has great entertainment, and it is written in the form that if this were a match in real life, it would be a good match (which is Mega's biggest selling point, not his length. Reading his matches felt like I was watching it in real life.)

Fuck you, Razor, I worked hard on that post.

I know you did Mink, and for that, you get a cookie.

A great writer keeps people interested and entertained and that's about the gist of it