Taunt Match

A Taunt Match is a term used in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, where players in a match aren't fighting each other, but instead decide to fool around and/or taunt for the entire match. Taunt Matches typically begin when one player taunts for the whole match, and other players decide to follow. In a taunt match, players are also known to crouch or duck continuously to reach an agreement (however, Kirby and King Dedede players often use this as an alternative to Taunting). They will often then follow to have continuous Taunt Matches or simply proceed to showing each other glitches. The most used stage for taunt matches is Hyrule Temple as its size allows the taunter to completely evade serious players with the addition of abusing glitches in the stage.

"You're too slow...!" "You're too slow...!"

When one player takes the match seriously, where other players are having a taunt match, they may often team up against the serious player. This can be achieved though many tactics, the easiest being intentional SDs to rack up a taunter's score. Another example would be Mr. Game & Watch using Oil Panic, charged by a strong energy projectile, usually for a One-Hit KO.

Common Taunt Match behavior

• Constantly Taunting.
• Trying to be the same character so they can match up their taunts.
• Camping.
• Teaming up on other players that are serious.
• Chain grabbing serious players, even infinitely such as King Dedede's wall infinite chain grab.
• Playing with many items, allowing only certain items or completely removing the items.
• Choosing Hyrule Temple or New Pork City to run away from serious players.
• Sometimes using Super Armor to make Sudden Death last.
• Constantly Spot Dodging
• Attacking any player just when the match is about to end.
• Showing off their skills. (going under the stage)
• Showing off advanced techniques (such as DACUS)
• Executing the Master Hand glitch
• Suicides when they accidentally killed their friends.
• Ducking when they hit another taunter. (Trying to say "sorry")
• Pushing other players but not attacking.
• Wario, Kirby and King Dedede players eating items, even their own Bikes, or Waddle Dees/Waddle Doos.
• Yoshi constantly using Egg Lay.
• Footstool Jumping.
• Ditching your Pikmin when playing as Olimar and attempting to use Pikmin-required moves without them.
• Crawling around (Crawling isn't used very often in a match).
• Gliding around the stage.
• Spamming Projectiles without even aiming them at anyone.
• Sandbagging.
• Executing Luigi's down taunt and hitting a player with it. (Luigi's down taunt inflicts 1% damage upon contact with another player)
• Exhausting a shooting item's ammunition, then attempting to shoot the other players.
• Dash Dancing and/or Ledge Running
• Constantly shield dropping and shielding immediately after.
• Picking up Solid Snake's box with Donkey Kong and walking around with it.
• Making as much noise as possible.
• Intentionally breaking his/her own shield, even with Jigglypuff. (Jigglypuff flies off the top of the screen when it breaks its shield and is Star KO'd)
• Showing off Glitches (Like using the Earthquake Glitch on Pictochat or even the Puff Up glitch).
• Abusing Transform or Pokémon Change.
• Utilizing the Smash Taunt when playing as Solid Snake or the Star Fox Team on their respective stages (Wolf can't use the Smash Taunt on Corneria). Whilst other taunters protect the Smash taunter from being interrupted by serious players and/or items.
• Utilizing the Smash Taunt as Solid Snake and intentionally SDing to cause the "SNAAAAKE" scream, as well as SDing during the scream to cause it to loop continuously.
• Grabbing other players or using grab attacks like Monkey Flip, but not doing any damage.
• Abusing loud or annoying attacks.
• Ducking repeatably.
• Riding on the top of a Rolling Crate.
• Jumping around.
• Running around the stage.
• Attacking Mr. Resetti if he is summoned via Assist Trophy in a brawl.
• Intentionally SDing.
• Dash Dancing.
• Constantly using Negative Zone when a Smash Ball is attacked enough with Luigi.
• Absorbing or Reflecting others projectiles.
• Jabbing other taunters if they accidentally KO and then suiciding the jabbed character to tie the match.
• Wasting Final Smashes or using Final Smashes until the time is up.
• Standing there doing absolutely nothing.
• Making a match last as long as possible during Sudden Death.
• Using Sacrificial KO moves like Bowsercide or Kirbycide.
• As Kirby or King Dedede, use inhale on nothing.
• Constantly using an uncharged Wario Waft.
• Teetering.
• Constantly Prat Falling.
• Constantly backfiring Diddy Kong's Peanut Popgun.
• Edge Dashing.

There are also arranged Taunt Matches over friends. The goal in these is to annoy the other player without attacking until one gets so bored or annoyed that they leave, stop, or attack the other player. The first player to do so loses. Sometimes people arranging a taunt match only set Food, Maxim Tomatoes and Containers on and on High and use Snake for his unique sounds he makes when eating food. Players often find alternatives to taunting for characters that do not have loud or annoying taunts. Some players spam D.K.'s, Bowser's or Ganondorf's up-smash for their loudness, Some who use Pikachu spams Thunder for loudness from Pikachu saying "PIKAAAAA!!!" as well as the Thunder sound effect, others use Olimar when there is a serious player and spam his whistle for the high-pitched annoying sound and Super Armor, while some even use Kirby's crouch.

Captain Falcon's pink and white attire, dubbed "Captain Fabulous" by fans. Note Andross in the background.

Costumes can sometimes come into play too - Captain Falcon's pink-and-white outfit, often dubbed 'Captain Fabulous' by Brawl players, is often chosen for more light-hearted matches, along with Meta Knight's jester-like pink and yellow attire, and Luigi's pink and red outfit.

"Serious" taunters will sometimes use the same character as a serious player and taunt as them as if to mock the serious player. Some are even known to spam the same moves as the serious player, as if he or she is spamming themselves.

If there is a serious player that knows that they're better than every one else in the match, the taunters will often pick the stage "Temple" so they can run the timer out for the whole match. If a stage like Battlefield is picked, then the serious player will probably fight the taunters. Some players that are good but don't want to fight will sometimes go to the bottom platform on temple, and stay there alone doing nothing.

Links

A video explaining a Taunt Match