Nintendo Un-Bans Hero From Official Smash Ultimate Tournament In France

Earlier this week, we reported that Nintendo France had decided to ban The Hero from being used in an official Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Tournament being held in the region.

Since then, Nintendo’s main branch appears to have stepped in and overturned their decision. In a statement issued to Kotaku, Nintendo declared that they would be “standardizing” all rulesets for all tournaments being held as part of the European Team Cup circuit. This includes allowing all characters to be used for the competition.

We’re harmonising these rules across Europe to make sure that no community or country is disadvantaged when competing in the pan-European final next year. In terms of future fighter releases, we’ll create more detailed guidelines for our tournament organisers, to make sure that we maintain a level playing-field through consistent fighter eligibility across Europe.

Nintendo France echoed this statement in a Tweet on Social Media, stating that they will be complying with the new standardized rules and that players can “train and play with the same characters for all our European events.”. That said, they did not issue an official reasoning for why they tried to ban Hero in the first place.

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