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10-Man Melee
This is the easiest Multi-Man Melee event. Your objective here is to defeat 10 Wire-Frame opponents. They will attack you in groups of five. When you KO one, another will appear until a total of five are fighting at once. The Wire-Frame opponents are KO’d in one or two Smash Attacks or power hits. Simply stand slightly off center and use one of these attacks. A clear out attack will also work well here.
100-Man Melee
Your objective here is to defeat 100 Wire-Frame opponents. They will attack you in groups of five. When you KO one, another will appear until a total of five are fighting at once. A counter in the upper-left corner of the screen indicates how many Wire-Frame opponents are remaining. Just like the 10-Man Melee, the Wire-Frame opponents are KO’d in one or two Smash Attacks or power hits.
Start off using the same strategy you used for 10-Man Melee. Stand slightly off center and use a Smash Attack, power hit, or clear out attack. However, once you get to around 50 opponents remaining, the computer will increase the difficulty level. This is where you may have to start using the roll and dodge. Try not to jump. As the difficulty level increases, jumping will only give the Wire-Frame opponents a chance to juggle you can gang up in there attacks. Under most circumstances it will still only take a single strong attack to KO the Wire-Frame opponents. If they begin to gang up around an edge, roll around them and perform a Smash Attack or clear out attack. Then roll again and repeat. As long as you stay out of the air, and constantly roll or dodge, you should be no trouble with the 100-Man Melee.
3-Minute Melee
Instead of having a set number of KOs you need to obtain, in this Multi-Man Melee event, you simply have to defend yourself for 3 minutes without getting KO’d. There are two ways to accomplish this task. You can run from the first 5 Wire-Frame opponents that appear, and not attempt to KO any of them. This is probably the easiest way, as the opponents will not increase in difficulty. It shouldn’t be too hard to roll around and jump from platform to platform avoiding the first 5 opponents.
The other method is the “professional” way to beat the 3-Minute Melee. Take everything you know about the 100-Man Melee and apply it here. Go for as many KOs as you can get and try to break your previous record each time you play. Which method to go with is up to you.
15-Minute Melee
This is one of the most difficult Multi-Man Melee events. In a similar fashion to the 3-Minute Melee, you’ll need to fend off Wire-Frame opponents without getting KO’d for 15 minutes. Even if you go with the easy 3-Minute route and attempt to avoid the opponents, this is difficult to do for 15 minutes without KOing a few of them and increasing the difficulty level of the CPU.
Your best bet here is to open every item container that appears. Many of the items will be very useful in defending yourself. Especially the beam sword. If you stand near one of the edges (not too close), just wait for the Wire-Frame opponents to come to you. The beam sword will give you longer reach over the Wire-Frames. If you have the correct position (so that no one can drop behind you from the above platform), you should be able to go the entire 15 minutes with very little damage (once you have the beam sword).
You can also attempt to hammer your opponents with Smash Attacks and power hits, but as you defeat them, they’ll begin to get harder. Defending yourself against high level computer opponents for 15 minutes is a very difficult task.
Endless Melee
There really isn’t a set task you must perform in Endless Melee. Instead, you simply defeat as many Wire-Frame opponents as you can. There’s no time limit, so take your time, or blow through them as fast as possible. Just like in the previous Multi-Man Melee events, the opponents will become more and more difficult with each KO. Focus on the 100-Man Melee strategies and go all out on the Wire-Frame team.
Cruel Melee
This is by far, the most difficult single player event in Super Smash Brothers Melee. Getting a single KO in this event is harder than almost anything else the game offers. The difficulty level of the Wire-Frame team is set to above level 9 computer opponents. All 5 Wire-Frame opponents will attack you more aggressively than most human opponents. Depending on your character, you can even be KO’d with as low as 25% damage. Meanwhile, you’ll have to inflict at least 50% damage to defeat any of them (under most circumstances).
So far, one of the best methods found to acquire a small amount of KOs is to use either Ganondorf or Ness and stage off of the main stage as much as possible. With Ganondorf, simply jump off the stage and use his Warlock Grab (Up + B). Each time you connect with one of the Wire-Frame opponents, you’ll be able to perform the attack again. Wait until you’re almost out of range, otherwise the opponents will knock you out of the attack, and you’ll have a very difficult time getting back to the edge. Your opponents will practically jump off the edge trying to hit you, so you shouldn’t have any trouble using the attack over and over again. If you find yourself off axis, or having problems getting a rhythm going, grab the edge and roll to the opposite side as quickly as you can. From here, start over with the Warlock Grab technique.
Using Ness, do the same thing, only instead of the Warlock Grab, use his PK Thunder attack (Up + B). Move to the opposite side after every pass and you should be okay. Just make sure all 5 opponents get hit by your attack. Otherwise, you’ll be in trouble.
