Official Custom Moveset Project

The Official Custom Moveset Project was a project based in SmashBoards to create preset custom moveset combinations for every character in Super Smash Bros. 4, in an effort to make the use of custom moves logistically viable in tournaments. It allowed players to select from a number of pre-selected custom movesets for characters, as well as providing a number of preset Mii characters.
The project was started by former Balanced Brawl developer Amazing Ampharos in 2014, and it was accepted by a large number of local and regional tournaments in March 2015, with EVO 2015 being the largest tournament that used the project. Following EVO 2015 in July 2015, it was decided by the majority of tournament organizers to place a general ban on custom moves, for a variety of different factors. As a result, the Official Custom Moveset Project was officially discontinued in late 2015, though a number of custom move side-events have continued to use the original project.
==History==
===Adoption===
One of Smash 4's selling points was the ability for characters to utilize a variety of different special moves compared to their usual moveset. This was also prominently featured in reveal trailers for the s and , who had completely unique special moves available as custom movesets. As a result, smashers were interested in seeing how the metagame of Smash 4 could change in response to custom movesets, though it was debated as to what the best course would be for custom movesets. The Official Custom Moveset was produced in response, as it was believed allowing only certain movesets could prevent logistics issues in tournaments regarding players wanting to select specific movesets, as well as providing "groundwork" for potential matchup analysis. The Official Custom Moveset Project later gained approval from the Smash 4 community and a number of tournament organizers, and tournaments began to use the ruleset in March 2015. In addition to a number of local and regional tournaments, EVO 2015 stated their intention to use the project's list of ideal custom moveset combinations as part of their ruleset.
===Controversy===
Custom movesets, however, proved a controversial topic in the timespan from their legalization to EVO 2015. While some players thought it helped to make the metagame of Smash 4 deeper, a number of players felt that the inclusion of custom movesets in tournaments hurt the integrity of the game, as it introduced far too many potential matchups, and it provided opportunities for players to use movesets that their opponents may not have had any experience with.
Some players also claimed that the extent custom movesets helped characters was unfair. A number of bottom-tiered characters, such as , and , were argued to gain little to no benefit from custom movesets, and some high-tiered characters, such as and , were also argued to actually gain even further benefits from their custom movesets, leading to further imbalance in Smash 4. Some custom movesets were also argued to have created degenerate gameplay for some characters, with characters such as and gaining powerful options that most players found unfun or frustrating to deal with. especially became controversial for his custom movesets, with citing him as the reason certain custom moves should be banned, specifically referencing a match where defeated with a custom Villager, despite considering Nairo the stronger player. The release of , the first DLC character, was also claimed to have created further imbalance, as Mewtwo and all other DLC characters lacked custom moves of any sort, preventing them from gaining any potential benefits. 
Tournament organizers also felt that the need to create custom movesets, regardless if they were pre-set or not, reduced the number of potential setups players could bring to tournaments, as unlocking all the potential custom moves required considerable time and effort from players; unlike unlockable characters or unlockable stages, custom parts could only be attained through specialized methods that did not guarantee a new custom move. As the Official Custom Moveset Project also required a "master" 3DS console for each Wii U setup, this meant that players who owned a Wii U, but not a 3DS, would be unable to use their Wii U as a setup. Furthermore, the laborious process of unlocking custom moves was made slightly more efficient with the 3DS version of the game, meaning that players without the 3DS version of the game would likely have greater difficulty in unlocking all the custom movesets.
Outside of the above, there was debate over how effectively the Official Custom Moveset Project could police itself; on top of having 51 characters with 8 movesets each, it was questioned how well the staff behind the project could monitor which movesets proved too weak or strong, as well as who would get a say in what moveset combinations were too strong.
===Discontinuation===
A majority of tournament organizers moved to place a ban on all custom moves following the conclusion of EVO 2015, beginning with majors such as Low Tier City 3 and Smash Factor 4. Custom movesets have not appeared as part of a ruleset in major tournaments (including EVO 2016) since, and the Official Custom Moveset Project was discontinued in response, with the thread on the project later locked.
Despite the ban, some tournaments, such as Glitch and Glitch 2, have allowed the use of custom movesets with the original Official Custom Moveset Project, though only in separate side events. A few regions, such as the Australian scene, have also allowed the use of custom movesets in varying degrees, but this is generally only restricted to Mii Fighters and sometimes Palutena.
==Format==
Each character had ten preset custom moveset combinations available in addition to the default combination (except Mii Fighters, who additionally have more movesets available), transferred from a master 3DS with every custom unlocked, all without equipment and named by number of the combination's neutral special, side special, up special, and down special, respectively. The combinations were chosen with input from each character's playerbase, to be the 10 most competitively-viable move combinations possible, and thus be the moveset combinations the vast majority of players would use if given their own free reign to select. These combinations can be selected immediately via the character select screen on each Wii U that has been set up to accommodate, which not only eliminates the time that would be spent by players putting their custom moveset together manually, but also ensures players do not run into issues with their preferred custom moves not being available on a Wii U setup. Smaller tournaments could still choose to allow players to replace the last two custom moveset combinations with their own preference, which is explained further below.
===Previous formats===
Before the 1.0.8 update, characters only had eight custom moveset combinations, with the two empty slots always being reserved for players' preferred combinations; this was changed in order to accommodate EVO 2015 and their stance against allowing players the ability to add their own combinations. In addition, two of a character's combinations were always all of the second available options and all of the third available options; however, these combinations were no longer required and the majority removed in the update as few were considered viable sets.
==List of available combinations==
Character	Custom sets available 	Custom sets available	Custom sets available	Custom sets available	Custom sets available
 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
 	1211 	1311 	3211 	3311 	1212
 	1213 	1312 	1313 	2211 	2311
 	1113 	1121 	1123 	1211 	1213
 	1313 	3111 	3113 	3213 	1112
 	2111 	2112 	2113 	2121 	2122
 	2123 	2221 	2211 	2133 	3111
 	1311 	1313 	1331 	1333 	1113
 	1211 	1213 	3311 	2311 	1321
 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
 	3111 	3112 	1113 	2113 	3113
 	2111 	2112 	1112 	3311 	3121
 	1121 	1123 	1113 	1131 	1133
 	1211 	3111 	1213 	1112 	3121
 	3233 	3231 	3232 	1233 	1231
 	1232 	2233 	2231 	2232 	1333
 	2312 	2332 	2212 	2232 	2211
 	1311 	1332 	1212 	1211 	2322
 	3121 	3123 	3122 	1121 	1123
 	3132 	1132 	3111 	3221 	3323
 	1123 	1121 	1133 	1131 	3123
 	3121 	3133 	3131 	2123 	2133
 	2132 	2332 	3132 	2122 	2322
 	3322 	1131 	1331 	2131 	3131
 	2121 	2122 	2321 	2322 	2132
 	2332 	2222 	3122 	3121 	3112
 	1112 	3112 	3111 	1312 	1311
 	3312 	3311 	3113 	2112 	2111
 	2222 	2122 	2212 	2232 	3222
 	3122 	3212 	3232 	2111 	3111
 	1121 	1122 	1321 	1322 	2121
 	2122 	2321 	2322 	3121 	1221
 	3112 	3122 	3312 	3322 	1122
 	1312 	1322 	2112 	2122 	2312
 	3231 	3232 	3233 	1231 	1131
 	3133 	3131 	2231 	3221 	3331
 	1211 	1213 	2211 	2213 	1311
 	1313 	2311 	2313 	1231 	3211
 	2111 	2113 	2112 	2211 	2213
 	2212 	2311 	2313 	2312 	2121
 	2111 	3111 	1112 	2112 	3112
 	1211 	2211 	1121 	3121 	1311
 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
 	3113 	3123 	1123 	3133 	1133
 	3121 	1121 	3111 	1131 	3131
 	1311 	1211 	3311 	3211 	3111
 	1312 	3312 	3212 	2311 	3231
 	2312 	2332 	2212 	2232 	1312
 	1313 	1332 	1212 	1213 	2213
 	3113 	3123 	1123 	3133 	1133
 	3121 	1121 	3111 	1131 	3131
 	1313 	1312 	1311 	1323 	1322
 	1112 	1122 	3323 	3313 	1333
 	1211 	1311 	2211 	2111 	2311
 	1212 	1312 	1121 	1112 	3111
 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
 	2122Available in two sizes	1122 	2132 	1132 	2222
 	1222 	1222 	2232 	1232 	1232
 	3122 	3121 	3123 	3112 	3111
 	3113 	3322 	3321 	3323 	3312
 	3311 	3313 	1122 	1121 	1123
 	3132 	3131 	 	3133 	1312
 	2131 	2111 	2132 	2112 	2133
 	2113 	2231 	2211 	2232 	2212
 	2233 	2213 	1332 	1312 	1132
 	1112 	1112 	1232 	1212 	1212
 	3331 	3321 	3311 	1331 	1321
 	1311 	3323 	3131 	2331 	2311
 	1112 	1121 	1122 	1311 	1312
 	1321 	1322 	1212 	2111 	1113
 	1112 	1311 	1312 	1212 	2112
 	2212 	2211 	2312 	2131 	3312
 	1132 	1131 	1122 	1121 	2132
 	2131 	2122 	3131 	3132 	3121
 	2322 	2312 	1322 	1312 	2122
 	1122 	2332 	1332 	2313 	2323
 	2111 	2211 	2311 	2112 	2212
 	2312 	1211 	1311 	2331 	2332
 	1311 	2311 	2312 	1312 	1313
 	1331 	2313 	2331 	3311 	1321
 	3111 	3112 	1113 	2113 	3113
 	2111 	2112 	1112 	3311 	3121
 	1231 	1233 	1331 	1333 	1332
 	2233 	1131 	1133 	1221 	1223
 	2111 	3111 	2311 	3311 	1311
 	2132 	3132 	1132 	3113 	3131
 	2311 	2313 	2321 	2323 	2111
 	2121 	2211 	2221 	1311 	2331
 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
 	1211 	1221 	1231 	1212 	1222
 	1232 	2211 	2231 	3211 	1213
 	2211 	2111 	1211 	2311 	1311
 	1213 	3213 	2212 	2312 	2231
 	1113 	2113 	3113 	1123 	3123
 	3213 	1122 	3122 	1213 	2123
 	1213 	1211 	1313 	1311 	1113
 	1321 	2213 	3213 	1223 	1331
 	2111 	2121 	2131 	2113 	2133
 	2112 	2211 	2213 	3131 	1113
 	1122 	1322 	2322 	1121 	1321
 	1312 	3322 	1332 	2122 	2121
 	1211 	1212 	1213 	1112 	1113
 	1313 	2211 	2111 	1221 	1122
 	2321 	1321 	3321 	3221 	2221
 	3323 	1323 	1121 	2322 	2311
 	3111 	2111 	1311 	1211 	3211
 	3311 	2211 	2311 	2113 	3112
 	1213 	1313 	1212 	1312 	1223
 	1323 	3212 	3312 	2213 	2312
 	1311 	1312 	1112 	2311 	2111
 	2312 	2112 	1211 	1332 	1132
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==External links==
*The Official Custom Moveset Project's movelist
*The original proposal for the Official Custom Moveset Project
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