Is it a cpu or not?

[Edalex]

While smashing online i have noticed something very strange!
Im playing perfectly with no lag online my opponent is super good when all of a sudden theres a 30 second lagging period. After that its like my opponent isnt even trying.
It has happened so many times! I thought it was mabey my opponent just playing around but im not sure? What do u think?

 

[3905]

There is one general consensus.

• Before the lag, you were playing with an actual human player
• The time that it lagged randomly for so long leads to one indication - the opponent disconnected
• Afterwards when it seems as if the opponent stopped trying, it's because they got replaced by a Lvl 1 CPU since they disconnected from the match

Long story short, human played, disconnected, and got replaced by a lvl 1 cpu

 

[Gary Johnson]

There is one general consensus.

• Before the lag, you were playing with an actual human player
• The time that it lagged randomly for so long leads to one indication - the opponent disconnected
• Afterwards when it seems as if the opponent stopped trying, it's because they got replaced by a Lvl 1 CPU since they disconnected from the match

Long story short, human played, disconnected, and got replaced by a lvl 1 cpu

Is that even possible

 

[3905]

Is that even possible

It is.
I've had it happen to me once. I fought this cloud player online and he tried to spike me but I ended up spiking him with Kirby dair + footstool to end his stock, then the screen just lagged completely for a few seconds and we both just kinda stood there for a while. I slowly approached him and he wouldn't do anything and when I started charging my hammer he would just jump around instead of attcking me. And in the end I hammered away the Cloud, and going back to the lobby I saw he was gone.

 

[Edalex]

Thanks for the info.

 

[2071]

There is one general consensus.

• Before the lag, you were playing with an actual human player
• The time that it lagged randomly for so long leads to one indication - the opponent disconnected
• Afterwards when it seems as if the opponent stopped trying, it's because they got replaced by a Lvl 1 CPU since they disconnected from the match

Long story short, human played, disconnected, and got replaced by a lvl 1 cpu

Apparently I didn't know that, I thought that when somebody disconnected it would've resulted in a communication error
I'm not sure if it ever happened to before since the only time I recall a large amount of lag was a match that lagged till the end .-.
Does this happen to both 3DS and Wii U? Might there be any differences in the situation for the two versions?

 

[Slayerpon Tatsu]

Happens to me all the time. It's more common than you actually think