If you plan on buying super smash bros brawl on 3ds, consider this.

The game is fun. I mean really fun. Managed to pick it up fairly cheap but I'm going to be selling it too.

Unfortunately if you have any intent of playing online, you're going to really regret picking this game up. The online is, dreadful. Not the community. Not the balance. But the latency. My internet is fine but holy shit has the ball been dropped with this games online. I assume you're not locked to your region that's the only thing I can think that could cause this. I live in the UK and about 35% of my matches are latency free. A lot of them have playable but noticeable latency meaning you can't play certain characters such as lucena very well due to certain moves needing to be well timed. And a vast majority being pretty unplayable.

I'm talking exclusively 1-1 not even the 4 player mode brawl. Lord knows what that must be like.

Consider this a warning if you're planning to buy it and play online. All in all the single player is solid and fun. Just not very competitive as online.

Sorry for any mistakes. Writing this on my phone.

Edit: not brawl. My mistake