If two people want to play with items they should be able to but, in a tournament where they give you the option to use items and both people agree to it fine but, in most tournaments, they do give the option because if you want to use them and your opponent does not want to, items wont be used. Now the items are really broken and really one sided so they are no fun to use competitively.
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The fan and the fire flower are the most broken items in the game. The fan can get a cheap like Juan said and the fire flower is broken now because you can move with them and edge hog with it. The Franklin Badge stops most characters like fox and diddy so no one uses it and the smokeball no one uses because people rather not fight blindly.
As long as a item is on, the capsule are on and we will have to deal with the random capsule explosions which no one wants to deal with it. People just turn the items off and thats that. If you play for fun then use items but, those are tournament rules and rules that competitive players follow and if you play a competitive player, those are the rules you will mostly follow unless they feel really sorry and want to give you a chance.
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Oh and the game does not set what items come out so the really broken ones have the same chance of coming out as a less powerful item.