#Competitive Super Smash Bros

[scribe-awoken]

So I used to be really involved in the Super Smash Bros. tournament scene, and I just remembered the time back in 2016 or 2017 when a friend of mine had a sudden dramatic improvement in his tournament results - like, dude went from going 0-2 to holding his own against some actually good players in a pretty stacked region - and when asked how he improved so much so fast, he simply replied "I eat pussy" and refused to elaborate.

[indagolive]

Went 2 - 2 in 2 Online Smash tournaments today, Howling at the Moon and OFFBEAT.

Really happy overall with how I played, got a HUGE upset in HATM and went almost exclusively Pit (little bit of Joker here and there)

getting better and better every day, just catch me in a few weeks o7

[tgoldwalker]

I fucking love reading the smash wiki so much.

Here’s our shitty grandpa, he sucks at everything

[dr-spectre]

Man... I dont know how to feel about Splatoon being the only competitive multiplayer shooter that I'm actually good at. (Currently on S but I'm getting up to S+ again.)

Cause who gives a flying fuck that you're good at Splatoon. It's the only online competitive shooter most people don't take seriously because of art style alone. People are impressed when you say that you're good at Overwatch or Valorant or TF2 or something. When you say "Hey I'm good at Splatoon 3." People go "huh? That game is competitive?"

You know how many millions of people don't even know that Splatoon is this deeply in-depth shooter with a proper competitive scene? You know how many people just dismiss the competitive scene and don't even wanna bother looking into it? Everyone thinks it's a fun Nintendo game made for kids, and it is ofc, but, it also has official tournaments held. Something like Super Smash Bros. Melee was made for families yet that game has a long-lasting and highly serious competitive scene.

I just feel sorta bad that I'm only good at the god damn colourful shooter game made for children.

I absolutely suck at Overwatch, the best i got was gold... ON TANK!!! I HATE PLAYING TANK NOW BECAUSE ITS 5V5!!! The role I have more fun in is DPS yet I'm stuck in silver and playing that game gives an overdose of cortisol.

Oh well... at least Splatoon has Callie in it so... maybe being good at Splatoon ain't such a bad thing...

[skyburger]

its very funny to me that smash bros players talk about it the way they do like its not just the nintendo fighting game

[amphibimii]

manifesting oatchi (or Oatchi/rookie) as a fighter in the next smash

[scootarooni]

watched some of the scuffed world tour

aMSa number 1 !!!!!!!! ☝️#️1️🥚👑❗(also an axe pikachu!)

[flightyquinn]

competitive smash bros reminds me a lot of historical warfare, with two highly trained generals, utterly unable to handle anything that isn't two clearly visible armies of known strength fighting on an open field

[jaker-the-dog]

I just watched a 1.5 hour video essay on Hungrybox and his story in the Melee community, and can I just say that despite all of the hate he’s received, I think he’s one of the most inspirational players I’ve ever watched. As a kid whose grown up watching video games get bigger and bigger, and as a person whose aspirations have always been intertwined with video games, whether with entertainment or competition, Juan DeBiedma is one of, if not my number one, inspiration for playing games.

Thank you Hungrybox. And thank you to all of the other competitive players, or streamers, or YouTubers, or game devs, or music composers, or coders. You all contribute to a community that has been able to connect people from everywhere in the world, and it’s truly remarkable how people sometimes forget that.

I can go watch a livestream of an event on the other side of the us, then cut on a video of a game I’ve never heard of made by a person from across the world while I play a game made by a team of people, all of them doing what they love to do, and it’s inspiring.

I grew up being told to be embarrassed by how much I play video games. By being told to “get serious” or to just give up altogether, and it’s always been the friends I met online or the creators I’ve watched my entire childhood that inspire me to keep going.

So join that local tournament. Code that game you think would be fun. Make that mod for a game you enjoy. Record a video to post to YouTube or TikTok. And enjoy yourself. Because no matter what, no matter if you have a “real” job or you do what you love…

You are unique, you are special, and you can do anything you believe you can do.

[cherrynasb]

GOMLX defined Aang's future

There are many certainties in life, death, taxes, and most importantly getting hit by Aang’s charged Up Air. This last certainty couldn’t have been proven more than by Hockey at his recent run at Get On My Level 2024. Featuring top players from around the world, NASB2 @ GOMLX was absolutely staked. Despite how many great players there were, only one could walk away victorious, and that’s exactly what Hockey did. 

TOP 8 - Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 2 - GOML X (Aang Jimmy Spongebob Ember Garfield) NASB2 Tourney

Hockey stuck to what worked as per usual breezing through his first few opponents using his air bending master Aang the whole way through his bracket run. Defeating Ry-X, Spiral, and even Sundra 2-0. However this would only be the first Aang ditto hockey would play as he would go onto top 8 and immediately fight Pixie Gangstereo. Hockey who at one point was coached by Pixie, became the master defeating Pixe Gangstereo 2-0 by sticking to the same consistent simple yet effective game plan he had been using the entire tournament thus far. Hockey’s combo game all revolves around hitting Charged Up Air. Comboing at low percentages with Light Up Air or Up Throw as the starter, and at higher percentages going for UpThrow Up Special Slime Canceled Charge Up Air. Pixe, often resorted for some of the more optimal Aang starter combos one of his signatures being the double grounded Up Charge not working effectively, due Aang being so floaty he actually was able to di and escape the multiple multihits. 

Hockey wouldn’t meet a true challenge until his Winners Final opponent Senpac. These two meet constantly in online weekly tournaments with a respectable 16 sets being played against each other. While Hockey led in sets won over Senpac, it was Senpac who had won 2 of the 3 most recent sets they had played. This set would mark the start of hockey deviating from his gameplan thus far of simple yet effective, as Hockey would start using options like Slime dash Up Special, and the effective “Neutral Skip” Technique. To do this you start by using Aangs Neutral special and then slime canceling into forward strong to have an unpunishable approach + damage option. This opening of different play ended up securing game 1 in what would be an otherwise challenging best of 5 set.

After two dominating games Senpeezy would show signs of life, using Jimmy’s best pet Goddard to help him keep ahead. The various uses of Goddard from using him as an explosive combo extender to having lazer shots snuff out aangs recovery options were just enough for Senpac to keep ever so slightly ahead of Hockey. Forcing a game 5 set that unfortunately ended with Hockey resetting back to the effective basics and just wiping the floor with senpac in game 5. This wouldn’t be the last time we saw the loveable Senpeezy, who made quick work of Revilo2112 with a 3-0 win proving he was the one who deserved to be fighting against Hockey in Grand Finals.

Once again Hockey would start by forcing Senpac into the spincycle that is Charge Up Air, and forcing Senpac down 0-1 into game 2. For Game 2 Senpac would choose to play on Food Dreams. This stage gave him a large enough space with tall enough blast zones to avoid for the most part what Aangs charge up airs intended to do to his stocks. Similar to Winners Finals, Senpac had to get creative with how he landed his own finishing moves using mechanics like slime dash and slime cancel to chip hockey into the blast zone. Finally with each on their last stocks, senpac mid aerial scramble, Senpac hit hockey with a trusty upair SC into light down air. This would tie up the set 1-1 and cause hockey to go to his fav counter pick stage, Pariahs Keep. This flat no platform stage normally is great for extending Aangs combo game thanks to the lack of platforms to interfere. This definitely was proven true once again because as soon as hockey took his first stock from senpac hi just didnt stop. With multiple Zero to death combos dragging senpac from the right to the left with charged up air into up special. In response we saw Senpac answer in game 4 with his own busted stage in Mericle City Valcano. Where Jimmy can thrive thanks to the large stage, triple platforms, and smaller side blaszones aiding in early Kills via Fair Fair Slime dash Fair. This forced a game 5 where Hockey went back to Pariahs Keep and Senpac had to once again fight the bald demon at his strongest. This final game displayed a fully awoken hockey. Finishing stock 1 of senpacs with a trusty neutral skip, only for Senpac to continue to fight and quickly answer with his own Strong charge air, forcing hockey to ONCE again finish a stock of hockeys with strong up airs. These two went back and forth nearly 0 to deathing each other twice before hockey put a stop to it via a smart neutral skip. Hockey followed this up with potentially one of the biggest war crimes ive seen. Comboing Charge up air 4 times into itself across the entirety of PK to finish off senpac and win game 5 last stock against Senpac. 

Overall Hockey had alot to prove with this tournament, he was fighting to secure himself as the best Aang in the world which he did beating the likes of, Pixie Gangstereo, and Sundra, as well as win his first Offline NASB2 Major. There couldn’t have been a better time to do it too considering this was the first of two majors that would bookend this second season of competitive NASB2. Hockey also proved something else to the world that day. He provided proof that Aang is not a pacifist and instead is an evil war criminal. Oh how his ancestors would detest his actions. Roku offers his wisdom to Aang on the Giant Lion Turtle

So there you have it, another major finished for NASB2, what were your fav moments from GOMLX? Make sure to to let us know in the comments below what you enjoyed the most, and don’t forget to like and Subscribe to cherrynasb for more platform fighter content. 

[twilightakiishi]

We need to have a romy/takashi and venus/shuji double date...

i’m giggling at the concept of takashi and shuji interacting omfg but YES i need this like i need air do you know how fun this would be 😭

we need to do like a fuckin escape room together i think that would be so fun bc shuji is crazy and takashi is smart and i can’t help but feel like they would clash and argue meanwhile you and I are actually figuring shit out while they waste time bickering LOL but i think it would be a nice bonding experience for them especially. and then afterwards i know they’d be hungry from all that thinking (arguing) so we could go out for a nice lil dinner ✨

pls this sounds so fun i want this so bad

[neomel]

today in Melee

for context: Coinbox is a series of online Super Smash Bros. tournaments organized by Hungrybox

Cody Schwab is currently ranked as the second best player in the world and he has promised to wear a maid outfit for a tournament livestream with many of the best players in the world entering

However!!!! My GOAT Magi has other plans!!!

THE MAIDS ARE FIGHTING

[indagolive]

ANYWAYS

Now with the "important" sounding post out of the way

GOD I NEED MKLEO TO WIN SO BAD

I love joker so much and if he actually pulls it out over Gluto or Crepe Salee I'll be so happy either way those are huge wins for him in the modern era in my eyes.

He's probably going all joker for Top 8 which is a LITTLE scary for Steve since Aegis might do slightly better, but hey, he went game 5 with Acola so he's learned SOMETHING.

[inkblot-inc]

Jaws being in the middle of gaming and too impatient to open their water bottle so they just- bite the top off the water bottle, spot out the top and drink from the hole. Peter and Yelena find it hilarious and Jaws is kind of proud till Wanda and Nat find out.

We're all of the school of thought that this was not a basic plastic bottle, right? Right.

Jaws just tearing the reinforced cap off of their Yeti bottle in a mix of impatience having to unscrew the water bottle each time and frustration at currently losing in the Smash Bros stock match they were having with Yelena and Peter 😂

Fortunately, it wasn't their new Hydroflask but still-

[comfortcharactercompetitionhell]

Mysterious voids

[perfectlegend-blog]

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