A Tale of Two Top Tiers

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• QY

  @QysmuthTBH · 3 years ago

  I don't know why but hearing "There was two kings; a knight of the skies, and a fox from the stars" gives me unnecessary world building bliss.

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• LU

  @Ludvix · 3 years ago

  Bro ur editing is getting CRAZY good

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• WE

  @Wednesdayfrogreal · 3 years ago

  I feel like a takeaway is that meta knight is a victim of the environment he was in. He was disallowed from pushing forward as he was supposed to by the mechanics of the game, and those same mechanics helped in making his neutral so oppressive

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• BE

  @beachmilk11 · 3 years ago

  Finally a video that combines my love for smash and hatred for the britsh monarchy

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• RE

  @realDadlab · 3 years ago

  Actually outdid yourself on the visuals for this one. Incredible stuff as always

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• BA

  @Baiken_3D · 3 years ago

  The editing of scenes is so slick and striking, I love the use of contrast! I’m super impressed with where your videos have gone in such short time, keep it up!

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• AR

  @ArrowWoofs · 3 years ago

  For the longest time I've held the opinion that a healthy top tier is strong by leaning into the mechanics of the game they're in as far as possible, while an unhealthy top tier is strong because they have aspects of their kit that subvert aspects of the game altogether. And this video elaborates on that idea in a super well put way!

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• IC

  @IcebergFortuna · 3 years ago (edited)

  Meta Knight, a character that is a textbook lesson in not just fighting games, but all competition games, stresses the importance of ensuring a character "Shares Neutral", because if a character is either in Advantage or Disadvantage with no Neutral to give, they are inherently a bad character.

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• GR

  @grantsummers4164 · 3 years ago

  Wow Leon I didn't know you could do frame-perfect multishines like that. Inspiring display

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• PR

  @ProjectXv2 · 3 years ago

  Fox very much has those Akuma vibes.<br>An EXCEEDINGLY powerful character but…they dance on the head of a pin. Akuma typically has among the highest damage output, speed, and great mobility. But he often has the lowest HP in the game by a notable margin. One or two mistakes can literally cost him the whole round. It’s thrilling~!

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• CH

  @ChibiMalzahar · 3 years ago (edited)

  If Fox and Meta Knight are kings then Bayonetta is like Hella in Thor Ragnorok. One day she just showed up, said hey Im queen now, tried to rule, they didn&apos;t like her, so she killed everybody, and then Asgard blew up. Even after they nerfed her we knew that no character was even close to the God of Death herself. Every interaction is a losing proposition for the opponent because if they guess correctly they put her in disadvantage where she&apos;s second only to brawl Meta Knight in not actually being that disadvantaged, but if BAYONETTA guesses right she gets a stock. Smash Bros is designed around percentages where riskier moves kill earlier, a character that can kill whenever off of whatever completely breaks that system. This is especially bad considering we ran tournaments with only 2 stocks and she has no losing matchups (only a couple are even. At worst Pikachu or Diddy were -1). Even if you were up by a stock and a half on her, it would probably still take Bayo less openings to win from that position so you were always losing. She&apos;s the ultimate example of why risk/reward matters to a game

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• RI

  @ricardoludwig4787 · 3 years ago

  Theres some nuance that couldnt fit into a video this short, but this is such an incredible way to put it for anyone who isnt already into smash, and also is versatile enough to easily be applied to other games

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