Please include spoiler time, especially in grand finals. Pretty clear who's winning when it's a 20min video...

@@kyleleslie4480 watch the live stream

@@gabrielacosta7568 🤦‍♂️

No it’s fuckin not

@@kyleleslie4480That’s so true😌

Yes sir!!! 😎 Pika busted

Hi Esam, your Pikachu is very entertaining and powerful!

#facts

Lmao much love man. You are awesome.

Go boxing ring

Baldma Male Pikallionaire Grindset

Of all the top players, Esam is one the one actually explains a lot about his opinion and most of the time, they are right. He is the one who says minmin is too tier before minmin dominates japan.

@@zake64 LMAO man youtube literally asks me if I want to translate your comment to English, this is too good

Lol, it's true. This is some great character development. Congrats to the writers.

He hit two rising up airs and a falling up air the second time and joker was at higher percent so he launched higher.

The redemptionnn he wasn't about to go down like that!!

What's amazing is he completely made those commentators sound like IDIOTS who should he hyping a match up and making it legendary instead of doubting ESAMs abilities.

Proof that smash is scripted

The in between game analysis was a nice touch made it feel professional. I wish there was a bit more time between games for this reason, maybe a 90 second intermission

Yes, besides the smoke malfunction during Esam vs. light it was great

Fr watching this live was a treat! Super high effort :)

@@brandon236 yeah but that was hilarious and memorable at the very least

True!

also for the record Mkleo lost game 4 because he didn't homie stock. It's like a smash curse. It happened to Esam in his set with Dark Wizzy in the last Glitch

I also love the poetic nature of him winning the set by confidently going for the exact combo that caused the SD.

@@ABronyNamedBurnie if at first you don’t succeed, try try again

coney blinded like infatuated is kinda annoying

Calculated 😎

Breaking News! Esam Asserts Dominance Over Game 4 Leo.

cuz it's not a thing and never was zz

And the one was after ad 0% sd

@@sentientmeat96 I mean when someone is more likely to win after being 0-2 than lose it kinda is. Game 3 is relatively equal since the person with 2 wins feels like they have the momentum but Leo has the download. Game 4 is the gaining of momentum for Leo. Game 5 you just have to keep the pace of the game the same

@@sentientmeat96 statistics says otherwise

Esam is 4-2 in ultimate (5-2 if counting online). Literally the only player with a +2 record over Leo

@@lucasbush113 yeah I thought it was something like that now. Essentially Leo's very own bracket demon at this point.

Before today, Esam was up in offline sets, but most or all of his wins were vs Marth/Lucina. I wanna say he was 0-2 to Leo Joker? So while Esam has beaten Leo a lot, there's always been the question of "but could he beat the Joker?" which was answered with a resounding yes today :) edit: apparently esam had only beaten leo twice, once on marth and once on lucina. and he lost twice to joker. i honestly was a little skeptical when i saw esam beat leo in winners, since he "only" took one game off the joker. but grand finals changed my mind

@@russellhassan7773 Previously he has gone 2-3 against the joker, so the promise was always there. I'd say this was a combination of Esam's grinding and Leo's Joker being just a little bit rusty.

Yeah those commentators where ruining the hype of the match by doubting ESAM. Now we have this legendary win and the commentators sounding like complete idiot's as he destroys Leo

The last stock is how I was born

Let’s be honest. Esam is the best player for Pikachu which is considered the top 3 characters. There is little reason why he shouldn’t be in top 5 as long as some guy named Maister is out of his way.

@@69metersbelow25 Damn you got great timing

Absolutely

@@Gindaman999 100%, the thing though is that its hard to be actually good w pika. You gotta be really good to be carried ig?

I accidentally saw this comment before watching the video. Fuck youtube mobile’s layout dude…

@@pango8143Same exact thing happened to me lmao

Watching that stock was nuts. "Well, ESAM's at 107 with pikachu, so he needs to play perfect" "Okay, solid combo starter" "Okay, this combo's going pretty well, maybe ESAM can pull it off" "WTF is he going for the thunder again?" "AAAAAAAH"

Haha no.

@@Nekotaku_TV yes

Fr the best player in the world is just a myth now

Nah, I mean, pika is broken and requires no skill to be played; every combo and every hit are very easy to pull off. Most pika mains lie saying he is difficult to play but he isn’t. I play pika and I can tell it’s easy af, free wins.

@@esausantibanez3702 huh

@@esausantibanez3702 Bro? Where were you at glitch?

@@kiryuri9111 🤣🤣🤣

Commentator's curse

bruh i was DYINGGG

I'm deas

Just be saying anything 😂😂😂

Lmao what? Super random these commentators

Bald man out here snatching weaves SMBH

ESAM finally has something to lord over Marss 💀💀 sucks Marss got placed against Maister, I wanted to see more of him but Maister was a menace this weekend in the least fond way possible

Been wanting to see Glut play ToT

Tbh I think top ten should be na only as of now.

@@tsmith4988 Gnw worst matchup is ZSS, and Marss usually always destroys Maister. Just unlucky for him that Maister was on a tear, but it's still a good bracket for him

​@@okayperson3041 Zackray has head to heads on NA, Proto has wins on Zackray, & both Japan & some NA players went to europe in the post quarantine season, so Tea has 1 more international major on him than Tweek right now from his win there, MKLeo's leading the tournament results race though with the 1 1st & 1 2nd, with Esam & Tea behind iirc shame Summit's not counted for PGR kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bMhog5phrtu5oqs.html

They really doubted my boy! Lol “Respectfully he can still win this” 😂

To be fair, it is pretty reasonable for someone to assume that SDing at 0 against game 4 Leo's joker in grands will cost that particular game. Esams ability to erase stocks was just absolutely wild

@@Thelolzorbots yea but dude was doing too much. Like he was acting like an impossibility. He irritated me.

@@joebrooks2655 agreed

@@Flybird504 oo

Dude is a shitty guy in real life unfortunately.

​@@suckmygooglies99 You shouldn't go round saying of anyone oh so and so is a bad person you shouldn't like him. That's called being a bitch.

@@sroth2021 Warning others of a bad person is now being a bitch? lol suck Esam off harder why don't you. If I was a fan of someone, I'd want to know who I was rooting for. I'm not going to keep supporting someone if I find out they sexually assault or murder people, etc.

​@@NatePhan Pretty sure he didn't murder anyone, I'm also almost entirely certain that whatever you're complaining about Esam saying or doing is pathetic.

​@@sroth2021 lol, you're clearly too dumb to understand what an example is, let alone follow a conversation properly. Since I wasn't complaining about Esam, but was pointing out how stupid your take was. You'd notice that if you took Esam out of your mouth.

Word lol straight out of an episode of Pokémon 😂

Legendary pfp lol

Leo for sure has to work his Joker or somebody into shape to counter Pika. I can’t think of any other of his characters being able to beat Pika except maybe Ike.

Nah Leo figured him out is just that Esam did a correct decision on his part because he should’ve lost that game cuz of the Sd I think that’s why he didn’t pop off it was just like a sigh of relief that he did something correct at that moment lol

@@Dragonball-sk9qw Leo didn’t really have him figured out tho, like Esam took two sets from Leo in this tourney, and the most crucial game for Leo to win in gf he had a 1 stock advantage off the start and still lost, that kind of proves his lack of figuring out the pika matchup

@@SingyBoi not to mention he's always kind of struggled in the matchup. Every time they've played in the past it's been close even the two times leo won the set

esam is a racist :)

Why lol? They are both people trying to make a living out of it, and Leo's been winning a ton. Doesn't make sense to idolize one to the detriment of another's way of making a living

@@manoqueenz that ain’t what he said

@@manoqueenz Bro, I congratulated Esam even though he's not my favorite. What more do you want from me?

@kyle so you don't think joker is broken? Lol arsen alone is outrageous to deal with

@@manoqueenz bro doesn't esam always say pikas busted lol

Godlike

Busted dare I say

Not to diss Esam, but "pika is tough"? Hes literally a top tier

@@hannibal8810 that is very true. That being said, I watch tournaments online often and I very rarely see pika in high level play. Definitely rare to see people consistent with him as a main like Esam is. Pika is tough. You have to sweat so much as him by constantly moving, always working hard to actually kill if the two players are on the same level.

@@gabrielcross1062 Fair enough

@@hannibal8810 No one plays Pikachu. He's not putting up any results except from ESAM and the skill cap for the character is one of the highest in the game. The character is strong, but also one of the most difficult to play. He also seems incredibly overrated as a character since there are literally very few results for Pikachu.

Definitely the joker nerfs definitely made this a better matchup for pika

@@name-tx5qu cope

It was mega lame to watch tho. The b button needed therapy afterwards.

@@andreistoriei2050 cope

@@brokeasian157 u cope

Leo had been snuffing out that thunder all set but the time ESAM finally gets him it's only because Leo COULDN'T defend it with the lag of his recovery. Shows how good both players were today!

it was amazing, he deserves it.

Boxing ring tho

Truuueeee

The smash pro community are slowly winning entire sets against Leo in a semi consistent way. First it was tweek with a 6-0 and now Esam who beat Leo in winners and G.F. Leo is still the top 1 though, but he nows needs to be more careful and serious and I know he knows that, this is why he now doubts joker because it is a match most pro know at this point.

im happy i hate bitchass jokers

@@Yokai_Yuri First off, his Joker is incredibly rusty and far from his peak. Second, the pros seem to study Leo, but once he studies them it’s over, as shown in the past with that 6-0 to a convincing win over Tweek almost 2 weeks or so later

@@noice8911 Yep. MKLeo gonna learn the pika matchup and study these games against Esam and almost certainly come out on top against him next time in bracket. MKLeo just has not practiced as much as Tweek and Esam did during quarantine, so the gap between them has shrunk, but that also means that Leo has more room to improve than them I believe, like we saw in his rematch against Tweek.

I covered part of my screen when i started the video so that wouldnt happen

me who saw "ESAM wins glitch 2021" before i saw this video:

KZfaq punishes videos that do that and will actually unlist them from the search alot of LOL vod channels used to do that and thier viewership dropped by a ton

First major offline, he went to a local

I love it so much!

No seriously Me too. I’m a huge Leo fan but honestly Esam winning Glitch feels super refreshing and I’m rlly happy for him. I hope Leo keeps practicing the joker tho he can win the next tourney for sure

Yep, I do think esam not being in tourneys for a while + there not being other big pika mains (somehow, considering pikachu is a good character in general) led to players not practicing pikachu mu's often. Next tournament with esam is definitely gonna be closer.

@@mochafrappawhat I think because pika is a very hard character to play against these top players, that esam is really the only one with the skills to do it

Yeah definitely all the post quarantine definitely adds spice to watching leo sense he's not just dominating everyone and thing with just his joker

@@kajin2422 nah I'm tired of Leo winning tournaments. I'm glad someone else won and we'll see what happens in the future!

Finally a person in the comment section that also thinks that the commenters are way too concentrated on Leo lmao. They said so much like ‘oh no arsene is coming’ but only complimented once on how well Esam had been dealing with all these arsene throughout the game. It’s completely fine to take about arsene coming out cause it is part of the game and it is their job to do that, but being over reacting to arsene every time it appears is just really annoying.

@@arswl854 They were doubting ESAM the whole last game, it was annoying. Just because it's MK Leo, they were nut hugging lol

@@rowsic159 I definitely do feel like that can get annoying this time but I’ve noticed pretty much every fighting game caster does it for some reason. Daigo in sf sandstorm in brawlhalla Mango in melee, g01in any game ever. Its almost like it’s in their job description or something

@@rowsic159 I think they were doubting him because he SD'd at 0 in the first 30 seconds.

I feel like there’s an anger that “haha” isn’t masking

Took my boy Leo straight to boxing ring and showing why Pikachu is at the top of every tier list. Great sets.

Yeah, the storylines are kinda crazy at this point. There's Leo who's the PGR 2019 #1 player defending his title of the best in the world. Then you have Spargo who started making waves online and has had some big tournament placements IRL We also have Tweek who is the former #2 player who spent time during quarantine to reflect on himself and find himself a character that he wants to main, who is giving Leo a run for his money for that #1 spot. There's also Marss, who was poised to be in contention in the #1 spot in early 2020 but due to Covid was thrown off his groove and is currently going through something of a rediscovery arc. And then there's Esam who's been grinding the f*** out of Ultimate during quarantine and probably just jumped from top 20 to top 5 unexpectedly. Those are just the real basic ones I felt like covering. The storylines run pretty deep with this game's competitive scene and I'm curious to see where it goes.

@mel *Yes.*

@@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569 I think the real thread to look out for is Kola's rise up, but yeah it's all looking interesting

@@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569 Don't forget Peanut carrying the Little Mac meta from online to IRL.

Comeback from the last game? Ethe grand finals is 1-3 in esams favor lol and also esam is the one who sents leo at losers.

@@showmeyourmoves8551 yeah... comeback last game. He was 107% to Leo's 0%. ESAM won. He did a comeback

Neither Joker or Byleth is a good matchup against Pikachu. These people just care about tier lists, but don’t understand the game.

All the switch did was make the match at least possible but I would think leo might be able to bring this back sense he's been slowly warming up the joker sense even he's said it's rusty

Esam even SD’d on that last game. Really good sets.

if he had used byleth he would have won

@@eliassheridan6837 Speaking from a Pika main, this SD is 100% understandable. It is not a mis-input. He went to far from thr ledge that the angle for the second quick attack was just no there. He couldn’t do a 45 degree up B twice and either aim up or down a bit would have missed the ledge.

It was just complete luck

@@DanBlabbers eeeeh that was all skill. you can't land those without skill. Just give credit where credit is due.

@@3Stars1Sun8Rays that thunder killing so low was total luck

@@DanBlabbers i don't know bout that. it looks like he got hit on the thunder's sweet spot. I've got killed that low by a well placed cap falcon knee.

bro he's obviously trolling lol

Bro..... ❤️

Yep. I love Leo, but there's something about watching the consensus best player go down that will always be satisfying.

Gone, like an angel's kiss~.

Gone, with the wind

Right?? And he’s so freakin’ entertaining. The t-pose at the end. He had the power of God on his side. Zeus literally gave him that stock. He went so DEEP for that.

@@Aflay1 ????

Isn’t Marss pretty good against Leo as well? ESAM and Marss are def the 2 players giving him the most issues

Esam is the only person who has a winning record over Leo so he is his bracket demon for sure. Esam is up 4-2 in sets.

@@reddwolfe2613 Esam has a winning record on Leo in Ultimate compared to Marss

@@reddwolfe2613 Samsora too, but he's been banned. Actually, Samsora had always been Esam's bracket demon.

Samsora never had a winning record on Leo

He beat the best player in the world. Pickachu killed his final life without taking any damage. If pickachu took some damage he would've lost.

And even that, ESAM said he did mess up few combos and was sometimes too agressive Imagine if he played even better. Would be a 2-0 3-0 sweeps Pika busted

Haha it costs 0$ to main Pikachu take notes DLC haters.

@@Aflay1 technically it costs $60 since the game is $60

@@Aflay1 He had Smash Ultimates entire lifespan to optimize Pikachu. Can't imagine the shit Kazuya will optimize a year or two from now lol

No, that was all skill. Arsen is busted

@@goe5 greninja is. Pikachu, arsene arent

@@arceusyveltalgreninja6710 there hasnt been a single greninja in top 5 in a while, what are you talking about?

Very sick

Amazing vertical and horizontal recovery. Combo game is nuts, kill confirms for days (one being a throw), pressure with t-jolt is infuriating and impossible to deal with, and he's fast....I hate Pikachu 😭😂

@@TrinidaddyGdom Busted

He is not the best. Low range and doesn't kill easily. Smash players are just bad. Barely any of the cast has developed metas

@@chuhwey3632 low range? How is that? Tjolt covers the entire floor and under most stages/ ledges. Thunder covers high above you. Great recovery and stupid hit boxes. The best player in the world just went 2-0 against him and often struggles against him. You're on crack dude lol

@@chuhwey3632 but I agree he's not the best. He's just a broken character. The barrier of entry is very low to be a decent pika player because he's so good.

I'm honestly surprised he didn't even try Byleth, considering he had great success using him/her against Kola's Roy.

@@bigredog100 He didn't have any confidence with that match-up considering how things played out last time. And I can't blame him either because Esam's Pikachu is no joke.

@@bigredog100 ESAM's Pika is the reason his Byleth was in losers bracket to begin with. no shot he tries Byleth again after dropping 2 consecutive games

@@bigredog100 he did'nt because esam has been training especificaly to punish the nairs of byleth

@@bigredog100 I’m not surprised earlier in bracket ESAM 2-0ed his byleth before he switched to Joker and did much better

Tweek hasn't beat game 4 Leo

@@JaystackLS yeah but double 3-0 I more baller anyway

Samsora is definitely in there

@@atietta who?

@@JaystackLS He did better, he aborted game 4 Leo

Esam is indeed the best pikachu player in the world. He was also regarded as roughly top 15 before the quarantine. We'll see how things go with him from here he has practiced a lot.

I feel as though Pika can easily edge guard Pyra/Mythra.

I think Aegis may get edgeguarded way too easily by Pika. Joker has better recovery mix-ups overall, so I think it was a good call by Leo. But I think he needs to play Joker more during tournaments to at least get him warmed up.

@@bromegaman5962 definitely agree on both points

No he gonna use byleth to destroy pika just how he did to tweeks diddy Kong after he got 6-0

But how about Ike? The best Anti air character in the game.

More like "Pikachu busted"

Pikachu? BUSTED

You really rooting for that piece of shit?

@@danielhernandez2575 bro this man doin somethings with pika you couldn't do in ur life time show some respect 😂😂😂

@@AuriSR You mean the same respect he shows black people? Or m2k? I'll never respect that piece of shit.

@@danielhernandez2575 boo hoo he said some stupid shit when he was younger we all have he obv realised he was wrong and stopped fuck your cancel culture bs

@@danielhernandez2575 the respect is for the player, not for the human being