He missed the perfect opportunity to say "Melee is 2 broken"

ice climbers can *freeze* an opponent in place i mean...it's a funny coincidence

3:23 Pichu. A "really good character." Never thought that statement would one day become true.

2:49 *literally skates half the stage to F-smash Fox*

I did that freeze glitch to a few of my friends. I was never invited to play melee with them again.

2:27 >invincible smash attacks Luigi: *Y I P P E E*

3:23 a joke in 2001, a reality in 2019

1% of comments: discussing glitches 99% of comments: *_Y I P E E_*

Sixteen damn years and this is literally the first time I have ever heard that Kirby's up throw instantly spends all of his jumps.

I have never heard of those techs. The ICs one is horrifying.

1:20 "for some reason" And that reason being the programmers put a "4" when they wanted an "8". I'm not joking

1:25 I like how the audience gasped when it saw the hitbox

Meele is broken because Luigi doesn’t have an original voice

2:28 *Y I P P E E*

Kirb got nerfed so hard after they realized what happened in 64

3:24 loses all sarcasm in Ultimate

Dreams do come true

How'd you guys feel about a brawl or 64 sequel?

Pichu is literally a high risk no reward character, he's the epitome of a joke character.

_"Thanks! Now I'm gonna use the freeze on my friends! LOL"_ -Famous last words

Nice addition of separating Tournament-Illegal jank with the legal jank.

this is why I play shrek super slam

*_2:49_* *_Sonic:_* *_My_* *_New_* *_Precious_* *_Son_*

5:04 I think they took the “ice” in Ice Climbers a little too literally

2:27 YEEEEEEPE 2:29 TEEeEeEE

Don't forget Kirby with a damn pichu hat can hurt himself too. I SWEAR, THIS MAKES PIKACHU LOOK LIKE A MASTERPIECE!

I love that bit where Sheik uses the whip onstage and it just perfectly zooms in on it

0:47 For a moment I thought it said Shrek’s Side-B...

You forgot to mention the part where, despite half of Pichu's moves hurting itself and the character being intentionally designed as a joke character, Pichu still isn't actually the worst character in the game thanks to Bowser and Kirby

Does anybody realize how broken Pichu would be if there was rage in Melee?

3:16 *Laughs in Smash Ultimate*

Heeew: 100% the most broken move in Melee Ice Climbers: Yup!

Am I the only one to find Fox's death scream funny?

You forgot one: Ness, when controlled by a Level- 9 CPU, is broken. In most cases, he works just fine, but on Jungle Japes, if you don’t do anything, he always immediately double jumps into the pit between the platform you’re on and the main platform, tries and fails to PK Thunder you, and falls down and dies. If you set it to stock and set the amount of stock to one, you can win within 3 seconds, 2 if the Klaptrap attacks him before he can preform PK Thunder, and you can do this over and over again to easily unlock characters. On that note, you can also easily get both Falco and the Kongo Jungle stage by playing as Donkey Kong and spamming Down-B until you completed both. I haven’t been able to clear 15-Minute Melee this way because there’s something always happens that causes me to fly out of the stage, and you can’t turn items off in this mode, but I was able to beat 100- Man Melee this way. EDIT: I played the game again yesterday and managed to beat 15- minute Melee.

1:43 😂😂😂 ness pulls a straight scar-on-mufasa and the way the crowd gasps is perfect

4:55 That Ice Climber "Freeze Glitch" is just amusing... XD

Freeze glitch: Time has stopped. You don't even know you're dead. You have no way of knowing what happened...

2:19 is me every night a 10 pm

5:04 Dio: *NOW ALL OF TIME HAS STOPPED*

Pichu You from Melee: "About half her moveset damages herself. Really good character." You in Ultimate: "F-tilt kills so early. She may be the best character!"

1:24 that zoom in on ness with the crowd gasp was so perfectly synced (also love the use of Kirby Air Ride music, one of the best and most underrated GameCube games by far!)

2:15 welp time to ban the ledge from competitive melee

4:00 This one literally changed an entire match, forever. Abate VS S2J.

2:19 Luigi have a great time 😂😂

Wow, I was just watching Melee is Broken earlier, went out, then came home and saw you uploaded this. LOL Must've been fate

Melee machine 🅱roke

Hey this video is really well put together, and I know I'm super late to commenting, just want to clarify a few things for people who are interested in learning more about some of these: 1. Meteor Cancels: So the way meteors work in melee is a little more complex than they appear at surface level. Without going too in depth, you essentially get a window to meteor cancel that can't be avoided, this isn't on the initial instance of the hit, but after hitlag ends. Trying to meteor cancel during hitlag locks you out of being able to meteor cancel for like 30 frames or so (in a practical sense, you die unless you are puff/kirby who can buffer meteor cancels). The lock out also happens just by holding up when you are hit (again, unless puff/kirby). Because hitlag is so important, in addition to the base knockback/velocity, certain meteors are considerably more powerful than others. Ganon and Falcon both have very powerful meteors with relatively low cool down and are able to effectively punish meteor cancels because of this. By comparison, Zelda has one of the weakest meteors in the game which is effectively useless as an edgeguard. Going back to the lock out, powerful meteors--provided they have fast start time--work well as DI traps since they require you to not be holding up when hit (which is common survival DI), so meteors like this are generally still very good edgeguard moves despite being able to be canceled. 2. Spikes: Spikes are super uncommon in melee, but 4 of the best characters in the game have them in NTSC versions of the game (falco, marth, falcon, fox). Spikes are crazy for all sorts of reasons and many of them act a little differently from each other. For example, Fox's down air does not spike in the same way as falco's, but its hitboxes are technically spike hitboxes (but multihit with fixed knockback). Functionally, this makes it worse as an edgeguard move, but it serves the purpose of breaking crouch cancel, since weak spikes and meteors into the ground activate a landing tumble as opposed to knockdown, which is a big deal in melee. The other important thing to note is that spikes and meteors have distinctly different base kb angles. Meteors send straight down (without DI), where spikes send at a down and out angle (again, with no DI). It's also worth noting that Marth loses his dair spike in the PAL version of melee and instead gets a meteor. This makes dair a less effective edgeguard, but the changed kb angle makes it a significantly better combo move. From what I understand, after melee all spikes were removed and replaced by meteors, but I think mechanically meteors work slightly different in the later games. I'm not an expert on the mechanics of the later games though, so I don't want to talk too much about that. 3. Kirby actually loses all of his jumps if hit out of any throw other than downthrow. It's most evident on uthrow because it pops you into the air on finishing. He's not the best designed character. 4. Gentleman is possible to get relatively consistent in NTSC, but it is very problematic. This issue was fixed in the PAL version of the game. 5. Yoyo glitch is wonky. It was also patched in PAL. 6. The ledge is typically one of the worst positions in the game, but certain characters are better in that spot than they should be (Fox). What makes the ledge broken isn't just the ability to come back onto stage invincibly, but that certain characters can retake center stage invincibly (Fox can ledgedash and run/walk to regain a ton of space). Characters like Luigi, marios, and Ice Climbers are able to take a lot of space with their ledgedashes and have decent amounts of active invincibility frames, but they are functionally much more linear than characters like fox or falco, so they get stuffed a lot more easily. The main point is that while ledgedashing makes the corner less bad than in the other games, it is still predominantly a losing position. 7. Not sure how to respond to the ledge trumping point, but that mechanic wasn't added until smash 4. Holding ledge as an edgeguard is definitely a little too strong in the first 3 games, but especially melee and 64. What is worse in melee is invincible ledgedrop attacks, which, while they make edgeguarding exciting, are pretty ridiculously broken, especially with things like fox's shine in the game. 8. Lots of characters have horrible dash grabs, this is usually avoided by doing jump cancel grabs instead. JC grab is where you jump after the running and then interrupt the jump squat animation (kneebend) with a grab, so you end up doing a standing grab out of dash. This mechanic was removed from later games, so characters with bad dash grabs are just stuck with them in those games. Unfortunately many of these grabs are so bad in melee, learning this technique is mandatory at a competitive level (i.e. Yoshi's dash grab extends into the z-axis and forces him to miss characters like sheik in her standing animation, so he needs to JC grab) 9. Falcon and Ganon's sideB wasn't given the function to autocancel into ledge snap yet in melee. This only exists for a very small number of moves in the game under specific circumstances (I.e. sheik and zelda's upB, but only from above the ledge, moving down). In other circumstances, recovery moves will complete their entire animation before snapping to the ledge. For example, when fox/falco upB or sideB to the ledge (unless from above, moving down), when they hit the wall they don't instantly snap, making them easier to edgeguard. Falcon and Ganon have the same issue with their sideB, but the animation continues after they begin falling and has a long cooldown before they enter the helpless state and are able to grab ledge again. Snapping to ledge was expanded to way more characters in brawl and smash 4. 10. Phantom hits are an unfortunate design flaw. Basically, why they happen is that there are multiple hitbox interactions happening whenever there is a collision. Pretty much you take damage, and the attacker experiences hit lag, as though they had gotten the hit, but the part that activates KB does not overlap. 11. Invisible Ceiling Glitch occurs if you have a certain amount of horizontal velocity when being attacked after hitting a shield. These get super weird and crazy, so I don't really want to try and explain them, but there are some good videos out there about it. 12. freeze glitch is a crazy phenomenon. The actual mechanical reasons it happens are confusing, but basically if something is in hitlag from a throw with nana when popo uses sideB, it gets frozen. This is easiest off of nana's throws, but it doesn't have to be. The glitch can also be triggered if the opponent throws nana when popo uses sideB. This includes command grabs like falcon and ganon's sideB. There are two different types of freeze too. Hard freeze is the more common one when an opponent can only be unfrozen by being pummeled or thrown by a hit throw (ICs up or forward throws), but there is also a soft freeze which happens under more specific circumstances where the frozen character can be unfrozen by any hit. Freeze glitch was also fixed in PAL. The moral of the story is that PAL is the superior version of the game.

Popo: Nana...its time Nana: right *does f-throw* Popo: ZA WARUDO!!!

Oh yes, the Kirby Air Ride music.

Lets face it... Melee woudn't be as great without its brokeness

“Melee is the best smash game” -competitive players

4:17 HA **loading** C **loading** HA! **you have lost connection**

2:19 *"UUGGHHHH"* Ohh, Luigi 😏

This is why u play brawl competitively smh u nerds

Fox: *exists* Everyone: *confused screaming*

A low of the slow motion stuff looking at hit boxes reminds me of the teacher in incredibles pointing to the TV and saying “See? He moved!!”

You shoulda called it "Melee is 2 broken" Not sorry if someone said this already, I cba reading all the comments lol

For some reason, Falcon's jab is easier to perform in the PAL version, which i own. All you have to do is press the A button 3 times

"all these moves hurt [Pichu], great character" little did he know about the wrath of ultimate Pichu

I like how in ultimate pichu is top tier while still hurting itself lmao

U have no idea how hard it was for us kids back in the day to beat those events without the C-stick. Back in 2004 the C-stick was the "cheap" way to play smash, so if you were caught using it you were a noob. So us Melee veterans understand that avoiding the C-stick made you a man. And beating that damn event with Luigi fighting Doc Mario and Nurse Peach was AIDS.

Then suddenly a wild Bayonetta appeared...

"In 1 player mode the c-stick doesn't do attacks and instead controls the camera" This explains so much!

3:05 Pichu has no soul (it's got no expression)

Roy's Up-Smash can spike, that sh*t is broken.

Now I’m buying melee. Why you may ask? So that I can finally beat my friend by freezing them in place.

5:10 at this point fox is just a pinata at at kids party

1:33 is the coolest part because of how badass the music to game syncing is.

Those are F E A T U R E S

To this day I still don´t know what´s the point of Pichu in this game.

The freeze glitch can be performed with any nana throw, its just that fthrow is the easiest to pull out since it has a 4 frame window to hit the side b, unlike the other 3 throws, which all need the side b to be frame perfect

I love these videos, they're always really funny and clearly meant to be enjoyed mostly from a stance of "I'm not saying these games suck just that they have hilariously awful flaws". Thank you for making them! HOWEVER one thing no one seems to know is how easy it is to gentlemen once you understand the right technique. It has nothing to do with precise timing and it's super consistent once you understand it. I'm dropping this info here in case anyone might see it: Press A three times consecutively (while hitting a target, ideally from the first hit but it can work even if you only land hit 2 or even 3) and hold down A on the third press. THEN (key part most guides miss) input a movement command while STILL HOLDING A (jump, dash, crouch, etc) and you'll successfully gentleman. Then of course let go of A after youve transitioned into the new state (running/jumping etc). The only "precise timing" is getting the feel for when you start the dash/wavedash etc after the 3rd hit but that's ezpz to get a feel for. Super easy, no "A...A...A..." crap you see people talk about etc. Try it out!

these are great and I'd love to see more of the melee ones

Goes to a tournament Plays as Pichu Battle fox,final destination no items Wins the tournament NOW THIS IS A REAL PROFESSIONAL!!

They really didn't need to remove the TUTUTUTUTU from Falcon's multi-jab though.

1:58 “enemy stand” nice

oh... after watching the whole video i can finally realize why Sakurai wonders why people still cling to melee event hough he thinks the game is not his best work lol

Oh my god, Heeew posted the day before i go back hell. What a GOD

The ledge with Luigi is why I love him in Melee.

5:35 welcome to smash planet in this episode we will be taking a look at the ice climbers oh my they are celebrating their victory

So... Peach side B stalling is banned from tournaments but Ness hidden Up-Smash hitbox of *Broken dreams* isnt?

I await your future video titled "Melee HD is Broken" Also everyone better pay attention to 5:41 because people tried to use the original video to say melee is "bad" lmaooooo

“Spikes are rare” Ultimate: EVERYBODY HAS A SPIKE. EVEN DR MARIO

I can't believe you didn't talk about Luigi's voice I swear if I hear him say "YiPPeE" one more time I'm going to smash my head through my monitor.

Pichu's attacks hurting itself is explained by the Pokedex: Pichu, the Tiny Mouse Pokémon. A pre-evolved form of Pikachu. Despite their size, Pichu release bursts of electricity that can shock even humans. However, Pichu are unskilled at controlling their electricity, and sometimes release it by accident when surprised, or when laughing and shock themselves.

Its almost like this game is really broken.

4:10 That’s the StreetPass Mii Plaza Main Theme 3 slowed down. I really used to like StreetPass back in the day.

Omg I'm so glad you talked about Ness' glitches! I love them!

Bless PAL for ez gentleman

"That right there took 20 tries" LMAO had me rolling 😂

i mastered wobbling to annoy my friends, now im definetly going to master that freeze one, cause thats fair

So you're telling me Ice Climbers had *Witch Time* way before Bayo!?

My uncle is way better than me in Super Smash Bros. Melee,so I want to use the Ness glitch and when I win,I want to say,"Victory is finally mine." In Japanese

Thanks man best bday gift ever

*Breaks disc* There, now its really broken.

2:18 me when poopy won't come out

Total solar eclipse and now this? Truly we live in an age of miracles.

As a former Ness main, 1:47 made my day.

Engh! Hoohoo!-YahYah! Engh! Hoohoo!-YahYah! *E e e e n n n g h*

Pichu has no business taking damage from Skull Bash. *It's a normal type move.*