As a ridley main it feels nice to see people giving him the attention he deserves! I honestly think the only thing holding him back is his hurtbox, his advantage is really good, he does a lot of damage, great range, up smash (cannot stress enough how good that move is), etc. A lot of people will say he has a bad recovery, but honestly it's really good if you use it right because of how massive his ledgegrab box is, and if you trade with it it still does 23%. Overall he's one of the simpler characters in the game but I think that's what makes him so fun, and I hope you keep messing around with him in the future!

Just make Ridley heavier and give him a real down air, and I’ll be happy

He’s pretty good against Spacies (except Falco) and Cloud. He is also a borderline swordie

As a player from a region that is experiencing a steady rise in Ridley mains: *VOUCH*

I recommend to watch mezcaul as a Ridley main. He is a top french player and the best Ridley of the World. He has a really aggressive ans créative gameplay ans has wins agains gluto sisqui or chag with characters called impossible match UP for Ridley

Can't wait for you to raise Ridley up in rank. As people like Skyjay have shown, characters considered bad can become scary in the right hands.

Creepooba beating Fatality is so hype

I still can't get over how you document everything so well! I remember when your DK vid released and was absolutely fell in love with the videos, and it only improved. That offstage against Joker was nuts, and I can't wait for your vid on MK. Today was Tuesday Tastic!

As a ridley main i am so sorry that you had to go against 2 of ridleys worst match ups, those being sonic and diddy. I love how you are showing the potential of this character to people and I believe that this character could be an amazing counterpick for those who don't expect it with him having great mu's against cloud, byleth, and the occasional incineroar

I knew ridley was light but he's wario weight?? The big lanky dragon weighs as much as an Italian.

Been maining this guy since day 1. He is great, love this guy.

I always called Ridley’s up air “The Skyrim” since it makes him look like the Skyrim logo.

Smub Best Ridley, really optimized the top level ridley

I haven’t been looking because I found Ridley a long time ago and he is the funny :)

Hello, Ridley main here. I would like to make you aware of something with Ridley: He might be the most dishonest mid-tier in the game, just due to some silly little tricks. You already found one of em' with Wing Blitz' spike properties, but let me give you another: Space Pirate Rush at ledge. If you space it right, instead of just dragging the opponent on stage, you can pull them UNDER THE STAGE. This can lead a "do or die" situation for the opponent if they can tech, otherwise they get stage spiked HARD. Great video man, hope you solve your crisis ;)

ZSS and Rids are my favorite characters to run. Metroid got such unusual playstyles. Sammy is a zoner's zoner, ZSS has my favorite movement and Ridley has such a weird and unique moveset. Metroid bairs are easily my favorite. So meaty across all 3 reps.

Im glad you found out why that side b can be so infuriating

I'm not really a competitive player (always wanted to learn but never mustered up the energy), but Ridley's always been one of my mains. Definitely an interesting and fun skill set, even if not the Best Ever.

At first I never really cared about Ridley but I started playing him more down the line and now I absolutely love the dude he's just so fun and my friend hates getting hit by f-smash lol

Here before 2k. Only up from here. Nice character, nice video.

Look for Paco tournament sets. He is Argentina’s current #1 player and he mains Ridley since day one. Truly an expert on the subject

It you boy the scend fan great video Tuesday

I am a Ridley main and I've played with other characters. In all truth I find him to be very similar to Mewtwo. -Excellent tools and range -Great advantage state -Some good physics (both are fast and Ridley has the benefit of 1 extra jump which is an enormous help) But the disadvantage state of both characters holds them back quite a bit. Ridley is hurt less by his size IMO since he is nowhere near as light as Mewtwo and he may not be a true superheavy, he is heavy at 107 units and I have lived stuff other characters would never survive as Ridley. That and I think the current meta does not favor Ridley in big tournaments. Zoners and more traditional top tiers like Palu eat Ridley alive and his good MUs are there, but not anything big. Mainly wolf and some good swordies and characters with stubby range are the ones that come to my mind. That and his strength of edgeguarding is a bit niche and hard to capitalize on since Edgeguarding is not always that good in Ultimate.

Ridley is my favorite character I think. For others who don't know much, if you're off-stage and an opponent is camping the ledge, his space pirate rush (side b) will grab opponents right on the edge of the stage and he'll instead drag them down off-stage. If you time it right, and they're high enough percent, you can use jump to throw them so they bounce off the bottom of the stage. :D One of the most satisfying things.

Ah yes the steve and kazuya counter, ridley.

this is some really fricking good content

As a Ridley main- I can confirm, he has a lot of randomly good high/top tier matchups for no reason. He beats Snake pretty well, goes even ish with Cloud, and does surprisingly well against Aegis and even Steve. Obviously there are some matchups where he needs SOOOO much help, but the guy has his place

man, after seeing how much love you gave to my main and how much you liked him, might as well end the series right here and let him be your secondary or something from now on lol. Im also under a crisis, but looking for a secondary/counterpick character that I can get good at and can counter what Ridley cannot deal with.

Been saying this for decades, eons even, ive been peddling this knowledge since the beginning of days

I really liked this video! ridley is a very interesting character that needs more attention. After meta knight it would be cool to see you try out bowser. As a bowser main myself I can say that even though he is a heavy he has all the tools he would need to succeed in competitive play and players like Leon are good at showing this. This was my first time watching your videos and I loved it, keep up the good work!

Ridley main since day 1

Ridley has inadvertently become my secondary lately. He's an awesome counterpick vs swordies

Love Ridley. Feels like Marth + Ganondorf gameplay with a bit of his own unique Ridley flair. One of the 3 characters I wanted since Melee. Meta Knight and Sephiroth being the other 2. He always makes me feel good everytime I play him, and it's easy to do well with him. I only struggle with him against the best of players, then it feels like I don't have enough options to be able to mix up and adapt to what my opponent can do. Since a Pikachu main is basically the end goal of who I want to be able to defeat, Ridley kind of struggles since Pikachu can just force Ridley to approach using t-jolt and react to anything he does. So it's one of the roughest matchups I've faced. How can you fight someone if you don't have a way to pressure them with anything? Anyone that isn't that Pikachu player is going to struggle though, and he is the only Pikachu player good enough that doesn't get absolutely rolled by my Ridley since good Pikachus are really rare. Right now I kinda use Ridley as a counterpick character depending on the type of mentality of my opponent, and/or if their character doesn't let Ridley do Ridley things. He's probably the character that requires the least amount of time to do well with, making him a great pocket for me. Also, there are few things in Ultimate that meet the hype of landing a skewer on the opponent, and watching just how drastically their gameplay changes after you land a skewer. Speaking of which, I really love how RIdley kinda plays "honest" for a long time, but then will randomly have an way to instantly kill you or deal massive damage out of no where where it feels kind of cheesy, so I love how intimidated people get when fighting him. Almost feels as if they have to balance out looking for cheesy, or looking for "proper gameplay", and too much one way or the other and the Ridley exploits that. I don't get this with any other character anywhere near to the extent that Ridley does. I absolutely love him. (Of my most played, Lucario and Sephiroth are probably the closest to this).

do bayo next! she has a very unique moveset and has arguably the most expressive combo, recovery, and disadvantage game out of the whole cast

My character crisis is due to maining Ridley lol. He feels very doable in some top tier matchups but then you'll fight a duck hunt

You definitely made me want to start trying Ridley out lol

great video!

I play Ridely a lot, and he's the coolest character (in my opinion) I just wish they made him heavier. I've also found full charging plasma breath is one of the best edge guarding tools in the game. Also, I think I'm the ONLY one in the universe that actually sort of likes Ridleys down air. It kills sometimes, it's pretty fast, and if you go up high then use it, you can still recover, plus it's a semi-spike (I think)

Great video as always, Tuesday! I never was really good at Ridley but it was always really interested in playing him. Also, sorry i haven't been catching the streams, been busy recently.

I like Little Mac, Kirby, Corrin, pikachu, sonic, Bowser, Pokemon Trainer, R.O.B., Byleth, Captain Falcon, Ganondorf, Morton, kin k rool, sora, and banjo

I legit started playing ultimate hating ridley, but somewhere down the line I got tired of my friend group always complaining about the characters I play being high tier, even though we're scrubs and tiers dont matter on our level. Either way, picked up ridley to shut them up and ended up enjoying him a lot. He's also a weirdly good counter to the high tiers my friends play, ironically. He's very good at shutting down what makes peach and yoshi so obnoxious for instance. Again, just a scrub here but he's very interesting in my friend circle. I usually play him or Incin to send a message lool He has a lot of potential in skilled players hands i think.

After playing Dedede and Little Mac, I couldn't go back to my old mains which were, statistically, more competitively viable. Moral of the story: Play the character that will make your opponent feel like they're wasting their life.

I highly reccomend IzAw's Art of Meta Knight video to start up with the character; I learned so much about him.

As a Ridley main I approve

I actually think skewer is also such a viable punish tool that gets over looked

Anti-meta in the sense that he’s as far from the meta as possible

Ridley is a character that alot of people seem to skip over, hes alot better than you think, the only reason why he isnt looked at is because he has little to no top player representation

Ridley is super fun. My friend just spams Space Pirate Rush and Plasma Breath across the stage, but gets angry when I hit him with Shulk up-b out of shield. In his words "Shulk is too annoying and broken!" For that reason I am requesting an episode on Shulk after the MK episode.

I’ve been out of the scene for a long time, but you a Utah guy? I knew a valor sonic.

To commemorate her great results in Smash Con. Can the next Character crisis be Corrin?

I have Ridley as my Secondary, with Samus as my Main, just because Im a Metroid Fan.

Ive used to main Ridley. Stopped when down-throw no longer strings into skewer. *it just doesnt feel the same...*

This character is actually better then people think. I just beat fatality and no its not because fatality wasn't good. He just slept on Ridley.

I'll be honest. I often forget Ridley exists

If they reworked skewer and dair as well let him angle wing blitz like pit he’d go up several tiers Speaking of skewer it should’ve been like brawl where he drags it across the floor

You should do a video on Bowser please! Who did you prefer Ridley or DK?

Creaking Skull

Hey your channel icon looks a lot like the Magic The Gathering card: Rattlechains. Is this on purpose?

I like ridley as a charictar but he feels too akward for me and being soo big means ya get hit alot. And his animations look weird to me. I play villager and im pretty happy with em. Edge gaurding is soo fun

W vid

I've been wanting to start playing him cus of his unique fire ball but he doesn't really have to many ez combos

I think you should try playing kirby (I was thinking of suggesting meta knight or Kirby before I finished watching the video)

You should make a plant video next! 😮

Been “Anti-Meta” since day 1.

Hey everyone, Tuesday is live RIGHT now! I'd share a link, but the comment hoover will sweep it up. Check the channel page!

That didn't show him as an anti-meta pick.

I hope Robin's next lol

As much as a tried not to, I kinda gave up on maining Ridley.

What state do you play in just curious?

Do Samus

Or here me out You could waste your time to learn Ice climbers like me

When dedede

I've beaten 1,2 pr before

Ridley is like a cheap bowser

Day 1 of me asking for villager

I'm gonna regret saying this, but min min invalidates everyone on the top half of the tier list

Ahhhhh I missed it 😢

What if down special did 100%

Yo AJW is my brother and he dominates me haha

I play snake. I find ridley annoying.

play Robin pls 😊😊