Lol yea

FR, they must HATE Luigi.

Why do you hate luigi? :(

another thought, a TAS explained video for this would be really funny. the voiceover would just be breathlessly trying to list the moves that are coming out as quickly as possible

The scene's pretty dead right now unfortunately. Chunk0 has some high quality videos and has put out content within the last year, which is about as recent as it gets atm

Just saw your comment on reddit that this is actually a spacie downthrow - mario brothers specific interaction, specific to this stage, which makes this sequence in particular even more incredible

Less than 0.01 units, so sub-pixel :)

@@smokedem Ohhhh, 'cause I thought if you had the hammer, you couldn't take any knockback in this game. I haven't played it. 😭

@@KhahimOwens-Sipple-tc9jx Gotcha, it's a mechanic called "glancing blow" or colloquially "phantom hit". Does half damage and no knockback, and is incredibly precise. Melee is an awesome game, though it does take some getting used to. You should try it!

@@smokedem I know, thank you! 😭😭😭

Maximum walk value (X-191) for 2 frames, then neutral for 1 frame, then loop as needed.

What they do

​@@skch.animationbasically, he threw luigi in a way that put the marker for stage collisions INSIDE the stage while keeping the character model (and thus, the hitboxes and stuff) *on* the stage. This traps Luigi in a weird voodoo box that can only be broken by throwing him again. Hope this made sense

That's what all fox mains are like

You get a few s when you throw someone, it’s used in a couple other places in this TAS (green greens and yoshi’s, I think)

@@smokedem ah, I thought that was just for knockback not for damage for some reason

But this is 20XX

It's not entirely random. True randomness would be computationally expensive, so for applications where true randomness isn't needed, seeded RNG calls are used instead. By knowing the list of RNG values used and the function applied to those values, you can perfectly predict what will happen in any given RNG call. Like what pokemon will come out of a pokeball, or what item or turnip Peach will pull, or, yes, what a CPU will do. The other thing about seeded RNG is that as long as the inputs are consistent, the same outcome will happen every time. You can test this yourself by playing a one-stock match against a level 9 Ness CPU on Jungle Japes. If you perform no inputs, Ness will consistently self-destruct with the same sequence of inputs.

@@cyreni9756 Yup, this comment sums it up perfectly! The reason you see me do run in -> wavedash back against the mario CPU with slight variations in timing (and a single shine for the delay) is to get him to pick up the hammer on the frame that makes the head fall off. Then since it's a TAS, the only result that ever gets seen is the one that worked.

I don't know about Melee specifically, but there's no such thing as true random in programming. If you can reload save states and set the seed value for the rng each time, the result is controllable.