I remember hearing someone say that Kirby was probably one of the first characters developed for Melee, and he became a victim of power creep as more characters were added, and I think it makes sense

I love the story behind the thumbnails. In the previous video about the worst character in Melee we have Bowser picking up a flower, and on this one we see that he's giving it to Kirby, the other worst character.

The biggest advantage of playing Kirby is that every stock you somehow manage to take inches your opponent one step closer to having a stroke, which by extreme technicality counts as a win.

Fun fact: If Kirby's up smash collides with a sword attack, you'll hear the same "TING" sound effect that plays when two blades collide. This also happens with Mewtwo's tail.

Fun fact: I believe in an interview Sakurai said that Kirby being your first character in WoL isn't (entirely) bias. He said it's cause Kirby's one of the 3 characters Sakurai thinks could canonically survive Galeem's attack. The other two being Palutena and Bayo. He chose Kirby from those three because he's the most beginner friendly. (Tho it could totally still be bias lol)

Seriously who thought Kirby’s b-throw should remove all of his jumps and both b-throw and f-throw can just be jumped out of at any time?

Fun fact: in Ultimate, where Kirby gets his Melee dash attack back (with some buffs), an in-game tip EXPLICITLY mentions that Kirby's dash attack WILL NOT go off ledges (which it won't), a nod to how it used to do this in Melee.

A decade later and I'm still catching strays LMAO Good vid as always AsumSaus

As has been said before by a big yellow KZfaqr, Kirby in Melee is like eating a bowl of Lucky Charms with water. None of it is good, but some of it is a bit less bad.

Sakurai looks 20 years older in that old picture than he does now

2:56 Ive seen this clip 20+ times and I just realized Zain picks up his controller for him. That's really great sportsmanship in a moment where most could argue he didn't really need too. Good on Zain.

Honestly for the hitboxes it seems like kirbys issue was actually having accurate hitboxes. Shoulda known that wouldn't fly in melee

There really is nothing else like your editing, comedy, and line delivery. It’s always a gift seeing you upload. Keep up the fantastic work man.

I only played as Kirby in Melee for two reasons. 1. Camp and spam his taunt 2. Inhale and jump off the edge, spit out and float back to safety.

I've seen 3:03 many times, but I never noticed that Zain picked up hbox's controller and gently laid it on the chair. That's kind of beautiful to be honest.

Even if Kirby is a bad character, the Kirby mains are literal gods, beating you to death in 50 different ways with a bottom tier character.

Kirby's not a bad character; he's just holding back his true power.

I play Kirby because I resonate with him on a spiritual level and no amount of developer oversight can take that away from me

"half conscious, piss-drunk Armada" 💀💀💀

One little note that makes Kirby's Up B worse is that it has no rising hitbox, so the opponent can really safely hit him while he's recovering with it

I love the idea that Kirby, a being that kills demons straight from hell on a weekly basis and literally survived the extinction of the end of a universe, sucks at hand-to-hand combat. Guess nobody has destroyed his cake yet.

You know what isn't bottom tier? Your editing. Immaculate and clean, on point and clear. Good job, it's always a pleasure when you upload.

Man I remember being Kirby at first in melee as a kid, landing so many dash attacks and never managing to win. It does blow so hard.

I remember being actually pissed that Kirby was so bad even as a kid. I tried so hard to use him anyways because I loved him. Least he's really fun in Ultimate.

His aerial Side-b is actually so bad

I started playing melee semi-casually a few weeks ago and always wondered why Kirby was ranked as such an incredibly bad character, because he didn't *feel* terrible when trying him out while I was figuring out which character I liked the most, so it makes sense that it seems to be mostly that his toolkit overall is just very weak when compared to other characters instead of it just being a melee moment™. Fantastic video as always. Your channel is a huge inspiration to me :]

0:10 Holy F...Sakurai is just getting younger

I don't even play Smash Bros in any capacity and I've accidentally, truly accidentally, watched every single one of your videos. The way you present information pulls the viewer right in. You've trimmed all the fat and inserted just the right amount of humor. Bravo. I need more of this.

I like to think (despite validity) that Kirby is bad in Melee because he's too... normal. Many hitboxes are more realistic, and many of the better characters rely on some sort of exploit or mistake in the design. This may be an excuse, but especially with how fun he is, that's just fine with me. Edit: Another comment mentioned he may have been designed earlier than the others, and that could pair with this. They had a style, but concepts changed as the rest of the game developed. (again, more breaks and such as well)

I just realized the thumbnail tells a little story. In a different video, bowser is shown picking flowers. In this one, he's shown giving the flowers to Kirby. What a nice fella.

I love how bowser is handing Kirby a flower which references bowser picking a flower in the other thumbnail.

1:39 “Kirby is so abysmally shit…” The funniest choice of words possible 🤣

SM64 Kirby mains: Heck yeah I love Kirby! SM64 Kirby mains playing Melee: Look how they massacred my boy

Man, your editing really shows how passionate you are about Melee and your craft. It truly is inspiring

Even at a different points during subspace, each of the Kirby characters have very important roles. Kirby escorts one of the princesses and helps save everyone in the maze, dedede is a main point of conflict for all of the cartoony characters (along with having the brooches), and meta knight literally drives the story forward by having his ship introduce the first subspace bomb and primids, as well as being a meeting point for all of the characters later on

I remember always using Kirby when I played smash at my friends house as a kid. Idc if he’s absolutely awful, he’s my guy and I’ll have dun even if he’s bad

I do not play melee but i really love your videos. Always such good quality i literally watch them on repeat while playing osrs 24/7

Poor Kirby, he went from an amazing character in 64 to pretty bad

Here are some more fun useful facts about Kirby that makes him even more.... Shit. Kirby's ub-b when used consumes all of his jumps, even if he has used only one! So if he gets hit once, even on the startup, he's dead no matter what. The same thing applies with his up throw! And it is why a lot of players only go for up throw at low percents, since it MAY lead to a tech chase on a platform, IF your opponent is drunk, or really slow. However, it can be used to Kirbycide that cannot be escaped out of.... if you roll to the back of ledge and your opponent somehow doesn't see it coming. Kirby's down throw sends at such a bad angle, Marth can immediately up-b out of it to prevent being tech chased. Not only can Marth up-b out, but puff can actually REST. Meaning if you grab puff and they know about it, they can immediately kill you with rest at 13%. Kirby rock can actually slide along ledges and is pretty funny to use on Yoshi's if someone is recovering along the side and you want to have a good chuckle. Kirby's dash attack when caped by Doc or Mario actually slide backwards, so he does his own version of the flaming moonwalk. Kirby's biggest claim to fame is the fact that his spotdodge is the fastest in the cast. Meaning when you see Kirby's just spotdodge like crazy, they're just using the only thing that makes Kirby.... Kirby. I've mained Kirby for a long time, and appreciate you reading this! :) I'd love to see if there is anything else not so commonly known about Kirby!

To wall out Fox: Expertly maneuver yourself into a position just out of range of most of Fox's moves, while also maintaining range of your moves. To wall out Kirby: Press the L button.

Another few things about Kirby 1. His forward, back and up throw lose all his jumps 2. His inhale hitbox gets smaller midair compared to grounded inhale 3. There's a cool absolutely useless tech with dash attack, if you dash attack right before running off a platform, you can cancel dash attack's animation with a grab

If you really want to main an awful character -and surprise people when you rekt them because they don't know the match up,- you should use male wireframe instead.

2:30 Haha that was me! I wrote a comment about exactly that on one of your vids a long time ago, asking for an explanation. I'm so happy you did! :D

Bowser took 2 years to give kirby a flower

Therapist: "Pregnant Masahiro Sakurai isn't real, he can't hurt you." Pregnant Masahiro Sakurai: 0:17

They really did shaft Kirby in Melee, he went from the second best character in 64 to the second worst in the transfer to Melee unironically.

I heard that for Ultimate, Sakurai chose Kirby for the WoL campaign starting character because of the characters that could feasibly escape Galeem(Palutena, Bayonetta, Kirby...) Kirby was the most beginner friendly.

The thumbnail references bowser picking flowers in the video about him from 2 years ago. AsuSamus level of detail never ceases to awe me.

No one really talks about Kirby in Melee. It's so underwhelming, but in a boring way. It doesn't have a glaring flaw, but just has no upside. Even other low tier characters have something they do best out of all the entire cast. Kirby has nothing.

'Welcome to the Salty Splatoon! How tough are ya?' 'I have climbed to the very top of a Melee tournament without a high tier' 'I see... Who is your main?' 'Kirby' 'Dear God, Errmm... Right this way you madman...'

Bowser was picking flowers for Kirby. Really cute lore.

0:02 6 tickets to minions the rise of gru please

It's so wild how Kirby is one of the most beginner-friendly characters but completely falls apart competitively. Excellent vid as always.

triple R has beat Kels several times with Kirby and other prominent midwest players which is for sure a bigger accomplishment than beating Blur/drunk armada

I just realised the genius that is the fact that this is bowsers perspective from the worst character thumbnail.

the delivery on "so abysmally shit" genuinely had me spit my food, definitely was NOT trying to, you are wonderful and spread so much unspeakable joy into so many people's world

Sakurai decided after Kirby being a high tier in 64, he needed to screw him over in melee. Truly an act of tough love, to teach him how to lose gracefully

Kirby's dash attack isn't actually ALL bad. There's a really goofy little tech you can do with it where if you dash attack off of the edge of a platform, you can cancel it into a grab once you touch the ground. Look up "kirby dash attack cancel" if you want to see it ^^

Gosh, I just love the visuals for your videos. They’re always great and feel so varied.

The editing and presentation of these videos is definitively S tier

When Melee first came out, I had been a Kirby player in OG Smash. Coming into the game I obviously picked Kirby first, and *immediately* felt the difference. For decades I have lived with the assumption that Sakurai nerfed Kirby into the ground because of how dominant he had been in OG, and this video only solidifies that belief.

Couple of “fun” Kirby facts. If you use dash attack as soon as you leave a platform and land on stage while holding Z, you will immediately perform a grab when the active frames end. Kirby’s down-b will not slide on the top left platform of Kongo Jungle 64. It will slide on the right platform and the bottom stage ramps, however. This fact was used by Triple R to defeat BunBun (another Kirby main) in a long ago Kirby ditto.

The titlecard of this video is brutal. I never wanted to see kirby with the equivalent of a dunce hat 😭

*I did not need to see a pregnant sakurai today but thank you for that* 😂 Also, I got so excited seeing this pop up in my notifications! Your videos are the best! Also also, Double Dedede at 6:44 brings me great joy

12:06 - "Tough it out", that's a fucking top referential parallel to Kirby 64 if intentional.

Kirby is the neglected child

Really good video and a very informative one at that. I love the placement of some of the sound effects as well, it made some parts of the video really funny.

Kirby in lore: giga death god Kirby in game: expired hostess snowball

Finally we know to who Bowser offered flowers, my life is complete...

When I was a kid, I played Melee a lot, and I *always* played as Kirby. I was pretty bad at the game, and it wasn't until many years later that I learned that Kirby was bad. My reaction was something like "oh, that explains it".

0:25 In Ultimate when Kazuya throws several characters off a cliff Kirby is the one to float right back up again

11:14 falcon named finger:

Kirby's dash attack isn't all that bad. It's the only dash attack that can be canceled after the attack has come out. You have to do it off a platform and can only cancel it into a grab on the frame you land on the stage, but it's something. Also, worth noting, once Kirby has inhaled you offstage, you're better off forcing the stock trade than trying to mash out. Weird little factoid about the Kirby match-up.

I have a vivid memory of playing a demo version of melee on a display cabinet outside of Babbage's a bit before it came out. My older brother and I picked our smash 64 mains, Samus and Kirby respectively. I lost, and remember feeling like I just couldn't accomplish anything for some reason. Even at the age of 10, with no understanding of frame data, neutral, or really anything approaching fighting game fundamentals, I could still tell that melee Kirby was trash.

I just learned like last week that when Kirby up B's, regardless of how many jumps he had left he loses them all. They really went out of their way to just make him almost unplayable

Everyone says that Kirby only survived because it was Sakurai’s character when, canonically, the Warp Star can travel around Popstar 2 times in around 5 seconds

I would personally love other videos in this style, a complete analysis of every character, showing every jank for every character, I would watch

Love the fake out in the beginning. “We all know who Sakurai is! Oh, and there’s also Miyamoto or whatever.

0:16 WTF CURSED

12:26 This is so true. Everytime I play Zelda, there's a good 50% chance the opponent will just leave.

Putting 'at least he's cute' in the description as if Bowser isn't as cute or cuter

*me TOTALLY not studying this vid to find out how to buff kirby*

I feel like kirby's dash attack being so long and being able to fall off ledges could've actually been pretty fun to mess around with in ultimate,

I may not play much Melee anymore, but I always love seeing your videos! They're great and informative on even the smallest things, keep up the amazing work!

Even though he’s literally the worst character in this game, i love playing as Kirby

Editing on point, as always!!

Id love to see a series on every character on the tier list going up from Kirby. These seem to do good views wise to

11:40 “YEAH FUCKING RIGHT” LMAO

10:23 oh please keep going, it gets worse If you get hit out of Kirby's up-b, you lose all your jumps - you can actually see it in the clip shown for this too, he should've had 5 jumps left but doesn't recover to ledge bc he lost them getting hit out of up-b

11:01 If Kirby had Falco's Blaster instead of Inhale, he'd go up at least ten placements.

I have never played Melee in my entire life and most likely will never do that in the future, but your videos are just made so fucking well, and the way you present them (editing, sound design) is just very fun to look at, and even as someone who cant really get any use of the information youre telling, its still very interesting.

This production work is absolutely stellar!

I love that canonically Kirby is the strongest character in smash but he’s always been a low tier

As a kirby main, thanks for making this video.

I like what you said at the end I use to look up top players of the lower tier characters just to see what they could do with the character it's cool to see

Your videos are always great, informative, funny, and very good editing. Keep up the good work man

Up throw is actually also a potential Kirbycide throw when used very close to the ledge and facing away from it. It can't be mashed out off either. I've definitely taken surprise stocks at 0% with that.

I always memed that Kirby is top tier, because he possessed a little bit of the best attacks from top tiers. Jigglypuff BAir Fox USmash C Falcon UAir I mean they are much weaker variants, but its a fun thought

Oh man, I just love that you used the March from Nutcracker at the end and during the patron name call out.

It gave me some memories of the video with Bowser. And I like the fact that Bowser is litteraly showing Kirby as a F tier in your thumbnail whereas he is not even better than him🤣.