- Meruem Vs. Netero

preempted by two full episodes of flashbacks, inner monologues, taunts and/or conversation, and a second, less important, more annoying subplot that keeps interjecting itself.

huh. Personally I didn't even notice that lol it definitely wouldn't have hit Rishi if the pesky food delivery man wasn't there

Great insight! There were a ton of other small situations like that one which I would've loved to breakdown further, but I didn't want to end up with an obscenely long video. This entire set was rich with crazy interactions that could easily be their own videos, but I was looking to make the narrative for this analysis focused more on the single frame swings. Thanks for pointing that out though!

Do you mean the hitbox groes bigger or live longer?

@@yepyep266 lasting longer technically, although its more like his animation was paused due to hitlag and resumed when the hitlag ended, causing Rishi to get hit

I wonder if you can get hit by the shy guy while it’s in its kind of hitstun.

Great point! Thanks for bringing that up!

We need a new SSBM tutorials

Years of research went into this.

@@addisonbean if only he had researched an actual smash game

You're in luck! I just voiced a new episode which I'll get around to editing soon - unfortunately these tend to take a bit of time to put together, but I'm hoping I can produce them more frequently in the near future!

Doesn't KJH have a tutorial on that?

@@tbdmatrix6489 I'll check, thank you!

You're absolutely right, there were only a small number of successful throws in this game though! Keep in mind there were around 28 grab *attempts* in the game - so dividing that by the ~3.5 minute game would give us about 8 grab attempts/minute, which still seems like a pretty good amount to me!

I've actually never seen those videos before, really cool! Glad you enjoyed!

The chart in the video (around 13:25) shows the trajectory path for a Marth getting hit with Dolphin Slash. So not to say that he would’ve won, but Rishi had the potential to live with no DI since there were frames where he was actionable after being hit.

@@turndownforwalt I see, and I think DI down or right probably makes the path hit a blast zone

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So sorry about that Chet! I'll try to make it a bit more subtle next time.

Just at a glance, it seems Rishi needed to wait slightly to hit the reverse Dolphin Slash, so I can't say for certain. Since this only came down to one frame, it's possible that he could've done the Up-B earlier!

Right! I wanted that narration to be more focused on Marth's grab range, since he ties with a majority of the cast. Thanks for the comment!

turndownforwalt You said his standing grab is "the fastest in the cast," which makes it sound more significant than it is. Just an odd way to phrase it, especially for those of us who has less knowledge of frame data and matchups.

@@Kevin-xd2yv the only way your comment makes sense is if you paused it as soon as you heard the words and didn't keep watching. The very next sentence is that it ties with high tiers like fox falco and shiek, and about how the speed is less important then the range.

probably a speech error

Just a scripting error there that I didn't catch, sorry about that!

Pretty much exactly what I thought back in 2009 when I first took Smash competitively seriously. It's really fun to play Melee, but Jesus Christ it takes *all* of your free time and then some to be "great" at the game. Not my top priority, unfortunately.

@@Cheezmonka one day i spend like 3 hours just practicing with link (wavedash and l-canceling) and then i was told that link suck ass and no one uses him, that's when i dropped the game

To be MIOM top 100, yeah, you need to be naturally gifted and/or grind super hard. But to be competent at the game isn't terribly demanding at all. My friends at college got pretty decent by just casually playing each other over time. I think at most we spent 10 hours each grinding tech over that time period. That's what I've always found so beautiful about Melee; it's a game you learn best by playing. As for the link argument: yes, it's true, link is fairly low ranked, and not many top players use him. but the top 5-10 players continuously say that you can still do very well with a "terrible" character. there are a bunch of relevant ganondorf mains in north america, some even taking wins over top 10 players. as for specifically link, there's a european player sixx who doesn't play awfully much, but is really really good and shows the potential the character has.

unless you put it in your Wii, then it is sped up to be like 60 fps