Snake's kit being convoluted is just a reference to Kojima's cutscenes.

A lot of people dislike Snake, but I personally love watching and fighting him, even if I’m not very good. There’s something so awesome seeing his melee attacks just eviscerate the opponent, or the Snake player being absolutely big-brained with their setups and execution. Makes me wish I was good with Snake haha

I agree with your points. But I mainly play him because he's a character from a military action series fighting against cartoon characters. It's really funny to see! Plus, I love the Metal Gear series, so seeing him in Smash is amazing to see.

My buddy plays Snake. I constantly tell him to stop littering grenades all over the stage to which he replies "THERE!" Then somehow I die...

I greatly missed him in 4. I hope he comes back in the next installment. Top 5 most fun to use.

6:56 "It does 20 percent"-MockRock

Losing as Snake is a choice.

Snake?! SNAKE! SNAAAKE!!! That was me when Snake was cut in smash 4 😿 I love how many franchises are in smash it's so beautiful to see them together! ❤

Fun Fact: Snake was in a fighting game before Smash called Dream Mix TV. It was never released outside of Japan.

Jeez, I would have guessed that his frame data was literally twice as slow as it is, for how hard it hits. Frame 3-6 for moves that do that much damage is a crime.

Snake was more surprising to me than Sonic was, even though Snake's history with Nintendo goes back further. The original Metal Gear was ported to the Famicom/NES after originally being on other Japanese computers. Funny thing, back in Brawl one of my nephew's favorite things was to play Snake, pick the red camo coloration, and pretend to be Dr. Eggman while fighting Sonic And it turns out in Japanese, the voice actor for Snake is the son of the voice actor for Eggman, with some dialog in Brawl making allusions to that with Snake having an instinctual aversion to Sonic before even meeting him LOL

Remember that meta knight and Kirby up throw can kill him at zero if he grabs his grenade

Given how ridiculously absurd Ultimate got with the two DLC packs, in Smash 6, Snake should get his butt and second landmine back at least.

You should make a why no one plays banjo, he has insane combos and crazy techs but has to work significantly harder to get percent than pretty much any other character since raw side bs only work online and his attacks generally do nothing. His techs could push him upwards but they are super hard to pull off with the minigun breegull blaster being a near frame perfect tech if not frame perfect.

"Thanks to his ability to throw tons of different projectiles and hazards at you, you're essentially fighting two characters at once - him and his bombs." This is a really apt analogy - and, in fact, why I consider puppet characters to be a subcategory of setplay characters (trappers). They actually share a really similar game plan and tools, with puppet characters just having all of the setplay tools centralized into a second character.

I’m also gonna use this video as a reminder to attempt to shield getup attacks after down throw for nasty up-tilt punishes, hehe.

And he’s fun because it’s almost like you get to be a goofball. In fact, it’s almost expected of him when he’s on the stage.

Love your work. Would be intetested to see one of these on Banjo!

"Snake has wingdings" Funniest thing you said in one of these videos, ngl.

Snake has wingding normals is a wonderful phrase

I'm a snake main. One of my favorite things about it is watching my opponents, who may even have started the match with a clear advantage, clearly get worn down and sloppy But then they still may get the win because I derped out and C4'd myself loo

Just hitting someone with snakes explosives is just a chef's kiss to playing snake

A lot of people play snake because he’s kind of one of the most unique characters in the sense that a lot of his moves change his hurt boxes and very advantageous ways. The other huge reason is his really dominant neutral game. His grenade is powerful and extremely versatile. It’s also armed on frame one so it can be used to disrupt combos and force what would’ve been an easy kill for his opponent into an uncomfortable 50-50. The big reason he stands out as a controller is because he has the utility to be able to have the advantage in almost any situation. That combined with his insanely powerful melee attacks and easy to combo grabs make him extremely popular. that being said, his Speed, jump height, and speed in the air leave a lot to be desired so he is actually kind of balanced because you’re constantly having to work around your awful movement to be able to get the correct set up for situations.

I think to put it simply he's a lot like Game n Watch or Steve where he has an unorthodox way of fighting so he's a matchup check, but what makes them so good is that evem once you learn the matchup your still fighting a strong character at the end of the day

Snake and Diddy Kong were always the toughest fights for me. Snake especially can zone you like crazy, and make it back to stage unless you smack him into oblivion.

A bit off topic, but as someone who doesn't play smash, it's so fascinating that every community for their respective game has their own terminology and strategies. The terms are going to be completely different for a game like Destiny than a game like Minecraft. I just find that really cool; despite the fact that they are all video games, the communities around these games have managed to come up with strategies, tactics, terms and other stuff that only that specific community would know. Before I started watching his videos on smash, I had no idea just how complex this game could get.

the black ops 2 music at the end, so nice. Still my favorite COD game .

9:45 I'm glad you said it. Someone once said his side B is better than some characters entirely, I don't remember who.

I just love watching good Snake players because there's just explosions everywhere and chaos reigns

Kept Us Waiting Huh?

i couldn’t stop thinking about the bo2 menu music during this video

Love how these vids, and how detailed your overviews are. I also wanted to point out another really cool thing about grenades that I think we all understand, but isn't explicitly said much: Grenade adds a 4th layer to disadvantage when snake is in tumble. Ordinarily, in tumble, it's like RPS. Jump, air dodge, or attack. But Snake being able to grenade allows him to avoid needing to tech anytime he's in tumble. Practically, it just falls under the similar umbrella of needing to always be wary of Snake's grenades when juggling, but it's worth noting that if snake didn't want to, he never has to tech when in tumble.

The Black Ops 2 music in the video fits so well it’s actually impressive

Snake has always been a beast in these games, he’s been my main second to Terry

I always love snake and watching good snake players that outsmart the opponent. Or just seeing people go boom! I love fighting agiqnsed em too w my main. A battle of the trappers!! Also villager video when? Lol.

Yea but why is no one playing Corrin?

The black ops 2 music at the start sent me back holly

Playing against Snake feels like you’re playing with stage hazards on, even when playing with competitive rules

BO2 menu music in the background got me HELLA nostalgic

There are like three characters who are why no one plays caliber (Banjo-Kazooie, Jigglypuff, Peach), why everyone plays caliber (Bowser, Palutena, Game & Watch), why no one-everyone plays (Lucina over Marth, Mario over Dr. Mario, etc.) and the problem with Min Min.

When I fight a Snake as Samus, I try to snuff out his grenade control with lots of small charge shots

Metal Gear is my favorite game series ever. I hope he makes it into the next smash.

I like demo/soldier in tf2 cuz I like projectiles, Snake is maybe the closest thing to that for me for satisfying those projectile niches

The classic combo vid for brawl is why everyone I know plays snake

Can you do “Why No One Plays Banjo-Kazooie”?

i still remember the absolute HYPE i got seeing steve get revealed although i did grow up in golden era (2012-2016) of minecraft content so💀

Brawl was flawed but probably the most influential in the series. Brawl is when smash bros as a celebration of gaming became a thing and that began with snake. Hoping for doomguy in smash 6 and maybe a moba charachter too. Its insane that first person shooters and mobas havent been represented yet outside mii suits.

I love that you picked Black Ops 2 music for him!

Thank you for reminding us the basics of CQC

Snake's Classic Mode {for the Challenges} was such a PAIN to do, but I got to 9.9. easily with him without losing a single life even if I've NEVER played with him before. I LOVE the Metal Gear Solid music in Ultimate, like Encounter, Yell 'Dead Cell' and Cavern among others, though, the first being THE BOSS where you fight her possessing Zero Suit Samus. The Boss was the first Legend Spirit I had obtained and I just fell in love with the SNAKE EATER remix! Also, my beloved Sephiroth amiibo easily destroyed a Snake Level 5 CPU during their fight at Bridge of Eldin's Omega Stage, by PERFECT SHIELDING against his explosives and letting him get hit by his own grenades and get a Star KO instead when Snake was on his last Stock. That was INSANE!

Players wanted him back

AYO THE BO2 SOUNDTRACK IN THE BG 🕺🎉

I think I'm going to have to add this guy to my list

Great thumbnail ofc. But I feel like a good pun would have been “Everyone is Snake” instead of the tagline of everyone is here

Actually you did forget something. HIS RPG YO!!! That forward smash is also worth mentioning. It’s an extremely powerful and large aoe move that can two frame kill most characters extremely early.

Is that the bo2 multiplayer theme in the background 😂

What’s Yoshi’s use status?

Playing snake is growing grenades, c4s, and missles and hoping it makes a cool combo

I’d recognize that Black Ops 2 menu music anywhere. Nice.

Still waiting for the “why no one plays little Mac” video which is only like, 10 seconds long and consists of you just saying “Bro, it’s little Mac”

BABY WAKE UP VARS POSTED

The Black Ops 2 multiplayer menu theme slaps. Good choice

Down-tilt can combo into dash attack at insanely low percents on most characters.

Something not mentioned that I feel *really should be* That fucking back throw… I swear to god I cannot explain this well enough but the angle it bounces people off of the ground is *brutal* for comboing into kills

Off topic question but have you ever considered making a video on Fate Grand Order? Id personally love to hear your thoughts on each class, card type and so on

Who is this "Sneak" character you keep mentioning? I thought this video was about Snake.

No other character that can remotely control projectiles: pit moment

An analysis on ZSS would be nice

Man Snake's just dishonest, why did they give a trapper zoner so many amazing close range options, like does he really need that up-tilt jeez

You forgot: His f-air spike is thee most satisfying to hit.

Have you done y everyone plays falcon

If only they didn't nerf his best attribute in ultimate 😔

I love snakes versatility

Request to do why everyone plays Palutena

Boom!

"M.Fucking STEVE *-Vine Boom-*" I wasen't ready for that. Yeah Snake is a powerhouse, I've got a kid at my locals that's 5 years younger than everyone else and last time he swooped he's a monster, but he also admits that Snake carries him a bit.

bo2 music? based Snake is sick. Love everything about his design. Although I will say, I'm surprised you didn't mention his down throw at all, the amount of fear that puts into people is very much note-worthy to say the least.

8:23 "there's no other character in the game with a projectile that you can remotely control" ness lucas and pitt: umm what?

*IT'S SHOWTIME*

Vars wasn't even in elementary school when they announced snake for Brawl in 2005

Please, allow me "Grenades go brrrr"

Designing For explains the appeal of Snake in Smash Bros!

My Wolf/Fox and I we love fighting Snakes 😹

Funny how this video popped up. I literally just picked up Snake a couple weeks ago, and plan on duo maining him with Sephiroth. Originally planned on solo maining Sephiroth, but realized that I stop focusing whenever I tried to solo main a character. I do better rotating between a couple characters as it prevents my brain treating the game like a chore. Came back from playing different fighting games got me into the mindset to reset my brain on how I view characters. Planned on having a character for each range, and different playstyles. Sephiroth was mid-range, and covered the swordie playstyles. (Sorry Ridley, Byleth, and many more. Forcing myself to stick to one swordlike character!) I'm still currently trying to figure out a close range fighter. One that won't die instantly (sorry Pichu, it was fun!). One that can force the opponents to do things (sorry old pal Meta Knight!). Fox, Sheik, Falcon, all solid picks but not super attached to those characters and view them as "the faces of competitive smash", so that's an emotional barrier I have to get over if I were to pick any of those 3. Inkling, Sonic, Yoshi are pretty likely due to gameplay and having some emotional attachment to them, but I have to play them more to find out if the negatives about them comes true, or if they are even a problem. However, considering about making exceptions for Lucario, Ryu, Kazuya, and Ridley (Ridley still has the most hours currently, and my emotions love to pick him the most frequently if I let my emotions pick a character). It's very hard to totally rule these out. I also haven't given Kirby a fair shot competitively. They all play in a weird way compared to other characters too. However, long range/projectile focused was much easier to figure out. Links will make me swap between them all the time, so I just can't allow myself to play one. Samus is meh, except charge shot, but at that point I'd rather play Lucario. Most other zoners I like at least a bit as a character (I mean, literally everyone is fun to play in the roster), and have above average fun gameplay since it's more than just pressing forward and attack, but nothing that stands out. Notable exception is Duck Hunt, because I don't care about that character in the slightest, but hot dang is that gameplay among the most fun. You're always throwing stuff out, and the can allows for so many fun situations. So process of elimination, I was very close to finding out my long range character. Rosalina & Luma was very tempting for a while, until I ran into Snake. Lumas die so easily, so for some players/matchups it's unlikely to ever get to use her unique mechanic at all. Snake however, gets to have separated from him all game. I play chess as my other competitive game, so hearing people say Snake is like "chess in smash" I thought it was overhyped, and then would be laughing too much at his explosions whenever I did play him. Though after really sitting down with him, it's hard to go back. There's always something to think about, and the focus on controlling multiple areas on the map, willingness to sacrifice to get a better position, and always thinking about what your opponent is doing (more so than a lot of other characters) made me really see the comparison. Now back in Brawl, I didn't like Snake because I assumed he was just yet another shallow gritty tough guy. Since then I realized that his games are more in-depth and cover some interesting subjects, but they also strike an amazing balance by being extremely goofy at the same time (still haven't played one yet though). This is shown really well in how he's presented in smash, gameplay is heavy on thinking, but those explosions are hilarious and silly. We'll see how long Snake lasts, but right now it's hard to see what could cause me to stop playing Snake. Especially since a lot of people used to come to me for matchup experience with Snake, even though at the time I did not practice him when Ultimate was new. Yet was kicking my competitive friend's butts with him. He's just one of those day 1 naturally good with characters just like Sephiroth was.

8:22 Ness joins the chat

Yes! snek!

I thought his grenades have a uniquely smaller blast-radius for himself? Meaning, if both characters are exactly equal distance from the explosion, it can hit Snakes enemy but not him. Or was that something from Brawl/Sm4sh/some weird dream?

can you please do an episode about diddy, he is a really interesting character with interesting history as well so it would be great to see why so many people are playing him

Cause he's a kitchen sink zoner, he's thick, good close range and recovery.

Kept you waiting, huh? To be serious though, in the next Smash game, if we even do get a completely new one and not a Mario Kart 8 style port, then I personally believe that they will try to keep as many characters as legally possible. I think that after the backlash against Smash 4 for cutting characters for no reason like Wolf in particular, that unless it is EXTREMELY legally difficult, they will keep the character, so this basically includes most of, if not, all first party characters as well as a at least a good amount of third parties like the ones from Sega, Capcom, and Bandai Namco. Hell, I mean with how we can now get more than one third party character per franchise, I wouldn't be surprised if we end up getting Tails and/or Eggman, Megaman X, Yu Narukami, Chun Li, etc. in the next game. I also believe that not only will they keep most, if not all echos, I think that they will actually add even more, because it is kind of an easy cop out way of adding fan favorite characters who would feel like clones otherwise.

Grenade while shielding 👹

you should do why no one plays min-min

I play snake because i like venom snake but he’s not in the game so solid is the next best thing

Bro I heard the black ops 2 music

Please do Diddy Kong next

You can control lucas and ness projectiles. Zelda and others to a certain extent. Nice video nonetheless

Black ops 2 menu music at the very end. Anyone else peep?

If insanely strong smash AI ever becomes a thing, I think the strongest AI will be snake. He can control so much of the screen and kill easily.

Wasn't MVD cancelled?

There!