Recent content by DJ3DS

Just to add to this, as it's kind of riled me up: the Bayo who is putting up results in Europe is Bloom4Eva, and they are an exceptionally good player. Look up their smashdata page and see who they have winning records against. As a sneak preview, it includes: Maister WaDi Epic_Gabriel Sharp...

I remember back when tournament seeders compared Europe to penguins. This reeks of the same dismissive mentality as that and frankly I think it's appalling. I can't imagine you saying the same thing about any number of the niche characters that perform well in Japan. Perhaps you should consider...

Did BigBoss take a set off Maister here? That would be pretty huge given G&W is regularly perceived to be a significant loss for ROB. Are VoDs available?

For the most part... yeah, we actually did. The Beefy Smash Doods video on the standard gyronair combo ending in Arm Rotor was published January 3rd, 2019, less than a month after release. There have been some optimisations since (burner boosting, gyro double toss) but these were still being...

I can't actually find Epic_Gabriel in bracket. Where did he place?

People who have a Pikachu do, I can assure you. Others just aren't going to counterpick a character they are less confident using in a matchup they're less experienced in. And people specifically looking for ROB counterpicks? They have easier options.

Don't let ROBs ability to steal matches fool you into thinking his matchups are close to as good as Cloudys impressions of Mythra/Pyra (which also feel optimistic, but he knows better than I do). He easily loses to at least 10 different characters, including particularly bad matchups against G&W...

ROB has a guaranteed kill on every character in the game at 0% on ledge with a Nair if he has gyro in hand. At the same time, the move won't kill at well over 100 if you're not close to ledge, and has an absurd amount of lag (seriously, if you shield it, drop shield and smash attack. You have...

I don't know the exact numbers but Zackray just plays whatever he perceives to be the better matchup. I don't get the impression he consciously favours either character. ROB is still just too volatile, in my opinion, and prone to being blown up in bad matchups, which can come from so many...

Fair enough, but there was still a disconnect between them existing and people making good, consistent use of them, which still exists the further down the ladder you go.

To be fair, Day 1 Joker didn't have good kill setups so provided you avoided the edgeguards and the stray Arsene hits it felt like you could get a lot of mileage against him. Obviously MKLeo saw fit to change that but even now, I think struggling to seal stocks is a real issue for less...

I had assumed as much, it's just always nice to be clear - particularly given I've had people complaining about the ROBs at my local throughout Ultimate despite the ROB dominating them (Lucretio, who qualified to the EU part of the SWT) having done so large parts of Smash 4 as well. ROB has...

I know this post is in jest, but Xanadu has been WaDi's playground for the entirety of Ultimate at the very least, and I'm fairly sure MJ has won or at least been in grands of it before. Bringing it up (at least for ROB) feels dangerously close to confirmation bias for my tastes.

WaDi is a fundamentals demon. Zackray feels very clean. But if you guys really want to see truly outrageous ROB play I'd recommend looking up Lucretio. He has pushed ROBs advantage state to a far greater degree than any of the household names and has some excellent tutorial videos on YouTube...

It's not just about the raw numbers (which aren't terrible). You've also got to be able to punish at Mythra's spaced range, and low to the ground due to her irritating low profiling. As ROB you have to hold shield and hope she then mashes another button which you can then punish. And her...