Recent content by NotLiquid

Looking at the Battle of BC6 bracket, I think the remarkable thing about Toriguri's bracket run is that all of his losses were Game 5's, and those were specifically losses against Hurt (1st place) and Yoshidora (3rd place). He never scored a winning set where he allowed the opponent to win more...

Seconding Sparg0 vs Yoshidora's losers rematch, while I don't know a lot about the character I know that a lot of people seem to believe Yoshi really struggles against sword characters like Cloud; that struggle was a lot more evident in the winners semis set but less so in losers finals after...

There's a universe out there where Smash's designers decided to not arbitrarily design far ahead of Banjo's ability weave and exploit his myriad tech toolbox and where he'd actually be a high tier menace. I've said it before but the only significant thing that holds Banjo back at a top level is...

Following this old post where you cite those three specific characters being better than G&W... ... and after Miya finally winning that same day, you argued that Steve, Joker, Palutena, Aegis, ROB, Sonic, and Snake were all better characters than G&W, along with listing a drove of characters...

In October last year, you made the assertion that G&W does not qualify for being at the top of the tier list on the basis that Miya and Maister both failed to take home several tournaments where the former would regularly place in Top 8. At the same eve of that post, Miya successfully won a...

Miya's last supermajor win was literally less than two months ago

You're right, I'd crossed my wires since Kurama (who eliminated chungus) was the one that was eliminated by HERO.

Big Chungus was also expected to have a bigger rally this tournament as Europe's best Steve player (seed 57th), but he got upset by Larry Lurr and then eliminated by HERO in losers for a relatively low 97th place underperformance.

Diddy Kong in the past has generally been held back by a very undeveloped meta. So many gimmick plays like his patched out pyramid scheme infinite buried the lede on a variety of unexplored confirms and combos that were high execution but high reward (d-tilt into stutter step FSmash, hard banana...

I've more or less accepted that the community will never give up the ghost on Pikachu at this point.

I don't have nearly enough character knowledge to confidently assume how much coverage each of these characters have. Personally I think Sonic and DK come across as the strongest "pairing" but also the most arbitrary one, if only because Sonic is generally not thought to have many negative...

In the Lights Out podcast right after Port Priority 8, Sonix made a point that he'd meticulously studied the Steve matchup after having lost to Jake early last year at a pre-local, and he hasn't lost against a single Steve player since then. He'd also sent all of his matchup notes to Ken, and...

Oddly gripping Grand Finals. It felt surreal to see Sonix progressively transform from community "villain" into hero all in one surprisingly engaging set, and it somehow wasn't against Acola or a Steve player. Ultimate's storylines have been wild in the post-pandemic era.

I don't think YL's FAir and BAir are comparable to Sora's NAir at all. The reason Sora NAir and EWGF are being compared isn't just because they're safe hit confirms into KO moves but because at an optimized level they open up massively damaging strings at worst and 0-to-deaths at best. This...

A CCI thread thought exercise for the day: what move is better, Kazuya's EWGF or Sora's NAir?