Anyone want to talk about MKLeo and Nairo? Those two are facing off at Japan. Nairo described in his stream that the two colliding is going to be very risky. Nairo will go Bowser if MKLeo goes Marth, but they can not see what will happen. So either MKLeo goes ZSS and has to fight a dangerous Marth ( Cloud being easy to combo ), or Nairo goes Bowser against MKLeo's Marth ( but gets combo'd by Cloud due to his large hurtbox ) If Nairo went Bowser on MKLeo's Marth, MKLeo would kind of struggle to fight Bowser. MKLeo even confirmed that Bowser is Marth's worst match-up. Either way, those two are very skilled top players and it would be hype to watch the two collide. Definitely two dangerously aggressive players.
MKLeo is going to go Meta Knight if Nairo goes Bowser. At least based off of Genesis 5.
But realistically, it looks like he’s been putting in the work for the Marth/ZSS MU.
Leo’s weird.
Speculation warning: He knows when he has a problem, and he used to choose between his three mains based on feel. Now it seems like he labs out problem MUs starting with how they feel at first between the three, and then develops the strategy around whichever feels the best initially.
It doesn’t always make intuitive sense, though. I think Cloud does better than Marth against Bayo, generally, but he has developed a whole Marth-specific strat that works.
Marth doesn’t necessarily have a good time with Bowser, but I don’t think it’s his worst MU. But Leo is apparently developing his MK for grapplers. It makes some intuitive sense, but I’d love to actually have him break down his thought process.
Wow, I haven't seen this amount of anger since one of ESAM's tier list posts.
Honestly I think players like Mistake might very well win, but it might be an uphill battle.
Granted I'm not sure who would give players like Mistake a hard time.
Any ideas?
Frostbite is kind of an open possibility for who could take it. Honestly, beside Dabuz and Salem, I could see some dark horse going in hard as well. Mr. R could finally clutch it. One of the other top Bayos could, like Lima or Mistake.
But it could also be WaDi on a rampage. Cosmos, given his recent adjustments, is also a possibility.
EDIT: Oh, Light is going? Jk, Light is gonna take the whole thing forcing them to rename the tourney to “FILTHBITE”
Actually, Ken is even more underrated. He got 8th on the Pgr with less traveling than any other top 10 player. He got 5th at Evo 2017, the same position as Nairo. KEN is a hidden monster still. Easily the best Sonic.
I excluded KEN because he has started to get recognition, and pretty much every top player has thought he was a top 10 player since last year. He’s a monster.