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Someone once argued that the King shouldn't be in the game because he would just be low tier. Funny enough, they were kinda right, BUT ***** WHO CARES WE GOT OUR KROC KING IN AND ROYALTY TRANSCENDS TIERS
Monkey Rong. Say wut?
Hello, I'm Bonkey Song. What's yours?
Good stuff! I have been consistently going to SoCal weeklies out here, they are stacked with at least 60 players in the ones I have been to, but I average around 17th to 25th place. I can feel improvement with my play, but it's hard when everyone is so good. I appreciate the King K. Rool representation at tournaments, I am personally not giving up on the kremling king and can only go up from here.
Thank you for your kind words, feels Great to have fellow K Rool‘s support.
Yep! That's why I love playing on stages with a lot of platforms with K. Rool.
Not Many K.Rool Players at tournaments so he's what most would call a very fresh and unique face among the usual crew you see
sword characters mess him up big time
I disagree. I don't think sword characters are a big problem for him, you just need to space and punish correctly. It was hard for me at first too, but you just need patience. Best advice? Don't throw krown often. Use cannonball to bait jumps when they're at a distance, and keep your movement unpredictable. They can only keep you out if they know ahead of time if you're really going aggro, so mix it up often and you'll find they won't be prepared when you go for a grab or jab. If you find them using options like jab or ftilt to try and keep you out, THEN krown is recommended. If they themselves approach, you can either catch aerials with your nair which usually does minimal damage to the armor, or if they're using aerials as they land, foxtrot away and use ftilt to punish. Foxtrot a lot of course, it's K. Rool's best movement option. Only jump when absolutely necessary, NEVER do it to approach. Just play conservatively, don't throw your neck out too far, and you'll do alright.
The problem with every character you listed is that KKR can't touch them. Metaknight has a true off-the-side combo on K Rool at certain percents, Bayo can combo to eternity, and Kirby is small and hard to hit (Shiek can combo but can't kill, so valid point there). Sure it's possible to win these match ups, but its not easy if you can't land any hits.
It was the same thing when I went to my first two tournaments. In my region, there was only King K Rool player I know (not personally), but he switched to Wario as it was his PM main and he was a Project M player. When I came to these tournaments, I was the only player (or one of the few) to actually use K Rool as a main. Few people use him as a secondary, but I actually use him as a main. It was nice of them to give me underdog support as well since
is so obscure in my region. It really doesn`t feel the same at all with my other character (), bc he`s quite popular in my region.
It can heal after a portion of time and can take a certain amount of percent before it breaks(I don't remember hiw much)
About 28% I think. Plus using belly armour moves pauses the healing.
Nice play on your K Rool man and good job.
Still counts as a JV I believe. A JV is more indicative of your opponent's performance than anything else, as it basically says that if the game had another stock, you would keep that stock as well, since your opponent couldn't land a hit for the other three stocks.I got my first JV4 (well except that I only took 1% off of blastzone which sucks) in Ultimate with K Rool this weekend. Feels great. Wish I could show the video though.
Nice play on your K Rool man and good job.
Probably.
I don't think all of them were; it was also said that those rankings included veterans from Smash games, so I'd think that at least one of Wolf, Snake, or Ice Climbers would have been in the top five. Ridley and K. Rool do seem pretty likely, though Ridley would probably be seen as ineligible even if the Pyrosphere stage hazard is technically a different character.
It's still early in the meta, people are mostly sticking with comfort picks for now. But we're slowly seeing more results from other heavy/big characters (Ridley, Dedede, Incineroar, Bowser and even K. Rool himself saw some use the top 8-32 of Battle of BC/Shockwave/MSM and more over the past week alone).
Honestly? From my experience, there isn't much that gives either side a large advantage. I'd probably say it slightly favors K. Rool though? He's heavier, so harder for Ridley to kill, his crown negates Ridley's fireballs, I think the cannonball goes through them as well, his punish game puts Ridley off from using his side B too much, though the large hurtbox and slow speed of K. Rool makes up for a lot of this since Ridley won't need his fireballs to really rush K. Rool down, and he's more likely to land the side-B than whiff if he's smart about it. K. Rool can edge-guard Ridley pretty easy, a good Ridley can edge-guard K. Rool efficiently as well. Ridley also still kills heavy opponents pretty early with a well timed f-smash, so the weight advantage isn't that important.
I appreciate the reply!
I have one thing when it comes to offstage chasing, well, actually, two:
.....I'm Donkey Kong.
Hello, I'm Bonkey Song. What's yours?
Congrats man. I'm trying to K. Rool and some of my other mains into Elite Smash. My online experience has been pretty much a rollercoaster though I did get pretty close with Bowser and Yoshi. What is the minimum for Elite Smash? Is it 4.2 or 4.3 million? I will get there eventually however long it takes. One of the things I have run into and now despise is someone who has it set to Stamina with 3 stocks. I went against a Fox player who kept using U-tilt on me the whole match and it pissed me off. So which characters you go against give you the most headaches?Finally got into Elite Smash.
Ultimately it's a meaningless distinction, but having been on the cusp of it for weeks, it felt great to finally break that barrier.
Now let's see if I can do it with Ridley...
