It's a legal counterpick at the NY weekly, as are jungle japes, corneria, norfair, and rainbow cruise (not to mention castle siege, frigate orpheon, halberd, and luigi's mansion. One person I played last night stage striked both delfino and halberd on me, I was crying on the inside). That said, Alu is highly highly skilled at smash in general, easily the highest placing ike in new york and he used to main meta knight a few months back so brandon had absolutely nothing going in, especially on a water heavy stage. Alu knew what he was going into on the match, brandon probably never plays ikes, let alone one as good as the best ones in NY. I wouldn't be surprised for a second if all of that were prediction.
