Best example of his obscurity right now is probably the backroom's most recent discussion of him that was posted in the Olimar threads, and the fact that basically everyone Brood faced at Apex didn't have a clue how to fight him, except DEHF. It's also hilarious how blind this community is to think that Brood is actually 1000x better than every other Oli player out there. You guys seriously can't tell how horrendous m2k is at the matchup (except in the gimping department, which he did well at) just by watching that set?
I think almost every character board feels the same way about their discussion, in that sense just about everyone's obscure, lol. Although props to the bbr for even doing that.
As for the set, what I saw was m2k being punished for doing normal 'safe' MK things the second match. After being punished to death and back, he was forced into limiting his options and playing 'horrendously' with MKs true safe attacks. It's not uncommon to see someone have a combo video status style against one person and then turtle against another as their normal style is punished. Obviously the turtling didnt work. I think to simply say m2k played horribly takes away from what brood did, he
forced him into playing that way. This isnt meant as offense to other olis, but its not unreasonable that people think brood is '1000x' better.
Ill lend you that m2k probably doesnt have the best character knowledge of oli (although this is true with virtually the entire community and characters that arent their main). However youll be hard pressed to find anyone who's had more mu experience. He's traveled the US and played them, he lives in olimar country. If m2k doesnt have the mu experience you can probably count on one hand the number of people who do.
And as I mentioned before, people for some reason dont apply this knowledge standard to the opponent. How much experience could brood really have against our standard of MKs? As much as m2k has against oli? Possible but I doubt it. Do you suppose brood memorized all the frames and tactics for MK as you expect m2k to know about oli? Its too presumptuous to suppose brood (or anyone) knows the mk matchup as well as m2k does for oli.
Game and Watch is the best character in the game.
Diddy Kong is the best character in the game.
Ice Climbers are the best character in the game.
Skill and knowledge are important because you have to have an understanding of how certain characters work and apply that knowledge instead of reverting to D-Air camping whenever something is going wrong, which (surprise!) doesn't work on every character. People are lauded as really excellent players and then get dumped on because they think they know everything about the game or they don't care to practice and learn more.
ADHD was considered "on another level" compared to all other Diddy players when he was the one beating M2K. Once people started getting more Diddy experience, the hype faded (though he's still an excellent player, of course).
Excellent Olimar play is few and far between for many regions. Plus, it would seem that Brood knows his stuff. I haven't seen the matches for APEX yet, but Logic's pretty ballin', too.
Falco is the second best character in the game. If anyone could do it, it would be DEHF. That being said, there are, like, four really good Falco players, max, so I wouldn't say people often have all the experience they need in that matchup.
1)Im not sure who youre referring to as being lauded and dumped on. If youre talking about m2k he probably plays and practices more than every other pro. If youre talking about other people its probably true, I dont disagree with that.
2)If you mean obscure as in excellent diddy, olimar, and falco players, then an m2k level MK is obscure. Im not sure why this standard is applied one way but no the other. If I had to give the "who has the greatest knowledge and experience in brawl" award to one of those players Id give it to m2k, mostly because no one else tries.
