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TSM | ZeRo Wins Smash 4 Singles At Genesis 3! (Top 8 Recap)


Smash for Wii U at Genesis three has been incredible with upsets reigning supreme and international talent showing amazing prowess on American soil. Now the top 8 has concluded and just over a year into the game's lifespan its most stacked tournament of all time has concluded. Learn about the top 8 matches with this recap!

The top 8 was kicked off as Larry Lurr took on 2GG | VoiD and it was a hype 2 stock match in VoiD's favor. But Larry Lurr learned a lot from game one and answered back with a win of his own. Game three went down to a heart racing under the stage battle, last stock, low percents, with VoiD coming out on top. VoiD kept up the momentum and took the set, and the two hugged on stage before the next match continued.

Next came a ditto players have been waiting for since their last close encounter, Marrs vs Nairo. Nairo didn't hold back quickly taking a convincing two stock in the first match. Marrs then quickly responded with his own two stock on Battlefield making the set 1-1. Then BOOM, another 2 stock by Nairo. Nairo then took down Marrs as he missed a punish moving on in bracket.


Then it was time for the greatest of them all, TSM | ZeRo to take on the free agent in Dabuz with the first match going to Final Destination and while he took the first stock impressively ZeRo quickly brought it back to take the first match. The next match was a nailbiter where despite Dabuz being able to take a strong lead and wrack up damage ZeRo put on an incredible edguarding attempt managed to bring it back. Dabuz finally was able to bring in a win game 3 and then bringing home another incredible win game 4 with the hardest of reads to make the set 2-2. Despite all of his efforts ZeRo was able to take the final game and the set.

It was time for another battle of titans. FOW vs Rainai, Ness vs Villager. FOW held it down for Vegas and the United States taking an dominant game 1 ended with a Ness backthrow. Ranai brought it back game 2 however with a disgusting first stock stolen by a pocket and brought it home hard bringing it 1-1. Ranai then tok the next game putting pressure on FOW to defend the USA. Unfortunately a bad angles on a PK Thunder wrote the end for FOW and Ranai made it to winners finals.


It was time for Nairo vs Dabuz and Dabuz surprised many by taking the first match. Then proceeded to shock and rock the venue again game 2 with another win. Then rocked the venue even HARDER with a 3-0 victory against a player he has few games he's won against knocking Nairo out of Genesis 3.

Next in the losers bracket came VoiD vs FOW and FOW showed how on fire he was taking an aggressive game one but VoiD was able to bring it back bringing the set to a tie and then took game 3 to take the lead. He then took the final match to eliminate FOW and move on within the bracket.

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ZeRo vs Ranai. The match many wanted to see especially after their meeting in the crew battle. The first match was ZeRo's in a rather dominate two stock match. The next match was much closer but yet again Ranai could not break past the wall that is ZeRo and lost the next game. Ranai finally brought home a win for Japan against ZeRo in game three after managing an untechable hit offstage against ZeRo. Rainai then brought down a fantastic game three on Final Destination to win AGAIN and bring the set to 2-2. ZeRo however showed his incredible power in the clutch once again and managed to get a place in Grand Finals.


It was time for the runback from earlier in the event: Dabuz vs VoiD. VoiD came back wanting revenge and got some as he took game one in the set. Dabuz wasn't about to go down easy and brought it back in game 2 to tie the set and managed another game to take the lead. A strange misclick on a side-b unfortunately lost VoiD the match giving him 4th place and letting Dabuz take on Ranai in losers finals.

Ranai took the first blood and first stock game one but was unable to keep up the momentum as Dabuz brought it game and won the game. Ranai made an unusual counterpick to Lylat Cruise, a stage not normally legal in Japan, to see if it would be what he needed to win but it was not enough, the set was 2-0 in Dabuz's favor. Still Ranai returned to Lylat Cruise and with both at incredibly high percents Ranai managed to clutch out game 3. The crowd erupted in excitement for game 4 as well as Dabuz managed to take down Ranai and secure his place in grand finals.

ZeRo vs Dabuz, would he bring it back, reset the bracket, and win the tournament? Everyone was riveted to find out. When Dabuz took game one people started to believe it really could happen. He still put on a strong performance in game 2 but ZeRo still won a runback to Final Destination making it 1-1. Dabuz's chances started to look even better as he took game 3 after an impressive read. ZeRo came back again and we saw yet another 2-2 set, with Dabuz's tournament life on the line. In a final fight on Duck Hunt, ZeRo took the last game and was the winner of Genesis 3.

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Smash 4 is only JUST over a year old an it already is producing these jaw dropping moments and incredible sets. The joyous noise its crowds create is a cacophony that calls for its glorious future. Let out that hype in the comments below and keep watching: there is more Smash to come!
 

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Metallinatus
SkippyJ said:
20xx meta? Shiek > Rosa > ZSS > Shiek.
let the counter play begin B)
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And some umbra witch is coming to shake that all out....
Smash 4 might be the personification of "female power".... and the best part is that wasn't made on purpose just to fill some stupid agenda. (and it's far better than having a meta dominated by furries)
 
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Batu
This tourney was so hype! I literally scream when dabuz gives a 2stock to zero in GF...
 
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SkippyJ
Stryker said:
Time ♪ for ♬ Rosa ♪ and ♬ Sheik ♪ Nerfs!
*sing to tune of "I'm the king of the castle"*
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I really hope not :/ i thoroughly enjoy smash4, but i already can admit that 9 times out of 10 its less exciting to watch than melee. The reason is because the characters just arnt that good; even sheik, the best character in the game, cant kill untill obscenely high percents without a good read, and while zss can kill early, her neutral is so lack luster compared to shieks and some others that half the time it feels like zss players just have to throw crap at a wall and see what sticks, and they can do that because when somthing DOES stick it results in a death.

We shouldnt be nerfing the few decent characters we have, we should be buffing other characters so that we have MORE good ones. I even would be fine with them buffing all the top 8 and leaving the rest alone, tbh.. Sure it would leave the rest kind of in the dust but at least we would have 8 REALLY GOOD exciting characters, kind of like how melee melee is mainly fox falco marth and shiek, but still fun to watch because it hugely rewards good play
 
TheRebornBowser
To be honest, I was pretty surprised to see that Dabuz was almost able to beat ZeRo. Better luck next time... But watch out ZeRo, because this man is ready to take the crown for himself.
 
SkippyJ
Diddy Kong said:
Did ZeRo use his Diddy somewhere in the tournament? Last time Diddy got plenty of exposure by him.
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I know he used him a few times in doubles, but i cant recall a time that he used him in singles, at least not in the top 8. As a general rule of thumb he only uses diddy to avoid sheik dittos.
 
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Metallinatus
TheRebornBowser said:
To be honest, I was pretty surprised to see that Dabuz was almost able to beat ZeRo. Better luck next time... But watch out ZeRo, because this man is ready to take the crown for himself.
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If by "take the crown" you mean eliminating ZeRo once, then the crown is Nairo's already....
 
SonicNKnux
ASC | Red Ryu said:
Dabuz did a good job coming back but Zero kept his ground.

Zero earned his win but now other players are giving him more of a run for his money.
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I already knew this was coming, and I'm not surprised at all. After Seagull Joe it only gets better and better. It's been over a year already, and I'm willing to bet there are a lot of people on FG that could legitimately beat the pros (Zero included) but can't attend tournaments simply because the time or money isn't there. A lot of copycats means a lot of time to learn how to fight the popular characters. More variety would be nice to see too, like that Samus player and DJ Jack (I think that's his name?) the Ryu player. Hell, I'd go to tournaments if my family didn't have only one car and the tournaments were reasonably close (I live in Chicago and found out about BH5 too late). Money for a room wouldn't hurt either, hah. I'm a student at this moment anyway, so it is what it is; I don't have the pros' free time right now.
 
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SirroMinus1 said:
I agree it got kinda hard to watch hearing him say "oooh they hugged oooh they hugged" or " he's cute" or "thats cute" repeatedly that was not a good look for the smash 4 community. i dont care about your sexual preference but don't let it interfere with the content being broadcast ed.
very very CRINGE worthy.
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Yeah, i have to agree. I think he was doing fine when he was on topic but when he got off topic, it oft went to sexual stuff, which was over the top and ill timed. Like you said, it had nothing to do with sexual preference, I wouldn't like it if D1 went way over the top speaking of a female gamer. That's stuff you see in the chat, not what you should be hearing from a commentator.
 
Seagull Joe
SonicNKnux said:
I already knew this was coming, and I'm not surprised at all. After Seagull Joe it only gets better and better. It's been over a year already, and I'm willing to bet there are a lot of people on FG that could legitimately beat the pros (Zero included) but can't attend tournaments simply because the time or money isn't there. A lot of copycats means a lot of time to learn how to fight the popular characters. More variety would be nice to see too, like that Samus player and DJ Jack (I think that's his name?) the Ryu player. Hell, I'd go to tournaments if my family didn't have only one car and the tournaments were reasonably close (I live in Chicago and found out about BH5 too late). Money for a room wouldn't hurt either, hah. I'm a student at this moment anyway, so it is what it is; I don't have the pros' free time right now.
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Randoms from FG won't beat Zero. That :4samus: (Jwest), me, and DJ Jack have played Smash competitively for over 5-8 years. Tourney experience is necessary to get to the top.
 
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