Lol! I totally agree.
It's kinda like...we just know what the other person is thinking. We're also kind of like the same person, haha.
Basically the story goes...
Fall of 2009, I asked in the Arizona thread "Who plays smash?" etc. and was invited to a very small smashfest by Piman34 with Piman, Axe, one of Piman's dormmates, and myself. I didn't know Axe was good or anything, and frankly, I was not good enough to realize how much he was sandbagging at the time (though he did do a 6-stock comeback on us, lol). Needless to say, I got his cell phone number and invited him to a "welcome to college" party near my dorm about a week later. I thought he was this cool frat-like guy who was just gonna brush me off, but he went and we hung out a bit.
Then we decided to start smashing more often and it got to the point where we'd pretty much hang out every single day. Most of the time, we didn't even play serious Melee. We'd do Homerun Contest stuff and do all sorts of glitches (and discover some of our own) and play
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. Whenever we'd play doubles, we tended to team together because I wasn't very good, so no one really questioned it (like they would now if we were to team in friendlies all the time). At the end of the semester, he couldn't go to University of Arizona anymore and had to move back to Phoenix.
But by then, the damage was done! We were already super good friends and knew each other's habits super well in-game.
I hosted my first tournament in January of 2010 and started my long string of hosting. We teamed at the first one and took first easily, though there wasn't really anyone too hard to beat there. We found we teamed super well and decided to give it a shot at another one with Forward and Tai teaming. I'm not sure if we won or lost, but I know it was close regardless. I pretty much would ask him if he was free to team from that point on, and actually, quite often, he wasn't because he'd promise other people that he'd team with them, like Tag$, Tai, V3ctorman, etc. Actually...the last time we teamed at a local, we only got 2nd to Taj and Wobbles. So dang on us.
But anyways...when Kings of Cali was announced, I asked Jeff pretty quick if he had promised anyone to team yet. He...uh...kind of did, but sort of blew him off, lol. We teamed and got 5th. This time around, we got 4th. So...hopefully...next time we team, we break that pattern and just go straight for 1st.
If he's got other people he promises to team with or has to team with or just straight up wants to team with...that's fine with me. He often does better without me. But I can't do as well without him. He carries me hard. I'm just the white mage. He's the one who Air Render's everyone to death. I just cast Protect and Shell and QuickReboot him if his hardware fails off edge.
But yeah. Jeff's my kokujin, and he's the best teammate anyone could ever have. <3