My rival is this guy I played once at my high school in NJ. I brought my N64 and smash to the radio station in my high school, where we would play people at the 1 hour lunch period we got. I destroyed everyone as link, and my strategy was to just grab people and throw them off the ledge and hit them with the boomerang and Fsmash, so I and everyone else was at a ****ty level of play, ie not even short hops. I found out how bad I really was the hard way when some older nerd from my chemistry class who was in the drama club challenged me, and he wiped the floor with me as fox. Like 5 stocked me, and I got maybe 30% damage on him. I stopped playing after that day, and still have images in my mind of how it went down. Four years latter in college we decided to make SSB our game of choice when smoking hookah. I made fox my main, and thanks to youtube I got to watch some high level play and learn better techniques, and so I started to get better than my friends to the point where I was beating them 1 v 3. Then I started playing online and learned again how much I sucked, and I started to play with other characters. I have improved slowly since then, with my eventual goal in mind.
My goal is to find this person and beat him. I want to be the very best, that no one every was. To catch him is my real test, to train ness is my cause. I will travel across the land, searching far and wide. For the characters to understand the power that's inside. Right now he is probably 24 or 25 years old, living in his parents basement. If he did not stop playing he would probably be really really good right now. I need to get a hold of a yearbook from my school and find this kid's name, and tell him to go to APEX.