I remember the reign of terror that was Diddy Kong

Please more smash 4 content we need it

what if i told you bayo is still the best in ultimate too

Thanks for this video, Smash 4 was not as one dimensional as people remember. 2017 was an amazing year for the game too, the rise of Leo and Tweek, the retirement of ZeRo. Also the EU and Japan meta had less Bayonetta (still very present but not as much)

wait people play ultimate competitivley? i thought the entire community ditched the game for meele again.

This video is incredible, but man those player name mispronunciations are ROUGH xD

My villager

7:32 AAAAAAAAAA I was not ready for that jumpscare

Bro is censoring Smash players and putting up a trigger warning💀

Can u show the mk stats if any from brawl? Some of these Ultimate kids have no idea

Didn't SDX win like Canada Cup or something? With Mewtwo. Unless it was not a major

really cool seeing ppl ignore the main content of the video to go complain about “ermmm if you’re gonna talk about banned players anyway what’s the point of blurring names???” in the comments. very productive discussion we’re having here

Funnily enough, I did this recently with Pokemon's VGC 2015 and CHALK. CHALK was still an amazing archetype, but there really was a lot of diversity at Worlds that year. Those diverse picks just don't get mentioned because all anyone can remember about 2015 was just five Pokemon.

Im a little late to the party, but this video is so awesome!!! Thanks for the effort :)

insane amount of effort put into these videos

For the Ness player FOW - you would pronounce it like "foe" it was just his initials and we called it as such :P

yo the termite capitol music?

ok but can she dominate me

Okay sooooo.... she *DID* dominate, and everything actually IS what I remember. Nice clickbait dude. lmfao.

This editing is insane. And great documentation, hope you can keep up bangers like this!

Haven't finished the video, but got a few thoughts. "Before Brawl was viewed as the weird, outcast family member and Sm4sh was cool. But now that preceptive has been flipped." IDK what you call this cycle, but it happens all the time. (I use the Star Wars Prequels as a prime example) Where the audience that grew-up with a previously & generally panned product, become the vocal opinion and reminiscent in it fondly. Brawl has hit its phase for it, and it's only a matter of time before Sm4sh does as well. Even then, a lot of Sm4sh's "infamous" rep is more just the game being an easy target now: - It's higher production version came out on a failed console that's not old enough for many to be nostalgia about. - It released when Social Media and Content Creation really took off/become a standard, so a lot of it's oddities were both experienced and documented at first hand. - Was the first game with patches and DLC, that crafted plenty of positives and negatives. (The negatives/"What could have been" end having a way more lasting impact to gamers. AKA the negativity bias) - Despite the notable mechanic and mode differences, it was basically replaced by the bigger and (agreed to be) better Ult which is arguably the most similar to it's predecessor. Did it have big problems? Well I'll answer that question with another: Did any Smash game not have big problems?

I feel like you could've had a part in the video where you go over the character dominance stuff but disclude ZeRo from everything. Would've been interesting to see

MkLeo played since Brawl

13:05 you know what tarnished the game's legacy? the community's reaction to legitimate harassment that a lot of bayo players faced. It was fucking disgusting and I'm tired of people pretending like that didn't happen. What do you think drove captainzack and lima to stall at EVO? I was fucking elated when I saw that live. the ultimate "fuck you" to a childish, rabid community.

well yeah, because a lot of people refused to play her, but if those same people decided to swap then she would be.

Brawl lovers are off their rocker 💀

This felt very nostalgic. 2015 was a whole decade ago huh?

Excellent video!

EAZY

Bad? Yes. It was.

Anyone know what's the song at 1:40?

Still waiting for smash stans to admit that ZeRo’s 50 tournament run is the greatest achievement in smash history, and probably the FGC as a whole. And that Nairo should go back to being banned.

Coney jumpscare at 7:32

As much as i hate steve, Sonic is the most braindead waste of a character slot in Ultimate

Watching Smash 4 gameplay for the first time in years is so jarring. It’s nasty, but in the bad way lol.

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I can understand blurring the faces since if you allow people to react on Twitch, they won’t get banned for showing banned people, but naming them aloud and then hiding their tags (and sometimes you blur the tags sometimes you don’t, so it’s just completely inconsistent and a detriment to the overall quality of the video) is just odd. It’s all over the place and just makes it look

Hey man this was an awesome vid. I remember the whole timeline as u explained it. Good times.

I remember when ZeRo absolutely dominated Smash 4. People don't talk about his sets anymore but i remember when he faced Ranai and people called it big, when he lost to Luhtie, when he was sweating against Tsu, etc. Smash 4 is mostly forgotten by the fact that people don't want to talk about the banned players lile ZeRo, Ally, Salem and Nairo who were some of the best Smash 4 players, and the history can't be accuratly told without them.

it always confused me seeing people in 2017 acting like brawl was the bad one and smash 4 being potentially the best one, only for ultimate to come out. upon its release everyone started saying that smash 4 was terrible and it was super jarring to see. like, we were watching the same game, right? we all saw zaki’s dedede take a set off mkleo at hyrule saga, it wasn’t like insane stuff wasn’t happening during 2018. i think people need to stop looking solely at the characters that won each tournament and instead at least look at the top 8s, because it was pretty surprising seeing characters like duck hunt in top 8 at evo

Melee is so much better than the others

Smash 4 cloud was the embodiment of smash 4, easy to use and easy kills

I still extremely dislike Smash 4 regardless of Bayonetta. Game is complete and utter rubbish. Happy to see it fade.

Smash 4 ❤

She definitely did dominate, let’s not try and rewrite history, absolute bottom and mid tier players became top tier players when they started using bayo. Bayo players also intentionally decided not to play bayo as broken as she could be played so the smash community wouldn’t ban her, but she still was beating everyone regardless

Cloud and Bayonetta probably shouldn’t have ever been added tbh.

Cloud was so perfect in 4....he's completely a neutered shell of himself in ultimate now.

Steve is worst compared to bayo and meta cause he can do both latter combo and guild along with blocks in the platform fighters it broken i dont care if has the lowest jump when can use block to increase is vertical gain and block recovers could they just make so only steve interacts with block cause he can just throw in to one and ot doesn't matter if you tech or not your getting kill cause jis frame data is as fast as sonic and one upgrade have the knockback Bowser along with other moves that makes him play his game due to him using custom bullder if a character can change the stage with no gimmick to the stage thier a problem

Damn the amount of banned players in this video is insane

Melee players upset that melee turned 18 finding out that smash U is 4