GENESIS 3 - Ranai (Villager) vs GW|FOW (Ness) - Smash 4 - Winners Semis

[@dragonfx310]

Kids just being kids nowadays, fighting each other with sticks, slingshots, yo-yos, bats, axes, bowling balls, electricity and fireballs.

[@TheVP_SSBU]

Umbrellas and fireworks too!

[@nevadaryan9166]

Umbrellas and fireworks too!

[@FernandOhNoHernandez]

Umbrellas and fireworks too!

[@antonywu6672]

Man La LOL XD.

[@antonywu6672]

Man La Turnips and weeds...

[@tdktkdyz5332]

Ranai really stole FOW's Thunder there.

[@Sniperthe0ne]

+Thegrovylekid Person Well F-air is F-air i guess XD

[@FetMetia]

+Thegrovylekid Person my hero

[@Tinkererer]

+Thegrovylekid Person Yeah, he really pocketed that victory.

[@prismoid00]

I use this joke in tournaments

[@alexdaigneault6749]

+Thegrovylekid Person This made me salty watching it, Villager should not be able to pocket moves from that distance, just nerf the range which it pulls from and it would be fine (same goes for rosalina).

[@Trance_Kitsune]

This was the best set I have ever seen for Smash 4. It was so hype! KREY

[@Seebbbs]

Gasm

[@ShowMeYourUse]

= Kreygasm

[@Seebbbs]

SilverPC no space

[@jasonfencer5433]

ikr it's almost as good as the worst melee set /TRIGGERED

[@stormcutter59]

Really was rooting for Fow here in this tournament! As a Ness main it hurts to see one of the biggest weaknesses of Ness exploited

[@StopwatchRobert]

+Joseph Franc Yeah, it honestly seems kind of strange to me that EVERY Ness main doesn't pick up a secondary for the Rosalina/Villager matchup. Every tournament, you just see so many stocks lost because of Ness' exploitable recovery.

[@stormcutter59]

Mockingbirch The matchup between Ness and Rose on the ground is far better than even the likes of Fox. He's not helpless one on one. Rose's recovery has no hit box, which makes her a target when getting back on to the stage. Many characters, Ness included, are capable of easily gimping Rose. She has the distance, but not the safety. In fact, Lucas is a better match up against her overall. Even more than Ness in some for m or fashion. He'd be a good secondary if anything

[@StopwatchRobert]

Joseph Franc I hear you, but it just seems like EVERY big tournament has multiple instances of Ness being gimped so easily. A stock is a stock, and I don't think that Ness has a particularly amazing matchup against Rosalina in particular, even if we completely ignore the recovery. Just seems odd to me that you wouldn't pick another character, there must be some that are favoured against both Rosalina and Villager...

[@stormcutter59]

Mockingbirch Well FOW has done a wonderful job against Rose before. He's been able to take down nearly every other Rose besides Dabuz and even against Dabuz in EVO, he had the man on the run, save for those gimps. FOW wasn't as good then as he is now and the meta is constatnly getting more and more advanced. I'm not going to count out Ness yet. There's still time to wait and see if he can still take out the likes of Rose and Villager. If not, he's still viable against most of the top 5 we have right now

[@StopwatchRobert]

Joseph Franc You said it yourself, though: "except for those gimps." Those gimps are a really big deal, because it means that both players can be on equal footing, but one can get an instant kill for knocking the other offstage. That's huge, and it means that Ness is always going to inherently struggle with some matchups.

[@tadtorsh5165]

Came for Ranai's Villager, Stayed for SKY WILLIAMS I HAD NO CLUE HE COMMENTATED SSB4 IT REMINDS OF THAT TIME DUNKEY BEAT HIM IN SMASH

[@greenleafjp6134]

Even though I saw this match on stream, I still get so hyped re-watching it. This is definitely one of the top 5 best matches of smash 4 to date.

[@silverrain530]

Ranai is my favorite Smasher:) He plays Villager so well and skillfully and looks cool while he's doing it and is the reason I started to main Villager. props to FOW though, I don't play Ness but he did a good job.

[@WarlusOfficial]

by far my favorite sm4sh set of genesis 3

[@おれ-k4u3m]

PKサンダーをしまって阻止とか！！うますぎ！、

[@dylanryan2260]

drinking game: take a shot every time sky says extra credit

[@EmergeVS]

"i guess you could say villager was out of pocket" *video ends*

[@BlueNinjakoopa553]

The Japanese Ness player D1 is referencing is Fsann. There are also MASA and Taranito, but I don't think they've ever played Ranai.

[@RedZeshinX]

MERCY, THAT THUNDER STEAL. These guys are just amazing, what an amazing set!

[@ThePandammit]

great set. very entertaining. ranai and fow played pretty close theoughout

[@someguy2350]

Why do the children of the game have the best back throws?

[@nekosaiyajin8529]

Toon Link, Villager, Ness... pretty weird haha.

[@jaaycesholiday388]

Neko Saiyajin And Lucas

[@ksmuffin]

why doesn't anyone play Lucas in these big tournies? random question

[@SchwickFAFO]

The best Lucas is Pink Fresh but he's just not there yet.

[@RedsByrd]

+ksmuffin Umm as a Lucas main I don't think Pink Fresh is really that amazing. Well atleast not in smash 4

[@SchwickFAFO]

Reds Byrd Really? Who's better than him?

[@RedsByrd]

JustCallMeShwick Maybe Nakat. If you've watched Pink Fresh play he doesn't do anything special that i wouldn't see any other Lucas do. And he Sd's a lot. There just aren't many Lucas players in the competitive scene. It's not that Pink Fresh is necessarily good with Lucas it's that he's the only one who plays him.

[@SchwickFAFO]

Reds Byrd Nakat isn't that good with lucas. And I think Pink's tech is on point. The only thing he needs to work on is SDing less which you said, and I agree.

[@randychiu1162]

I'm confused. How was FOW in Winner's Semis and in Loser's Quarters

[@noahlakatosh1941]

I'm pretty clueless so can someone tell me, what makes ness better than Lucas?

[@pineapplejones4831]

Noah Lak generally he has a better grab game and the back throw is like his most reliable kill option

[@noahlakatosh1941]

Chipotle Williams thanks

[@someguy2350]

Chipotle Williams But Lucas has some of the best grab combos and his back-throw is the second best in the game.

[@pineapplejones4831]

Mr Instigator Lucas does have a really good combo game mainly due to jab locks but you really need to know how to footstool and such while ness can just down throw you into a fair chain. All of Lucas's throws are kill throws but again ness's backthrow is much stronger and kills way earlier than all of them. Plus all of ness's throws puts the opponent in in more awkward positions than Lucas's throws do. Also while Lucas's up air can be used to kill, Ness's up air is just way better

[@MrWhale1]

How did ness do a triple jump at 1:41?

[@NasTheGod215]

He was hit offstage rather than jumping or running offstage that triple jump was actually his second jump

[@Archisorte]

He did a phantom footstool.

[@outlaw3572]

At 5:40 I would've went for a PK-THUNDER downwards, trying to hit Villager off the side of the map. I know it sounds crazy, but all or nothing might have worked at that unexpected moment.

[@outlaw3572]

Not really. He would be sent to the right side of the map, dying off the right side of the map.

[@outlaw3572]

+Adubz and how's that

[@robertminor8460]

It's extremely hard to do the best option 100% of the time.

[@aabrarrahman4129]

The man true to his title. SD King indeed! xD

[@Ninjanugets123]

WTFFF DID ANYONE ELSE NOTICE 1:40 fow jumped twice in the air???????

[@tricko1231]

it was a footstool, since ranai was in the middle an animation it didn't put him in tumble

[@Ninjanugets123]

yah i figured it was a footstool but that's still jank af

[@atari_hmb]

Well it has been in since Brawl

[@delioniowilson3640]

What happen to fow?

[@ThaSupaboi]

ending on that pun tho lol

[@stoothemighty]

4:05 'literally textbook right there' what

[@emilianogelover7721]

FOW played so amazing damn!

[@LukiexPookie]

yoo FOW's Ness is crazy good :D

[@aleckermit]

Great match!

[@SchwickFAFO]

Dammit. Good run FOW.

[@nyjerwilliams8963]

couldnt he used pk thunder to pop villagers balloons?

[@OseiTheWarriors]

+Nyjer Williams Technically No. the PK Thunder would only pop 1 balloon by that time Villager would've already recovered cause his recovery is pretty good.

[@nyjerwilliams8963]

OseiTheWarriors cant you hit the first balloon with the tail of pk thunder then use the ball?i dont do this match up much because of the obvious reasons but ive seen it happen back in version 1.0.7

[@OseiTheWarriors]

I believe you can do that, but I doubt most Ness players purposely try to hit with the tail, its more of a lucky accident if that makes any sense. I don't know much about patch notes unfortunately so could you say what exactlly changed?

[@nyjerwilliams8963]

+OseiTheWarriors i just tested it out. the tail pops BOTH balloons but if villager recovers quickly (holding b while recovering) he gets hit by the tail too and can recover again. you need the utmost precision in order to about that.

[@dembloo2535]

+Nyjer Williams Pretty late on this but when I played ness I would try to hit with Pk fire and since I could get a follow up dair

[@BlueDude87]

My favorite Top 8 Singles match at Genesis 3 just because Ness was destroyed! Lol.

[@seanpaints]

+BlueDude87 lol same i hate ness

[@BlueDude87]

+Sean H Good to see a fellow player who hates Ness! Who do you main? I presume Jigglypuff?

[@d4rkluminox568]

It's safe to say that you circle jerking scrubs get bodied by advanced Ness players.

[@aabrarrahman4129]

Am I the only one that actually loves high-level ness and rosa?

[@shulkyshulk7176]

+D4rk Luminox Y r u mad?

[@carsonsmith2680]

Sky commenting is kind of cancerous.

[@HuyNguyen-vj1uw]

Shoulda heard him during grand final of crews socal vs japan when japan took it

[@stephenwithaph1566]

+Carson Smith the best kind of cancer.

[@paarthurnax3878]

このネス崖際強すぎやろｗｗ

[@TheAcidMines]

okay but the commentary is so skewed against ranai tho, like they read so far into all of FOW's actions (especially early on) but they pretty much acted like ranai had never played a solid ness before. This isn't even accounting for how little they knew about villager's gameplay mechanics but those commentators suck dude

[@nlswag81]

fow probably still would have lost that set even if he hadn't messed up that pk thunder, rajai just had him outplayed unfortunately

[@ShadowLink678]

it was closer than you probably think. but yeah, ranai had a slight edge in overall skill.

[@nlswag81]

ShadowLink678 ya it just seemed that ranai had the edge in every game, he's a very interesting player

[@dekasher2077]

hello? ya this is tech support! lord have mercy lol

[@Nain9]

FOW is amazing

[@scg5928]

Goddam FOW

[@lenerdx]

Freddy....

[@DKMRFCBrlz]

FOW is SUPER GOOD O.O

[@tylerwyat9592]

Fow SD King

[@dudelove9]

#90

[@32Rilez]

Smash 4 is fucking garbage lol

[@32Rilez]

enjoy your shitty game you weeaboo

[@32Rilez]

smash 4 players are all miserable weeaboos

[@TheVP_SSBU]

Triggering comment discovered.

[@CalamariMatoi]

Riley McKenzie You do know Melee is objectively worse, right?

[@32Rilez]

Do you not have eyes? Did you not just watch this lame ass match? I have no idea why people play this game competitively; It's so boring and slow. Smash 4 is meant to be played on the couch casually with your friends. You guys are all delusional.

[@RiverBrawL]

Amazing set

[@SendFoodz]

wow that fow is good.. agro AF Ness