Kagaribi 8 Losers Semis - KEN (Sephiroth) Vs. Abadango (Meta Knight) SSBU Ultimate Tournament

Kagaribi 8 is a Super Smash Bros Ultimate Tournament in Tokyo, Japan.
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[@tinyt.w.i.m7291]

Meta Knight with his dagger looked at Sephiroth and his 7 ft long sword and said, “EN GARDE”

[@カマカニ-o5q]

The famous Japanese play-by-play man "Omnaoto" called Abadango's success this time "Abadango strikes back", which is a play on "Meta Knight Strikes Back".

[@janswhatsupdoc]

That’s clever 面白い

[@SNintendoFreak]

Longest sword in the game vs Shortest sword in the game.

[@SNintendoFreak]

19:58 Still amazes me how players can punish hanging on ledge for too long 20:34 Godlike

[@verfuncht]

Shortest sword but the longest foot

[@Flare8295]

Shortest Sword over Young Link & Toon Link?

[@ryan_raus]

17:00 if this was a sweet spot it would’ve been a 3-0 for Ken

[@gogogadgetrectalpunch]

2 dark winged edge lords duking it out. Great set!

[@Flare8295]

Meta Knight is never dark winged unless we're talking Dark Meta Knight

[@shattermelon496]

I'm impressed they were able to get a Muppet in the commentators' booth.

[@sourcesymbiosismetamorphis2228]

You didn't needa do him like that....💀

[@thekingdedede]

See guys, it's not about the size of your sword, but how you use it

[@bruinsgirl3398]

Both players did great. The momentum swings and adjustments were nuts. Also, I will never not chuckle at Sephiroth's screen KO

[@calebw8189]

Since when does Japan (or any region) have a top-level metaknight? Cool stuff.

[@blueheart9873]

2016 Abadango played a ton of Meta Knight in Smash 4 but played more Mewtwo towards the end of the game

[@jungleberrypie]

abadango dropped meta knight back in 2019 but recently hes started playing him again, he beat shuton and proto a couple months ago, and now we see the fruition of his work

[@jungleberrypie]

if u want to see another "top level" meta knight you can watch yei or bonk; yei gets better results but he switches off mk after a single loss so its not great for analysis

[@eunit08]

@@jungleberrypie Rocco_MK has a good Meta Knight just started playing the loca scene. He has a channel

[@kylewood4488-b9r]

Abadongo has always been a good player. He just hasn't been around the Smash scene for a while.

[@MrChearlie2]

damn the sounds are just satisfying, like blades all over the speakrs.

[@TheKoopaBros]

Abadango is back and I'm so hyped!

[@I3atosai]

Andrew tate

[@anankos795]

This is admittedly a strange thing to say, but compared to how he looks in most Kirby games, Meta Knight looks “white-washed” in this game. What I mean is that his skin (puff?) color is a light blue while in most Kirby games it is a much darker shade and only a deep blue at the absolute brightest. It’s such a strange color choice.

[@psyduck8025]

They were going IN on each other

[@mauriciotiradosegovia]

Come on Ken, that's look's like "no counter Sephiroth challenge" 🙍

[@marklabs4612]

Great set, both players were phenoms. Excellent use of spacing on both player's parts, and incredible combos from metaknight. I think Sephiroth can punish Metaknight's constant teleporting and stalling at the ledge with octaslash. I know it's a big commit, but if he sees metanight is about to teleport and predict where, it can be an easy stock. If he gets it wrong, he can just blade dash instead. I also think better timing with flare to force metaknight to jump or shield instead of spam teleport could have helped

[@カマカニ-o5q]

The famous Japanese play-by-play man "Omnaoto" called Abadango's success this time "Abadango strikes back", which is a play on "Meta Knight Strikes Back".

[@nicstead3820]

Nothing is going to be funnier than all the idiots saying MK must be top tier just cause of these results. Can you all not recognize characters with potential before it is shown?

[@Uknkown]

No one has said anything chill dude

[@kemosabe8346]

Meta Knight has to work very hard to find a kill if he doesn’t get a low percent combo to kill. Definitely not top tier but not as low as most people place him.

[@biledox5576]

@@kemosabe8346 his tiny range keeps him from being a very good character imo

[@bob74h67]

His killing potential is too low

[@bob74h67]

If he had his kill percents from brawl then yea would be easy elsewise no

[@gv82089]

Edgy swordfighters with unique designs

[@anurbanskier]

Actual Insanity

[@jameshinesley4093]

Love to see mk

[@setsana_inc]

abadango is insane

[@07XJuvi]

Great comeback.

[@VorpalBlad3]

The Walnut joke got me dead.

[@nesp8207]

I liked the commentary, don't really understand all this comments...

[@jeffjeff2181]

I also enjoy the commentary. These people are dumb.

[@biledox5576]

Just a bunch of people who always cry about the commentators I legit never saw a vid without people trashing the commentators, it's insane

[@zer0luink]

I feel like ken should use tilts more. They are a very underated.

[@bond3161]

End lag. Unless you get a safe for sure hit Throwing out backair is safer.

[@bond3161]

I'd rather side b than tilt... Further range, less committal You just need 1 orb to throw your enemy off.

[@zer0luink]

@@bond3161 well the thing with forward tilt is you can angle it. It can catch jumps and ledge hangs. You obviously shouldnt throw them out just because. I only throw them out when im reading the opponent

[@willycheez7218]

@@bond3161 Ftilt is safe and if you use utilt how you're supposed to use it it's also safe

[@barbarictearemedy]

Losing matchup for Seph? Potentially, right?

[@Yokai_Yuri]

mosy of the roster is a losing match for seph. Small characters, rush down and zoners kill Sephiroth. He is just horrendously designed. Carried over by the fact he is a super famous character. With all the hype aside, even with all his tools Seph might be mid tier or low high tier at best. Seph should have the weight and frame data similar to cloud but nope. Meanwhile Kazuya.....

[@ohianaw]

@@Yokai_Yuri Seph wins against the slow characters or people who cant deal with his range but yea Seph kinda gets bodied by a lot of characters especially the relevant ones in the meta

[@barbarictearemedy]

Yeah I've felt that Seph loses to short characters. Of particular note that no one acknowledges are meta knight and Greninja. Other common mentions include joker, pikachu, fox, and sheik. I think these characters' rush-down natures aren't anywhere near as bad of a problem as them low-profiling and nearly invalidating Seph's back air when they're on the ground. Even horizontal f tilt can go over their heads. Side b goes over greninja's head (I couldn't believe that). Joker is supposed to be a human character like Sephiroth (aka tall), but he turns into a pancake like pikachu when he dashes/runs. Joker's dash is so under-appreciated. He is a hurtbox shifting fiend. Same exact thing for Snake's pancake crouch (during which he can still move by the way), except he obviously can't really move around as well as Joker can during his dash. If you watch Ken, all he does in neutral is back air. When I saw abadango was playing MK this tournament, I had a strong feeling he would beat Ken if he played Sephiroth. But I hoped Ken would still play Seph to at least try, and to display the losing matchup. Aba showed how good MK is, honestly. The US has a culture of bandwagoning against characters and never giving them a chance. Like yeah MK has flaws, but so does Seph, yet people play Seph and not MK? Super happy Aba did so well with MK. Now I'd enjoy seeing greninja do well.

[@barbarictearemedy]

@@Yokai_Yuri I couldn't agree with you more that Sephiroth should have the same weight as Cloud (or Joker, pyra/mythra). I think Sephiroth is low high-tier.

[@j.prt.979]

Nah I think he wins it tbh. Range and killpower completely outclasses MK’s. MK has to commit much harder. Aba just adapted and outplayed Ken.

[@yichaoyang6302]

刀剑一战，寸长寸强，还是寸短寸险？ 最快短剑--最长斩刀 胜负竟是？！

[@janswhatsupdoc]

MKAba > MKLeo

[@kylewood4488-b9r]

MKleo>Abadongo Abadongo>Proto Proto>MKleo ???

[@janswhatsupdoc]

@@kylewood4488-b9r fr tho 🤨 🧐

[@Joaquimgusmaohomem]

I love how abadango Just use reverse card to win the game with meta knight Very cool matchup and i love the MK for abadango and how he's inverse the game for win :)

[@unkn0wnmortaL]

Epic set

[@EmeraldBlade98]

Is this the same ken that played melee?

[@Snootedits]

Nope it's not

[@Snootedits]

This KEN is one of the top players of Japan in Smash 4 and Ultimate. They main Sonic and Sephiroth

[@laffy7204]

I was watching at 1.5x speed. But Mid-game, I wanted to see a clip a normal speed. But it made the game look slow. I turned the game at 1.25x speed, and it felt right Maybe the game just looks slower because of playing Warnerverse a lot. Idk

[@justanothermanontheinternet]

why does MK remind me of ZSS

[@xKingPac]

I think everyone is in agreement that the American commentators for the Japanese tournaments are god awful and make watching these events unbearable.

[@ashx8772]

I miss hearing damages

[@Yokai_Yuri]

Who is "everyone" you?

[@xKingPac]

@@Yokai_Yuri lol by everyone I meant like several comments I read over the years saying the same thing. But I can see how some people would like it or wouldn’t mind it like you I guess.

[@Kryp6]

I feel this way about most commentary. Doesn't add anything most of the time. Wish I could just hear game audio

[@biledox5576]

@@xKingPac loud minority,y'all are always crying about the commentators

[@わたぼーわたぼー1523w]

🆎a

[@zilrog-diggidy76]

Dude sounds like a muppet version of Timmy from Whitest Kids U Know

[@20quidd]

Is mickey mouse commentating

[@jannomeeuwessen4886]

LMAOOOOOO I was thinking the same loll

[@LuisMartinez-ut1ie]

Jordan Peterson

[@AlbertoGomez-oi5ou]

abadango the best MK

[@benjaminbear138]

M

[@Similarity_]

that commentator kinda sucked ngl

[@jannomeeuwessen4886]

Sorry to say, but that other commentator is very annoying to listen to. If I want to listen to Mickey Mouse, I'll watch MM Club House. Please don't let him on the Mic again.

[@hellafraid6555]

🤓

[@ThatSneakman]

🤓

[@The-zq9sk]

I don’t like this commentator therefore no one else does

[@The-fn3mz]

You literally just stole this joke from the comment above this one. You even commented on it before writing this one lmao

[@jannomeeuwessen4886]

@@The-fn3mz true, and I'm not ashamed to admit it lol