Ludwig Invitational - Jmook (Sheik) Vs. Slug (Ice Climbers) SSBM Melee Tournament

[@skydreamsans5356]

Slug having quite the run, it's cool to see an Ic's main making this far on the bracket

[@Greatermaxim]

Better than the Mangoboy fighting using Falco all the time.

[@SPMask]

Jmook is now going to have a pocket peach for that MU.

[@Avatarbutters]

Or just switch to Zelda lol

[@bobbymcfee2974]

@@Avatarbutters just gonna get poooped on again. That “dude” is actually an ai bot. Jmook is not a real human spread the word. The signs are there

[@jrs2392]

crazy run for slug man he was dominating in that third game

[@AlexRoseGames]

Jmook needs to try the Drephen strategy from Drephen vs Army at Genesis. if you've never watched it, go and watch it, it's a top 10 set of all time. commentated by chillin too

[@ZalvadorZali]

ICs top 8 in two games in the same tournament

[@beszt95]

hype, i will have to watch the ultimate ICs sets. i caught a few minutes and he was desyncing if i'm not mistaken, which i thought was patched in ult

[@natepasion4597]

Desync combos aren’t as good (Nana can’t grab) and setups are different, but it’s still pretty good

[@lepotatochip]

Big D was just outside top 8 in Ultimate, he got 9th losing to Shuton in WQ and Onin in the Top 8 Qualifier. Still great results for a lower pickrate character in both games!

[@TE72GOD]

Jmook didn't use Zelda nearly enough.

[@radchum]

ancient reference

[@LiveTwinReaction]

@@AlexRoseGames Isn't it like a 50/50 matchup as Zelda or slightly favored? I was reading around that ICs is like, Zelda's only good high tier matchup lol

[@KilogramHours]

SluG making ICs look like Ultimate Kazuya in here

[@Greatermaxim]

Ultimate is easier to play than Melee. You know I have better things to do than criticize a game that is easily modified.

[@borobinson8876]

@@Greatermaxim hbox is top 100 in one and top 10 in the other. Sit down

[@dontworryaboutit42069]

@@borobinson8876 LOL that was such a stupid thing to say

[@brodieorr5393]

Jmook: i'm being handoffed in my favorite game what do i do

[@bannanas117]

Non wobbling ICies are freaking sick and no one can change my mind on that

[@George_Nakhle]

Jmook needs to lab this mu hard. He was also getting farmed by Zion's ICs on stream recently

[@mandalorianhunter1]

One of Sheik's worse MUs. Glad Jmook did well this tournament.

[@hardnewstakenharder]

What other ICs are wrecking Sheik like that?

[@nopaydue01]

@@hardnewstakenharder where are any icies tho

[@mandalorianhunter1]

@@hardnewstakenharder It's a well known thing the Icies beat Sheik but they have dropped off ever since wobbling has banned.

[@theseb5981]

@@hardnewstakenharder MOF just beat Jmook 3-0, and ChuDat has never lost to a Sheik in his entire Melee career (even M2K switched off Sheik vs him)

[@Ruminations09]

@@theseb5981That ChuDat stat is even more insane when you consider how long he has been playing. He has been considered a top level player nearly every year since 2003. He arguably has the greatest longevity of any player in Melee history - 20 years of near-continual competitive play. To go that whole time NEVER losing to a top tier character is absolutely insane. Regarding M2K specifically, one of the funniest sets I've seen involved ChuDat and M2K where M2K started with Marth before deciding to counterpick Chu's IC with... *Ganon*. To which Chu counterpicked to *Fox*. Straight up one of the wackiest series of character counterpicks I've ever seen.

[@Seb191]

Wobbling was banned right? Haven’t seen ice climbers in a while

[@thelwbs12]

Yes, Slug isn't wobbling he's doing handoff loops which is different

[@homeyworkey]

@@thelwbs12 he did it once in this game but it seems you can just regrab in the middle of stage and handoff on the sides, is that a shiek only thing at like low percents? can kind of do a 0-death anywhere on the stage with a grab because of this, ofc its much harder tho.

[@mod5278]

@@homeyworkey Shiek only thing, ICs have a chaingrab at low percents on sheik, so it's like possible to get 0-death but I don't think it's super probable unless you're on the smaller stages because the distance to ledge from middle is smaller

[@homeyworkey]

@@mod5278 interesting!

[@Ruminations09]

@@homeyworkey It's technically not Shiek-only, ICs also have a chaingrab on Bowser and on Ganon, but nobody plays Bowser and barely anyone plays Ganon. So at the top level, it's effectively Shiek-only. Notably, Shiek has chaingrabs on most characters in the game, but the only *top tier* character she has a chaingrab on is... another Sheik, lmao. Regarding your question on percents, IC's can chaingrab Sheik until around 50% (which is why Slug switched from chaingrabs to handoffs on Jmook when he passed that threshold in this match). It technically can be converted into a 0-death, but not *anywhere* on the stage. In order for it to be a 0-death, the IC player needs to have moved the Sheik at least somewhat close to the edge before the 50% threshold, otherwise the handoffs will fail. The Sheik can fight against this by DI-ing during the chaingrab. I think Jmook succeeded in escaping it at 2 points in this match.

[@darthdistortion1934]

Right side curse is over

[@Avatarbutters]

This matchup seems worse than fox/puff for sheik lol

[@_Majunior]

5:05 inaccurate

[@Mace09v]

First

[@WeeklyMusicalShitposts]

ICs are hype now? Damn, banning wobbling has helped Melee tremendously. If only we could do the same for Puff

[@theseb5981]

Found Leffen's burner account

[@conspiracytheory1977]

@@theseb5981 lol