Nairo vs. Tweek | Sephiroth Play Styles

Tweek and Nairo are 2 top players pushing the Sephiroth meta with extremely differing play styles. This video analysis takes a short, quick look at some things I've picked out from both their play styles as well as some commonalities they share using Sephiroth in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate.
Additionally, it goes without saying that the footage used is from their streams playing online, so take this analysis with a grain of salt as I’m sure offline they play somewhat different.
Music:
Wave of Darkness I by Yoko Shimomura
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[@guts1830]

Tweek sephiroth whispers stay there but nairo sephiroth yells come here

[@nachot6592]

Hahaha most accurate description

[@tiffyw92]

Feels like the differences between OG Sephiroth and Remake Sephiroth.

[@neurosis51]

@@tiffyw92 An apt comparison, considering remake Sephiroth is constantly in your face reminding you he's there in contrast to the old Seph.

[@tiffyw92]

@@neurosis51 Yep. OG Sephiroth is always on the move and maintains his distance, forcing Cloud to chase after him. Whenever Cloud gets in close, it's only because Sephiroth let him approach, knowing that he's frame trapped him to hell and back. Comes with 2-frame reads so hard he's an erudite scholar of the Lifestream. Meanwhile, Remake Sephiroth's pressure game is on point. Never gives Cloud any breathing room and fakes him out at every opportunity. Heck, he even grabs and "pummels" Cloud in that one scene when the guy whiffs his attack on that doorframe.

[@brianellingboe]

this is a good comment

[@ricardofranca6752]

Tweek goes for more safe but optimal play, while nairo seems to push his advantage state to the edge, literally

[@Ozukai]

HELL'S GATE!

[@fenrir9784]

@@Ozukai "To the promised land"

[@OwnD1]

This is why Nairo’s plays are so damn hype. Can’t wait to see him at tourneys again

[@RampioreRegis]

@@OwnD1 he said he’s not going to compete in tournaments again, which frankly I don’t blame him

[@ShallBePurified]

@@RampioreRegis I also don't think it would be healthy for his mindset to be in tournaments again after what happened. Right now, streaming and getting his life back should be his priority, and that's what he's doing. Just want him to be happy again.

[@maxs.6517]

Tweek’s and Nairo’s playstyles remind me of Jin and Mugen from Samurai Champloo respectively.

[@mikhailmendoza6760]

10/10 parallelism. Love that anime!!

[@shoxas]

Damn, this is a goddamn great comment.

[@dakota_h]

Ive never heard a more perfect analogy.

[@needamap1390]

Holy shit what an insane analogy

[@Gemunokyoso]

Omg exactly, I was about to comment the same thing

[@randomsoul2887]

It’s cool seeing Sephiroth’s meta being pushed by them. Since they both have such different play styles, we’re seeing more of what this character can do. I love watching both of their Sephys and applying it to my doodoo Sephiroth.

[@bruhm0ment6000]

There's zero of them in Japan offline

[@Yokai_Yuri]

@@bruhm0ment6000 who cares about japan? They only use lame characters like Banjo,min min, megaman etc

[@albertgalan7829]

@@Yokai_Yuri damn, chill bro

[@Jiggonomics]

Facts, I watch Nairo play Seph and get so inspired, then I hop in and struggle to stay in elite smash lmao

[@bruhm0ment6000]

@@Jiggonomics You want to be Nairo but you don't want to do what he did to be Nairo.

[@Udonoki_]

Really cool analysis of both players' characters! Shame that there isn't more of this content on KZbin.

[@bruhm0ment6000]

Fans will dedicate

[@the0therethan]

There aren’t a whole lot of top players that use the same character There are a lot of warios and shulks (I think rob as well) but they don’t have the same kind of flexibility Plus they aren’t fucking sephiroth

[@sodamustdie4372]

True. I think it's an amazing idea to compare different play styles. It's fun to see the many sides of characters. I do wish more people did it. Examples would be: Fatality v.s NickC (Falcon) Mkleo v.s. Zackray (Joker) Void v.s. Sharp (Sheik) Dabuz v.s. Shuton (Olimar) etc...just throwing out ideas

[@christophermauro-barias7451]

well the fact he doesn't talk is already a mark against him

[@neurosis51]

@@the0therethan I see a lot of top players use wario, but not shulk. I forgot whom the top shulk was, but not many come to the same level of consideration behind him.

[@willgoodwin9867]

Nairos ability to play aggressive and rush advantages while playing more safe/patient characters like Seph and Palu is insane. Both Nairo and Tweek offer so much to learn

[@VickyCrescent]

True true

[@ricardofranca6752]

Your thumbnail game is mad good ngl

[@thisistherun4015]

Fantastic video. I personally think Tweek's interpretation of the character is going to be the more prevalent playstyle, considering that Ultimate is a game with a lot of defensive options and Sephiroth is a character best played when not having to risk blind spots with his swings. It makes sense that Nairo would play a more active game given that he has that experience with other characters and isn't competing, therefore he isn't under the same pressure to play slowly.

[@Justinbyleth]

This is the kind of smash content I wish was more common, keep up the good work!

[@shoxas]

Me too, that's why I'm making them myself. Thanks for the support and will do

[@obamaorb7426]

Tweek plays a more traditional safe Sephiroth but Nairo plays hyper-aggressive. Straight up two sides of the same coin, it's really cool how one characters playstyle can change so much based on who plays them

[@shoxas]

Yeah agreed. To add to that, I've found that Nairo has picked up on being a more traditional bait and punish, especially with base Seph. With OWA he just goes hard lol

[@angelespana1213]

This is the smash content I live for. I love it and it’s amazing. Keep up the great work man!

[@shoxas]

Lately I've been living for this stuff too lol will do man

[@RIzunos]

I love how Nairo can make Sephiroth look like the only character that is not in disadvantage when on the ledge

[@shoxas]

Scary

[@chordalharmony]

Ok but like, ledge really isn’t all that bad for Sephiroth. It’s honestly terrifying how well Sephiroth can get off ledge. Makes his disadvantage absurdly good.

[@pete8897]

This channel has brought me back to this game oh the memories elite smash here I come thanks shoxas!!

[@shoxas]

Welcome back brother

[@emmanuelroutsis9534]

Thank you for this analysis. You can tell the amount of work you put into picking and choosing the best plays for your viewers to get the most out of. We thank you shoxas!

[@shoxas]

And I thank you brother

[@Ridlay_]

I love comparing how different people play different characters. Man I just want more of this content in general for all sorts of games, it’s really interesting.

[@pivotbroz]

Watching your channel grow is going to be exciting, love the quick and simple vids/ analysis

[@shoxas]

That's my thing! Happy to hear I have a fan, thanks man

[@jessiescholten9119]

Nairo his pressure with his adventage is crazy tho

[@gatr2897]

It's always cool when a character can be played optimally in many playstyles. Great analysis!

[@shoxas]

Sephiroth has those 2 different modes where he drastically changes and thus you can either go hard or play even more safe. Thanks the support!

[@shaggy4769]

Seeing this characters meta being pushed by these two amazing but different players is so cool. Great video dude!

[@shoxas]

Agreed my dude

[@gigaflare9710]

Both are great. So I study both. Great video!! Keep up the amazing work!!

[@shoxas]

Loved the unbiased look. Can definitely learn from both of them and thanks for the support!

[@probablythefbi8230]

Super super underrated channel here

[@roma7629]

i saw you in nairos live stream

[@kennethcortes2946]

very interesting to see, love both of these playstyles so much the sephiroth meta is in an exciting place right now there are so many things to pick and choose from when developing your own style with the character i love tweeks use of blade dash you can literally go off stage to edgeguard and blade dash back to ledge/ roll distance to get a ledgetrap its insanely good

[@Observedwalnut75]

You are one of the best smash channels to come out, so nice to not see bruh edits over tourney play for once. Looking forward to more of your content.

[@shoxas]

lol the bruh edits are getting out of hand. I got you!

[@BlackCatCards]

Liking/commenting for the algorithm 💪 great stuff yet again!

[@shoxas]

John you're the man!

[@willbuchanan6877]

You're gonna go off soon dude, keep at it ❤️

[@shoxas]

Maybe. Appreciate the support regardless my dude

[@nachot6592]

He is on it!

[@privacc_7]

I’m really liking this content lately ngl

[@shoxas]

Ngl I got you!

[@shockdogmk807]

Very good analysis of the different playstyles Tweek and Nairo play Sephiroth. I subbed. Im looking forward to good content 😃

[@shoxas]

Appreciate the support and thanks for the sub! Welcome

[@fishermanWyatt-qg6tw]

been loving your videos man, keep it up

[@shoxas]

Appreciate it man, will do

[@tap7645]

Yo! After learning how to secondary Sephiroth and after watching some of your videos, I got into a crew mostly using Sephiroth! Thank you so much for this. 🙂

[@shoxas]

This is sick to hear. You've got a deadly crew now

[@tap7645]

@@shoxas 😳😳

[@JerBear-og2qe]

wait this was actually a really good video wtf good stuff man

[@shoxas]

Thanks dude

[@dvaccaro96]

Literally best smash channel? Can't wait to see you explode bro

[@shoxas]

Nah I'm still learning quite a bit, but thanks for the support brother

[@rasamasala]

Im currently learning Sephiroth and my style has become a blend of the two! I usually start matches playing a similar style to Tweek and then once the opponent catches on, I switch it up and play more aggressive, similar to Nairo. I definitely hope to master the character, so thanks for posting these vids, Shoxas!

[@shoxas]

You're welcome my guy, hope it helped! Good luck finding your own unique Seph play style:)

[@elliotdeeks5764]

I've watched all your vids and subbed your content is soo good

[@shoxas]

Damn thank you!

[@phy_]

Dude. YES. This is SO good

[@shoxas]

Thanks dude!

[@saul042]

Man this gets me so excited for offline tourneys again

[@shoxas]

Same

[@Totally_not_sonic_and_kirby]

You are about too become an amazing smash bros KZbinr because i 💙 your videos And the fact that I main sephiroth makes me like the video :)

[@shoxas]

Maybe and thanks!

[@spark1818]

Just subbed thanks for all the guides

[@shoxas]

I got you and thanks for the sub!

[@rickennmakesgames]

I barely play smash but I love your videos so much

[@shoxas]

Happy to hear it

[@codythomas4400]

Loving the content!

[@shoxas]

Appreciate the continued support my guy

[@isaace698]

Now I'm just really excited to possibly see these two play against each other.

[@shoxas]

Beyond excited

[@ThirtyfourEC]

Cool analysis to get recommended

[@shoxas]

Thanks for watching it and thanks for the comment too!

[@ashy3604]

I just got fighters pass 2. Seph is already one of my pockets, thanks to u.

[@shoxas]

Nice, no problem! Enjoy him, he's so fun

[@tahmago3652]

This was sick

[@TheDarknessShows]

Loving this channel

[@shoxas]

This channel loves you too

[@sodamustdie4372]

Great video!

[@shoxas]

Thanks and thanks for the comment!

[@themidgarbadass2517]

Sick analysis

[@shoxas]

Sick comment

[@5hyguy42]

Good video 👏

[@shoxas]

Thanks 😁

[@zorroarkrz1686]

I like how this guy didn't judge any playstyle

[@shoxas]

Of course. Both players are obviously great, optimized their own play styles and can be learned from.

[@loo7412]

Another banger!!

[@shoxas]

I got you dude!

[@WhyDo]

Awesome video, really fun to see this stuff in action. My only complaint is that u didn't spell it "schmoovement"

[@shoxas]

I'll be sure to include that on my next Guy Fieri Play Styles video and thanks for the support!

[@broccoliboy9673]

Looking at this shows me how much potential this fighter has

[@shoxas]

Dropped by everyone but these 2 I can't wait till offline becomes a thing again

[@jacobsmith3925]

Good video!

[@shoxas]

Good comment!

[@squirrelwithabanana]

loving this sephiroth content

[@shoxas]

Thanks for the support and thanks for the comment! I'll be making plenty more

[@sammy8416]

I’m waiting for this legendary match

[@shoxas]

Same

[@fuego5176]

good video!

[@shoxas]

Good comment!

[@rimzaaah5892]

What a fascinating character

[@princediago4669]

I love this video

[@shoxas]

This video loves you too

[@Raglandguy]

Thank you for being a pillar of the Sephiroth community.

[@shoxas]

I don't know about that, just happy to be contributing to the character meta and talking about smash

[@carlosthetruedragon]

Ahhh wave of darkness one of my favs

[@bazinga7009]

Nice video.

[@shoxas]

Thanks and thanks for the support!

[@bazinga7009]

Your welcome Shoxas, your videos are amazing, I love them.

[@carlosthetruedragon]

I just LOVE nairos use of fair offstage to pin for edgegaurds

[@shoxas]

Same, so simple yet he knows how to do it to keep on the pressure

[@ottoeks1]

They’re both really good, but Nairo’s playstyle is simply more hype.

[@ivrydice0954]

Cold take: This is the character for melee players.

[@Creepo_J]

I love using flare b reverses and f-air wall cling up-b is very fun to use and very flexible shadow flare is fast covers a lot of space, from far away, this option is very safe pushing advantage while keeping a fair distance away for the sword to cover Their playstyles are fun to watch nairo is a little more aggressive with it and tweek goes for more defensive and technical plays

[@keybearer26]

Hey homie, would you be willing to start outting the OST's in the thumbnail please. I love listening to your music selection choice during my trail runs.

[@shoxas]

Sure guy, I've put it in the description. Glad you're into it

[@christophermauro-barias7451]

now they have to vs each other to really compare. but comparisons like this remind me of nairo vs marzz and nairo vs zero when using zss and mk respectively

[@shoxas]

You're getting me hyped just thinking about it

[@boiledegg8934]

Nice to know that nairo is back

[@shoxas]

Agreed

[@klydewithak9456]

Firstly, this was really good. Secondly, what's this song?

[@shoxas]

Thanks! The song is Wave of Darkness 1 by Yoko Shimomura

[@yeehaw8089]

incredible video

[@shoxas]

yeehaw of a comment, thanks!

[@yeehaw8089]

@@shoxas damn what a... pun? but in all seriousness these kind of player analysis videos are great. smash content in general has an overabundance of annoying meme compilation type videos, and this is a great change of pace. are you going to make more with 2 top players sharing a similar character?

[@shoxas]

@@yeehaw8089 I honestly never thought about it, but could definitely do that! Great idea

[@silvesta5027]

Top players are so sick. It’s cool that even a game like ultimate, with fairly limited movement options, the same character can be played successfully in many different ways

[@shoxas]

Agreed, the mix between how a character “should” be play vs the player themselves makes it so much more interesting

[@AyeOzZy]

Nairo sees opponent off stage Nairo: *Initiate Sequence*

[@shoxas]

When Nairo says, "hold on"

[@ojutay8375]

Nairo's style is so fun to pull off successfully but Tweek's style is probably the one you'll see more often since Sephiroth will lean towards that

[@iaboth4727]

Seeing nairos name in things again feels so weird but in a good way

[@shoxas]

Same, it's been a min

[@csto6804]

i rly like shoxas taste in these osts from one of my favorite all time series kh

[@sully6191]

these playstyles remind me of Yin & yang personally if I was to play sephiroth tweek playstyle is most likely what i would go for if I have bloodlust I’ll go for nairo playstyle

[@OwnD1]

So glad that Nairo is back

[@shoxas]

Same, he deserves it

[@E_rich]

We need this duos match...

[@shoxas]

Agreed

[@DiverseStyle]

Even though Tweek is more my play style , Nairo makes you feel like you’re fighting KH1 Sephiroth and I love it

[@shoxas]

Oh I love that analogy

[@antonyco1955]

i’ll say Nairo is better, because he managed to improve the sephiroth with just a single live stream, also it’s more exciting to watch, witch is a plus in my book :p

[@vincentzhen2654]

Tweeks sephiroth is so much cleaner. The pressure of always knowing when to shadow flare and connect hits after they go off is insane. Nairos great and added a new perspective to the character but tweeks seph is way better imo

[@emarythomp]

I don’t want to be that guy, but can’t they both be as good in different ways? Like I actually think they might be evenly matched with how attuned they are to their own playstyles. I guess maybe nairo would be better because he’s more aggressive? But I mean that Tweek shadow flare pressure can really add up over time.

[@vincentzhen2654]

@CriticalCrisis it's hard to tell if nairo's seph is better just because he's said on stream there are many things he can do but opts not to in order to figure out other options to deal with specific situations. I agree with your thoughts of clean doesn't mean better, but from what I've seen so far, I think tweek applies safe pressure better via shadow flares. Super low risk, high reward psychologically. Tweeks out to destroy his opponents mentally and stay one step ahead and does so with less laggy options than nairo. On paper, it'd make sense that tweeks is better. I'm sure he's looking to add some things to is seph that nairo does too. All I know for sure is northeast swt is gonna be hype with those two

[@bruhm0ment6000]

Which not witch

[@bruhm0ment6000]

@@vincentzhen2654 Give either of them a smooth thousand and you'll see a first to 10 between them.

[@sauce8277]

*Generally,* Tweek’s run-away style which he plays with everyone lost to Mkleo. While Nairo’s advantage-state style beat Leo. Nairo has gotten spiked twice in a set for it though. Otherwise, having a amazing advantage state is what separates the best players in every fighting game usually. I think in a set of 3, having a insane advantage state is better.

[@ganerike7910]

I really hope those 2 decide to do a FT10 Sephiroth Ditto

[@shoxas]

Hype

[@spencerlevy4604]

Nairo is so fun because he's aggressive but it always works, but Tweek's patience and option coverage with this character is the best I've ever seen

[@shoxas]

Agreed, he can be aggressive because he's becoming more comfortable with the character. I feel like Tweek and Sephiroth just mesh well too

[@Bjornbroder1]

This is so sweaty.

[@bungifish2227]

Imagine tweek Vs nairo seph ditto? That fight would be legendary!

[@shoxas]

I'm getting hyped just thinking about it

[@Novae70]

Such worthy sephiroth players

[@shoxas]

We are blessed

[@iTokyoDemon]

cool

[@shoxas]

cool^8

[@MrMash-xw7mm]

Do one on Charlie’s and Larry’s wolf plz

[@shoxas]

Noted!

[@Ozukai]

Sephiroth madlads

[@shoxas]

Absolute

[@willfischer8259]

Buzz cut = god like Sephiroth

[@shoxas]

lol

[@ShinyMarkGT]

shoutouts to junko

[@shoxas]

Grande!!

[@mabsurquraishi7043]

Ok but this song goes too hard g

[@shoxas]

Glad you like the cut g

[@SquidwardProfilePic]

It just seems like nairo plays with more confidence, which is strange because apparently he thinks this character is pretty mediocre, but he plays as if seph is the best character in the game

[@shoxas]

I think he said he thought Seph was high tier but I'd agree he plays like he has the biggest balls in the game

[@SquidwardProfilePic]

@@shoxas I probably missed any serious opinions he had on the character, every time I dropped in for a few minutes I caught him in the middle of a this character sucks rant.

[@blacksun9703]

hello shoxas, your video is very good and brief. i translated and trasfered it to another website(bilibili) for sharing(resource is indicated），but i havent got the permission. im sorry and i wanna ask for your permission. if you need i could delete the video first and make a statement in the comments. i just think this video is good and should be seen by more players.sorry.

[@shoxas]

You should delete the video because it’s not yours. Also, as you have been told in the comments of that video on bilibili, I am very familiar with bilibili and the smash community. I’m in the process of making my own bilibili account and will be posting my original videos through that account. If your apology is sincere I ask you delete the video, and thank you for liking the video.

[@blacksun9703]

@@shoxasim sorry for my wrong behavior and would delete the video as soon as possible. it would be great if you plan to open your own bilibili count and upload more videos on bilibili.

[@BadkidsFuego]

Could ya clarify shadowing (does it refer to the movement & repositioning or shadow flare itself)?

[@moil5722]

I think he is referring to shadowing the movement of his opponent?

[@shoxas]

Yes what Mail said. Tweek loves just moving with/around you, keeping his distance or sometimes just literally doing nothing. He's just waiting to capitalize on an opening.

[@SunnyMin_]

Starts at 0:48

[@shoxas]

I think the commonalties section is worth noting since it covers things what 2 top players are doing with the characters, regardless of their individual play styles.

[@animeloverhaven]

I’m hoping that either ragna or Dante get in as the next fighter and then the last fighter of the pass is Sora.

[@shoxas]

You're getting me hyped just thinking about this

[@animeloverhaven]

@@shoxas I hope it happens cause if we get characters like crash or Rayman like ppl have been saying I wouldn’t be mad but I would be Dissapointed.

[@animeloverhaven]

@@shoxas if Sora got In I would be so hype and hopefully he would have some unique interactions with cloud and sephiroth.

[@Dr.Doomblaze]

can you do a ken kill confirms video next? Thanks!

[@shoxas]

This one hurt a little, but still 10/10 trolling as expected

[@da1anonly000]

How about Samus? I have a few cool video clips you can use!

[@shoxas]

@@da1anonly000 I'm down

[@Dr.Doomblaze]

@@shoxas sorry bb

[@kingjugo4965]

SHMOVMENT

[@theresaroutsis7621]

I’ll say it again. SMASH HERO.

[@shoxas]

You're my comment heroine

[@samwozniak1875]

Here me out... Tweek has a better combo game but Nairo has a better advantage state