SALTONE (Snake, Roy) vs NaetorU (Pichu) - Ultimate Singles Pools Winners Semi-Final - Genesis 9

[@timvapid]

Lol at the lack of views because ppl dont know this is kola

[@fabtech0771]

Wait, THIS IS KOLA????

[@Ghstofhnbl]

You are a peasant

[@Fabi3014]

@@fabtech0771 he used to go by this tag in the past, idk why he changed it back for this tourney

[@StephenManas]

He felt the upset haha

[@lowrd652]

@@fabtech0771 "Always as been" 🔫

[@nevohyams]

Lol the Saltone tag and the Snake in the Thumbnail, people scrolling over probably think it's a random

[@Actylo]

For people who don't understand why did Saltone picked Snake and not Roy : - The Roy and Pichu MU is rly rly hard for Roy. You can see that Saltone has to play a specific and different gameplan (in the last game), compared to a normal Roy match. He has to stay way more grounded, can't use nair that much in neutral. He used it like 8 times and only 1 worked well, and it wasn't even in neutral. His real and maybe only OOS option in this MU is his Up-B, that's why he's using is a bit more than in a more usual Roy match. And when he's offstage, it's kinda "easy" for pichu to edgeguard hiù. He lost 2 of his stocks to a neutral b off stage. Pichu's neutral-b has a rly good trajectory to edgeguard Roy. - Idk ab Snake tho LMAO. But people are saying that this is Pichu's worst MU. So yeah, Saltone wasn't throwing at all, he knew what he was doing

[@erikanderson9946]

The reason why it’s a great snake match up is because pichu dies super early to up-tilt, c4, and f-tilt, and camping with grenades is easy to do since most of pichu’s attacks trade with them and rack up percent. Also, snake’s f-smash and d-smash are good for two framing his recovery. Goes to show how good of a player Naetoru is for beating one of pichu’s worst match-ups.

[@eizzah8323]

@@erikanderson9946 but alas for saltone the best players in NaetorU's home region (Brittany, France) besides himself are... a Roy (TonyClackos, beat Larry Lurr at UW3 with Chrom) and a Snake (Astrat)

[@sharsasuke01]

The Killua tag for a Pichu is so fitting. lol

[@onestepatatime0868]

Now all they need is the zoldyk theme to play

[@ouimerci7112]

Excellent Naetoru! Un plaisir de te voir jouer !

[@TwoV]

Voilaaa le bon produit français !! La classe NaetorU !

[@blueheart9873]

Here's a little secret. SaltOne = Kola

[@MetaGalacticSpace]

It's not a secret

[@natewashington5283]

Boy, getcho....🤦🏾‍♂️

[@chessmadeeasy6073]

What was 2:22? Looked like he did a n-air in the middle of his d-air animation

[@mysteriousghosts935]

Naetoru qui fait le match de sa vie

[@rweisel]

I’m following all of these matches and what happened to naetoru?

[@rweisel]

He disappears from the lineup after this match

[@graou]

@@rweisel lost twice on the French stream

[@rweisel]

@@graou damn. Links?

[@melomitchell8714]

Why is he using his old tag?

[@alantisclovenpine984]

Pichu my precious boy! Oh Pichu!

[@ryosuketakahashi1852]

Kola should just have a pocket game and watch for this matchup and Pikachu

[@shotu8589]

Snake is a worse mu for pichu, its defiantly Naetoru being incredible and Kola's lack of Pichu xp

[@lilyrBZH]

@@shotu8589 still better than roy but naetoru just know the snake matchup too well

[@illford]

Wat's the point of having a character for one player only? Seems like a waste of time since idk how common running into NaetorU will be

[@lilyrBZH]

@@illford yeah but everytime he runs into naetoru he’ll get shred off tho

[@Matthew_Ross]

Damn even with the change of tag, Kola getting cooked

[@StrawHatPuffy]

Only OGs remember SaltOne

[@lucoitb5031]

c'est qui le frérot qui vient pop off à la fin ? c'est un crack

[@api3360]

C'est Peterpunk, le manager de chez Oplon

[@oblivion6226]

I know this matchup sucks for Roy but I do feel like going snake twice kinda was throwing tbh

[@Alibaba-id1cs]

Snake is Pichu’s worst mu

[@randomguy8107]

Pichu surviving at 180 against Snake is funny tho

[@Silasp123]

Kola's Roy was definitely the move against the pichu here. He dropped 3 or 4 really key conversions in game 3 that cost him, but I think a full set with Roy would have gone to game 5. Either way, incredible job by naetoru

[@TaxinSB]

Pichu rep ❤

[@btthomas5652]

LES FRANÇAIS ONT EST LA

[@Knivess0]

Holy shit, that was just...whoa.

[@OGSauceDaddy]

This Saltone dude kinda washed

[@Kanu03]

pichu stocks rising in 2023

[@JusRed48]

If people think Snake is a good matchup for Pichu they don't know what the hell they're talking about, this matchup is one of Pichu's worst and one of Snake's best easily. The problem is that matchups aren't the whole story, matchup knowledge and character specialty is and Naetoru knows the matchup better and has experience playing it as Pichu where as Saltone just doesn't have a seasoned enough Snake for it yet.

[@sharsasuke01]

Why didn't he just go Cloud?...

[@cullenhutchison6528]

Cloud also struggles a little against Pichu. Maybe not as much as Roy, but Kola/SaltOne is more comfortable with Roy.

[@octaviodelbarrio]

Snake is by far the better matchup and although Roy does a little bit worse than cloud he is more comfortable with him

[@ahridmusic]

La Bretagne ça vous gagne

[@stonguy5274]

let's goo nae !

[@SASxRicochet]

.... I guess the new name fits

[@ItsSpies]

You mean old name? Salt One was his tag back in the smash 4 days

[@sokturoodys8881]

@@ItsSpies We have a saying in France "The best jams are made in old jars" but yeah it might not apply to kola in this case^^