Spargo is already innovating Rivals 2's Offense

Today we break down Spargo's incredible run at LMBM last weekend, where he climbed to 2nd place with Clairen. We look at everything that contributed to his victories and how he is innovating the game.

[@BrooklynSkateUSA]

Lmaoooo Spargo's face after the 3 stock 🤣 he knew he had the sauce

[@cyprienramis1304]

3 stock AND ending on a 0 to death.

[@juanmartingutierrez3524]

This is even more funny if you consider he didn't knew what floorhugging was a couple weeks ago

[@xAbsolution1]

Definitely not clairen being overtuned and just sparg0 being skilled, right? RIGHT? hahaha no way definitely clairen being ludicrous with the hitstun

[@TrixterTheFemboy]

@@xAbsolution1 mfw the top player in an extremely similar game who's adapted well to use the unique quirks of this game plays a character I personally dislike fighting (clearly this means he is utterly skilless and simply carried by the character)

[@xAbsolution1]

@TrixterTheFemboy it's mostly sparg0 being good, sure, but don't pretend that clairen doesn't have issues

[@TrixterTheFemboy]

@ Oh yeah I hate fighting Clairen as a Lox main, and as a Lox main the interloper who dares attempt to end his reign must be destroyed, but I don't think she's overpowered.

[@xAbsolution1]

@TrixterTheFemboy not op, but she has way more leeway

[@Jowannabe]

I hate Clairen so much and never thought I would be rooting for one, but I was watching this tournament and putting all my faith on Spargo, the way he played was so immaculate.

[@Middaylantern]

Sparg0 has the best Tomahawk grab I’ve ever seen. He mixes it in so flawlessly that it feels like you have to read it to do anything about it.

[@Risky_Boots999]

Great analysis!

[@codetaku]

Sparg0 is honestly the person who made me feel like Ult could be almost as sick to watch as Melee. He makes other top players look like trash newbies who can barely string combos together.

[@laststock1]

Love your content! Keep up the great work ❤

[@WrongTreeGG]

Right back at ya!

[@danman1570]

The other day i saw spargo streams, he has grinding rivals, and when he fought a maypul (pretty sure it was plup) he didnt know that maypuls dair came from the stage. When he learns more about the game he is gonna be a really good player

[@mobkiller]

3:42 you sure it means di? pretty sure the arrows are asdi

[@pntl-i6e]

Yes, the arrows are asdi lines. I don't know where he came up with the idea that those hits were no DI. Pretty sure no DI on the last hit would have killed him.

[@goon_369]

9:33 normies: ooohhhhh interesting! falcon players: oh its cool when they do it? its a problem when I do it? F#&+! "em!

[@WiiGi]

Billions of players in the world, same top players in Smash. Same in Nick-All Stars. Same in Multiversus. Same in Rivals of Aether.

[@VEEbf]

you remind me so much of "bloom4eva" the bayonetta player in ssbu

[@DEVILONBOTHSHOULDERS]

LOL

[@WrongTreeGG]

i get that a lot.............. that and ice spice but bloom is more niche so its funnier

[@VEEbf]

@@WrongTreeGG thats funny, ok xD

[@TrevsTreehouse]

Great video

[@imshleep8430]

nice video, godai delta example was really cool, nice catch

[@dfcb11]

I know that Sparg0 the truth, but the way clairen is designed, everything she does feels cheap and undeserved lol

[@xAbsolution1]

The devs really just assume she is fine because she doesn't have a projectile. The issue is her playing on point feels completely devoid of counterplay vs being combo's by literally anyone else

[@caramelisedcashews4849]

Vid felt pretty undirected, would prefer less glazing and just immediately talking about the anti-floorhugging stuff specifically

[@menderbugg]

i love clairen

[@tempesttries]

Still wont be able to convince me that asdi down into the ground to cancel all hit lag is a good mechanic, maybe if it only reduced it by half to punish bad spacing but almost all of it is kinda dumb

[@cong5805]

I like that it adds more counterplay after being hit, i think that's one of the things that make platform fighters cool.

[@SherryDC]

at first I didn't like it either but without there would be to many unescapable early percent combos maybe even infinites. When playing against opponents who are aware of cc and abuse it a lot you just need to use your moves that beat cc, usually down air. I personally treat cc like a pseudo shield and treat spikes like a pseudo grab against it.

[@menendez4004]

They could tweek it a lil bit, but i stopped thinking it was the end of the world the moment i started implementing it myself

[@multi0suplex]

Its a good mech but prob needs tweaking. Winning neutral and hitting your opponent only for the situation to reverse in their favor is certainly something. Adjusting the hit lag reduction or even making the reduction based on a level of attack would be nice.

[@cong5805]

@ I see people saying this a lot, but hitting an opponent doesn't necessarily mean you won neutral, floorhugging as much part of neutral as throwing out an attack is, and if you get punished for attacking unsafely that's not a neutral win.

[@matthewclaflin6568]

clairen is the most annoying character in the game

[@PurposeDriven7_]

Cap it’s Wrastor

[@biozzar3238]

Its Kragg bro

[@Anthony-zl7yz]

Clairen for sure. Shes way better than clairen mains claim

[@SherryDC]

a bad Clairen does nothing and only hits stray aerials. They can't kill you early if they aren't good unless you are so bad you don't find your special button when getting grabed. A bad Kragg can kill you at 60 with a single good read or stray hit, you will lose to bad Kraggs if you aren't locked in.

[@menendez4004]

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