SSC 2023 - Peanut (Little Mac) Vs. Kurama (Mario) Smash Ultimate - SSBU

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[@knox7945]

Foul on Little Mac for beating up the referee.

[@DougDimmadome420]

He’s off duty 😂

[@Abbaschand]

On his wedding, too.

[@jelanidacostabest8195]

The callback!

[@calebw8189]

Pretty sure this is Peanut's biggest win ever as far as ranking goes.

[@icettaylor]

To my knowledge yes. Unfortunately he was frames off of a game with MkLeo and that was super cool

[@flashyturnip7730]

​@@icettaylorthe entire set went to last hit, it could've gone either way

[@icettaylor]

@@flashyturnip7730 I know. That set looked like it was filmed with a potato off stream but you could hear the people cheering for the Nut to make the biggest upset. Instead, Leo didn’t drop another game (not set, game) the entire tournament after. Edit: spelling

[@CipherKnighto]

@@icettaylorhe locked in frfr

[@racebase9146]

The problem is that Kurama’s strengths over other top players usually comes from some of the scariest and trickiest grounded neutral ever. Even when he jumps it’s usually a short hop into a landing aerial, he fights opponents when they’re grounded. But you can’t do that to little mac

[@carloilfanSuperMammaMia2]

True,anyways it's a really nice match.

[@socksandsandalsstudios]

Pretty sure you just read Peanut's mind during this set lol

[@someoneelse1348]

Fun fact: Peanut did as good as Spargo in the Smashcon

[@TheDriver458]

Solo Mac? Holy shit.

[@LeFrankist]

Can't say no to a Peanut match

[@TitanAnthems]

Peanut vs Skyjay NEEDS to happen

[@TheDriver458]

Would be an absolute slugfest, love it.

[@lirasstrange6447]

agreed

[@omarwajeeh3665]

This is only a slightly losing matchup for Mac, but you can tell kurama has no idea what to do

[@Regular_Ben]

He's gonna have nightmares about the mac.

[@leifpeterson4850]

Mac actually does amazing in this matchup. It’s not losing for him at all

[@tomfoolery2885]

As a mario main, if mario knows the matchup, he wins

[@Shuki..]

I’m pretty sure the strategy is almost the same for every character against Mac. Camp ledge, throw him off, and gimp his recovery. Easier said than done tho.

[@freddiesimmons1394]

​@@Shuki..camp ledge is an easy way to also die early yourself. He can dtilt you from outside of your grab range and probably ftilt too

[@SaturnSnapple]

This tourney was so big, Peanut beat the best Mario and I never heard anything about it

[@JheavenProductions]

Top 1 Mario vs Top 1 little Mac?! This is Insane 🎉

[@MarcelE80]

With a 3-stock ontop of that. Holy smokes. Peanut is getting so good!

[@heranrodman9709]

Massive respects to Peanut for sticking to Mac in a game full of Pyras, Jokers and Bayos

[@fupalover]

All those characters and you didn't even say Kazuya

[@Sticker_By_NCT_127]

Bayo is good but not THAT good

[@danielheaps6791]

As a mario main, this is how i feel when i fight little mac, i thought i was crazy, but he just anti airs mario so hard for some reason

[@Murky-Murk]

his up-b is frame 3 and he is invulnerable for those frames. It's a very good combo breaker.

[@DarkWolfJr1000]

Believe it or not but Mac actually excels against most brawlers. Plus his moves are insanely fast and/or have super armor, making him tricky to fight up close and personal. He really struggles with projectiles, in the air, and getting back on stage, which 90% of the roster can take advantage of.

[@AdamJensen_]

@@DarkWolfJr1000 True but we smokin that thanos pack 😮‍💨🚬 loved watching that evil grape get dusted

[@pixelgunners8613]

​@@Murky-Murkand it has frame 1 invincibility

[@Murky-Murk]

@@pixelgunners8613 that's what invulnerable means

[@8bittim]

I was pleasantly surprised by this. Saw the timestamp and thought little Mac would be getting curbstomped. I think kurana didn't know the matchup. But second match you could tell he was getting the hang of it. Props to peanut!

[@Levi_Guerero]

This is the exact sequence of events or me: -See’s Peanut little Mac vs. a Mario player Me: “oooh I’m interested” - realizes the Mario player is FREAKING KURAMA Me: “I have to watch this, and I have to watch this RIGHT NOW!”

[@hidood5th]

With this and his match against Zenyou, I'm starting to think Mac has a pretty good matchup against Mario

[@Delightfully_Bitchy]

Could be. Mac is fantastic at the very limited things he could do in his short range, while Mario is "only" great to decent at everything in his short range, so it makes a certain sort of sense.

[@tristanconn11]

it is even.. mario doesnt have the best edge guarding in the game so its harder to cheese stocks if mac recovers from below.. and the super armor beats a lot of mario approaches

[@FirstLast-mn4re]

I think it mainly comes down to Mario has short range so he can struggle to get his combos started due to Mac's speed and armor on most of his grounded attacks.

[@steviegiamalis9251]

@@sefownsread it again, he said Mario doesn’t

[@janswhatsupdoc]

@@sefownsman learn to read unless ya didn’t in pre school 😴

[@joekeny]

Holy hell, that read on the last stock in game 1 was amazing.

[@NoteofLuck]

1:31 You can see that Kurama has his shield shifted slightly down, which is good because that prevents any shield pokes from Little Mac's down tilt. Somehow, Mario gets hit anyway, which tells me that Kurama dropped shield / initiated a dodge at frame perfect bad timing.

[@brandontrue813]

That first game was insanely one sided. There were a few times where Kurama just stopped and looked at the sky like "what am I doing??". Like it actually looked like how that one uncle you have just comes over and absolutely steamrolls you at family reunions. This game is so well balanced... bottom 3 character can still absolutely handle a top tier.

[@ashketchup7354]

Peanut just made the best Mario player look like a fucking joke lmao

[@SuperMarioT]

Man, it did feel like Kurama had little clue what to do vs. Mac. It is generally just feinting approaches to get Mac to come closer to Mario for him to juggle Mac either w/ bair or grab because his tilts & smashes are surprisingly safe vs. Mario normally, forget you can occasionally mash nair in disadvantage low %, but not that often nor does it work that much when Mac's combos are true more often than not and then just assessing whether they'll immediately side b back to stage or counter, which FLUDD, yeah, likely the play for both, if not bair, cape, etc. Peanut did mad well using side b to cover platforms and make it safe for him to land under as well while killing some of the platform camping.

[@satirical140]

That first game was brutal. Peanut had an answer for everything

[@memenazi7078]

Dash attack to dash attack is the most little mac string ever

[@masonm8351]

Mac forces other characters to play by his rules. A combination of insane ground speed, great tilt attacks, good super armor, and insane comeback potential, alongside awful air options and bad recovery, makes for an unique play style of staying on the ground and forcing your opponent to find a way to get you in the air. Mac’s play style manages to be super predictable yet also very creative in how Mac players find ways to recover and land crucial KO punches. He is a character who looks super busted but is balanced by equally devastating nerfs that keep him in bottom tiers. However, watching how players like peanut use this bottom tier at this level of play is extremely fun to watch as a viewer, and is one of the many examples of why ult is such a great game

[@HowDoIDad]

How did Peanut play so clean and do him so dirty? Man's been eating his Wheaties.

[@justinlu251]

Peanut beat Kurama Kurama 3-0'd Leo at Frostbite 2020 Peanut > Leo

[@TotshotAirsoft]

Peanut literally nearly beat leo not too long ago

[@Mat.V3]

Leo> all players in the world So that means that peanut is the best in the world

[@jaydenhohman2590]

​@TotSSBU No he didn't lmao. They played but leo won

[@patoa3481]

​@@jaydenhohman2590"nearly beat"

[@winter.b0i]

Styles make fights

[@dootathashoota4132]

Hardcore matchup check for Kurama, dude had no idea how to fight Mac lmfao

[@samsee_ca]

Game 1 is easily the hardest I’ve ever seen Kurama get matchup checked; in particular, dude did not respect how good Mac’s UpB is as an out-of-shield option Game 2 is more illustrative of how low-key even (and fun!) this matchup is: Mac’s punishing ground attacks versus Mario’s combo heavy aerials A dominant three-stock plus a clutch last-hit dub equals a VERY deserved 2-0

[@Fpl8646]

Light work baby

[@ZETSUBOBILLY]

Look at peanut man, so inspirational

[@shyguy-te5bx]

Glad to hear Glass Joe & Glass Joe in the commentators seat today

[@barrioscorona215]

2:03 how did Peanut know Kurama would roll in!?

[@OEphy]

He covered every other options before successfully, so he knew Kurama was looking for a way past Mac ledge trap thus the roll read.

[@barrioscorona215]

​@@OEphycrazy!!

[@MrJ691]

PEANUT CAN SAVE SMASH

[@ClassicBentobox]

Everybody says macs aerials suck but peanut sure was using them a lot to punish and pressure despite how weak they are.

[@tomfoolery2885]

As a mario main, kurama did NOT play the matchup right. Especially in this matchup, it's much more important to play grounded, patient, and to make sure that mac plays your game rather than his. It's also important to realize that damage isn't too important if you can just gimp him

[@PirateHunterKyle]

I swear Mario loses to Little Mac…! None of Mario’s tilts help, fireball doesn’t seem to work for approaching, aerials get armored through or lose in trades, and grabs seem tough to obtain. Juggling Little Mac isn’t as easy as it seems, edgeguarding is your only option but you need to get him offstage first… 😅

[@4546Bean]

Cape and fludd are the things that Mario uses against little Mac, but yeah, he’s a bit too stubby to really deal with him too well.

[@isaacfranks2272]

It’s hard to use cape against a vertical upB like Mac’s. For FLUDD to work, kurama would have to squirt Mac while he’s NOT doing SideB (very high-priority move). Mac is such a fast faller that the FLUDD window basically doesn’t exist

[@4546Bean]

LFG PEANUT!!!!!!!!

[@lando1296]

Peanut is so nasty. Know your matchups kids.

[@SomeGuy-qd3li]

What zero matchup knowledge does to a mf

[@nicolasvidal92]

There's something so satisfying about good Mac play

[@arm_and_toe]

We love to see Peanut play out here! Nice set

[@Creepooba]

I love Peanut Little Mac

[@LilCashregister14]

You can see Kurama does not know the match-up

[@jacobmohr82]

Fireball really helps control the pace of this matchup

[@GarredHATES]

Wow, Peanut made the best Mario look like pools fodder in the first game :0

[@juan_pwn]

This mu is annoying af for Mario cuz eventually you’re gonna have to brawl with Mac despite platform camping.

[@theboraxkid6990]

how the hell do you beat the best mario in the world with mac?

[@jannomeeuwessen4886]

Because that match up's ass.

[@Blank46130]

​@@jannomeeuwessen4886 for mac yes

[@DavionLane]

⁠@@Blank46130for Mario yes

[@T0r_Tazz]

It’s has it good and bad for both

[@panagiotiszymaris914]

Mario is stubby and needs to get up close to start his combos. Mac is really good at boxing. He is literally a boxer

[@GordonLee97]

Peanut is the goat

[@Ponydress123]

I am so used to being excited to watch a peanut match- knowing full well he’s gonna lose. This was epic.

[@PapiRigatoni]

Wasn’t even close ong. Peanut destroys Mario I guess

[@RealBroccoliHour]

Peanut the 🐐

[@TheOriginalStarwalker64]

Peanut makes a dull sword like Mac seem like Excalibur in his hands

[@HDGamerofficial]

This made me very happy 👏👏👏

[@kobomb_]

feels like he didn’t know the matchup well

[@michaelcross7665]

Peanut makes this look like Mario's worst matchup that was crazy

[@oceano901]

Jesus christ Peanut dead ass said " you ain't gonna juggle me and you aint laddering me either bud.

[@nickolaibrosky]

They got jack Harlow and lil yachty commentating

[@ADVENTURESOFTHEBIGJUICY]

nah peanut is actually cracked

[@The0-2DemonKing]

When I think of this matchup in my head, I think about Mac getting thrown offstage and gimped via flood and cape. Not Mac's Frame 3 combo breaker and antiairing Mario from hell and back. 😅

[@dirt_dert_durt]

Kurama absolutely earned this w. Really talented guy, congrats to him

[@Porquedeberias]

I really hate playing against Mario, so this was very satisfying

[@BlueBunnyB]

ZEE PEENUITTTT!!!

[@yappaplay]

Was Kurama off his game or something cause I feel like he would normally play better than that. Peanut is amazing as always.

[@funjukebox1324]

You could tell that Kurama didn't know the MU, cuz how many good little mac's are people really coming across that are of Peanuts level 😂😂😂, it's like going up against SkyJay's Incin or KirbyKid's K. Rool imo

[@seikopath]

What is this cam quality. Doesn't look like Kurama or Peanut lol

[@gianluigi1856]

Dont understand why he doesn camp

[@isaacfranks2272]

Mario has 1 camping move lol, fireball. In the first game Kurama tried to camp with fireball to avoid KO punch, and Peanut parried the fireball like 5 times in a row before catching him on a platform anyway

[@zz_boo]

By the tag it seems like peanut is a Yugioh player lol

[@Thefrabur91]

I thought Mario would ez counter Mac with Side B, down B, neutral B but after reading some comments I'm not sure anymore

[@TheMysterySpartan]

As a mario main this hurt me. But this was an interesting match nonetheless

[@gabichouw]

Peanut is the best mac' and best player

[@phengmoua2389]

Should have spammed more fireballs!

[@CNT_Kura]

マックほどめんどいキャラはいない いや、某DLC2体も似たようなもんか

[@eddiesimon6779]

Mario has always been food to peanut.

[@Oblic008]

Is there no English commentary of this?

[@strylon2277]

No

[@DarkThomy]

Ohhh, so THAT is why Kurama didn't make it far.. ! LET'S GO PEANUT !!! (finally uptilt side b ! )

[@tonkaboyrich496]

🥜 = 🐐

[@TakingSouls4free]

He made that looks easy

[@steviegiamalis9251]

As a Mario main who rlly dislikes this matchup, I’m glad I’m not going crazy

[@TomBook1317]

On dirait que Kurama n"a jamais joué contre le MacGod ? Let's go Peanut !

[@ankeviousoliver4472]

Mario = bad matchup for a good Mac.

[@danielcaceres2676]

God

[@ambiguous8661]

So sad cant go in comments withiut spoilers there needs to be a fkipping timed chat function where uou only see comments before or at the video length yiu are at..... Bruh....

[@ambiguous8661]

Then if people purposely avoid that wth they're truly spoiler dinguses that just don't care because of that things like ukraine war happen and north korea still existing because nobody cares enough to act?... hggg :c

[@elKapitanLaz]

I’m surprised with the game being this old and him being a top player y’all think he doesn’t know the match up lol

[@goldman1996]

That LM UpB sure is giving Kurama trouble. Surprising.

[@JonnyJayKhan]

Kurama was not able to get advantage going around Mac up b

[@cesarmarroquin9930]

Peanut is so *uckin intelligent its crazy..ik most people would say little mac carries but from the looks of it..Peanut carries Little Mac...and obviously little mac is trash in most scenarios which is probably why Peanut will never win a Major...Sadness

[@greedo194]

It's matches like these that remind me how annoying mac is That being said peanut is godlike for making mac look like a decent character

[@carloilfanSuperMammaMia2]

Actually I think that he's a low tier and not a Bottom Tier because Zelda up on Him Is Impossible.I know that Peanut and other good Little Mac mains Will beat up every Zelda in the world. Imagine to have a counter Versus Zelda,too OP versus her because Little Mac has a good counter.

[@manushitposting]

rre duro el jurama jajaj

[@kerokerocola99]

Why is the commentary french lmao

[@strylon2277]

Because he asked to get this set on stream ? You know you wouldn't have even seen it without this ?

[@kiol3193]

Jure c’est etoile qui commente 😂😂😂

[@Alex-ye8fx]

And Little Mac is a BAD character(?) Come on dude 2-0.

[@i.p.c.scipioa.8281]

Kurama would have won the bo5.😊

[@DtgSlayer]

Sure buddy saying that isn’t helping you one bit attention seeker.

[@4546Bean]

It’s pretty obvious from watching that Kurama just doesn’t know the matchup. A best of 5 would be the same result, and probably a 3-0

[@DtgSlayer]

@@4546Bean exactly, Man is just a kurama fanboy and expects that he’s just gonna win if another game was involved and I’m pretty sure peanut would of won eaither way, I like Kurama is just that peanut knew every way to punish him I’m pretty sure that kurama had no way of winning.

[@angeltorres5601]

C mamo

[@rayymondmorgan1697]

Horrible matchup, usually skip macs unless its battlefield

[@KrTz]

Beauf. les commentaires sont Naze... Moins de cris et plus de jeu, Ta gueule :)

[@strylon2277]

Ta vie est triste quand même, aller sur tous les sets castés par Etoiles pour dire que le cast est mauvais c'est tellement stupide mdr

[@louisbossuet5938]

Le commentateur de droite découvre smash bros apparement alors que celui de gauche est super chaud, c'est sûrement pour équilibrer mais bon dommage

[@Mrdd2d]

lol

[@Pyrospower]

bahaha

[@espion7]

ça doit être ça ouai

[@AdDQ4]

​@@Pyrospowerbh dans le fond il a pas tort mdr

[@A_Shut-in_NEET]

oh wow little mac might just be a bad matchup for mario. that 3 frame up b makes it so mario cant do combos easily. whats with the french commentary? I could undetstand if it was spanish but french is not a very popular language.

[@Badger_666]

Esports are huge in France

[@legrandliseurtri7495]

There's a popular french streamer named Étoiles who streamed a bunch of sets that weren't streamed by Vgbootcamp's team.

[@TotshotAirsoft]

Also Kurama got recruited by a french esports org

[@tutorialsimulator]

french is like the fifth or sixth most spoken language behind mandarin, english, spanish, and hindi 😭 they ain't talking pig latin or smth

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

bro they ain't talking esperanto

[@memolias]

Mkleoに勝ってもトルマクに負ける男

[@erickalvarez6486]

Littlemac is so lame lmao, he playing his own game, just moving back and forth and then a tilt or a smash because it has armor lmao

[@armakeen3576]

Mf be complaining about the worst character in the game and thinks anyone is gonna take him seriously

[@RealBroccoliHour]

Literally how can anybody complain about Little Mac of all characters?

[@hydrocatbubbles7427]

Found the low level player.

[@frederickchene2767]

les commentateurs Francais qui disent tout les termes en anglais c'est vraiment pathetique. Les Francais ne savent plus parler leur propre langue.

[@julienasriel]

Les commentaires français (en fait qu'importe la langue employée) qui cherchent la petite bête sans aucune raison sont pathétiques. Si le cast te dérange, tu as le droit et tu peux juste couper le son, mais les juger honteusement parce qu'ils emploient des termes anglais qui sont bien plus populaires dans le jargon Smash, et qui permettent de se faire comprendre par beaucoup plus de gens d'ailleurs, c'est franchement nul.

[@strylon2277]

"Wow quel bonne attaque puissante orientée vers le bas pour image 2 la remontée de petit mac"

[@julienasriel]

@@strylon2277 Bahaha, je pleure de rire xD

[@nwz6084]

what a cringe character

[@nichtdaniel8533]

But why french? Killing the hype

[@tomfoolery2885]

My brother in Christ, this was on the French stream

[@umanzate]

not impressive.