The Rise & Fall of Competitive Giga Bowser - Smash's BANNED Top-Tier

[@titaniawallace4223]

Giga Bowser should be legal once a month on the full moon like a werewolf

[@Wyvernnnn]

It's a bowser skin on the full moon 🥺

[@smelly2897]

finally someone with some sense

[@bumpersincapped]

like it's literally illegal to play as him

[@bluewuppo]

every leap year, you have 24 hours of gigabowser dominance

[@elmiklosyt652]

Yeah

[@LalitoTV]

Love the irony of peach being great on the giga Bowser matchup

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

True lol

[@riacal7754]

Got that experience.

[@I_eat_toenails_420]

Lore wise, it’s crazy

[@yaqbulyakkerbat4190]

Even more ironic that giga peach is terrible against regular bowser

[@ShaunMoore]

& Falco.

[@arco2984]

The Giga Bowser mirror match is probably on of the the least explored matchups in Smash history.

[@wnfeo4518]

definitely Giga Bowser favored

[@LloydTheZephyrian]

@@wnfeo4518 I'd say it favors Giga Bowser more.

[@Phantom_Kraken]

⁠@@LloydTheZephyrian Idk man I think Giga bowser comes out on top in that matchup

[@LloydTheZephyrian]

@@Phantom_Kraken Fair point, but Giga Bowser has that redonkulous smash attack.

[@irahemenahreb9232]

​@LloydTheZephyrian ok but giga bowser can just get to the edge out of the way

[@JonnyGamble]

Legalize Male Wireframe and Giga Bowser so players like me don’t have to play low tiers like Sheik

[@wusstunes]

So true!!

[@Calmtimer]

And legalize master hand!

[@maxmeyers771]

You've finally reached youtube peak fame Jonny

[@zachaboss]

@@Calmtimer That could be an interesting idea, if it wasn't for the fact that Master Hand cannot take knockback, making him basically unbeatable in a match with the standard ruleset. If they figured out how to make it work, that would definitely be awesome!

[@anothenblue2630]

@@zachaboss Melee has support for matches where one character has % and the other has HP, that's how Master Hand fights work to begin with. It's just a matter of being able to enable it in multiplayer. Alternatively, mod the game so that Master Hand kills himself if his % is above 300. The problem is that Master Hand is genuine garbage and wouldn't be exciting to play as or watch since he cannot freely move and his attacks are horrily telegraphed and very punishable. Even Kirby would have a 9:1 matchup with him, if not 10:0.

[@matthewzakrzewski1797]

For a long time I could never understand why darkgenex was so in favor of wobbling, the man was a perfectly solid spacie, but having seen this video I now understand that he is just insane

[@DarkGenexSmash]

honestly facts

[@Nazobypass]

@@DarkGenexSmash hahaha, the man the legend lol

[@telph3223]

Wild card, bi***s!

[@ryanfighterrayrayboi2305]

Whats the theme that plays in the background? [in the intro]

[@hellotide523]

@@ryanfighterrayrayboi2305 i think that is robo-kys theme from guilty gear

[@TheRealMew2king]

Puff beats Giga Bowser. Legalize him so I can dual-main those 2 pls

[@RisingJericho]

It's cool and unfortunate this is what it takes for Bowser to see any form of competitive success in Melee

[@nicocchi]

And he still can be cheesed hard by the usual suspects lmao

[@anothenblue2630]

@@nicocchi clearly not as seen in the tournament fotage.

[@randomperson9799]

Either that or when DJ Nintendo played at a local. He's cancelled now though.

[@raphu2272]

@Another Blue relax, it was just a weeklies lol Giga bowser is not viable in majors but melee is dead so w/e

[@GynxShinx]

Bowser's so bad that he was given an immortal version and it wasn't that broken.

[@itsbmeGaming]

I'll never forget one of the funniest things that was on Mew2King's stream once, which apparently some of these clips are from. Before it was patched out, some players where exploiting Slippi to use Giga Bowser, and M2K happened to random into one. His random character first game was getting trolled and lost, so before he starts the next game, he pauses for a moment, and then just says "I know how to beat this" and goes right to puff. Next thing you know Giga Bowser is getting wrecked by Pound -> Rest. The Giga Bowser player at one point was on last stock and wasn't trolling anymore. They actually looked scared to approach. As broken as it is in many ways, Giga Bowser exacerbates Bowser's main issue: he's too damn big and gets beat up for it. Being big in Melee sucks. Great video! This is why I love Melee. All the stories makes this game so fun to be apart of. EDIT: Pound not nair!

[@CAMSLAYER13]

Pretty sure the mew2king clips are from that

[@itsbmeGaming]

@@CAMSLAYER13 I was there for that stream. It was so funny seeing it live.

[@palecaptainwolfkayls8499]

I read this aloud to myself and couldn’t not laugh through half of this comment, it’s a good observation!

[@Pioxys]

Something about Peach making Giga Bowser worried sounds poetic. She gets kidnapped when she feels like it, and slaps down Bowser when she wants to fight.

[@koumer]

that's hot

[@pokemonduck]

@@koumer name checks out

[@lamogetrektlittlekidlol5757]

@@koumerLOL

[@ux66]

Wow! I made the Mario Climbers code. Wild to see something I found mentioned in a documentary style video about my favorite game 😅 Kudos! Long Live Melee!

[@wusstunes]

omg a legend in the comments section. gonna need you around if i find out there were any mario climbers tournament runs.

[@OmegaGlops]

I've got a question! Can that be done with every character? Are the Mario Climbers from an Event match that I'm forgetting, or could something like a "Mr. Game & Watch Climbers" be done in the same fashion? 🤔

[@ux66]

@@OmegaGlops Nah, I’m pretty sure it’s just garbage data being read for a character that happens to have the same flag for 2 fighters spawning at once that the Ice Climbers have (however they don’t also have the built-in delay between characters for inputs like Icies do). As for why it picks Mario, my guess is that it just defaults to him as a safeguard of some sort to not crash the game but I honestly don’t really know, lol And I believe so! I’m sure there’s AR codes floating around online that do a similar thing for other characters that would work in offline. Mario Climbers was just unique because it was loading something that was already present in the game but usually not accessible, so when you select it on unranked/direct connect, it would load in the other person’s game even if they didn’t have the codes; the code just allows you to access it, it doesn’t add anything to your game. But I think the other codes that do a similar thing add an additional fighter to whoever you picked, which obviously isn’t already a thing in the game and thus wouldn’t work on Slippi

[@wusstunes]

@@ux66 oh that's so cool.

[@chasehudson165]

Horribly late but does anyone have any vids on the Mario climbers?

[@Light_Repairman]

The fact that he used to wobble is hilariously fitting

[@MarMaxGaming]

lol for real! just wants an easy, cheap way to win bwahaha

[@Light_Repairman]

@@MarMaxGaming or maybe he just wants to make people suffer

[@MarMaxGaming]

@@Light_Repairman yeah, both are completely true

[@lakethursday4793]

Giga Bowser should be allowed into tournament play and everyone who says otherwise is a coward

[@Calmtimer]

If you can't beat Giga Bowser you're just bad, we need the new meta, 1v1 no items final destination Giga Bowser only

[@hunterculpepper1973]

Yeah I could 3 to 4 stock him

[@PacyLucasFC]

Hbox would end up raining Supreme

[@lakethursday4793]

@@Calmtimer that's what i'm sayin

[@junkytboy]

My Samus would destroy Giga Bowser

[@DarkGenexSmash]

my legacy... 🐢

[@wusstunes]

🐢🐐

[@purplepeargaming69]

#bringbackbigbowser

[@dankachilles9356]

Fucking AWESOME legacy bro 🤜🏽🤛🏽

[@stephenbereznicki7506]

Amen! Long Live Giga Bowser, the Titan of Terror! >:D

[@yourmother1211]

🐢🥛

[@jickles16]

I get why it's not wanted in competitive play, but I do wish we could see more Giga Bowser gameplay at that high level just because it would be fun, and not as serious as competitive play.

[@necromax13]

Maybe including this big doofus on the gauntlets???

[@bigchungus7870]

0:10 Guilty Gear:Holy Orders 8:47 King Bowser theme 9:50 Necro and twelve:snowland 12:51 Marvel Vs Capcom 2:Clocktower 14:49 D-girls:Ending 16:00 Tekken 2:Silent Assassin 17:38 Mad World:Survival

[@tiporosso]

Is that really the song at 9:50? I couldn't find that exact version of the song, where is it from?

[@XavAMusic]

Any idea of the song at 25:55?

[@wusstunes]

@@tiporosso it's a track from king of the monster 2 for neo geo cd, check the replies to the pinned comment

[@bingbong_luver]

The one at 16:00 is actually silent assassin from telken 2 coolheaded mix

[@beaniedude436]

also the guitar from the very beginning of the vid is Holy orders -be just or be dead-

[@enderger5308]

I find it interesting how, despite nearly tying in their matches against him, many people consider Giga Bowser unfair.

[@clownworld4655]

Fr. Never played smash competitively, but giga bowser doesn’t seem very broken at all. Grab immunity, damage, and massive attack range would be his only big pros. Still slow as hell, a huge hit box, and bad at recovery

[@localidiot450]

@@clownworld4655 grounded up-B spam

[@GarudaRamudasRumpusRoom]

When you consider the amount of time that one might have put into playing Giga Bowser versus any other character in order to place in tournaments, it's fair to assume he's on a different tier than the other characters people have sunk thousands into. It's also important to consider a huge factor for their legality is how their design blatantly goes against many of the skills valued in competitive play.

[@sebastiangudino9377]

​@@clownworld4655Huge hitbox means nothing when you can dowb-b out of shield. That dude is basically untouchable without receiving damage yourself

[@drdiabeetus4419]

It’s cause once you get to the top of a competitive scene of anything, you tend to react super negatively to anything that could potentially change said competitive scene. Melee players in particular are especially bad with this because they’re choosing to stick to an extremely out of date version of a game simply because the competitive scene of said game evolved to revolve around exploiting a glitch to gain an advantage and said glitch has been rightly patched from all subsequent versions.

[@pandemonium2536]

*"He's not fun to play against"* Fox, Falco, and Ice Climbers (When wobbling isn't banned): *"Allow us to introduce ourselves"*

[@anothenblue2630]

No mention of Jigglypuff? But having other unfun characters to fight is not an excuse to add another one.

[@crack4184]

@@anothenblue2630 Add Marth, Sheik, Luigi, DK... Melee is full of annoying characters anyway

[@anothenblue2630]

@@crack4184 DK isn't even viable nor anywhere near as bad as Puff. None of the four are. I have a feeling you have no idea what you're talking about.

[@wusstunes]

I like fighting every character but Zelda tbh

[@squidtheinconsistent]

The only characters I really find annoying and unfun to play against are Jigglypuff (in everything) Samus (in ultimate if FS is enabled) and Hero. Everything else usually seems pretty tolerable. But god. Fucking Jigglypuff Pound BAir stalling is infuriating.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

Make him legal occasionally. Meta needs to be mixed up now and then.

[@ShinyGBZ]

Incredible video dude, as a kid I always wondered how Giga Bowser would fit on the tier list if he were playable and finding out there were tournaments where he was allowed is insane. Thanks for covering this niche character!

[@TJ-Henry-Yoshi]

Anyone who picks giga bowser in bracket is an absolute villain in the best way possible,

[@chair547]

But how many A presses does it take to unlock giga bowser

[@mrdeadmemes]

​​​@@chair547 this joke has been run into the ground man leave him alone

[@usernametaken017]

Imagine just entering a tournament and then having a surprise bossfight against giga fucking bowser

[@Snidbert]

but what if you enter a doubles tournament without a partner and play Giga Bowser?

[@solarz8505]

tj henry yoshi from simpleflips

[@bannanafruitsalad]

Theres something so funny about falco trying to dair gBowswer 3 years into his up b and still losing

[@PKspectre]

I love the entire concept of playable Giga Bowser because it genuinely feels like you're in the middle of a boss battle during a tournament

[@mudkypz]

One of my favorite smash videos in the past year! Incredible editing and a hilarious and fun ride. Long live Giga Bowser!

[@wusstunes]

Giga Bowser is nearly twice the size of Bowser! Thanks for watching! Since a lot of people have asked about different tracks, the list of songs is at 30:25. They're listed in sequential order.

[@Spunney]

I think it would be cool to timestamp them in the description so someone doesn't have to manually search through the video in-order just to find which track is which! Also I absolutely cannot find "vs. player 2, king of the monsters 2" anywhere

[@wusstunes]

@@Spunney downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/king-of-the-monster-2-the-next-thing-neo-geo-cd/22%2520VS%2520PLAYER%25202.mp3 It would be cool! I'm personally not inclined to do that rn, will maybe think about finding other ways to demarcate that info in the future.

[@Spunney]

@@wusstunes Thanks!!

[@Orbrun]

What a great video. It makes me wish someone covered the history of 200 buffer melee.

[@wusstunes]

@@Orbrun lmao! I remember watching magi play 200 buffer Ganon dittos back in the day when she didn't have Ethernet. Good times.

[@UndertakerU2ber]

Tatsunoko vs Capcom tournaments sometimes legalize their giant "Giga Bowser-like" characters with highly specific rules in place. Just look at sports like baseball, which have a ton of niche rules that seem odd but are intended to address exploits and abuses that would ruin the integrity of the game. I'm sure Giga Bowser could be considered tournament legal if the anti-Giga Bowser crowd had their biggest complaints addressed with stipulations that prevented exploits, such as the one where one could pick GB on game 3 as a hard counter pick of the opponent's character for an easy win. Maybe have it so that a player can only choose to play as Giga on game one, they can stick with Giga on subsequent games so long as they picked Giga on game one, and they can also forfeit their chance to play Giga in subsequent games of the set by picking another character at the end of a match (but they won't have another chance to swap back to Giga again for the duration of the set against their current opponent).

[@wusstunes]

You had me at tatsunoko vs Capcom

[@TheAweDude1]

I wonder if a "no counterpick Giga" rule could be implemented, where you cannot pick Giga Bowser as a counter pick. Either if you lost you can elect to pick first and allow the winner to counter pick you, or you can can't pick him after losing a game. I think the latter might be better, as it prevents people from winning a set with a surprise Giga Bowser, but still allows people to open sets with him.

[@sunderkeenin]

Bit late, but it'd be as simple as always allowing a counterpick if giga bowser is selected, likely worded as something like, "In the case that a player selects Giga Bowser, the other player will be allowed to select character again."

[@RationalFunction]

​@@sunderkeeninthen you'd be counterpicked by puff and peach.

[@sunderkeenin]

@@RationalFunction That's the point. Either you're willing to deal with the worst, or you don't play the character which is so fucked it requires special consideration.

[@ruqiyofarah9427]

I feel like the only reason people want giga bowser to be legal cause we want some chaos

[@ObamaTheHedgehog]

Also how else are people going to get new melee characters, people will do melee gymnastics because of the novelty

[@Natibe_]

We have seen enough Fox, Falco and Marth The Yoshi/Peach/Giga Bowser era shall be upon us Jank will rule the earth!

[@CptJistuce]

Chaos shall reign supreme!

[@jongyon7192p]

This is indeed the case, and it's why I root for aMSa

[@Someone_Somewhere7]

Of course. Watching Fox vs Marth every tournament gets tiring VERY quickly. We wanna look at something different.

[@SSB_Seal]

Another fun video. Good job documenting one of the sillier moments that happened in a corner of the Melee community!

[@wusstunes]

They really do call him seal bc he sees all

[@SSB_Seal]

@@wusstunes If you make Melee content on youtube I WILL find you(r video and enjoy watching it and probably let you know that I enjoyed it by commenting)

[@BunniBuu]

As someone who doesn't play this game, feels like Giga Bowser should be legal but consideration to banning him as a counterpick. That way if you want to play him, you have to main him >:)

[@TheJSRF001]

This was probably the most entertaining Melee vid Ive seen in years. I love this community.

[@DarthMagatsuTitanus64]

Giga Bowser should be an official playable character in the next Smash Bros. He would operate similarly to how Multiversus did Iron Giant.

[@yurifairy2969]

they could easily patch him into Ultimate. He's very close to complete, he just needs a final smash and victory animations.

[@mitchellalexander9162]

@@yurifairy2969 What do you mean you can't Steal Bowser's Final Smash and make a Clone Final Smash for no effort?

[@chriser5146]

"next smash" haha lmao, yeah right

[@creature6715]

@@chriser5146 yes because Nintendo is just going to shelf one of its more profitable franchises

[@hunbi1875]

@@creature6715 I mean they might. They'd at the very least have to heavily tone it back, but I can very well see the series stop coming out for the most part because Sakurai is a pretty hard guy to replace. Of course he might just say fuck it and keep making smash until he dies, seems like smth he would do

[@J_Ciner]

You can really tell you came from a journalism background, this video is great. Super engaging narrative the whole way through, and love the editing too. Amazing work

[@wooplaw1080]

I think there should be a large event that doesn’t mention giga bowser at all in the rules, It shouldn’t mention whether he’s banned or not. Then bring in 1 dude that plays gigabowser and tell him he’s legal. The moment pools/round 1 starts, change the rules to make him legal…. And watch the fireworks

[@t-real7088]

A lot of Smashers would just cry for their money back and threat to quit the scene most likely, some may even argue taking legal action, I wouldn't doubt it.

[@wooplaw1080]

@@t-real7088 there is no legal action that they could take, considering giga bowser wouldn’t be banned, just unlisted

[@t-real7088]

@@wooplaw1080 They could try if enough money is involved collectively as a class suit. Giga Bowser isn't accesible though "normal" means, it could be seen as a deceitful tactic to benefit certain players over others specially in the manner you were suggesting in your OP where they would also bring that "1" guy.

[@abominationdesolation8322]

@@t-real7088 Just be careful with rule wording so that no character is restricted so long as they can be knocked out of bounds, therefore only really banning Master/Crazy Hand. As for the other irregular characters, who cares? None of them are useful except maybe Mario Climbers.

[@t-real7088]

@@abominationdesolation8322 Which "careful rule wording" would be used to allow characters that aren't on a game without cheats/mods? Did I mentioned the other irregular characters at all?

[@SunlightGwyn]

0:57 “Giga Bowser is nearly twice the size of Bowser” He says when we can clearly see at least 2 full Bowsers can fit inside Giga Bowser.

[@bulb9970]

I laughed everytime sentences like “giga bowser meta” or “counterpick giga bowser” were said

[@YungSaucePot]

We have AsumSaus at home

[@YungSaucePot]

Nah great video fr

[@waluigipinballyt]

a lot of effort clearly went into this video! this deserves a lot of recognition

[@redheadbrothers]

Man, your editing is something utterly unique. No matter what you end up making, I'd watch it for that factor alone.

[@vbarreiro]

I just want you to know the audio reference to the Wrath of Giga Bowser did not go unnoticed. Liberi Fatali for me is a Giga Bowser song first and a Final Fantasy song second. (And weirdly enough, a Louis Vuitton song third; look it up)

[@telph3223]

Before the days of for glory, In brawl wii internet matchmaking, 12 year old me got paired up against a gigabowser who spawned in as Bowser, immediately transformed and would get an animation to turn back into regular Bowser every 30 seconds but then immediately turn back into giga Bowser. I've tried scouring the internet for the existence of this glitch or hack and I can't find anything.

[@PartOfTheGame]

It's been proven, even in this video, that Giga isn't broken 100% of the time. He can get outplayed and out-combo'd. I agree with Genex, the counter-pick would be awesome. Having to choose for the blind if you counter-pick assuming the Giga round 1, or go normal pick. It would be amazing. And yeah, again as Genex said, imagine a finals "Best of 5" where it's 2-2 and someone counter-picks Giga. Even if they don't win, it would be AMAZING to see.

[@sebastiangudino9377]

It breaks the current meta and makes characters like marth unviable. I would be fun for audiences for a while. But onces the novelty wears off it would leave everyone mad and annoyed. There is a reason why competitive players did not concent to play agains GigaBowser. Even players who main a favorsble matchup

[@pokemonduck]

@@sebastiangudino9377 I mean the top four characters make the rest of the game unviable so I don't think this would be a big deal for a handful of online only fights

[@apisl33t]

The Superdoodleman reference at 20:30 goes crazy. Thank you.

[@wusstunes]

Lmao thank you

[@zakarypembleton9666]

I love how much time was spent explaining to us by pros, in detail, how Giga Bowser was broken. Fucking look at him 🥴

[@Milktube]

"People didn't like to play against him because he was such an unfun opponent" Ah, so we should permaban Fox, Falco, and Marth too.

[@HeDronHeDronHedron]

falco and fox and marth dont degenerate gameplay though

[@johnchumas7099]

Make Giga Bowser legal but only for one game per person. Imagine someone saving their Giga token for the last game at Grands

[@Dee_Legend]

Sick video! Never realized Giga Bowser had any tournament play so this was super interesting!

[@micahcaffery2267]

Man thought he could sneak donkey kongs “bigger, and stronger too” without us noticing

[@stiyg]

This video criminally underrated your editing style is fire fr

[@theshadowthie1]

17:37 For anyone who wants to specifically know what this song is from, it's a karaoke version of an ost called Survive from the Wii game MadWorld, the game have an absolute treasure trove of bomb ass music

[@tiporosso]

Do you know the song from 10:00?

[@theshadowthie1]

@@tiporosso nope sorry only knew about the song that I mentioned because I discovered it from a music radio broadcast lmao

[@thebaku818]

This entire video screams "graphic design is my passion" and that's a wonderful vibe

[@alolomololomolomomololola8854]

Man this video feels like it came out in 2010 and I'm not even entirely sure if that's a bad thing It surely took a lot of editing power, so kudos for that

[@poblanopupp9966]

Your editing is really good. The pacing is just right 👌

[@arhardar6873]

The kaiju truly does live up to his name. He's so strong that competitive players have to ban him in order to win. It's beautiful. Great video Wusstunes. I never expected this when the video was first teased, but man did I enjoy watching it!

[@saitinclock238]

This video was my introduction to your channel. Thank you, this is awesome and hearing more about Giga Bowser is sick!

[@ShankMods]

Hilarious. Great story telling. Hope to see more like these.

[@blummbo]

wow this was so good!!! loved the editing and music

[@jpoggi9081]

Sick video. Never thought about making him a legal character as I thought he was just broken. Maybe a joke series will come about that still has money on the line but legalizes giga bowser

[@Eli-akad]

If anything level the playing field, make it so everyone has to play gigs bowser and gigs bowser only😂

[@riboiman4005]

Master Hand mains: Unbeatable, huh?

[@Jellycent13]

Clicked in expecting this to be a meme video, ended up actually watching the history of giga bowser for 30 minutes. Thank you for this masterpiece

[@lostanimeworld11]

I was hoping to hear about a giga Bowser mirror match. Also, my mind is blown after hearing the ending song from the old Mario Bros anime movie

[@wusstunes]

It's just such a beautiful song I couldn't help myself. As for giga dittos, best I can do is point you to the old giga Bowser ditto clip of mew2king fighting another giga Bowser. As it stands, any giga Bowser mirrors would have to be played in the real world because Slippi just straight up crashes if giga Bowser is on anything but port 2.

[@graysquid14]

after watching this video I now firmly believe that giga Bowser should be a tournament legal character in every smash bros game from now till the end

[@ParagonPKC]

This editing is hilarious. I watched the whole thing. Good video

[@OmegaGlops]

Considering how stagnant Melee's meta is, and how _close_ a lot of the matches ended up being (to the point that Giga Bowser dropped sets and lost a tournament), I don't see why he shouldn't be legal. 🤷

[@ObamaTheHedgehog]

Giga bowser hasn't been maximized at all, you're comparing maximized characters to somebody still in its infancy and he's still dominant.

[@nahlies2382]

@@ObamaTheHedgehog I mean, if he's true hit stunned into rest from a pound, I absolutely believe man should be legal at LEAST as a consequence of legalizing wobbling

[@Azoraith]

15:47 Seeing one of my streams in these videos always gives me whiplash LOL. Great vid!

[@wusstunes]

Thanks! It was one of the tournaments Justin brought up as having legal wobbling in 2020 😅

[@cyfer115]

A triumph! Legalize the Giga Bowser main near you 😃

[@mikaelamonsterland]

if giga bowser was tournament legal i think it would probably only take a few tourneys for people to get tired of seeing him

[@sp1nda]

such a good video. we need a giga bowser only tournament

[@wusstunes]

I might bring a setup And some graph paper to smym 22

[@cloudedarctrooper]

Yet another sick obscure character smash documentary from Wusstunes!

[@Eli-akad]

Not really a major smash fan, but I be having a passing interest from time to time. I actually like seeing vids like this cause I really don’t be aware or the history outside the games themselves. Perfect edit too 23:54🤣

[@MarMaxGaming]

also laughing at the dramatic echoey "avenging of the banished beast"

[@denzeltheeternalunderstudy2858]

I love me some Giga Koopa Kaiju. Loved getting this in my recommended

[@wusstunes]

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[@DWN037]

2:31 "This move was bigger, faster," *_AND STRONGER TOO / HE'S THE FIRST MEMBER / OF THE DK CREW / HUH!_*

[@definitely-not-francis8561]

I was never deep into all the Smash games at all, so I was a little concerned I wouldn't be able to keep track of all the specific language of the game - but you managed to deliver and edit your video in a way that was great to follow. Super entertaining narrative and unironically love the music choices. Gotta check out your other videos!

[@varielvaporeon]

Peach being a good counter against G.Bowser is just sooo ironic.

[@NeonVenomProductions]

Thank you for sharing the song list at the end, so few youtubers actually do this.

[@evilmegasteve]

I don’t play or watch melee and I only know a small bit about it, but what a great and interesting video. Thanks for documenting this!

[@cameronwebb5621]

He should be tournament legal under the condition that picking him guarantees the opponent the opportunity to counter-pick regardless of who won the previous match.

[@gravityvertigo13579]

25:21 sorry WHAT is his name????

[@sevenhecks]

The algorithm is loving this vid king, you're gonna blow up and you deserve it :') keep up the good work

[@AllBladesCut]

27:28 it’s great that Nintendo is now taking a more active role in all this and has finally started showing some love for the smash community, I do hope that the relationship can continue to foster. Some good news between the community and Nintendo is at last coming our way, and I can surely see nothing possibly going wrong with this endeavour.

[@wusstunes]

So true bestie

[@dankachilles9356]

The editing of this story was soooooo good bro. Great video and subbing right away!

[@querecep]

fantastic fucking video man, well researched and well executed all around. i got into melee last year and have been eating up related content. this kind of video really helps me understand the lore and culture better. thank you so much for taking the effort to put this into the world.

[@tnuhenaj3752]

I would rather Mario climbers, wireframe and master hand be legal. Would it be possible to make a video on all the unintended characters in slippi melee? I literally can’t find any info about them idk what to search. I wonder if any of them are balanced.

[@eraflowski]

this is some of the most advanced and well put together editing i've ever seen in my life. I'm gonna show this to my children and grand children.

[@CrimsonStrider]

Dude, some really good music choices. Absolutely loved that Mad World Survival song. Great video!

[@omegafreddy12]

Honestly, that's very interesting to hear that people would love to see giga bowser after all these years. I wager the people who don't want it are likely high-top players who don't want anything in the game to change as is, ironic seeing as they would be the best to adapt or even utilize counter picks like that. Honestly though, havng a character that beats spacies and a chunk of top tiers only to be beaten by less utilized characters sounds like cool counter play adaptation to me.

[@anothenblue2630]

Except that's not what's gonna happen, worse characters will just get obliterated by him while the best ones stay where they are and he merely joins them. He's not gonna magically make Kirby or Mewtwo relevant or move anyone up a tier. To put it another way, what is DK gonna do against him? Ganon? Mario?

[@omegafreddy12]

@@anothenblue2630 I meant peach and jiggly, not so much jiggly but peach has fallen a bit off the radar. That having been said there's no making half the roster viable so what's one more viable character in an already limited roster?

[@anothenblue2630]

@@omegafreddy12 they are still high tier characters (and one of them is an abomination), their smaller presence is just a phase. Having an extra viable character is fine on paper, but the character in question here is Giga Bowser. His simplicity will cause a flood of Giga Bowsers that unga their way to the top.

[@omegafreddy12]

@@anothenblue2630 yeah, causing people to have to know the match up. What a shame. It would simply mean having to pick up extra characters to cover bad mu's which is already used a lot anyways. GB isn't even an end all be all pick just good against the top of the top ironically.

[@anothenblue2630]

@@omegafreddy12 he's not just good against the high tiers, he's good in general with far lower skill foor and a trait that completely invalidates a good chunk of the game's design (literally impossible to grab). That's the bigger problem. He's good, very janky and still easy to use. Even characters that supposedly are very good against him still have a hard time dealing with him. And all of this was discovered with very minimal playerbase. There's probably a lot of collision jank that has gone unnoticed just because nobody thought to.

[@originalzero4422]

I'm supposed to focus on the video but Holy Orders? playing as the intro got me vibing too hard

[@nitro10155]

Imagine playing in a tournament, finding out you have to play against Giga Bowser, then complaining AFTER you lose that player.

[@Llortor]

Tbf, most players probably havent encountered GB enough in single player modes to know the differences in his toolkit

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

I mean they should say whats legal BEFOREHAND

[@nitro10155]

@@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049 but thet did, the contestants just didn't read the fine print, it was pointed out in the video.

[@kingofworms831]

@@nitro10155 also since it is tournament legal, technically they are yelling at a player that is playing legit as if he is doing something wrong, and that they are in the right.

[@scalderm]

3:52 PULSAR CITY ALARM SOUND EFFECT LETS GOOI

[@TheBuster0926]

Litterally biting my nails as I watch this never before seen before tournament. This dude: imagine some nail biting matchup being upended by a Gigabowser win! Me: *That's, what I'm here for.*

[@TwentyNineJP]

It's always the underdog who suffers from this kind of discriminatory bureaucracy

[@locknessmonster3827]

I need to see more Giga Bowser tournaments!

[@wusstunes]

Uhhh stay tuned?? Maybe??

[@Zappyboomroom]

I love the music choices during the video

[@TheCindering]

I think its less that giga bowser is overpowered, it's more so a total lack of experience playing against players using him so players are just not really ready for it. If he was always legal, I think strategies against him would develop more and more over time.

[@DespicableDemon]

I don't care for smash at all, let alone melee, but this was a really well put together video. Good editing, great pacing, love the citation for every source. But your music choice? Perfection. ESPECIALLY having Anarchy Reigns tracks, that's a 1000% thumbs up from me. Subbed

[@XcitaTheArceus]

Yo I Love all the traditional fg music. was super surprised to hear Robo-Ky’s and Chun-Li’s theme!

[@shadefire8605]

This whole topic is just hilarious. Great coverage

[@Evixyn]

I would love to see giga koopa as he would definitely shake up the meta game. I am tired of see McCloud / Lumbardi or Marth / sheik in grands or top eight. When I see a green Mario Yoshi, puff or Pikachu I get excited. If I see Mario or Ganon I'm officially excited.

[@UnuUO]

puff isn’t bad she’s a top tier she’s just a bit less common bc people literally don’t enjoy playing her bc the optimal way to play her is very boring

[@CAMSLAYER13]

Puff absolutely crushes giga bowser

[@Evixyn]

@@UnuUO I was mostly referring to Hbox as he is the only the puff user who makes her great. I do agree that she is uncommon and is hardly played.

[@abominationdesolation8322]

>a green Mario heh

[@YoshiKirishima]

Great work and video! Also awesome ending and insert song LOL