Tournament Legal Glitches and Jank in Melee

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[@Schmorbo]

Legal Jank has to be one of my favorite terms ever

[@RancidKari]

BWAHAHA

[@karlcossaboon7072]

*melee*

[@biglargebyte0.170]

shrödinger's terms and conditions

[@2ndSchmorbo]

Hi Schmorbo

[@this_isnt_patrick]

Legal Jank sounds like slang for marijuana

[@nggaish]

3:25 100% accurate armada thumbnail

[@ajgonzales7039]

Nah it's 3:27

[@Collin0]

IRAN DID WHAT!??!

[@Penguin-iy4hz]

CHINA COMMITTED ATROCITIES AGAIN?!?

[@maxalaintwo3578]

BIDEN BOMBED WHO

[@yankees2864]

@@maxalaintwo3578 TRUMP RAPED WHO?

[@lugiagalaxy3849]

the armada pictures had me rolling LOLLL

[@Brivalia]

IRAN DID WHAT!??!

[@Tom-cc1wl]

In regards to Hitbox jackets being stuck to Ness: The hitbox doesn’t actually disappear when Ness touches an opponent. There’s a mechanic in the game where a player who has been touched by a hitbox cannot be hurt by that same active hitbox again. This is obviously done to prevent players from getting wrecked by the hitbox every frame it’s out. There’s jank to this too, though. Hitboxes can only “remember” the last 12 objects they’ve interacted with, and will unload old objects with new objects in a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) order. This can be demonstrated by putting a jacket on Ness on the Super Mario stage and touching 12 blocks after hitting your opponent. After hitting the 12th block you’ll be able to hurt your opponent with the same active hitbox again. This is actually why it takes so many turnips from Peach to start the black hole glitch. You need enough turnips to be occupying the same space so that they hit more than 12 other turnips in the exact same frame. Once you achieve that number, everything that comes into contact with the black hole (including the black hole itself) will be locked into hitlag. The More You Know

[@Shadrake]

Wow that's really cool and explsins s lot! Could you then potentially reactivate Ness's jacket hitbox by hitting something like Link's arrows or Shiek's grounded needkes with it eniugh times?

[@NZsaltz]

@@Shadrake No, it has to hit something, not be hit by something.

[@MishKoz]

More practically, would this work with the Fly Guys on Yoshi's Story ?

[@yugutugut]

@@NZsaltz you can hit shiek's needles that are stuck in the ground

[@Luna_B_8]

@@NZsaltz so this could work with Peach's turnips ?

[@Sahilkmr78]

0:26 I like how instead of just removing Marth after a few seconds, he falls through a platform out of frame. Well played sir

[@palereaper]

I thought it was crouching 🤷

[@damocles7406]

"But they fucked up." Is really the motto of Melee's coding.

[@piercehacquard4747]

3:12 talks about Marth, Roy, and Peach... background image: Neuschwanstein Castle. A castle for the royal characters. All these tiny little details that don't draw attention to themselves and are only on-screen for like 4 seconds. Just ace stuff.

[@kwisowofer9872]

4:12 I see chunky Ness. THAT IS CHUNKY NESS.

[@pantherman691]

So? What's your point

[@reddodeado301]

I see Sans

[@frankomode5201]

@@reddodeado301 funny guy alert

[@kwisowofer9872]

chunky ness chunky ness

[@pantherman691]

@@kwisowofer9872 Again SO? He was chunky What's your point

[@yoshimallow_5121]

4:00 I don't follow the Melee competitive scene. So to finally hear that Wobbling is no longer tournament legal after all these years, feels so damn satisfying.

[@AtomicBoo]

I stopped following after a while, so thats why I dont see ice climbers in tournaments as often as I saw them before 2020 huh, the more you know

[@jokerkirby7051]

When you rob a bank and say, “Melee is legal, so this should be too.”

[@johnnycrash4892]

Excuse me punk?

[@jokerkirby7051]

Johnny Crash yes

[@colourblindchalk]

Change your name to "Kirby with a G U N"

[@krallakrulla3053]

Lmao best commnt

[@imnotgay_butineedthemoney]

Bring back poke floats. Poke floats to ultimate or something.

[@ninjiinc.8883]

nah, poke floats in competitive melee again

[@inksaneluke7099]

Some random guy Fox would be very happy with that

[@mparagames]

@@inksaneluke7099 Yeah.... XD

[@viscountrainbows6452]

Frankly quite scusted😤

[@mrevilducky]

_or something_

[@MishKoz]

5:06 biggest missed opportunity not nicknaming it "PK Shield β"

[@Yubfan69420]

EXACTLY

[@zFrost]

I thought of the opportunity of naming it "Rubber cape", Like that one electric mother 3 item

[@Apple_Slices.]

I love how with the hurtboxes Ness looks chubby

[@aaronchiang2225]

fun fact: you can actually SDI the blazer in so that you get hit by the followup hits and survive, since the followups dont kill you. If the roy player knows this, he can simply walk up and NOT turnaround blazer, since your sdi in will kill you by making you avoid the followups. So if you know how to deal with it, its a 50/50.

[@AsumSaus]

interesting!

[@agabrield]

*Wobbling* Me: oh noooo- "Wait, this isn't legal anymore" Oh thank god

[@Therworldtube]

God damn Wobbles

[@MantaRaydiated]

Therworldtube You know despite discovering the tech, Wobbles actually doesn’t go for it because he doesn’t like it.

[@Therworldtube]

@@MantaRaydiated Ikr, that's how despised wobbling is. Not even the popularizer likes it.

[@Shing_]

You guys know that wobbles didn't create wobbling right?

[@HRCFre4k]

@@Shing_ iirc Wobbles saw it in videos from a japanese Icy player and used it in a Tournament and Ken gave it the name Wobbles. So he just made it "popular". At least that's what I remember, could be wrong tho.

[@MapleMilk]

I want to imagine that Ness' unintentional jacket moves are just him casting a PSI Counter in a roundabout way

[@sgtfignewton9413]

the fact that you don't have more subs is fuckin beyond me. your content is hilarious, original, well thought out, well edited, and easy to take in. keep up the great work man, every upload is something to look forward to for me.

[@moistloaf3854]

Push a turd out

[@aqgpandemic5406]

Minor correction on the thunder jacket, the hitbox actually stays until Ness dies, meaning it stays if you hit an opponent. It’s just not usually relevant because there’s a property in the game where a single hitbox can’t hit an opponent multiple times, but if you play with more than 2 people Ness will be able to hit each player in the battle with the thunder jacket once before he dies.

[@emulationemperor8924]

I always thought Roy's Up-B kill was due to the tipper or hilt mechanic. This has been super informative while also being fun to watch.

[@tawiido7285]

Children's party game? CHILDREN'S PARTY GAME

[@WillJohnson138]

Tawiido Is he wrong though?

[@sniddler9114]

That's exactly what it is, yes

[@FFKonoko]

That it is.

[@sonriku7331]

made with competitively viable mechanics

[@userperkingmacbeth6715]

@@sonriku7331 Only 25% of the roster being viable is a competitive mechanic?

[@clematis726]

HOW DO YOU UPLOAD SO CONSISTENTLY AND WHY ARE THEY ALL SO GOOD WHAT THE HELL

[@krallakrulla3053]

Not anymore

[@nezbitnezbit5397]

@@krallakrulla3053 lmao you stole the words right outa my mouth

[@AtChiaPet]

These Smash videos are definitely a part of my life now

[@swigtimefoxy4422]

2:11 “Well you have to play as Roy for one.” Zain: Say no more.

[@stremstrem3632]

4:12 that ness is CHUNKY

[@rang4889]

Snowy: "One of the best puffs" Hbox:*ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT*

[@Yubfan69420]

He said “one of the” not “the”

[@sakiyoshida4821]

You reminding me that wobbling is banned made my day.

[@ShaboingboingBouncer]

Other characters: NO!! YOU CAN’T JUST GLITCH YOUR HITBOX ONTO YOURSELF!! Ness: *haha down air glitch go spike*

[@krallakrulla3053]

Meteor smash so it sucks

[@MusicMike512]

5:57 lol that Doom zombieman death

[@jenschneider305]

20RR An alternate timeline where all melee players have mastered Roy’s instakill up-B and now melee has become a ground based footsies game.

[@emptyvending8964]

Melee Players would still stay it's the best game

[@emoimo4171]

Except… it only works against Puff and a couple trash tiers.

[@weilzudope]

imagine what game we would have had if HAL had more time.

[@weilzudope]

@Bodybag Dotzip i dont really know tbh. but the only thing that i dont like about melee is characters having bad/useless moves

[@sonriku7331]

@Bodybag Dotzip i mean they released a few more copies afterward and it was still somewhat the same so probably not

[@tombcruisin]

Sadly, it might actually be worse. There's a heavy bias towards 1.02 these days--rather than PAL, and PAL was an attempt at a balance patch.

[@musicbox7601]

@Bodybag Dotzip 3head balanced is good guys

[@freddiesimmons1394]

@@tombcruisin probably because it isnt obvious how to get pal copies in America

[@quailron1581]

That falco transition at 2:57 was clean af

[@edgelord8337]

Finally at 100k Ngl you deserved it. You are probably one of the best smash bros melee youtubers on the platform. I just want to say congrats and keep it up. what sakurai thinks of glitches Sakurai: *that's not how your supposed to play the game*

[@jawoseye2902]

edge lord I see u everywhere

[@Fizz-Q]

Shut up edge baby

[@bugjams]

Who else here has never played a single Smash Bros game (or at least Melee) in their life, yet still finds these videos endlessly entertaining?

[@HammerspaceCreature]

Even as kids me and my brother discovered how busted the knockback on Roy's up-b is. He loved Roy and sometimes when we were on a stage with a low ceiling and he was losing he would just camp the highest point on the map and try to gank people with it.

[@tommil_ssb3165]

Me waiting for the in-depth explanation of how the multi set knock back hit boxes cause characters to die instantly... “But they fucked up”

[@natnew32]

Reversing up-B causes the first hitbox to come out on the original side, so the rest don't connect.

[@tommil_ssb3165]

natnew32 I know, it was a joke

[@emmbeesea]

But can the community re-legalize Mute City? Maybe one day.

[@MapleMilk]

I'm still waiting for them to come to their senses and legalize Icicle Mountain

[@opalander]

Legalize Poke Floats

[@malcolm5965]

why are you everywhere I go

[@pedlar6839]

@@malcolm5965 Emm Bee Sea is what the comment section deserves, not what it needs.

[@malcolm5965]

@@pedlar6839 The only thing the comment section deserves is a fucking nuke lmfao

[@drop_8694]

Does anyone else think that he sounds like mordecai from the regular show

[@splinky9226]

He also kinda sounds like Jonah Hill

[@CAlex46]

the ye old doom sound effects make the vids here so much much more hilarious.

[@nathanpopp8227]

2:43-2:48 When you get into the next grade thinking you got the semester in the bag only to be proven wrong from the first sentence of your teacher

[@thatrandomorcaguy7511]

The thumbnail has the best glitch The names having more than 4 characters

[@endlel]

Thanks, now I’m going to use Roy to counterpick Puff

[@ichamsakkar4249]

The thunder jacket stays ON during the Ness-Fox matchup

[@jaschabull2365]

Wait, so Ness can give himself thunder armour like frickin' swellow? Melee is just wild.

[@garrettpeterson3324]

You have the cleanest transitions I've seen. Good job dude!

[@Zonda1996]

Throwing shade at armada thumbnails is my favourite thing to come from smash YT.

[@akimbocs]

yooo! I met chrono (roy player vs snowy) at a tournament in san an and hes a dope dude, he mains roy too so its not even like hes playing roy just for the jank.

[@paniniweeni1022]

the transitions are so well-done!

[@pyrojack8230]

I've never been as scared seeing Roy in that thumbnail since he actually got strength in a levelup... at level 20

[@easilyeasy]

I don't even follow competitive melee, and I have yet to see a tournament, but these videos are still awesome

[@_-Dante-_]

Still waiting on that Super Yo-yo Glitch to be found. Actually, it might be better if it isn't.

[@regirayquaza]

@MIGUEL RIVERA It will when we find it!

[@sebastienmonette6659]

@@regirayquaza look at the second top comment, a sorta super yoyo glitch is explained there

[@Jsolo13]

The Armada pictures are killing me omg

[@shank2281]

You just keep getting better and better at this. Keep it up Asum, love your vids.

[@frogturtle]

Roy's up-b jank in Melee works similarly to Samus's up-b jank in Smash 4, known as the Shine Spark. The first hitbox is designed to 'shoot' your opponent into the following connecting hits which have less knockback, but by using the move in a certain way, you'd only hit them with the first hit which would indefinitely shoot them upward until they died off the top. Fox's forward air also sort of worked this way, another multi-hit move designed for the first hit to combo you into the rest of the hits, but this time by stunning you for the duration of the full attack. Off stage you could just hit a recovering opponent with the first hit of his fair, then DI away so the rest of the hits would miss. Your stunned opponent would helplessly fall to their death (and even if you didn't die the Fox could just footstool you for free afterwards which was definitely a kill,) because the game thinks the rest of Fox's fair will hit them and then they'll be knocked out of it by the last hit. Nope. There are many more examples of this BS in Smash 4, and to a more mild extent in Ultimate...it's interesting to see how trends carry across games. A lot of you probably are familiar with this type of jank if you've played Smash over the years, but a fun fact for those who didn't know :)

[@sagacious03]

Quite interesting! Thanks for uploading!

[@GabRadis]

you make the greatest and the highest quality smash content by far my dawgydog . keep up the great work

[@RoninofCrimsonMaple]

They put more thought into Roys Up Special than the entire rest of his kit bro.

[@jakegwolford]

I found your channel about a week ago and haven’t been able to stop watching. I only play Ultimate and haven’t touched Melee since it was the latest Smash game, but these glitches are something else.

[@tacticaljunk1608]

They tested and fixed Roy's up b but not his dash attack. lol

[@EPMTUNES]

Great video AsumSaus!

[@ZachFoxPhotography]

Great video. Informative and well-paced. 👍

[@connorthornberg]

That roy tech got HBox sweating nervously Zain's roy is coming for you

[@jackpeta9626]

yo these videos keep getting better and better

[@Neogears1312]

Ness’ jank should be the basis for a fighting game character.

[@sr.piedra3802]

5:44 Wait, how is Ryu's stage in Melee **That's illegal**

[@ethanporter4760]

What is this actually

[@FranzoOnLine]

I think it's just a reskinning of Battlefield, there are mods that let you customise what stages look like.

[@zturtle1630]

These videos are so good. Well-written, well-edited. Definitely one of my favorite Smash channels

[@deletedTestimony]

Of course it's legal, Ness is a psychic. Invisible force is his specialty.

[@JP-pn2lv]

I like these commentated videos, glad you're doing more of them :^)

[@witz]

I dont know how u keep coming up with great melee video ideas but keep them coming

[@spaceace9103]

Now I wanna draw Ness in a jacket

[@Enlaceeee]

What a fucking good video, entertaining insightful and very well edited. Keep it up my man, you doing gods work

[@sorakyle]

best melee channel on yt hands down :^)

[@ChillavaKirby]

Thank you for actually explaining why Roy's up b does what it does

[@pjeigh]

Great vid! Very informative.

[@treflip063]

Couldn't stop laughing when you used the spike jacket lmao. That scream at the end 😂

[@nervantes]

Congratulations!!! I learned something new! Yay! Didn't know that before, but i do now. I'm so glad you were here to teach us this very very useful info. I don't know what i could've done without this knowledge! Thanx.... Real shit, i loved it! I love this game!

[@BloopTheNoop]

As a Roy main I thought I was so smart by b reversing his up b I was honestly shocked about how strong that hit was

[@MillionMileStudios]

My favorite melee glitch is the stock sprite swap or "stock glitch". Does nothing useful but get in your opponents head

[@Tiltson]

I like the transition at 2:56

[@whathappenedsource]

Editing just keeps getting better man

[@erigo1403]

The DOOM sound effects get me every time

[@projectikaruga]

I love this channel so much

[@newpancakeman]

Loved the Doom sound effects

[@NNDS2007]

the sims music fits perfectly! great job

[@Wheelz_]

Hell yeah an AsumSaus video

[@ryank09]

I don’t even play melee and I absolutely adore your channel

[@felipekey5712]

I love your videos man

[@JonathanBaxter]

my main man blessing us with that Sims 1 soundtrack

[@trogdo]

Great video man

[@MrApmuk]

This is art.

[@qwopiretyu]

"in this childresn party game?" finally a smash bros youtuber who gets it

[@Dazza-ut1hw]

He was joking

[@michaeljfan9720]

I've never played Melee, but I've always wanted to! I like these videos, because they're very informative!

[@swank8508]

its never been easier, you don't even need a gamcube controller. If you have a computer, you can play online. check this server out for help discord.gg/twDYgzn

[@CathuluGaming]

it's gonna be hard to learn, the controls are incredibly precise

[@yusofplayed]

Thankful for your channel

[@roberthgamer6311]

"The jank HAS JANK!" OH MY, THATS WAY TO COMPLICATED FOR A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO FIGURE OUT!! HOW DID YOU FIGURE OUT THIS?!

[@Imagine-Baggins]

S-tier content as always. The production quality and silly little details like sound effects and characters facing screen and what not always impress me. BTW, I think you left out the first piece of music that you played before the opening bit (kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmqkoaKbhdp0fsk). Thank you for actually listing your music though. It really bugs me when some creators use some great music I haven't heard before but don't let you know what it is.

[@AsumSaus]

oops!

[@ChildOfTheLie96]

The transition at 1:30 was brilliant

[@ThePi314Man]

Best thumbnail yet.

[@Noahtheorigianl]

Great editing

[@MadamLava094]

I love the Doom injury sounds.

[@tekkorb778]

What if you tried to recover but Ness said Okay

[@swoozx3306]

wow, asumsus. thank you. very cool.