Watching the Best Mewtwo Dominate at an Offline Major

[@LarryLurr]

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[@IcebergSSBU]

You're a legend Larry!

[@EphYxRS]

Yo Larry, its been a while since you played some Mii Brawler. Do you still play him ? He's really exiting to watch.

[@perriwinkleiii5361]

It's a wonderment to me how WaDi can be such a phenomenal player and such a buffoon at the same time

[@THEpicND]

I don’t get it

[@chrisg8989]

Personality doesn't equate to a good player.

[@sheridan5175]

@@chrisg8989 No, he's a buffoon when he plays too. He's either dominating, or getting pummeled by a low tier

[@chrisg8989]

@@sheridan5175 by bafoon you mean what exsactly? SD? Mess up a confirm? Fuck the entire top level player base are Bafoons then.

[@sheridan5175]

@@chrisg8989 He just historically has been upset a lot and loses to low tiers a lot, that's all.

[@silvesta5027]

FUN LARRY FACT: Wadi and Larry have faced off 3 times in Ultimate, with every set ending 3-1 in Wadi’s favour

[@youngtsumi8214]

Lmaooo pin this Larry

[@Khanso1o]

Hey Silver :)

[@superxavxii421]

Lol, I always find you in these videos

[@ishmael9435]

one day it’ll be 3-2

[@novida4770]

The bird hater strikes again

[@smashdriven1640]

Sometimes I forget Wadi isn’t just a Smash comedian. He’s actually great at the game.

[@seltzermilk8909]

Seeing Mewtwo being represented by a actually funny person with a good personality is great

[@gi5897]

Man I love Mewtwo for some reason lol

[@whereisanon8749]

Ye he cool ngl

[@zenin512]

mewtwo is really cool character tbh

[@MerryBlind]

Mewtwo has been one of my secondaries since Smash 4 cause he’s just reaaally fun and unique to play to me. When you start snowballing with this character you just eat your opponent alive!

[@McEezy94]

Swear he was so good in 4 I could counter most Bayos with him

[@ReitheOffbeatOtaku]

To explain that janky interaction in the Tweek/WaDi set at 20:32, after WaDi mashed out of Tweek's monkey flip, he tried to go for jab, which is frame 5, but Tweek went for up-smash, which is also frame 5. Tweek had a little bit of frame advantage (seemingly just one or two frames, I can't tell which since I'm watching on mobile) from the grab recoil animation that let him get that kill. Looking at Ultimate Frame Data, Diddy's fastest move is jab at frame 3, so I think all characters _can_ shield after a side-b grab release, but since the opponent will be mashing to get out, the opponent's likely to buffer something else. Honestly a pretty fascinating moment in the set to analyze, since imo it's pretty easy to forget you can mash out of most command grabs in Ultimate, and the interactions that come out of that are fairly unexplored.

[@darthdistortion1934]

Dammit WaDi stop performing well with Mewtwo or else soccerguy will never give us our tail fixes

[@averyeastman5681]

lmaoooo

[@willycheez7218]

Mewtwo with no tail hurtbox will be top tier as hell

[@silvesta5027]

The tail hurtbox is intentional, so tbh I doubt it’ll ever be removed / made smaller :(

[@casual_ssb3282]

@@silvesta5027 made smaller potentially, removed isn’t happening

[@j.prt.979]

@@casual_ssb3282 Neither should it happen. I think it could be made smaller, though.

[@EphYxRS]

His mewtwo is insanely good. I have to say, Wadi has to most agressive mewtwo. Hes always in your face

[@Bee-N64]

5:40 both Wadi and MVD both put their hands up like "wtf was that", lmao

[@aetherjuice]

MKLeo using Byleth and Tweek going Diddy is legit giving others hope for non-top tiers.

[@dylanphelan3010]

Diddy seems close to top tier to me

[@thomasr.6669]

All those DI ins from Spargo to confirm Fair just reminds me of Melee Puff’s Rest confirm on fastfallers if they don’t pre-emptively DI the up throw lol.

[@digitalchamploo9129]

Wadi tried to do something real cute at 4:16

[@danytalksmusic]

Mewtwo looks high tier until he gets 3 stocked by a Diddy Kong... Then you realize his disadvantage is bottom 10 in the game.

[@jms214az]

Maybe 1 day Wadi will actually practice as opposed to just goin to locals to train bcuz man he is already top 20 maybe he can go even further (i also wanna see Wadi go R.O.B. vs diddy)

[@Sarmachus]

I wish NotBae did tournaments

[@cfdaboss882]

Ok this is definitely the best I've seen wadi play wtf

[@TyphonCH]

If Wadi optimized his combos out of up air he could go far. His neutral and game sense are so good. Up air is the one thing Mewtwo has that combos into just about everything, falling up air and rising double jump up airs are kill confirms but Wadi never goes for them. He might not be confident is a tournament setting to pull them off maybe that's why they are hard to do

[@BaumM2]

Yeah WaDi's combo game with M2 definitely could need some optimization. I think in general that most M2 players need to work on their combos. Like M2 has such a deep pool of high damaging combos and yet most M2s only use the basics like d-tilt fair or shadow ball dash attack, which aren't bad combos by any means, but definitely not optimal.

[@wesgib2469]

Fast fall fair also combos into almost everything

[@nage9465]

This character has a kill confirm at like 60% off a half charged projectile with disable. All mew2s need to do it it makes the character way better than it already is.

[@Adamant_AF]

Anyone know the song at 7mins in? Its really familiar but I forget

[@its_truema_6754]

Fun fact :wadi never train, since ult came out he never ad a switch he just brought one for streaming when quarantine was out

[@wonkyj7149]

Wadi's player cam at 9:49 lmao straight up stopped playing

[@janswhatsupdoc]

“Is game 4 Sparg0 real?” Pretty much, if Leo’s naruto then sparg0s boruto

[@camelotsr54]

It’s more of Goku and gohan and I mean teen gohan the good one

[@lordtt3984]

Naruto and Konohameru

[@wukongson5290]

@@camelotsr54 Teen Gohan is overrated.

[@quinn7427]

4:56 wtf the shadowball just hit him and did nothing

[@arturob5702]

What is the name of the song that is playing at the 6:00 min mark plzzzz

[@solaria_li]

"The grand Finale", Mario soundtrack !

[@arturob5702]

@@solaria_li broo thank you so muchhhh! This track is sick

[@notnotricharmander]

18:30 Tweek has no object permanence confirmed

[@BigBossGliiiit]

what is the background song from?

[@MidianVGC]

There’s this guy I see on youtube with a godly Mewtwo I think the name is NotBae, handsome young asin man, I keep being surprised by Mewtwo mains, they prove it’s actually a very good chracter.

[@gragamag9419]

shadowball at ledge like that is actually jump or drop only, mewtwo can react to you choosing an option and throw his ball, catching attack, neutral, roll, or even an unsafe hang on many chars.

[@Doobie_AdamsSSB]

Mewtwo’s disadvantage/hurt boxes are what keep him from being top tier imo….his advantage, damage output, kill throws, projectiles, command grab/reflector (the same damn move lmao), and disable setups are all top tier tools Also, FYI, NotBae is a really good/fun to watch Mewtwo player on YT that proves how good the character can be lol

[@herpaderp906]

what is the song at 6:12?

[@kyurei4478]

The Snake matchup isn't that bad for Mewtwo surprisingly.

[@gh3awsome]

it really be larry's analysis and videos that I only be watching

[@colinhay1666]

I just wish Mew2's Nair dragged down a bit more consistently and at least his back dash tail hurtbox was smaller. Everything just clicks besides that.

[@Thomas-nz4si]

I think a few things in Mewtwo's kit prevent him from being high tier, mainly his options at the ledge, his massive hurt box, and how light he is. I feel like a lot of people see people do well with characters and think the character has a chance at being high tier, but don't take into account that this game is incredibly well balanced all things considered and you can do well with a large portion of the characters. I feel like Mewtwo's disadvantages immediately bar him from being considered a high tier, and if he is a high tier he's gotta be at the very bottom. I've played Mewtwo as a second since Smash 4 and he's so much worse in this game without anything in return for what they took away. I'd be surprised if even Wadi thinks he's high tier. edit: Also his disadvantage state isn't very good. He can get away because of how floaty he is and his weight, but because of how floaty he is he's pretty weak to frame traps, and his size doesn't help either. He has means of getting out of disadvantage like side b, but its definitely bad.

[@rookeyji5177]

True but his neutral and advantage state is kinda insane with disable stealing stocks at 50% and he also has one of the best edgeguarding in the game imo with b reverse shadow ball to position to back air or side b to switch direction mid air and his floatines and double jump makes him better at edgeguarding.

[@atzerreo8446]

10:20 seriously we are not going to talk about that?

[@KermitTh3Fr0g]

Absolutely phenomenal video Larry Lurr

[@bluexco]

Is there gonna be a part 2 or did he just get dropped in losers after this fight?

[@LGSweets]

Does grounded confusion always confirm into Fair within a specific percent window? Figure that the window would be bigger without JS, but I'm curious how it scales Mewtwo mains?

[@Magibatproductions]

Only aerial confusion is true. Its 0 frame advantage at 0 but goes up a frame after a few dozen percent and caps out at +4 around 120

[@LeeJayBird21]

Gimr made a video way back when kzbin.info/www/bejne/g52qc5KDe8xgebc

[@takumagoto6702]

You have practically no confirms off of grounded confirms other than reading a double jump with up air or tech chasing afterwards. Confusion has 6 frames of advantage at 140+%, so any character with frame 1 escape options (grenade, pt switch, cyclone, etc.) can't be confirmed into fair since fair is frame 7.

[@BaumM2]

@@takumagoto6702 But in reality many frame 1 escape options are ineffective against confusion fair though. Like e.g. Snake's granade doesn't do anything (not even trade) or Marth/Lucina's up-b just misses and leave them wide open afterwards. I think the only characters that can truly always escape confusion fair are only Bayo, Luigi and PT.

[@Pro-kesh]

Why'd you take down your direct reaction?

[@LarryLurr]

Video kept getting blocked and having demonetization issues. If I weren't traveling I would've tried to fix it more, but because of that I just removed it

[@sauce8277]

I love how he cancels his Ariel drift with side B. Very smart considering all the times Mew 2 needs to get down quickly.

[@EphYxRS]

I really like your vids.

[@EphYxRS]

His mewtwo is fucking exiting to watch

[@amphibiansriseup596]

He could be High Tier, but there is a problem That tail

[@kiwifluorite]

But it’s not even that bad

[@juane.6827]

when is the larry wadi collab happening?

[@Adam-to5xu]

Also the only Mewtwo

[@kevinholmes91]

Wait.....confusion works on a shielded opponent???

[@c.w35t87]

Yes.

[@MishKoz]

It's a grab

[@chalybee8689]

Every time wadi plays ROB: >>FF>> intensifies

[@BaumM2]

I don't think that Sparg0 doesn't know how to DI M2's d-throw, it's just that M2's d-throw is so fast and thus almost impossible to DI on reaction.

[@voodooedits785]

Di away but people never do that since it’s hard to react to

[@Cherrynasb]

@@voodooedits785 at this point I'm surprised people just don't start doing it prior to the throw

[@popsie6336]

@@Cherrynasb You won’t know if Mewtwo would use any of its other throws

[@NaughtyPigMario]

DI mix-ups exist bud

[@aquatazer]

Mewtwo is definitely not a high tier, he has tools but he gets hit approximately four times and dies to the majority of the cast due to his hurtbox and weight. This game has been out for nearly three years and to say that we need more optimization is crazy. Everyone who assumed Mewtwo would be good at launch has stopped trying with him due to him being so much worse than 4 Mewtwo

[@bigtoblerone8446]

Cool he finally did it

[@teamrocket7590]

4:26 that was fucking nasty wtf

[@gildrax69]

Billy is cleaning house

[@TyphonCH]

Is it just me or is banana throw out of shield the best OoS in the game? Aren't item throws like frame 4 or something??? Even short hop z drop banana is insane as a punish. I didn't realize how strong Diddy's out of shield options became just by holding banana

[@huh9400]

wait MVD isnt banned??? wtf?

[@doot5456]

God damn wadi was in the zone

[@thatguydude6900]

so many characters needs buffs, will he do it? sakurai is so messed up

[@RealAndyMiami]

wadi needs to tech mewtwo more.. hes pretty much just playing smash, he hasnt even tapped into the full potential of mewtwos toolkit which is a bit disapointing

[@stebopign]

Fun Fact: Piranha Plant is an Ornament and not a Character

[@steamboatbill4]

I hope mewtwo moves up in the meta because he is a cool character. On the other hand, when I watch WaDi play mewtwo, I feel like he’s just an exceptional player and would be better served playing a bit better character. I love watching his mewtwo though so I’m torn

[@yeehaw8089]

he literally plays rob

[@Kinta02]

@@yeehaw8089 was about to say he already plays pure cancer and you can see it in his mewtwo

[@steamboatbill4]

@@yeehaw8089 yeah I know. That’s my point. He usually plays ROB against the top opponents. How tf you think I watch WaDi play and don’t know he plays Rob?? Or did you just want to feel good about yourself by “schooling” some dude on KZbin comments? I give this attempted troll an F grade. As in failed.

[@nachot6592]

That game 4 Sparg0...damn.

[@Devinswumps]

Wadi is such a chad

[@thomasroutliffejr3]

I played wadi mewtwo on stream, beat me 2-1. One matched almost 3 stocked me 😯

[@GravitypG]

I love mewtwo but he's a mid tier character, he got a lot of strengths but equal amount of weaknesses. Paper weight, tall and big, tail has a stupid hurt box, a really bad blind spot behind him if you cross mewtwo up he cant do anything but retreat, very floaty plus his double jump being the way it is makes his disadvantage horrible. Hes a glass Canon character, when he's on a roll he can destroy most characters but it only takes one mistake for you to die at 64 percent.

[@GravitypG]

@eric Spencer i play mewtwo since smash 4, just to say im speaking from experience and not just out my ass. A common flaw i see when people rank certain characters is that they view them in a vacuum, tier list are influence by who the top tier are and what other characters are you comparing them too. This game is extremely well balance for having 80+ characters making it hard sometimes to rank without looking at the big picture. Mewtwo does not fair well with most top tiers and when u compare him to some bottom of high tiers i dont believe he belongs there. IN MY OPINION some bottom high tier characters are: terry, ike, steve, cloud, sheik, corrin, ryu, hero to name a few. Mewtwo still is a big body light character with a horrible disadvantage, he is combo food and most kill confirms will work on him because he is big. He struggles to get of the ledge because he is big body and his double jump is odd, teleport can help but that is only a mixup and you can always be punished. His tail is not a true disjoint so not only is it hard for him to outrange certain characters but he also doesn't benefit from trading cause he's light and trust me it happens often. Does he have strengths plenty but his weakness keep him im check, you have to constantly out play your opponent cause one mistake can be fatal and it just sucks tbh.

[@stebopign]

Fun Fact: Only 19 People are Better than Wadi in Smash Bros Ultimate

[@acheronXcomplex]

Mewtwo is so hype when watching clips and highlights. Then you pick him up and feel his terrible disadvantage state, huge hurt box, and light weight. Things aren’t so fun anymore.

[@stebopign]

fun fact: i expect a wadi video

[@dorkasaurus_rex]

Mewtwo beats snake IMO. And does decently vs Pythra. That being said, he is absolutely NOT high tier and it is MUCH more than the tail hurtbox holding him back from high tier.

[@StepBaum]

Cant play him for shits, but it looks so smoooth

[@Rikimarusoul9]

Lmao damn. Autopilot is a bitch.

[@free3793]

Whats the point in ever doing DI in? Like if your character has a good recovery

[@joetatos8687]

banana play is kinda busted ngl

[@captainnate5953]

Its kinda weird that I always forget how god wadi is. After watching his videos its kind of a disconnect lol.

[@brutal_lui]

I love the joke WaDi made where he's like you guys let me be top 20 step it up. Also Mewtwo is just like MK people are starting to recognize what's on the up and up. *MK B META*

[@theVisionairey]

Mewtwo mains let’s go!!!

[@KareemZebib]

Mfw LarryLurr uploads

[@grasseater7374]

I hate Mewtwo’s tail hitbox

[@IchiExorz]

This is giving me hope as someone who's just recently picked up Mewtwo.

[@ProjectStarLIGHTS]

Welp

[@icecreamsocial123]

Boy

[@chrisg8989]

Common Larry, we all know you don't play any of these games your promoting. 🤣

[@chrisg8989]

@@InfinateRadiant True. Lol

[@ForceOkie]

Nice boned to blown cover.

[@peterduprey7286]

I love Mewtwo. He’s my second favorite character. (After Brawler.) His combination of power, speed, and presence just does it for me.

[@lokks2130]

Mewtwo always been lowkey broken.

[@lokks2130]

fully optimized he's a solid high tier : )

[@KermitTh3Fr0g]

Mewtwo is high tier.

[@KloudKomfort]

Mewtwo a sleeper?

[@davehollis5816]

There's no way M2 is high tier lol. His weaknesses are just too debilitating and exploitable. He has interesting options and he has good kill power, but half the cast can kill at lower percents, with better frame data, AND they don't have the worst possible combo of big and light. NO other character has this terrible of a combo of those things. Every other character with a big hurtbox has the weight to live to the 150s consistently. That's just too big a flaw for him ever to be a serious threat at the highest level. People call him a glass cannon. Pikachu, Fox, ZSS, and others are the glass cannons of the game--light but with actually insane offense, damage, and kill power. M2 is a glass handgun at best. All the fragility, only part of the offense. Not calling him bad. He does have plenty of strengths. He's a solid mid tier. Just not a high tier.

[@BaumM2]

@eric Spencer Mewtwo's fair is frame 7 not 3. But that's obviously still stupid fast for a move as broken as M2's fair. And I agree with everything you've said. I don't think ppl are aware of M2 true potential. Like I don't see how M2's offense is any way inferior to Pikachu's, Fox's or ZSS's.

[@Legendary0Hero]

I'm not going to weigh in on where I think Mewtwo lands on the tier list, but the idea that Mewtwo lacks damage or killpower is, with all do respect, ignorant. His moves average out to over 10% per move, and he has quite a few, very reliable combos out of his main neutral tools. Mewtwo racking up to 60-70% off of one neutral win is commonplace. Even stray moves, like his Jab, which is disjointed and a solid Frame 5, deals a clean 25%, and can even reach as high as 50% in ledge trapping scenarios. His offensive pressure is incredible, with Shadow Ball's low endlag, high stun, and Mewtwo's high speed giving ample options to pry open defenses, Fair which is -3 on shield, Dtilt which is safe when spaced, and Nair which has vague crossup potential. Not to mention, Confusion acting as both a very large disjointed command grab and reflector, means he can brute force approaches against defensive plays. He's got strong edge guarding, incredible ledge trapping with Shadow Ball and Dsmash, spammable low-end-lag Smash Attacks, and combos into kill moves that can frequent stocks under 100%. And, not to mention, landing Disable is effectively a guaranteed stock mid percent up.. which isn't nearly as hard as it sounds. Really, as far as offensive prowess, the only thing I think he's lacking is OVERTLY strong kill throws on par with Ness. Though, he does indeed have kill throws. Again, I'm not going to debate on his placement. If you think he's Mid tier, that's totally fine, I'm not commenting on that, but if he's mid tier, it's definitely NOT because he's lacking damage, killpower, or pressure.

[@davehollis5816]

@eric Spencer look I'm trying to get my main buffed, do you mind 🙃

[@BaumM2]

@@Legendary0Hero Well said man. But there's one thing I can't quite agree with. What do you mean M2 is lacking overtly strong kill throws like Ness? How could you possibly put the words "Mewtwo" and "lacking kill throws" in the same sentence when M2 literally has the 3rd strongest back throw and the 3rd strongest up-throw in the game? You could even argue that M2 in a sense has better kill throws than Ness. Because unlike Ness M2 is not as much reliant on positioning to take stocks with throws. Similar to Ness M2 can kill very early when close to the side blast zones with back throw, but unlike Ness M2 can also kill very reliably from anywhere on the stage with up throw. So I don't think M2 needs stronger kill throws, any stronger and his throws would be absurd. But otherwise I agree with everything.

[@Legendary0Hero]

​@@BaumM2 Well, I'm not sure how his kill throws rank exactly, but his general ability to kill with throws is the weakest it's ever been. UThrow kills, but on average around 140%, whereas Ness' BThrow will kill midstage around 125% on average-- quite a bit stronger, and not that's not even accounting for near ledge scenarios. Mewtwo's Bthrow IS suitably strong in at ledge scenarios, but it's far more sensitive to stage positioning than Ness's bthrow is. And, while his throws may kill earlier than other characters, outside of Dthrow-DI in-Fair, he lacks any kill confirms with throws, which many other characters do have. He also lacks tech chase setups with them. Just as an example, Chrom's Fthrow sets up for a tech scenario, which means he can set up 50-50's and find kills at around 100% with them, despite having far weaker throws on paper. And while I didn't mention this initially, his grab range (especially dash grab) is frustratingly low (which while balance isn't concerned with lore, it's extra annoying given that the PSYCHOKINETIC CHARACTER has poor grab range..). I wouldn't describe his throws as weak by any means, or even average, they're a high point, but it's something I think he'd get a looot of mileage out of if they were on the same level as Ness. A bit of a tangent, but even if they just increased his grab RANGE, I think his potency would still shoot up considerably, given how often he can force shields.

[@Fr0mage19]

I’m so glad that mewtwo is really light

[@raaseraphic]

Good job deleting the last vid