Zain vs Plup - Singles Pools Group A - Smash Summit 14 | Marth vs Sheik

[@mandalorianhunter1]

Zain has really been grinding the Sheik MU, he really takes it personally when he loses to a character and makes sure to work on it.

[@izzio6680]

As a marth player, pretty much all marth mains hate sheik with a passion

[@mandalorianhunter1]

@@izzio6680 even more then Falcon and Puff?

[@DestinsAPigeon]

​@@mandalorianhunter1 for sure

[@loganreidy7055]

Zain playing like the best player in the world again

[@ThePharphis]

I thought I lost my mind and must have watched and commented on this earlier today

[@loganreidy7055]

@@ThePharphis You did, shuckle pfp's are a hive mind

[@ThePharphis]

@@loganreidy7055 oh shucks

[@KevinSevenElevenEleven]

Zain is so fucking good. Say what you will about Marth, but this man has put in the work and he absolutely deserves the #1 spot and at very least top 3. Homeboy is nasty with his timing, mixups and combo game. Especially on Dreamland. God Melee is so sick.

[@gianlucatartaro1335]

9:58 Toph really flashing back to Hbox’s “A TREE!” during Wizzy Axe Summit GFs 😂

[@phaze7272]

the layers...

[@ejcandrin]

THE BEST

[@chocomilkfps1264]

5:55 sir this is a wendys

[@kroozctrl6284]

Damn, plup was so confident he change to Zelda and 3-0 Zain…

[@echoingthroughthefloorz1869]

It's so painfully obvious that your comment is anti-spoiler without even watching the set.

[@kroozctrl6284]

@@echoingthroughthefloorz1869 yea but how often has that 3-0 happened. He normally gets bodied

[@correadoggsten]

LMAO

[@irishjet2687]

The way Zain took Plup's last stock of Game 2 was a work of art. It all started around 7:37, when he baited Plup into hitting him with a crouch-canceled f-air at 40%. Marth, who isn't knocked down, then grabs Sheik, while Whispy blows them to the left corner. (Possibly a 200 IQ play?) He back-throws Sheik off the stage, and then begins a patient process of harrassing Sheik's recovery attempts, chasing her down after she lands, and denying Sheik's attempts to get back to center stage and reset to neutral. Even when Zain messed up, like missing an up-air on Sheik when she was in up-B end lag on the left platform, his presence and wall of attacks forced Plup to escape to the top platform. Zain methodically chased his quarry down, and forced a trade, which again put Sheik in the corner, desperate to get away from the ledge. In his attempt to regain control, or at least reset to neutral, Plup whiffed a f-air by half a platform length, which gave Zain an easy opportunity to knock Sheik off with a weak-hit f-air. After a few cycles of "knock or throw Sheik off, grab ledge, grab, throw, repeat," Zain was set up for the d-air into slide-off into d-air on the tumbling Sheik, and the win. I want to learn a lot from this. Too often, I give up a stock lead and lose because I start fishing for the killing blow. Zain just gave a textbook example of how to make those comebacks happen, and how to play to avoid the reversal. He didn't take big risks. He wasn't ansy, and didn't try to get an early gimp, or tipper, or spike, and he didn't try to go off-stage. Zain simply set a trap that put Plup in a bad situation, and then limited Plup's paths to recovery and reset to options that were advantageous for Zain. Once Plup had committed to one of the options Zain had allowed him, Zain reacted, punished Plup, and forced him into another situation where he only had bad options. When Plup was grabbed, he had less than 30%, but it didn't matter. Zain was in control, and for the rest of the game HE dictated what Plup could do.

[@Nerdslayer0]

Yeah it really goes to show that you can punish in ways other than damage. This has gotta be one of the best examples of punishing someone with positioning as Marth vs Sheik

[@VillainxLife]

8:00 holy shit lol. I fkn love melee marth's down air haha

[@jackwilliams1468]

There was never a time in this set when they were more than 1 stock apart. A "close 3-0" if you will.

[@spazemonkey]

It was nice to see Tafokints chat a bit, hope to hear more from him.

[@wubbsdingus4320]

4:35 The Wubbson!

[@danielcohens4610]

"Sheik beats Marth" :thinking:

[@MrAnimescrazy]

Damn zain shat all over plup with the 3-0.

[@spage0]

I love phil just holding that pika 🟡

[@jableshoward6572]

WHEN WE PEOPLE REALIZE THAT SHEIK LOSES TO EVERY TOP CHARACTER FROM FOX THROUGH PIKACHU

[@cherrybombcoffee]

Just let Plup cough . . .

[@jay-ks1ex]

Pulp is overrated in my opinion

[@slsqns]

0(--3{

[@loganreidy7055]

Where do you think he ranks rn?

[@MorphBall1]

this isn't reddit

[@locool6446]

I think he’s underrated from lack of attendance, currently has top 5 skill and the potential to be the best in the world

[@jackwilliams1468]

They were always 1 stock apart the entire set, that was about as close as it could be game per game