Steve and Kazuya Changed Everything at a Single Ultimate Tournament
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 20. 06. 2022
- The GIMVITATIONAL was a Summit-styled Smash Ultimate invitational hosted in Laurel Park, MD where 16 of some of the world's best players came together for a weekend of non-stop competition. This tournament marked the North American debut for some of Japan's up-and-comers, the Ryu main Asimo and the Steve prodigy Acola. Acola in particular has been making headlines these last few months as a new contender for best in the world, but how did he perform this weekend against some of NA's best? We'll tell you in this comprehensive recap of everything that went down at the event!
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Minor Correction: Sparg0 will not be attending Double Down as he has opted to take a temporary hiatus from competing. (Source: twitter.com/Sparg0ssb/status/1539049987522404352?s=20&t=PZ97Alej4yB-C-Y8dWYhiw)
Edit: As some commenters have pointed out, Tweekâs Diddy Kong DID take a game win vs Riddles, meaning it had a win rate of 1-4 instead of 0-4. Thank you to our fans for catching that!
He's getting ready for the Steve, I bet. He can actually turn the tide with Cloud. I can already think of all of Cloud's moves that can negate Steve's.
Edit: Nah I was wrong, nvm. He just wants a casual break.
@@Spyder-Marth it's not "getting ready for Steve" it's a break for a declining mental health. Yes Steve might've influenced it a tiny bit but it's a fraction of anything that led to this
Not everything is about Steve
@@jinxeatsdust Oh I didn't know it had something to do with that.
Also I know not everything is about Steve lol. It was just a guess with everything going on regarding him.
@@Spyder-Marth Ah alright. Assumed you already read it lol, my bad
@@jinxeatsdust Nah you're good. I should've read the source that's literally right in front of my eyes XD
Kolaâs run was so funny, he was âtoo angry to loseâ
I wish he'd gotten to grands. Even if he lost it would've been unreal to see the plot armour last that long lol
Yeah he was racking up that IRL rage
funny now, high blood pressure later
Reminds me of Leffen winning that one tournament with Pokemon Trainer. Lol
Ever since Kola vs Elegant, I've looked up to Kola. He battled his true nemesis, a man who uses anger and tilting against his enemies.
I look at Elegant like Byakuya Kuichiki. Stoic, angry looking mother fucker, seems to look down on his foes. Disrespectful, and seemingly untouchable because he literally uses cyclone bullshit.
Then comes Kola looking like Ichigo. Literally this guy who just gung-ho his way to victory with a sword. Just sheer brute force, but I'll say it right now, when Kola is mad, absolutely pissed, he plays like number 1. Shining bright for everyone.
I'll always remember Kola vs Elegant. The match when Kola battled his natural enemy and won, when Elegant met the one guy whose resolve just wouldn't die no matter how long and drawn out the battle got. He let out a battle cry when he won the set. I felt it in my bones!
Meanwhile, the last Japanese major had a Yoshi-Bowser grand finals...
Bowser is hype tho (comparative to other characters like Mii Gunner)
They know something we donât
and was missing a lot of their top players because they were busy in NA winning our majors
Yoshidora is so hype, great to see a top-notch rep for the character
@@themachomunchkin8855 thatâs honestly the larger topic at hand here. The Japanese meta is far more developed than the NA meta. Sure the characters are problematic, but honestly itâs more of an issue of NA players not being ready for Japanese players who know the game more than them. Sounds brutal, but thatâs my take.
Asimo was my favorite player to watch this tournament. The way he capitalizes on mistakes is ridiculous.
Same happened with pyra mythra after sparg0 destroyed top players at ultimate summit last summer. Once a character is ""out of nowhere"" successful he will automatically be the new scapegoat everyone on Twitter and twitch chat will complain about for the next few months
Pythra actually play the game. Their only problem is that theyâre easy as fuck to pick up
@@yosma6 they still cheat, just not the way these chars do
Bruh DLC pack is a problem in general
at least you have to approach as Aegis, I just have an issue with block mining at ledge
aegis is tolerable though
4:37
One of the funniest kill screens Iâve seen yet.
I like your cut G
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If "hot takes that have aged outrageously and hilariously poorly" were a harnessable energy source,
Izaw would have single-handedly solved the energy crisis already.
Not if he gets banned. Then hes the worst
The fuck is Izaw?
What did Izaw do?
@@maxzwang he made a âSteve is the worst characterâ video months back and it aged poorly
@@krusher181 Smash tutorial maker with 200k subs
This channel is so helpful, it's like a competitive smash news broadcast. It tells you everything you need to know.
The GRIMVITATIONAL was so fun to watch. It wasn't much about the games but just about a bunch of dudes having fun
The Yonni sketch bit genuinely got me, too. Those are normally awful but I thought that was funny
Especially the crew battle.
I hope we can say âUltimate Steveâ with as much fear as when we say âBrawl Meta Knightâ when smash 6 releases
bit of an error at 5:40. Tweek's Diddy didn't lose every game, it actually took a game from riddles Kazuya very solidly (which is why he went Terry). So it is 1-3 not 0-4. Not a huge difference but it makes it sound like the Diddy did nothing for him.
They were pretty much saying he got duked on when using him but good catch man he did win 1
The year is 20XX. Everyone plays Steve at TAS levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on port priority. The Rock Paper Scissors metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide matches. Humanity has reached its pinnacle. The low tier peasants are living in poverty. It seems nothing can stop the great leader of 20XX, Acola and his army, the Minecraft Monks who live in great monasteries where they levitate while TASing Steve with one hand, and winning tournaments with the other. The tournament metagame has gotten to this point where everything is played out to theoretical perfection, so tournament goers play Rock Paper Scissors for port priority, and thatâs the game.
The leaders of the anti-20XX movement aim to keep 20XX from coming. These warriors include Light, Marss, Mkleo, Kola, and Spargo. They are all fighting to keep the apocalypse at bay, the craftpocalypse. But their efforts are futile. Their silly Jokers, Diddys, Pythras, Palus, Roys, and Clouds are no match for Steve, the only viable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate For the Nintendo Switch. Try as you will, but 20XX is coming. Or maybe, itâs already here.
This is beautiful
The Steve X Joker matchup is really easy for Joker tho NGL
For Joker
20XX is when everyone mains corny zoners and DLC pack 2
took a good melee meme and made it shit
Acola is omega cracked with Steve
No "he's just carried" will ever justify his results. He's mad good with the character and deserves the placement
Agreed. Still hate watching the character and wish he wasn't added to the game, but better for players to try and find workarounds instead of banning, like some people are talking about.
@@NathanRW I'm so damn happy he was added. I find Steve to be the exact kind of character I like. Someone who can both camp and Rushdown aggressively. Only real reason I like Samus, Shiek and Diddy in the past. Do I think he should've been nerfed, for sure, but I think the fact he's probably the most accurate is why he's so broken, it was inevitable he would've broken the game in some way.
Yes, very much. Acola is freaking skilled and an insanely good player -But bringing a gun to a knife fight and winning with it because of good accuracy doesn't mean you're not being carried by your tool. Steve's framedata is insane, because of his wonky unique jump doing stuff like footstool dair oos is MADLY easy, go ahead, go and do it on the training room -also that tnt downsmash airdodge combo is disgusting and something that's a clearly a mistake, an overlook like diddy's infinite and now that we won't ever get more patches makes it even worse. The ability to put a wall and mine forcing your opponent to approach is plainly disgusting because steve has some of the best antiaierial tools in the game and denies the need to play neutral most of the time
Kids a prodigy haters just being salty because they don't like a character. Nothing new in the Smash world lol.
Yeah but fuck Steve, my boy Hero doesn't have a forward air, back air, or grab, they gave Sephiroth balloon weight. Yet they gave this Low Poly ass Character a projectile command grab, and -4 ground moves. Shake my head...
Great event and great coverage of it!
Ever time people talk about Marssâ performances he just reminds me more and more of Gohan. Struggling at first then doing amazing, then falling off a bit then coming back only being stronger. No hate to Marss, he is definitely my favorite player and I love seeing him play
Lmao was genesis 7 the ssj2 transformation or do you think it hasn't happened yet ?
@@andyrasta9879 G7 was definitely the the SSJ 2 transformation
You have made the smashplayer-anime comparison. You're now ready to commentate the hallowed event known as a smash local. Go my son, and do the lord's work
Steve and Kazuya will only get better as time goes on
Really great video my dude , hopefully you keep going đ„ł
What I find funny about the Gimvitational was the aftermath with the Ban Steve please thing that Light, Marss, Cosmos, etc did to farm interactions and troll the community. Acola and the Japanese players even joined in on it. Taro, the photographer that accompanied the Japanese players, posted a really funny photo with Acola and someone holding Ban Steve/Kazuya
I know the whole thing spawned a bunch of controversy on Reddit and Twitter, but Watch made a thread basically stating that everyone treated Acola well and are looking forward to seeing him at more events as friends and rivals. Acola himself was also very happy. All in all this thing was so dumb to be hilarious
TLDR: Smash players are bunch of goofballs who are good at farming interactions on social media, and the Smash players are really chill and like each other.
They were trolling about it but the timing was very disrespectful. Also light was the only person that was very serious about banning Steve
@@okayperson3041 Eh, If Acola joined on the joke and neither him or Watch never raised any issues then this really strikes me as a non issues. Like Watch or Gimr would have told Light and Co to delete the tweets and apologize if they thought it was rude/bullying.
Light hates Steve, but idk, don't really think the controversy is warranted.
@@theimpersonator7086 cosmos tweeted that he appreciated acolaâs play wadi stated that he would rather ban rob than steve L4ST said that we needed to learn counterplay to Steve and marss is on two sides of banning Steve and learning counterplay. Light is actually wanting to ban steve on voids stream and think the character is gonna ruin the game.
Yeah Acola is a good player but Ban Kazuya and Steve
I remember Lavish got in on it too, but I donât know if he was trolling or dead serious about banning Steve.
Please do more tourney recaps like this! Just subscribed and would love to see stuff like this â€ïž
steve was designed in a lab to make players as angry as possible while also being top tier
Yessssirrrrr been waiting for this one I like to watch it before I watch the sets
acola's icon is from the music video "loser girl" but he should really change it because he just doesn't lose
Just earned a sub from me. Love these recaps as I donât have time to watch everything anymore!
poor sparg0 hope hes doing alright and can come back when he's ready
He said on his twitter that heâs not feeling very great mentally. I hope heâs alright
He's young. It's only natural. Probably a lot in his natural life on top of competitive. Happens to everyone. I wish him the best. He played amazing as always, but this invitational had literally the best of the best.
i also remember that one of the early days of the event he was asked who he thought grand finals was gonna be and he responded with "grand finals is gonna be me against whoever wins winners finals". i guess hes a man of his words
Great video
Spargo wasn't at his S game, but he still made top 8 in a tournament of killers and sharks, the man did insanely well. I really hope he takes some good down time and gets the self-care and healing that he needs to come back in full force! â„ïž
S gameâŠ. Just say A game lol
@@StudyingManually tf does this even mean spargo hates aegis and barely played her all year
"It'll be interesting to see how spargo bounces back at his next event double down"... *cries in spargo's newly announced hiatus*
Riddles was absolutely on fire, his reads on sparg0 alone were insane and on top of that the 4th place curse is finally broken
13:45 âhe did exactly what he said he was gonna doâ insert the video of light saying he was gonna beat acola cuz he is the âbetter playerâ lmaooooo
Yoshi and Banjo are the next characters to make a huge come up.
I hope you guys cover the e-caribana invitational. So many things happened like sintro's upsets, sisqui's losers run, Quik's insane performance...
Just because so many players are winning with a character does not mean the character should be banned
Itâs not even that many players too
@@ONLY_RR7 Acola at Gimvitational, Ddee at Momocon, Jake at Glitch Infinite, Onin at Combo Breaker, and Ddog has gotten good results. This character is carrying previously unknown players into the limelight.
@@yankees2864 thatâs because theyâre all young and just getting into the competitive scene not purely because theyâre getting carried. Someone like DDee was very good before even playing Steve when he was using PT but he doesnât travel. Thatâs why he only went to MomoCon
@@yankees2864 Every character has unknown people that do well at majors. Examples like at BC where this wolf player rolled a lot of well known people(I forgot his name at the time of this comment). Does that mean wolf carries people? What about ChunkyKong having good results with DK? Does DK carry people? It's such a stupid argument. Every top player was a nobody when they first got attention
@@myoblivion420 He just listed five separate majors (assuming he forgot Genesis 8) where unknown players get top 8 or top 16 with these characters after previoulsy not even getting close. Yes the character is literally carrying these people to the top, hopefully people either figure him out or we get another captain zack bayonetta EVO.
I wish at invitationals they just made everyone play every matchup possible, itâd take longer, but if you got the players there, Iâd want to see Spargo vs light or acola
People want Steve banned because one kid is using him to win majors. ONE KID! The top players haven't even fought Acola with real Steve counterplay. Have you seen how many easy kills Acola got because people kept on dropping shield (LIGHT) or running under Steve's Dair? Nobody even tries to edge guard this guy properly, either. He gets away with a lot of things he can be punished for. I also found out that if you parry Steve's Bair or Fair, you can freely hit him with a frame 13 attack or something faster, and those moves are 2 of Steve's best. Parries and edge guards are the way to go. Force Steve to start grabbing more because the grab is slow and predictable; you can punish it easily. I've already preached about reflectors being great, too.
This is gonna be EXACTLY like the Pythra situation where a ton of them came out of nowhere and started winning and hogging top spots, but then die off quickly because top players actually learned the match-up.
Tbf Onin also won a major on the same day.
@@Hawkeyeblock Really? I completely missed out on the salt XD
Edit: bruh that wasn't a major. Does Steve winning any tournament make it a major? XD
@@Hawkeyeblock it was a regional but still
Luthra?
@@hezitation4868 I know, right? My phone auto-corrected Pythra to Luthra and I'll never know why XD
Loving the Kirby music in this vid!
Smash player are not ready for Herobrine
Hey PGstats.
Is there an insta page I can follow? Also, do you know if the matches from the Europe invitational e-Caribana are being uploaded somewhere?
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A CRUCIAL detail I noticed this weekend that adds even more hype to ăcola's masterclass of Steve... Light's Losers run before Grand Finals included THE best showing anyone had against Steve all weekend, absolutely dismantling and bullying Yonni's Steve in a quick 3-0. Despite this, ăcola still looked fairly comfortable in GF, not letting Light snatch his bread from him like he did to Yonni.
Acola*
Grandfinals*
Write things so people can read themâŠ. Also yeah Acola is incredible. Heâs sincerely a threat to the top 3
So CRUCIAL
@@krusher181 Clearly you understood what DjRone said just fine. I was going to call you a pedant for complaining about the use of "GF," but since you're going to complain about "ăcola" too, then you're actually *worse* than a pedant. It's *never* wrong to call a player by their proper tag. I don't fault people for typing "Acola" instead, since it's unreasonable to expect your average English speaker to use an IME or copy-paste the ă all the time, but I am totally going to call *you* out for having the *audacity* to complain that someone went through the extra effort to show respect to a player by typing out their correct tag.
Steve should not be banned and Kazuya should not even be in the conversation of being banned lmao. Currently the Steve meta is improving faster than people can learn to counter him, but once this meta slows down a bit players will only get better at beating Steve. Kazuya isn't even top 5 in the game so idk why people are trying to ban him.
If Steve somehow gets banned itâs only because of his ability to build blocks and tech off of them
Because Kazuya cheats
Itâs not about tier placement, itâs about Kazuya hitting you once and killing you for it
Donât get hit then
@@ashervanmaanen3353 heâs just scary Luigi. His disadvantage isnât that good.
Video on the other tournaments would be really sick, understandable if not possible tho
this was my favorit turnament so far in all of smash ultimate.
9:26 in fact, Spargo was literally suffering multiple anxiety attacks during the weekend so there is no way 7th is a convicing result to be taken seriously
Hope he does well but he still got 7th
Lol
Smash Twitter play the character before crying challenge impossible
Ultimate is getting better every week. Steve and Kaz make the game so much more exciting to watch. really excited for the future :)
Itâs true that they are fun to watch, but oof they are kinda cheap and REALLY annoying to play aginst
Kaz is fun to watch
Steve? Nah
Steve is tedious to watch and play against but stil
Congrats to Acola he sent a message out in this invitational that he is not to be taken lightly
@@clonetrooper2355 I like watching Steve actually
@@clonetrooper2355 i love watching steve. most fun character to watch
@@clonetrooper2355 Steve is hella fun to watch
Does anyone know the outro music?
While I donât think that either of these characters should be banned Steve definitely does require most of the cast of characters to play an entire different game that no other character can replicate since the moment Steve places blocks down the opponent has to figure out a way to get by and stop steve from getting his materials and that is easier said then done due to Steve having really good frame data and combos while always putting the opponent in a disadvantage stage just by forcing them to approach
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Lightâs speech was fucking hilarious. That needs to go into a taunt to get bodied comp.
Can someone explain the Larry Lurr and Cosmos interaction
Finally 20MC is upon us
I want to see way more acola in NA
1:27 "Should we make the jump into Hyperspeed" "No, let's go at Ludicrous Speed" *Gasps* "Are you sure sir?" "What's the matter colonel Sanders? Chicken?"
Steve is the very model of a modern major mix-up character
why the fuck didn't they talk about Akola's run?
I tried to rewatch this video but lost to Light, in the runback
Kola v. Sparg0 was the best set Iâve seen in a minute
I can't wait to see Acola play against Mkleo, Spargo or Glutonny
this wouldnt happen if i was there
So youâre saying Chase wouldâve won a set if you were there?? lol
Acola feels so invincible it's insane, even compared to other invincible players. When Light says he's going to do something he does it but Acola defied even that, that's probably the most shocking thing to me. Incredibly happy for him, as a Steve main I was cheering him and Yonni on the entire way.
I hope yâall keep up the great work!
Don't pick up the Phone about Steve....
Because I fucking CALLED IT.
Imagine going for arguably your worst character matchup, then losing, and then immediately having to play Light
Wait Gackt isn't the same guy as the Fei Long player Gackt back in the SF4 days is he?
I hope you make a video yo Quik and Sisqui run in E-Caribana
Weâre writing an article on it itâll be on the website tomorrow
Thanks !
Itâs just so conceptually hilarious to me that of all the characters for people to say is âbrokenâ, itâs Minecraft Steve.
Light didnât even congratulate my boy acola smh
He trashtalked acola before the game even started, and got bodied.
@@ryubayani1729 exactly like the audacity đż
It's honestly genius to do it like Tweek.
Main two total polar opposites and you'll have almost every single match-up covered.
I've always wanted to go to a in person tournament. I think I harbor the skills to at the very least be noted but that's just time, money and a lack of knowledge on how to even enter that I just don't have. For now I suppose I'll just stick to anything local.
How did you not talk about Riddles' INSANE shield break punish?
nice to see some brazilian represantation in ferp
Light knew the Steve matchup, he didnât lose to Steve he lost to acola thatâs the difference people ignoring
Nah he lost to Steve. #bansteve
â@@thesaxiest4480 cope
I'm sorry but "He took down one of the strongest players in the world and Cosmos" is so funny to me
14:35 TonyZTank quote right there
we be riddling
Nice to see some Brazilian rep in the ssbu community đ§đ·
Wait, I FINALLY get to say this and it'll have meaning?! YESSS.
*Clears throat* get ready kids, because we're gooooiiiinnngg...
Back to the lab, AGAIN!
oh no
@@pgstats back to the lab again
Canât believe you didnât call riddles that richter
we need a Mexico vs US vs Japan 5v5v5
Send love to Sparg0
0:44 VS. Stardream what a great music but why for this section?????lol
I know Stardream Soul OS is one of the most difficult enemy to beat but not a difficult as ăcola I guess
and i found that this video consists of the Kirby Robobo planet's music...?!
This is my by far the most favorite one in Kirby series!!!
Wow almost a full week passed since the Gimvitational and no one has done anything about the Steve/Kazuya ban. Itâs almost as if this topic wasnât a big deal to begin with and just came and went like every other stupid fad this community sensationalizes!
even if top players are joking about banning steve and kazuya the smash community is not amture enough to understand it as a whole. people legit want to ban these characters. this banning talk should be called out and put down.
"Geometric Menace"
Every time I hear the best in the world, I'm a little skeptical because it's very clear that not everyone in the world goes to these major tournaments that primarily take place in North America.
i think the idea was that if heâs looking like #1 in Japan and then wins a stacked NA tournament then he could very well be in contention for best in the world
You need experience in order to become the best, so if you're not facing the best even in whatever country you're from, you won't stand a chance. And we DO know the best players in each country/continent, and those actually do come to North America whether they're Japanese, French, Brazilian or Australian. In other words: There are no unknown players that could pop up out of nowhere and be a top 10 in the world.
I thought it was gonna be a Tekken video
But would he win a UHC?
Why do they shake hands so high đđđ
Tweeks diddy did take a game off of riddle's Kazuya
A-SHI-mo?
Same day in Japan, Aba MK beat proto Min twice.
Cause Zss is a high tier that has weaknesses
4:11 come on bro not the controller
My jaw dropped when the video said that spargos never gotten 6th place or lower since 2020 which is a 2 year gap of being in the top 5 and kola the 7th best player put him in 7th at losers bracket.
I love how basically everyone in the top 10 can be put in any position from 10th to 2nd in the pgr and thereâs no true underdog in sets where two top 10 players face each other, except for mkleo obviously
Acola's worst placing so far has been 2nd place in any tournament. Safe to say he will be 2nd place minimum rather than 3rd-10th.
@@bakublader1999 i agree but rn he hasnât gone to many events
Dam these smash players really like smashing their controller
did anyone really even implement slingshot?
Felt weird seeing one of the campiest characters in smash do well. I just think Steve is just another Samus with blocks instead of guns
I canât wait until somebody beats acola and everyone forgets the Steve hate and calls for that personâs main to be banned
W
They payed 6 dollars and now everything is in flames