DONKEY KONG JUST WON A MAJOR MELEE TOURNAMENT
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
- You heard that right, DONKEY KONG is actually doing it! As DK has jumped up in results lately from a small amount of dedicated players, this is the first time in recent history that DK has actually WON a regional or higher level tournament. Junebug has taken his Kong atop everyone else, even taking down Salt in the finals of this tournament.
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The year is 20🍌🍌
20DK, praise our Monke Overlords.
20NaNa
@@braxinIV 20PoPo
20kong
Given everything else happening in the world
Yes
Taking the last stock with the kidnapp is priceless
I laughed so hard at that, the ultimate disrespect after reversing it like that and probably something most players haven't seen in melee because of how developed the combat has become
fr i was like if he suicides for the tournament win thats so disrespectful idk if i could not fight after that. that was just disgusting to watch bro got pooped on irl
it was written in the stars. DK had to win with a self-destruct stock.
Always a classic move to upset your buddies as well 😂
@@BEASTLYDROKbro got pooped on irl 😂
I love to see people play mid or low-tier characters in fighting games and just completely demolish the competition.
Dk will be consider high mid tier trust.
In a year probably former mid tier x))))
With how things are going with the character there’s a reason he was placed above Dr.Mario and Luigi he’ll probably beat out Samus soon
Compared to other mid-low tiers DK has some nice tools, so hes probably low-hi tier
ARSLAN ASH SENDS HIS REGARDS
Leffen about to make a "we need a max weight limit in Melee. DK is just fundamentally broken" tweet
this has to be some sort of psychosis at this point
Fatshaming
It is the DK Renaissance, as Wusstunes put it.
Renaissance means rebirth. DK has never been good before. This is his birth.
@benjaminjameskurz his birth was the game's release. This is the rebirth. He is a bad character reborn as a viable character. The definition still works.
I’ve been waiting for it for years
The game continues to evolve 20+ years later.. incredible.
One might argue this is de-evolving if we're going back to our primate form haha.
@KalebSDay Return to monke.
This ain’t a major
After 20 years u guys can wave dash and I cant. I theorize itll manifest into a form of dyslexia. Learning one thing every 20 years.
@@KalebSDaynice one.
DK was just watching Yoshi, and was like: Me next.
Hopefully Aklo can pull out a Link win or someone can pull out like a Young Link or Luigi win man more low to mid tier runs like this feel so refreshing for the game
@@scythea428Sometimes I forget the Mario characters and Zelda characters are in melee
@@DragonMaster1818 Crazy about the Zelda considering sheik but I guess there aren't a ludicrous amount of sheiks at top level
@@scythea428nah sheik is the 2nd most prevalent character in top 100 behind only Fox
me waiting for someone to demolish in the competitive melee scene with a ness: 😐
He saw the donkey kong rise in ultimate and said bitch me too, goddamn
It’s more the other way around
@@brycewilson1741 honestly lmao God bless the Ultimate watchers tho, they mean well
its the opposite
Nah Junebug has been cooking in the DK trenches for a while
@@diegomo1413not the trenches 🤣🤣
We’re witnessing history. No other character in any smash game has made this drastic of a change in viability. Donkey Kong was literally E tier like 10 years ago and he just beat like seven Foxes.
Ehhhh Corrin in Ultimate made an arguably bigger jump. Character was considered like low mid tier for the longest time, and even after a balance patch the character was still seen as mid tier at best. Now people are going as far to say she's Top 10 if not better, and that's a game with a cast of 80+ characters, most of all which are viable in some way, and most of the Top Tier are extremely overtuned or have DLC privilege's. For a character to go from being seen as mediocre to being on level with G&W, Sonic, Aegis, Steve, ROB, etc. is fucking insane. Besides, at the end of the day, DK is probably only going to end up being around Ice Climbers on the Tier Lists, which is definitely a huge improvement but not bottom to top tier level jump.
@@Forged4War206 You forgot about Corrin getting buffed, while Dk never got any, and even then then she's definetly not top ten, she's not even the best swordfighter in ultimate
@@Forged4War206aMSa:
@@Forged4War206DK has been considered unviable for decades though.
@@Forged4War206 Dude just let people enjoy things. Half the things you said were misleading anyway.
This was so fucking sick to watch. Melee Donkey Kong is so hype.
Melee players are built different.
Cause there's so many tiny little technical inputs...and then you have monster's like these who make it look effortless and make it feel like an entirely different game.
It's by far the most impressive video game I've ever seen played. I play slippi online and I'm pretty decent, but some of the guys I run into are just beyond cracked. They could be bullet chess champions if they put their mind to it
HE'S THE LEADER OF THE BUNCH 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
YOU KNOW HIM WELL 🦍🔥🔥🔥
HE’S FINALLY BACK 🔥🔥🔥
TO KICK SOME TAIL 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
HIS COCONUT GUN🔫🥥🗣️🗣️
CAN FIRE IN SPURTS 🗣️🗣️🗣️💦💦💦
VOTE FOR JUNEBUG
hes already lost 😭
The year is 20XPAND
DONG
The year is 20DD. Everyone plays Donkey Kong at TAS levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on port priority. The RPS metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide matches.
silly foxes, you cannot stop the dkpocalypse
@@Kendrick-vq2tq YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE DONG
why not 20DK?
@@tkienjoyer PERFECTION
The yoshis will fight the dk apocalypse
That ending
He hit 'em with the casual SSB64 special
We are out of the DK Renaissance.
This is the DK Industrial Era.
5:50 I love how he sounds like captain falcon after he sees the combo
“OOOOooooOOooooo” -HBox
Westballz believed in Dk before the hype
True
He definitely was one of the originals
I know light plays Fox for ultimate,who should I watch if I want to take my Fox to the next level for melee?!
@@joskunall the top foxes are a bit too much if you want to improve solely off of vods, search up cody schwab's tutorial on how to get into top 100 faster than him. If you want an answer tho I'd recommend cody or joshman, joshman in particular if you want to study edgeguards. Cody is better overall though.
Thank you Junebug for returning us to monke
Melee and Ultimate DK still be doing DK things.
We need to do a salty sweet with amsa playing DK and junebug playing yoshi. Then have the most over hyped crowd with the (probally) the most calm smash players.
10:10 This part is so interesting. You can tell June has played Donkey Kong a ton because of how much he trusts Randall. On the outside he looks like a god, but really it's just adrenaline and good awareness/reaction timing. Salt is doing the same thing here, but it's mostly just auto-pilot muscle memory in order to lock on to where Donkey Kong is in order to land that flying down air to attempt a spike.
Luck was on June's side here though. Randall gives Donkey Kong in particular a huge boost. Could Donkey Kong be the best character on Yoshi's Story? Allow me to explain. The fact that Randall continuously patrols those two sides of the stage means that a character with poor vertical recovery can benefit against characters that want to spike/meteor him by employing the technique that June showed here. Furthermore, Donkey Kong's Up B move is uniquely situated to benefit from this in the following ways.
1: It has poor vertical movement, but excellent horizontal movement. This means that even if you're not directly above Randall, if you understand the benefits/detriments of your character then you can always be aware on this stage to use DK's up B to position yourself to favor wherever Randall is in relation to your character on screen, in order to employ June's technique. Tech off of Randall into an immediate Up B.
2: It covers the fact that Dk's Recovery is extremely telegraphed. DK's Recovery won't give you an immediate boost upwards. This is a difference with many other top characters in melee. Consider the character Marth. His up B is almost a direct opposite to Donkey Kong's. Instead of giving you an incremental boost diagonally like Donkey Kong, it gives you an extreme, immediate boost vertically and only somewhat horizontally. Due to this attribute of Dk's Up B other players, even if they're not well versed in the matchup, can discover very quickly that Dk's Recovery can be capitalized on. In that way Randall is almost an extension of the Yoshi's story platform for a heavy, slow-recovering character like Donkey Kong.
3: A Falcon specific matchup. After watching this set it became clear to me that Donkey Kong is actually kinda good against Falcon. This matchup becomes exacerbated on Yoshi's Story, where you have the Randall Tech as just the cherry on top. The other aspects of the stage also benefit Donkey Kong's strategy quite well. So for the sake of argument I'll mention another stage: Final Destination. So what's the difference? Firstly, the platforms are removed and it's just the one supporting platform as the only ground to fight on. This is a detriment to Donkey Kong's gameplan. Donkey Kong's ideal stage would have platforms at short to medium height off the stage so as to make use of his cargo-up-throw into up-air, which builds percent at a very high rate while allowing you good control over medium to high weighted characters. However, the blast zones on FD are a good distance away from the center of the stage, much more far away than Yoshi's Story. This isn't particularly relevant to characters like Marth, Falco, Falcon, or Sheik. But to a character like Donkey Kong it's almost like swimming in an ocean. What I mean by that is that even if Donkey Kong gets launched at a far away angle to the corner of the screen that he'll have a better chance of recovering than those 4 other high/top tier characters I just mentioned. So, from this we can conclude that Donkey Kong given the time to employ his Up B to recover from off stage is actually a harder to hit target than most of the other characters in the game who mostly just want to jetpack upwards in order to recover. Meaning he actually has a secret scheme against characters that want to abuse down air attacks to spike their opponents.... I say down air attacks because Fox's spike is still pretty effective XD Sorry Dk you're gonna need more than a scheme against that character.
Okay, rant's over, leave a like if you enjoyed. Good work June, you really deserve this win!
Junebug didn’t actually use Randall there. He wall-teched. It just so happens Randall was right below him when he did it. He also meteor canceled the stomp on the right side right before hand. So Randall is really not necessary for any of this.
@@jonathanc3001 Wow, nice catch. Had to Google how to go frame by frame through YT in order to even catch that. So I guess Randall helps, but the real stage hazard is just the walls on the bottom of the stage. That's some crazy shit to Smash DI, tech, and immediately up B all within the span of a single second. Definitely not a day one technique.
Dk does not do good against falcon, it's one of his worst matchups
I'm loving the recent love for low and bottom tier characters
I mean DK's definitely not a low tier
@@Nawakooo0tier wise he is
@@JaysYoshiYT In the tier list from years ago. Nobody would put him in low tier anymore.
@@JaysYoshiYT You mean from the 2021 tier list? 3 years later not many people consider DK a low tier anymore.
You’re all saying he’s not considered low tier anymore, to be fair, being called low or mid tier for 20/23 of the years that this game has been played does mean that a lot of people never had faith in this character.
It’s the same thing as aMSa’s Yoshi. You look at this character at the top level and wonder “how did people ever think this character was bad? They have so many things.”
I think many people for a long time knew Yoshi and DK were good, just not good enough or it was good enough if you put in the effort, but no one wanted to put THAT much effort. Just look at how long it took amsa to win big.
@@MrFreakHeavyYoshi was considered bad until Amsa played him, which was like 10 years ago so yeah he's been good for a while
But DK literally only started to see good results like a year and a half ago and people still think he's low tier
I heard there was a group of DK mains claiming the big guy has so much untapped potential. Now we have legit results
Bro screamed so loud he broke the sound barrier
Junebug's run was bananas.
Landing a dk punch feels so amazing, never get tired of nailing the timing
I kinda forget that Melee has more than 8 characters.
You haven't been paying much attention my guy
Junebug won a major with one of the funniest Smash moves of all time.
Pikachu. Yoshi. DK. This is a pattern now. Who will be next? I cannot wait to see!
Please be Dr.Mario or Roy
@@Calmtimer💀💀💀
Ness please
game n watch
What a badass DK. He’s like the Chunky Kong of Melee but better.
Bro... I've never seen the momentum shift so hard, so much, so quickly. Usually, at this level it's like a teeter totter with one barely outweighing the other, however this one was of pure dominance. Even with titles of videos such as these, it's usually I don't know how they win this, but this one I was like there's no possible way he doesn't win this. The set was already won before the set was even over.
June is having the time of his life playing DK, and it shows.
Super proud of seeing Kalvar doing so well in Melee since our underground days in NH. Keep it up bro.
- Ken Y
DK!
DONKEY KONG!
He's the leader of the bunch, you know him well.
@yoshiwoollyworldhis coconut guns, can fire in spurts
@@brendanpryce8009 If he shoots ya, it's gonna hurt!
@@mach95a113he’s bigger, faster, and stronger too
@@steviemccool4872 he's the first member of the DK crew
donkey kong winning a major before gta 6 is crazy
this isnt a major
this isnt even close to a major it's just shameless clickbait
@@Aefax the title says its a major tournament, not a major
@@BlueishToad ?
His shirt isn't blue it's just a blue shirt@@BlueishToad
What a perfect way for DK to win his first major 😂. Cargo into walk off for the final stock was legendary.
We first had Peanut proving Mac is incredible, then aMSa showing Melee Yoshi is great, and now JuneBug with Melee DK! This has been a huge year for low and mid tiers!
That was the most hype grand finals I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Watched the whole set and was mindblown. June Bug’s DK is ELITE and changes the entire meta yet again
Watching DK beat Fox is the most satisfying thing in the world
Donkey Kong slapping cheeks like he slaps bongos
Oh... finally, after 22 years... the long avaited advent of DK.
Ever since I saw Green Ranger play DK I knew that this character had so much untapped potential. Dope to finally see some results!
“His back air is huge” HBOX ITS THE SAME SIZE
what the hell are pronouns doing in a smash tournament lmao
Helping you refer to the players in a way that is comfortable to them?
YOU KNOW HIM WELL!!!!
3:44 HBox: That’s my boy
My man was LOCKED in
Lol Junebug's transformation from Portland hipster to Indian Deity is complete
The year is 20DK
1:24 what in the Seth Rogan laugh, complete with DK lmfao
This result is directly from more people than ever having access to high level melee through slippi I imagine. The potential to lab any character to its highest possible potential is insane. This won't even be the craziest result. A Bowser WILL take a supermajor within the decade.
6:43 The fear is real!
its so refreshing to see falcon and dk in grands when 10-15 years ago people were saying melee was solved with fox forever
Holy crap, DK's up air, back air, neutral air and up special are pretty good.
Junebug's micro spacing was top notch
dk's backair:
-fast
-dangerous
-good knockback
-monke kick haha
It really does feel like melee dlc when yoshi and now dk became tournament viable picks due to their player(base) finally becoming good enough to take them to the very top. Its wild seeing dk do this stuff and thinking that this was once considered a bad character.
Damn Donkey Kong just steals turns and mixs you ip while carrying you to death that’s insane
"dk feels like a dlc character"
that's a wild compliment I'm ever hearing from melee
This is proof that there is in fact still much more melee to be played.
I cant believe how quickly the characters move when pros are playing.
Games only 23 years old. Can play it another 23, with no other prominent fighting game, perhaps? Living the dream forever.
You know that giant monkey in Very Hard Adventure Mode that kept on SD'ing with neutral airs 4 seconds into the match?
This is that monkey now.
You should be very afraid.
Wild that this game can still hype up a vet like Hungrybox. I don't even play Melee and I think it's sick as hell.
I’ve been hoping for people to finally utilize DK. Theoretically he’s been worked into a top 5 character, and many of the people who have been crafting gameplay for DK have been saying he just hasn’t been mained by a good enough player.
Junebug is so improved he’s since become that good enough player
That was the ultimate DK ending
I grew up playing only with DK and it sheds a tear seeing that everyone is finally seeing his full potential
If Dr. Mario or Luigi can't win a major? I'll have to grind then to beat DK with these characters.
9:33 bro was tasting the salt after that one
That DK was playing volleyball with Captain Falcon, and by that, I mean Captain was the ball getting launched
Waiting for the day Bowser does the same.
junebug saw how this would unfold in a dream
We making dk the best melee character with this one 🗣️🔥
We got Yoshi, we got DK, who’s next? Roy? Mewtwo? Zelda?
Hbox is 100% right. Smash games don’t need DLCs. They just need players to prove that assumed bad characters can be good 😂 Melee lives forever 👌
10:08 the whole sequence is why melee will always stay the goat.. bruh
Just wait for the Link Renaissance. Unironically I belief if pushed to his potential he's at least as good as Sheik. Yes, I realize that's a wild statement, but I've seen it
Why do you think link is gonna be top 5
@@Donkeykong37392 I think the potential for his traps and punish combos is untapped. Could be huge. He has not-great speed and defense, which is why he could never be a top tier like Fox/Falco, but also workable, so I think if someone worked him enough to develop the offense to its limit, it would overcome his weaknesses
@@DylanMatthewTurner he struggles against defensive play, he could be pushed better than ganon but that's it I fear
"DK just won a major" me after spreading misinformation online
apparently his fans are saying he's just describing it as a *large* or *important* tournament, not... y'know, a major. like it says in the title lol
Konky Dong
“mmmm monke”
-Master Oogway
After almost 20 years in the competitive scene it's insane to see Junebug finally take fat Ws with a LOW-TIER of all character. Mad props to Junebug for pulling off the impossible!
Insane that DK upsmash, with the smallest hitbox ever, doesn’t kill fox at 100%
FAIR AT 114%
There's gonna be a solo Bowser winning a major in the next 10 years istg
tournament is patchwork 2024 for anyone curious
He is an Idol for all of us DK Mains, god damn.
Dang, I guess he is bigger, faster, and stronger, too. It's all coming together now.
Hbox the entire time: OHHH BANANA
That outro track, PERFECT! haha 💛🐵🍌
Let's go!!! Tier List? Nah, not today :p. Smash will always have slept on characters or vast characters with potential & I love it.
Finally. Donkey Kong has come to save smash
It's the third one this week. How can one monkey create so much hype
That was a peak ending of the set
3:53 you can see him loosing his mind😂
Donkey Kong has hit his peak in smash melee. I knew that DK would win a major melee tournament because he ain’t DK, he is Gigachad Kong
Congrats to the player who looks like the character that he plays the game with
I would agree with DK being a grappler. And Puff too!
Got me looking at DK as a potential fun pick now 👀😂
That Falcon player in grand finals seemed cocky at the beginning but dude got humbled real quickly 😂
that was so much fun to watch, like holy shit