In light of the story put forth by this video, this kinda feels like that My Hero moment when All Might's like "I AIN'T RETIRED YET BOI" and solos the Nomu
Akir is one of my closest friends and I’ve known him for around 7 years now, and I just wanna note something for comedy, he refused to ever play any Mario Party past 4 cuz he wanted to play DK no matter what. That is all.
“When I first started I played Falco, and then after a while I realized I was better with Marth. Eventually, suddenly I started to play DK” Easily the most Melee thing I’ve ever heard in my life.
I clicked on this mostly as a joke, for I thought how the hell could a 90 minute documentary about DK be real? How wrong I was. This blew me away. So well done. Hope you get all the views; really a fantastic work you've created.
Here after Junebug double eliminated the rank #14 player in the entire world, Salt, to win Patchwork 2024. Insanely impressive considering Donkey Kong- Captain Falcon is one of Donkey Kong's toughest matchups.
13:35 “I’m pretty sure I can tilt you…. I can either make you *scared* or make you *annoyed* ” I think it’s no coincidence that this doc includes Ringler saying this and also the claim that DK is part *zoner* and part *grappler* , archetypes whose game plans create and feed off *annoyance* and *fear* respectively.
I was a competitive solo DK main in the early 2000s in the Melee era and I have been telling everyone for decades that DK is a good character. It's great to see that people are finally seeing it today!
@@illforddid you watch the video? Did you see a DK force Leffen to switch off of the #1 character, Fox, to Sheik? And others doing the same? If a character can go toe to toe with world’s best Fox players, he is better than mid
@@MarMaxGaming you’re not negating what the other guys said. dk is decent, he’s a mid tier. mid tiers take sets off top spacies sometimes, that doesn’t make them amazing characters. yoshi and pika are mid tiers and theyve actually won major tournaments
"Donkey Kong isn't here to punish us, or save us, but to help us weather the storm." Love this quote. Melee will forever be a game built from the foundation of the grassroot scene and the love of the game. So in our time of need, when everything is seemingly crumbling down around us, DK is there to remind us where we came from and the genuine love we have for a game more then 20 years old.
1:22:33 I absolutely did NOT expect to see a picture of Jerma and Ringler together. Even funnier that you just labeled him as "some guy". I am laughing my ass off. 😂
It was really wholesome seeing Moe compliment Ringler's DK saying he does the most "clean looking punish" and that the DK is "beautiful" and then 30 minutes later seeing Ringler say that Moe has "the prettiest DK"
@@masked9405He was originally known as Dai (or Dai-A). He’s originally from Utah, used to reside in Texas, and currently lives in upstate New York. He co-mains Captain Falcon in Melee, and mains Falco & Snake in Brawl.
Akir made a great point when he called out people blaming DK only succeeding because of unfamiliarity or cheese. It's just a cop out to protect ego at the end of the day. DK isn't some new patched in character. He's been in the game for 20 years. The truth is when you lose to a DK it's because you aren't taking it serious enough to prepare for it or you're doing things against DK that's leaving you too vulnerable and you need to break those habits. That's why Leffen went from laughing on stream at the idea of losing to DK to being 0-2 versus Ringler and having to switch to Sheik and still only won by the skin of his teeth. Regardless of a character's tier, you better be ready for them because a good enough player with them is going to humble you fast.
He actually laughed on stream after to be fair! Good points being made though. It's a two player game at the end of the day, even if your character is really good at making it into a one player game sometimes.
Its a pretty valid point tho, a dk player with 10000hours has 1000s of hours in the fox/falco/marth/shiek matchups but a top tier main with 10000 hours has like maximum 100 hours in the DK matchup. Mid/low tier one tricks have that massive advantage on their side. Just look at the Bobby match, he legit thought its a true chain grab.
pretty sure if you don't know how a character works because you haven't been able to practice against it and rarely see it is going to give up some percentage points. like your point is absurd.
I love seeing the balance of melee slowly equalize as people naturally unlock the potential of the underlooked. One day we'll live in a world where even Bowser can do some clean shit on the main stage.
@@YOSSARIAN313 I do play bowser on slippi from time to time, and yes, he is DEF agonizing to play. HOWEVER, there is a certain flow state you reach when you play enough bowser, where you understand how limited he is and only play to his strengths, vs. someone who doesn't realize the bowser does have one or two clean techs up is sleeve that really demonstrates how much of a knowledge game melee really is. Am I saying that bowser is some hidden top tier that just needs to be unlocked? Hell no. Probs never will be. But seeing him move at all on the tierlist will be fascinating to watch as more and more people look into the lower tiers with the intention to unlock as much potential as they can ^-^
Rlly happy that u covered a little bit of the European scene. Lots of smash docs I’ve seen tend to ignore what happens outside of North America and it’s nice to see both acknowledgment and respect for the players outside of that region. In general though the way you explain how all these small communities connect to each other and interact is brilliant and really shines a spotlight on what makes playing and discussing comp melee so much fun. The whole documentary is a bonafide celebration of their accomplishments. Enviable work here, excellent video.
Thank you! My understanding is that Europe secretly has the most DK players per Capita, and Moe is sick on top of that. It would have been criminal to exclude the eu scene!
Wow, you did not spare a single detail on this one and I love it! I appreciate when Melee videos pursue every single storyline to really tell the full tale, and your accuracy was also just spot-on. Excellent job, for real.
Here after BING double eliminated the rank #15 player in the entire world, Zuppy, to win a regional. It hasn't even been a week since the last Donkey Kong tournament win
The transformation between Green Ranger and Da is actually insane. The DK that started it all vs the current, most underrated DK I have ever seen and it was so beautiful to see. Watching Ringer play in Mainstage almost made switch from Roy to DK and I'm still considering that. DK just looks so badass to play, gives a middle finger to anyone that doesn't know how to fight against the monke.
It’s interesting because dk is the most like top tiers in terms of playstyle. He’s a character like marth and puff and falcon, but with crippling weaknesses that they don’t have
Great watch. The end hit me hard because its true. DK is comforting as a character. When my dad died of cancer when I was 11 I was depressed and closed off. The first game I played after my Dad's passing was DK64. I love that game flaws and all. Something about the Kongs was soothing and helped me grieve. I always played DK in every smash game. I didn't care if I lost I still had fun because I always loved DK. Thank you for this.
didn't expect the video to be so riveting. Was actually laughing out loud at the 1 hour+ runtime. "No way can someone BS about DK for that long" This was actually an incredibly made video. Great interviews and storytelling, but most importantly good job of using visuals to illustrate what was being said in the script. I never felt like what was on screen was distracting from what was being said.
I have no idea how you did all this research, but you have created a masterpiece. This reminds me of a summoningsalt level of detail and story telling. Thanks!
A DK IS IN TOP 24 AT THE BIG HOUSE 11. THIS IS NOT A DRILL Edit: JUNE BEAT GINGER. He's in top 16!! WTFFFF Edit 2: June loses 3-0 to Aklo, out of Big House 11 at 13th. This is by far the best performance from a DK at a supermajor to date, taking sets off Ginger, Magi, and taking n0ne to game 5.
Ckyulmiqnudaetr did pretty well too. Top 64 is a great placing, he wiped Khryke easily, and while he didn't take any games off Magi he still brought her Falco to last stock on all 3 of them.
The last few months I have fallen utterly in love with the Kong. Just this following weekend, I played DK in a regional tournament for the first time (SweetSpot7) and got 65th. While not incredibly impressive of a placement, it has inspired me to continue to grind the character. I love DK, and seeing my fellow Kongs doing so well makes me so very happy
Great vid, well put together on all fronts, but I gotta say some of the visual gags and editing was absolutely top tier. You made this funny as hell throughout your own commentary but left good breathing room for stories take the space they need, very well done.
I don't even play Melee, and I'm only casually invested in watching tournaments. I haven't seen any of these players' DKs except for Ringler. But I just sat through this whole thing and by the end I was wishing there was more. Amazing job!
@@illford truth be told most stuff that could be done in Melee has already been done and what's left to discover is usually shit only experts can spot
I love that so many members even prominent ones of the smash community will generally do interviews and chats as well as insights via social media on their process and thoughts on the meta game. It’s incredible that this community is turning out very high quality content 2 decades after the games release. The community is only continuing to grow and people are still getting better and better, always pushing tech and match ups. Melee really has the best community of any game. So much love for the game and the players. (And it preserves CRTs, another great love of mine)
It's insane how good this video is. Never thought I'd see a high-quality, non-shitpost 'Donkey Kong in Melee' documentary but here we are, and I couldn't be happier
Dude I clicked on this and didn't realize until ten minutes in the actual length of the video and it absolutely blew me away the entire way through. Easiest sub of my life, great video man! Excited to see what you do in the future.
I wish I could like this a million times. Great video so well put together. I just recently found my love for DK last week and have become a 20DK believer officially after watching this vid. The ape can do it and we will get home to the top one day.
I like Akir's reason for switching, I used to be a spacies marth kinda kid then I took a sip of that low tier magic and playing Link has been the most fun I've had in the game
am 30 minutes into this video and i only now am realizing i’m watching a movie. very good pacing thus far and super well put together information. this all coming from a not-so knowledgeable melee-interested non-player
I usually don’t watch full smash documentaries but I’m a sucker for low/mid tier content and the general obscurity of tier lists this era. I can also recognize this video took a lot of work and editing, thanks!
This is probably one of the most well written, researched, and edited documentaries i've seen on youtube! It's also on the best monke around what more could I ask for
Twotran is another good DK that comes to mind who inspired Rishi to play the character iirc Not sure about their recent tournament attendance or plans to enter any upcoming events though
When I spoke to Ringler, I think I was told that Twotran is a DK who could feasibly top 64 a major to this day. (Could have some DKs mixed up though!) If I had more time to spend on this project would have probably sought out an interview with him.
Dang this video was amazingly made! My favourite part was that donkey kong face materialising on the moon. You have real skill for pacing a lengthy video as well- didn't want to look away for a second
Also thats kinda awesome how the name “bum” wasnt uttered once in the vid. He was deff a very strong player early on but never traveled and eventually disappeared entirely
People that complain about "low tiers" that play top tier have easily been the most annoying part of my melee journey of 21 years. Let's all explore this seemingly invincible game together and see how much juice we can squeeze out of it haha great video man I was delightfully surprised
Some of the best content on UA-cam straight up. It’s so interesting how creators will find their niche and create videos like this that deserve immense amounts of attention but can’t get it because of the relatively small community around the subject matter. I hope this hits the algorithm HARD
This video was really good and It want me to share my history as, for the moment, the best spanish dk ñ, ranked 7th in Spain (which isnt actually too good, we are not very talented xD). So i entered the comunity, i think It was on 2006, with 8 years, and quickly go first Falcon main, then marth main. On 2015 i was like 5th on my subregion at the time, Barcelona, and like 20 on Spain aprox with marth. And then i had to play k12, a samus player. My brother played samus all time so i had the mu experienced freshed and i actually did really good against very good samuses. But he didnt pick samus, he picked DONKEY KONG. He had changed mains for some mu, and marth was one of them. He destoyed me in a very fun way, and i was impresed. So i tried to pull dk as a joke too, It was funny and quirky, but i still mained marth. But slowly, as more time passed and i started to play more dk, my dk was caching my marth and i was starting to go dk against sheik, and It was working somehow. On 2018 i actually went full dk and changed my tag, from iu2king to iudking, making the DK joke instead of the mew2king joke. I actually labbed dk, at first i thaught i could get 2nd in Spain and that the character was good enough to maybe get some wins against low profile top 100. On pandemic i actually played a lot, i moved regions and in this region where i'm now, valencia, we are pretty actives, so i started labbing a lot. Rn i'm the best in valencia, kinda at the same level as the 2nd here, and i'm 7th in spain, and i want to get better. Now, seeing all that happened recently and having more general knowledge, i feel that the only mu that might be imposible for dk on top level might be a really good puff, like hbox, so i think solo dk is actually a character that, in the right hands, could win a Major. I'm really optimistic, not only on myself, but on the character, i have no doubts on it
The sad thing is that melee for me, at least rn, is a hobby and i have a full time job that just makes me unable to travel for Europe as much as i want actually. I'm going to fete anyway, i Will have my free days for that specific month, so i'm very excited. I'm planning too on going on a tournament on fall, but idk if theres some fall tours announced in europe
This documentary was so good and awesome that when I see DK doing so well in Collision I couldn't stop thinking in this video. Incredible job, I Love it.
when this dude in the secret DK monk society came out with the voice changer, i immediately stopped the video and pressed like and shared it to a few buds. Im watching something special!
It genuinely excites me to see changes in Melee even after all this time. And other than Falcon, DK is the only character from Melee that I would consider a main in the other Smash games, so it kind of makes me want to finally pick up Melee and give this character a shot and see if the game finally clicks with me.
I feel like the Donkey Kong players are a part of a evil clergy unlike the AMSA Yoshi who won through honor, dedication and hard work. Donkey Kong feels sinister.
I think this is the greatest part of melee that I don’t see as much in other competitive video games. The heart. Melee has always been grassroots and linked community and to see such as optimized and oppressive game becoming so diverse and meta changing after 20 years because people refused to give up on their favorite characters. It’s just such an optimistic and hopeful reality. I think that’s why DK is so special as he represents the heart of melee, and like melee he’ll be there for us to weather this storm.
i don't have much to say other than this is a wonderfully made video and your storytelling and editing skills have only improved since i first watched your Chicagoland DK video i sincerely hope your content can reach more and more of the community in the future, the sheer care and passion you put into your work is amazing monke bless 🙏🍌
this is literally the most exciting thing to happen to melee in years. the fact that it took 2 decades to uncover this character is incredible and gives life to possibility of new things happening in the game forever.
UPDATE: JUNEBUG JUST WON A REGIONAL AT XANADU WITH DK. SAID HE WAS LUCKY HE DODGED ICIES
Gimme vod
@@markmenchu3724 | ua-cam.com/play/PLIE_lsAbC7Qi1f-Ku7u6WSd4y4x9fxvgP.html
Holy shit, Xanadu legends. Amazing
HEY SEXY LADY
In light of the story put forth by this video, this kinda feels like that My Hero moment when All Might's like "I AIN'T RETIRED YET BOI" and solos the Nomu
Akir is one of my closest friends and I’ve known him for around 7 years now, and I just wanna note something for comedy, he refused to ever play any Mario Party past 4 cuz he wanted to play DK no matter what. That is all.
Based
good thing for Mario Party 10 onwards
important lore
“When I first started I played Falco, and then after a while I realized I was better with Marth. Eventually, suddenly I started to play DK” Easily the most Melee thing I’ve ever heard in my life.
top tier beginner, different top tier amateur, mid tier veteran, bowser god
for every day that passes the kongpocalypse grows closer.
I clicked on this mostly as a joke, for I thought how the hell could a 90 minute documentary about DK be real? How wrong I was. This blew me away. So well done. Hope you get all the views; really a fantastic work you've created.
Thank you!
I thought the same thing. I use this as faith melee will be fine in these turbulent times.
I didn't realize it was 90 minutes when I clicked on it
I was like “I need some background noise at work.” Best choice of the day.
Sports.
monke
funny monke, even
@@AkirDK he's so funny
your monke goes bananas bro
Mmmm... monke.
monke
Here after Junebug double eliminated the rank #14 player in the entire world, Salt, to win Patchwork 2024. Insanely impressive considering Donkey Kong- Captain Falcon is one of Donkey Kong's toughest matchups.
13:35
“I’m pretty sure I can tilt you…. I can either make you *scared* or make you *annoyed* ” I think it’s no coincidence that this doc includes Ringler saying this and also the claim that DK is part *zoner* and part *grappler* , archetypes whose game plans create and feed off *annoyance* and *fear* respectively.
that's a really well put insight
Timestamp at 13:25
ur litteraly saying nothing lmfao
@@sleathdja6004the irony
It took me 40 whole minutes to realize "wait a minute, I don't even play Melee" That's how you know it's a great video.
I was a competitive solo DK main in the early 2000s in the Melee era and I have been telling everyone for decades that DK is a good character. It's great to see that people are finally seeing it today!
Idk hes ok. Not bad at all tho. Hes mid but not a bad option
@@illforddid you watch the video? Did you see a DK force Leffen to switch off of the #1 character, Fox, to Sheik? And others doing the same? If a character can go toe to toe with world’s best Fox players, he is better than mid
This is awesome bro, it’s so so dope seeing Real OG DK talent make an appearance in a 2023 comment section!
@@illfordaverage space animal main in 2023 sad about how the mid tiers are becoming more and more viable
@@MarMaxGaming you’re not negating what the other guys said. dk is decent, he’s a mid tier. mid tiers take sets off top spacies sometimes, that doesn’t make them amazing characters. yoshi and pika are mid tiers and theyve actually won major tournaments
"Donkey Kong isn't here to punish us, or save us, but to help us weather the storm." Love this quote. Melee will forever be a game built from the foundation of the grassroot scene and the love of the game. So in our time of need, when everything is seemingly crumbling down around us, DK is there to remind us where we came from and the genuine love we have for a game more then 20 years old.
1:22:33 I absolutely did NOT expect to see a picture of Jerma and Ringler together. Even funnier that you just labeled him as "some guy". I am laughing my ass off. 😂
Ringler was one of the elves on his Christmas stream last year
Some Guy (left)
Deadass? That's funny. @@tjtribble.
It was really wholesome seeing Moe compliment Ringler's DK saying he does the most "clean looking punish" and that the DK is "beautiful" and then 30 minutes later seeing Ringler say that Moe has "the prettiest DK"
I agree so much!
UPDATE: BING (A DK FROM UPSTATE) JUST BEAT CODY IN GOMLX WINNERS FOR TOP 32
WHAT??? WHO TF IS BING??? I WAS JUST REWATCHING A GOOD VIDEO LOL
@@masked9405He was originally known as Dai (or Dai-A). He’s originally from Utah, used to reside in Texas, and currently lives in upstate New York.
He co-mains Captain Falcon in Melee, and mains Falco & Snake in Brawl.
This video is expertly produced, directed, edited, and crafted! You deserve thousands of likes
Appreciate it!!
Success!
Akir made a great point when he called out people blaming DK only succeeding because of unfamiliarity or cheese. It's just a cop out to protect ego at the end of the day. DK isn't some new patched in character. He's been in the game for 20 years. The truth is when you lose to a DK it's because you aren't taking it serious enough to prepare for it or you're doing things against DK that's leaving you too vulnerable and you need to break those habits. That's why Leffen went from laughing on stream at the idea of losing to DK to being 0-2 versus Ringler and having to switch to Sheik and still only won by the skin of his teeth.
Regardless of a character's tier, you better be ready for them because a good enough player with them is going to humble you fast.
He actually laughed on stream after to be fair! Good points being made though.
It's a two player game at the end of the day, even if your character is really good at making it into a one player game sometimes.
Its a pretty valid point tho, a dk player with 10000hours has 1000s of hours in the fox/falco/marth/shiek matchups but a top tier main with 10000 hours has like maximum 100 hours in the DK matchup. Mid/low tier one tricks have that massive advantage on their side. Just look at the Bobby match, he legit thought its a true chain grab.
pretty sure if you don't know how a character works because you haven't been able to practice against it and rarely see it is going to give up some percentage points. like your point is absurd.
@@zipzop6000 my sides. If you’ve been playing for years and don’t find a way to learn to beat DK that’s kinda your fault.
I love seeing the balance of melee slowly equalize as people naturally unlock the potential of the underlooked. One day we'll live in a world where even Bowser can do some clean shit on the main stage.
@@YOSSARIAN313 I do play bowser on slippi from time to time, and yes, he is DEF agonizing to play. HOWEVER, there is a certain flow state you reach when you play enough bowser, where you understand how limited he is and only play to his strengths, vs. someone who doesn't realize the bowser does have one or two clean techs up is sleeve that really demonstrates how much of a knowledge game melee really is. Am I saying that bowser is some hidden top tier that just needs to be unlocked? Hell no. Probs never will be. But seeing him move at all on the tierlist will be fascinating to watch as more and more people look into the lower tiers with the intention to unlock as much potential as they can ^-^
Rlly happy that u covered a little bit of the European scene. Lots of smash docs I’ve seen tend to ignore what happens outside of North America and it’s nice to see both acknowledgment and respect for the players outside of that region.
In general though the way you explain how all these small communities connect to each other and interact is brilliant and really shines a spotlight on what makes playing and discussing comp melee so much fun. The whole documentary is a bonafide celebration of their accomplishments.
Enviable work here, excellent video.
Thank you! My understanding is that Europe secretly has the most DK players per Capita, and Moe is sick on top of that. It would have been criminal to exclude the eu scene!
As soon as I saw Da’s Twitter clips I knew DK was going to swing into the meta
haha. swing. like a monky
He IS the King of Swing after all.
“I just feel like I’m really good at rock paper scissors”
This is the greatest melee mentality I have ever heard in my life.
Wow, you did not spare a single detail on this one and I love it! I appreciate when Melee videos pursue every single storyline to really tell the full tale, and your accuracy was also just spot-on. Excellent job, for real.
This is ain't a renaissance, it's a Kongquest
Here after BING double eliminated the rank #15 player in the entire world, Zuppy, to win a regional. It hasn't even been a week since the last Donkey Kong tournament win
51:53 I love how the Fox player is visibly amazed at what he's being subjected to
the cool factor with dk is off the charts you can't help but smile when getting demolished by dk
The transformation between Green Ranger and Da is actually insane. The DK that started it all vs the current, most underrated DK I have ever seen and it was so beautiful to see. Watching Ringer play in Mainstage almost made switch from Roy to DK and I'm still considering that.
DK just looks so badass to play, gives a middle finger to anyone that doesn't know how to fight against the monke.
It’s interesting because dk is the most like top tiers in terms of playstyle. He’s a character like marth and puff and falcon, but with crippling weaknesses that they don’t have
Great watch. The end hit me hard because its true. DK is comforting as a character. When my dad died of cancer when I was 11 I was depressed and closed off. The first game I played after my Dad's passing was DK64. I love that game flaws and all. Something about the Kongs was soothing and helped me grieve. I always played DK in every smash game. I didn't care if I lost I still had fun because I always loved DK. Thank you for this.
I'm sorry to hear that. I lost my dad in 2007 to cancer as well. I hope you keep doing well and know he is still watching you and loves you.
This video is aging better day by day. DK has now made top 8 at 2 majors
ladies and gentlemen, a New Kongstitution has been written
didn't expect the video to be so riveting. Was actually laughing out loud at the 1 hour+ runtime.
"No way can someone BS about DK for that long"
This was actually an incredibly made video.
Great interviews and storytelling, but most importantly good job of using visuals to illustrate what was being said in the script.
I never felt like what was on screen was distracting from what was being said.
This is one of the best melee documentaries I've seen. I really hope this goes viral
This was a shockingly well-crafted documentary, definitely wasn't expecting this level of production. Fantastic video! Keep it up!
COMING BACK A YEAR LATER OMFG JUNEBUG BABYYYYYY
super awesome vid, as someone that can't rly be consistently plugged into the scene I'm really grateful for mini docs like this
wait i called this a mini doc not realizing i was still watching an hour later hahaha 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 thank you for this awesome doc, legend
The real Donkey Kong was the friends we made along the way
I have no idea how you did all this research, but you have created a masterpiece. This reminds me of a summoningsalt level of detail and story telling. Thanks!
NEW UPDATE: JUNEBUG GOT 3rd PLACE AT MAJOR TOURNAMENT SUPERNOVA. LETS FUKING GOOOOOOOO
The fact that melee's metagame continues to evolve in interesting ways is amazing
as a DK main in ultimate, this brings tears to my eyes. finally the MONKE is getting his respect
It’s so satisfying see DK teach Fox a lesson
Most people started playing melee because the smash brothers documentary. I am proud to say this is the reason I downloaded slippi
Same here! I’m on fox now bc I wanted to play more aggressive but I am still a dk fan and my pocket dk still goes crazy lmao
A DK IS IN TOP 24 AT THE BIG HOUSE 11. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Edit: JUNE BEAT GINGER. He's in top 16!! WTFFFF
Edit 2: June loses 3-0 to Aklo, out of Big House 11 at 13th. This is by far the best performance from a DK at a supermajor to date, taking sets off Ginger, Magi, and taking n0ne to game 5.
Ckyulmiqnudaetr did pretty well too. Top 64 is a great placing, he wiped Khryke easily, and while he didn't take any games off Magi he still brought her Falco to last stock on all 3 of them.
his falco
@@FishwicksREAL >sees beautiful woman
> "he"
Your life must be very confusing
dk got 3rd
@@user-it2kq4ty9q he most certainly did!
i will never play melee but the community behind it is utterly beautiful and fascinating. love this video
The last few months I have fallen utterly in love with the Kong. Just this following weekend, I played DK in a regional tournament for the first time (SweetSpot7) and got 65th. While not incredibly impressive of a placement, it has inspired me to continue to grind the character. I love DK, and seeing my fellow Kongs doing so well makes me so very happy
Great vid, well put together on all fronts, but I gotta say some of the visual gags and editing was absolutely top tier. You made this funny as hell throughout your own commentary but left good breathing room for stories take the space they need, very well done.
junebug got 3rd at smashcon only losing the 2nd and 1st place.
I don't even play Melee, and I'm only casually invested in watching tournaments. I haven't seen any of these players' DKs except for Ringler. But I just sat through this whole thing and by the end I was wishing there was more. Amazing job!
Love that these comments have become an archive for updated DK wins
How does this not have hundreds of thousands of views? Bro this was amazing. I'm hyped to see the DK resurgence blowing our heads off.
50k views on a 90 minute video in less than a week is still quite well-performing
@@ShuckleShellAnemia you know what, you right.
Melee isn't as big of a content game as other fighting games
@@illford a damn shame if you asked me
@@illford truth be told most stuff that could be done in Melee has already been done and what's left to discover is usually shit only experts can spot
I love that so many members even prominent ones of the smash community will generally do interviews and chats as well as insights via social media on their process and thoughts on the meta game. It’s incredible that this community is turning out very high quality content 2 decades after the games release. The community is only continuing to grow and people are still getting better and better, always pushing tech and match ups. Melee really has the best community of any game. So much love for the game and the players. (And it preserves CRTs, another great love of mine)
I've never wanted to monkey around more in my entire life
I'm used to it
It's insane how good this video is. Never thought I'd see a high-quality, non-shitpost 'Donkey Kong in Melee' documentary but here we are, and I couldn't be happier
87 minutes AND 3 seconds of donkey kong? wusstunes... i think im in love, with you.
Kind of crazy now that we are in 2024, and 3 dks have found their way onto the top 100. DK has what it takes!
I only occasionally check in on the melee community and saw DKs in top 64. I had mamy questions and you've answered them beautifully.
Who’s here after Junebug getting top 3 at Supernova
This is some of the best melee content that’s been made in a while. Very well done
So glad we got a signature Junebug chuckle in this video, PM REP
Dude I clicked on this and didn't realize until ten minutes in the actual length of the video and it absolutely blew me away the entire way through. Easiest sub of my life, great video man! Excited to see what you do in the future.
I wish I could like this a million times. Great video so well put together. I just recently found my love for DK last week and have become a 20DK believer officially after watching this vid. The ape can do it and we will get home to the top one day.
You really out dun yourself on this one! An hour and a half of QUALITY kongtent!
I like Akir's reason for switching, I used to be a spacies marth kinda kid then I took a sip of that low tier magic and playing Link has been the most fun I've had in the game
am 30 minutes into this video and i only now am realizing i’m watching a movie. very good pacing thus far and super well put together information. this all coming from a not-so knowledgeable melee-interested non-player
I usually don’t watch full smash documentaries but I’m a sucker for low/mid tier content and the general obscurity of tier lists this era. I can also recognize this video took a lot of work and editing, thanks!
I didnt know DK was actually real. I've been jokingly picking him each time I get frustrated and was getting results. Guess this is my life now.
wait dk is real? holy dshit
This is probably one of the most well written, researched, and edited documentaries i've seen on youtube! It's also on the best monke around what more could I ask for
Twotran is another good DK that comes to mind who inspired Rishi to play the character iirc
Not sure about their recent tournament attendance or plans to enter any upcoming events though
When I spoke to Ringler, I think I was told that Twotran is a DK who could feasibly top 64 a major to this day. (Could have some DKs mixed up though!) If I had more time to spend on this project would have probably sought out an interview with him.
Dang this video was amazingly made! My favourite part was that donkey kong face materialising on the moon. You have real skill for pacing a lengthy video as well- didn't want to look away for a second
I thought I clicked on a 1min 27 second video but.. I sat here for over an hour. Well done. Seriously. Documentary level. Subbed.
Also thats kinda awesome how the name “bum” wasnt uttered once in the vid.
He was deff a very strong player early on but never traveled and eventually disappeared entirely
There is a very good minidoc on bum already out there. I thought about talking about him in this video but ultimately didn't find a spot for it.
great video man! had me feeling like
People that complain about "low tiers" that play top tier have easily been the most annoying part of my melee journey of 21 years. Let's all explore this seemingly invincible game together and see how much juice we can squeeze out of it haha great video man I was delightfully surprised
Don't care play an actual character and not hope you can get the 3 mus you can actually win because you can only up air fastfallers x5
@@horizon1132 live and let live buddy. No need to complain with a silver spoon in your mouth
to see donkey kong scare off the same Fox that scared off Armada's Peach, is a beautiful thing... 20DK is real
I honestly clicked this assuming I wouldn't finish it but this has been so well made that I watched it all.
Same here!
Some of the best content on UA-cam straight up. It’s so interesting how creators will find their niche and create videos like this that deserve immense amounts of attention but can’t get it because of the relatively small community around the subject matter. I hope this hits the algorithm HARD
This video was really good and It want me to share my history as, for the moment, the best spanish dk ñ, ranked 7th in Spain (which isnt actually too good, we are not very talented xD). So i entered the comunity, i think It was on 2006, with 8 years, and quickly go first Falcon main, then marth main. On 2015 i was like 5th on my subregion at the time, Barcelona, and like 20 on Spain aprox with marth. And then i had to play k12, a samus player. My brother played samus all time so i had the mu experienced freshed and i actually did really good against very good samuses. But he didnt pick samus, he picked DONKEY KONG. He had changed mains for some mu, and marth was one of them. He destoyed me in a very fun way, and i was impresed. So i tried to pull dk as a joke too, It was funny and quirky, but i still mained marth. But slowly, as more time passed and i started to play more dk, my dk was caching my marth and i was starting to go dk against sheik, and It was working somehow. On 2018 i actually went full dk and changed my tag, from iu2king to iudking, making the DK joke instead of the mew2king joke. I actually labbed dk, at first i thaught i could get 2nd in Spain and that the character was good enough to maybe get some wins against low profile top 100. On pandemic i actually played a lot, i moved regions and in this region where i'm now, valencia, we are pretty actives, so i started labbing a lot. Rn i'm the best in valencia, kinda at the same level as the 2nd here, and i'm 7th in spain, and i want to get better. Now, seeing all that happened recently and having more general knowledge, i feel that the only mu that might be imposible for dk on top level might be a really good puff, like hbox, so i think solo dk is actually a character that, in the right hands, could win a Major. I'm really optimistic, not only on myself, but on the character, i have no doubts on it
The sad thing is that melee for me, at least rn, is a hobby and i have a full time job that just makes me unable to travel for Europe as much as i want actually. I'm going to fete anyway, i Will have my free days for that specific month, so i'm very excited. I'm planning too on going on a tournament on fall, but idk if theres some fall tours announced in europe
I've heard a good amount about Spanish DKs! Thanks for sharing.
Are you the guy that challenged me to a dk v samus money match with you only using one hand?
@@abigcupofwater nop, thats k12
@@iudking3589 ahhh yes, that sounds familiar
Honestly the best vid this community has seen since the melee doc. Well done
Dk win patchwork 2024 🐒
The best kind of video documentaries are the ones that randomly pop in your recommended about games you're interested in but don't play.
There's just an inherit sense of satisfaction in my brain whenever this giant ass monke is on screen :)
Thank you for the great video!
The other reason dk is like captain falcon is no matter how lame the combo he does is it looks really cool
@@wusstunes monkey combos up air > up air > up air > up air > up air and somehow its the most entertaining shit ive ever seen.
this is great. really deep dive and the editing was funny too
This documentary was so good and awesome that when I see DK doing so well in Collision I couldn't stop thinking in this video. Incredible job, I Love it.
Such quality from a smaller creator, I’m very happy I’ve found another creator to binge.
update update: a donkey kong just beat the best player in the world... what world are we living in...
Zain has been the best in the world for like 6 months now, he's won a lot more just the official list hasnt been updated yet
Dude, please keep making more of these. You deserve all the views you're getting.
Donkey Kong is a hammer.
Bro, your choice of music around 56:54 from the original game (DKC) is absolutely perfect. Thanks for the nostalgia. You've earned my subscription.
Honestly the best documentary I've seen since 2020
when this dude in the secret DK monk society came out with the voice changer, i immediately stopped the video and pressed like and shared it to a few buds. Im watching something special!
It genuinely excites me to see changes in Melee even after all this time. And other than Falcon, DK is the only character from Melee that I would consider a main in the other Smash games, so it kind of makes me want to finally pick up Melee and give this character a shot and see if the game finally clicks with me.
If someone does a backflip after you win then you've officially made it
I feel like the Donkey Kong players are a part of a evil clergy unlike the AMSA Yoshi who won through honor, dedication and hard work. Donkey Kong feels sinister.
They're just playing a video game.
I love the chaotic editing of this video, you should be proud of making such a good video.
I think this is the greatest part of melee that I don’t see as much in other competitive video games. The heart. Melee has always been grassroots and linked community and to see such as optimized and oppressive game becoming so diverse and meta changing after 20 years because people refused to give up on their favorite characters. It’s just such an optimistic and hopeful reality. I think that’s why DK is so special as he represents the heart of melee, and like melee he’ll be there for us to weather this storm.
Put this on to try to take a nap but couldn’t take my eyes off the screen, great vid!
My DK inspiration all started with Captain Jack. I definitely miss the old days of the scene!
Those zooms in the junebug juicebox match played with my emotions so hard.
i don't have much to say other than this is a wonderfully made video and your storytelling and editing skills have only improved since i first watched your Chicagoland DK video
i sincerely hope your content can reach more and more of the community in the future, the sheer care and passion you put into your work is amazing
monke bless 🙏🍌
this is literally the most exciting thing to happen to melee in years. the fact that it took 2 decades to uncover this character is incredible and gives life to possibility of new things happening in the game forever.
CEO wasn't a major because there was a samus in top 8 in a 2022 tournament. please argue with me on this
Please give me this win
I beg you LOL
What a phenomenal video. I didn't even realize I had watched some of your stuff before without even realizing it. Ez sub