Hello everyone. I'm a Donkey Kong player from Ecuador, and i wanted to say that i recently went to my first offline tournament nearly 2 months ago at an Esports arena that recently opened a few months ago in Guayaquil. I managed to make it to 3rd place out of 62 players with DK only. At one point had an entire crowd making monkey noises and cheering on me. My biggest accomplishment yet.
mechanically yeah. brawl was a regression. though it was definitely needed to slightly slow down the gameplay, and i think ultimate is genuinely the best smash game for that reason. its fast enough and consistent enough not to be boring, but not so fast its unapproachable for new players.
I feel so gratified, I have been grinding Elite Smash with DK since release and I always fundamentally believed he has all the tools to compete against most of the roster favorably. Thanks for pointing out his strengths!
Hi! If everyone is interested, here in Mexico we do think donkey is a pretty strong character We have 3 big representatives of the character, Ego | Skelldany, Cosmic Hive | Duplex and Stock Bandits | Johnny, they are pretty strong and activately considered top 5 of their respective states
@@why3994 It wasn't covered in the video. This guy's talking about the Eggdog Invitational which is a big Melee Invitational happening at the end of August. Like Summit, there's crowdfunding where you can vote in your favorite players to compete in the event. And as you can probably guess based on what OP said, Junebug is campaigning to get in.
18:50 I looked at bus routes for a local that's a bit far between my college and house and it takes like three hours to get there not counting walking distances between the stops so yea I'd literally only be able to go by car
16:50 What in the world was that slow-mo edit? Why try to interpolate frames? It just makes it much harder to follow what's going on when 75-80% of the footage is completely made up.
Dude Chunkykong even from his early days has always terrified me, the guy is such a patient menace. I've also never seen someone practically SD to reset staling so PDKO percentages line up.. lmao
I wish you talked more about what aspects of Donkey's moveset and the ways people are utilising/exploiting those aspects makes him more effective than he used to be.
i do wish he had covered rarikkusu and leo's set at delta 8, one of the funniest sets imagineable. Rari 3 stocks leo with dk g1, switches to falco and 2 stocks him, then leo pulls off the reverse 3-0, wild
You'd think that famous Jpop singer Hikaru Utada would main Sora, but cool to see her making waves in tween pop culture and the DK meta! Hikaru has such a simple and clean DK
You know, I kinda wanna see a tournament in 2024 of smash ultimate going back to the release version of the game, I think it would be interesting to watch (Yes im talking about version 1.0.0, with the broken Chrom Up-B)
Im not good at playing heavies but as a trapper archetype player most of the time i eat them for breakfast. Dk players are unusually skilled 4 no reason. Incin still gives me trouble.
low skill floor = the worst player is really bad high skill floor = the worst player can hold their own on it A good way to remember is if you say skill is out of 100% (playing perfectly) a low skill floor means the player can drop down to 0% (useless), a high skill floor means they can only drop down to 50% (at worst you can still take a stock) for example
I think there are multiple ways that phrase gets used. I'd interpret a "high skill floor" as meaning you need a higher amount of skill before your results get much better than you'd have with zero skill.
I dont get it I play slippi my first match up is donkey kong, the next day i take a break from melee and play ultimate online I kept queuing with the same Donkey Kong that I played in melee the day before...
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It’s so cool that Hikaru Nakamura, the famous chess player, was able to pull off such excellent results with Donkey Kong!
Not that one
I love his nooby playstyle he makes some dummy smart plays
Especially with his signature technique "the dongcloud"
😂
Sufficiently advanced heavy play is indistinguishable from beginner heavy play
Hello everyone. I'm a Donkey Kong player from Ecuador, and i wanted to say that i recently went to my first offline tournament nearly 2 months ago at an Esports arena that recently opened a few months ago in Guayaquil. I managed to make it to 3rd place out of 62 players with DK only. At one point had an entire crowd making monkey noises and cheering on me. My biggest accomplishment yet.
average DK W
Yo dude was any of Guayaquil's top players there?
Saludos desde Ecuador 🇪🇨🤙
@@MrKing_MC A few of them, but I forgot their names.
Sounds annoying… let the guy focus
congrats that’s awesome!
steve being his own archetype is just perfect lol
I mean technically so is DK if you think about it.
It’s funny that Steve just plays Minecraft in a different game
@@RED_XLRnot gonna lie, I still think dk is the only true grappler (the other were mostly bruiser maybe inveroar)
Steve it’s just it’s own game as a whole
@@ZAPRST8879 Luigi is incredibly reliant on grab
The fact is, people like to play DK and watch DK. That is going to boost his representation and therefore apparent viability.
"Melee and its predecessor Brawl"
Lmao glad I wasn't the only one to catch that. Should've been _successor_
Brawl is so bad, nobody counts it as a game after melee
@@starfox300id rather watch grass grow than play brawl 😂
He's not wrong
mechanically yeah. brawl was a regression. though it was definitely needed to slightly slow down the gameplay, and i think ultimate is genuinely the best smash game for that reason. its fast enough and consistent enough not to be boring, but not so fast its unapproachable for new players.
Bad netcode and car culture.... a dastardly duo
16:50 This is actually one of the coolest reads of all time I swear
Acola going DK against Spargo is one of the greatest sets of all time
Walt is gonna run out of characters to do videos on so he will just start making recaps of coinboxes
The discovery of aerial up b out of shield was actually tier changing. That shit is legitimately really good.
no longer can opponents pressure DK big boy shield for free without risk
I feel so gratified, I have been grinding Elite Smash with DK since release and I always fundamentally believed he has all the tools to compete against most of the roster favorably. Thanks for pointing out his strengths!
Hi!
If everyone is interested, here in Mexico we do think donkey is a pretty strong character
We have 3 big representatives of the character, Ego | Skelldany, Cosmic Hive | Duplex and Stock Bandits | Johnny, they are pretty strong and activately considered top 5 of their respective states
3:58 small correction here but the highest placing by a Donkey Kong Player ever was actually Hikaru at UFA 2022, where he got 3rd.
he meant highest placing in melee 😭😭😭
@@honathan2135 seemed unclear to me
@@Caleb-zl4wkcontext clues context clues context clues
@@Caleb-zl4wkIt's under the "Melee & Brawl" chapter of the video.
@@Caleb-zl4wk it was in a melee section
It's monke monday!!
No
its wednesday
True
I always knew DK was underrated. Glad to see so many reps work hard to show his potential.
love how you sprinkled lyrics from the DK rap into the script
Soon the Donkey Kong renaissance in Tekken
VOTE FOR JUNEBUG
I haven't watched the video yet so i have no idea what this means but sure I'll vote for junebug
@@why3994 It wasn't covered in the video. This guy's talking about the Eggdog Invitational which is a big Melee Invitational happening at the end of August.
Like Summit, there's crowdfunding where you can vote in your favorite players to compete in the event. And as you can probably guess based on what OP said, Junebug is campaigning to get in.
i assumed this was about the 2024 presidential election
"Oh fuck your tierlist, truth is only hearsay.
We're just left to D-K.
Modernity has failed us...."
2024 SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE YEAR OF THE MONKE
LONG LIVE DONKEY KONG!
Wait, the AKI player is the same DK player? That's awesome.
there are already three comments saying "babe wake up Walt uploaded" also i woke up a few minutes ago
I WAS THE FIRST
I HAVE SEEN EVERYTHING
(If you know what this is from, good on you, you’re a chad)
@@ValentinesdayghostNgl the chica line is kinda cold
therefore, you are babe
@@d.s.alcoda lol
here as hurt and muteace were eliminated from tournaments by DK very recently
3:26 i think you got melee and brawl backwards here
Maybe he meant to say successor instead of predecessor
@@chasenewberry6866 that’s what I imagine. Doesn’t impede my understanding tho I know what he meant haha
It's a joke saying that brawl was worse than melee, and therefore precedes it
@@bucketspree4952 TIL
#iykyk
The best player in Ireland is a DK called wombat (ik that doesn’t sound like much but he has some really good wins on EU players)
He's the best dk player in europe by far, he has some incredible wins
Really happy to have such a talented player here
18:50 I looked at bus routes for a local that's a bit far between my college and house and it takes like three hours to get there not counting walking distances between the stops so yea I'd literally only be able to go by car
Smash Brothers: The Wrath of Kong
Yo, my boy Little mac got absolutely ignored in the archetypes, don't do my man dirty like that
As a melee guy I don't usually watch ultimate content but Walt you just make such good shit that I couldn't help but pay full attention
in France, Sirove is doing big things. I remember him going last game last stock against spargo at some events
“Melee, and it’s predecessor Brawl”
Successor.
Lets see, we got sword characters... um, sword characters... sword characters...
16:50 What in the world was that slow-mo edit? Why try to interpolate frames? It just makes it much harder to follow what's going on when 75-80% of the footage is completely made up.
I'm here after seeing Hurt get 49th outta nowhere.
I never knew the chess legend himself, Hikaru is so good at smash bros
Dude Chunkykong even from his early days has always terrified me, the guy is such a patient menace. I've also never seen someone practically SD to reset staling so PDKO percentages line up.. lmao
1:16 King Dedede’s recovery is decent.
until the super armor decides to unalive itself
Good distance but very predictable, and laggy.
@@Appletank8eh not really, i guess it is predictable but the super armour makes it very difficult to challenge and ddd can just go to ledge with it
I was just watching this when I see June bug made it to grand finals with DK in Melee at patchwork. This is insane
great vid, now I have a bunch of matches to watch
DK rise in Melee and Ultimate. Amazing.
First time I've heard Palu called a Sword Character.
If supporting the DK Revolution won’t get people to support equitable transportation infrastructure across the country, what will?
How are ice climbers a swordie.
hammers have disjoint similar to swords
Junebug just won patchwork against salt it was epic
Shout out to PM and ThunderzReign, the goat!
14:23 IM SORRY THAT KILLED AT WHAT??
To be fair the Yoshi put down his controller
Nairo is still a huge influence. People wont admit that though but he keeps this character alive every day just about.
3:05 “Cargo Throw sets up for kills no other character could” meanwhile in the clips DK kills himself hahahhaha
I wish you talked more about what aspects of Donkey's moveset and the ways people are utilising/exploiting those aspects makes him more effective than he used to be.
11:51 what is glutonny doing😭
I think it's fun that DK has enough of a fanbase that multiple Smash games have dedicated player bases who are making waves in the tournament scene.
No one plays DK for winning but they play it for fun
i do wish he had covered rarikkusu and leo's set at delta 8, one of the funniest sets imagineable. Rari 3 stocks leo with dk g1, switches to falco and 2 stocks him, then leo pulls off the reverse 3-0, wild
1:13 this is the top of the barrel
Babe wake up Walt uploaded
I hope this was a play on Wusstunes DK video about it’s use in Melee
Ice Climbers are Sword Characters?
13:07 DK spanking wario
Thank you. This type of content is the reason i wake up in the morning
11:26 Jahzz0 got 2nd, not 3rd
8:51 WAIT IS THE Cracked Aki player Hikaru the same as the DK PLAYER. If so he made the right decision.
No that’s a different guy
3:26 did you mean successor?
Wolf is definitely a sword character that isn’t really a sword character but is still a sword character.
Sword character until you fight a genuine sword character lol
would Mewtwo be a "sword character if you added hurtboxes to the sword"?
You'd think that famous Jpop singer Hikaru Utada would main Sora, but cool to see her making waves in tween pop culture and the DK meta! Hikaru has such a simple and clean DK
Video has very very good editing. Surprised you don’t have more subs man 👍
You know, I kinda wanna see a tournament in 2024 of smash ultimate going back to the release version of the game, I think it would be interesting to watch (Yes im talking about version 1.0.0, with the broken Chrom Up-B)
Very cool to myself in a TDFW video
We gonna act like Ult Bowser has bad movement now?
18:35 Another common car-based infrastructure L to add to the mountainous pile. May Henry Ford be facing eternal torment for his misdeeds.
20:08
0:13 Wario is none? T-T
this is a dumb nitpick but chunkykong started competing in 2019, the tournaments were on challonge though so it wouldn’t show up on smashdata
3:23
Walt time traveller confirmed
3:24 wouldn’t melee be the predecessor?
thought this was the dk renaissance for melee
That Falco vs fox is funny
7:23 ok this joke is so fire LMAO
Im not good at playing heavies but as a trapper archetype player most of the time i eat them for breakfast.
Dk players are unusually skilled 4 no reason.
Incin still gives me trouble.
and i return as a dk won a major in melee
What channel am I on?
Results aside, from a design perspective, it feels like they hit the sweetspot with heavies in this game.
Babe, wake up! Walt uploaded!
Amazing vid as always Walt. Btw, Jahzzo got second at momocon 2024 not third
3:25 I know it's petty but melee is brawl's predecessor not the other way around
Ah yes, Melee and its predecessor Brawl.
No more journeys back in time!
That DK is definitely not purple
This was great, a similar video about Bayonetta would be excellent the character has really risen compared to the beginning of ultimate.
I LOVE DK, HES SO CHEESY
8:50 That was hilarious😂
this is happening in melee too
The ding dong sounds like the hoo hah but missing the hbox
Shouts out to my goat NOODL from south Jersey!!
Something about those shitty charackters with a low skill sealiing is realy appeling to me
Where's my Samus Renaissance? :(
low skill floor = the worst player is really bad
high skill floor = the worst player can hold their own on it
A good way to remember is if you say skill is out of 100% (playing perfectly) a low skill floor means the player can drop down to 0% (useless), a high skill floor means they can only drop down to 50% (at worst you can still take a stock) for example
I think there are multiple ways that phrase gets used. I'd interpret a "high skill floor" as meaning you need a higher amount of skill before your results get much better than you'd have with zero skill.
"In Melee and it's *predecessor* Brawl". I realize Brawl took some steps back, but daaaayum.
1:07 It's not melee
Glad you've covered my main big fan :)
10:10 You know him well.
I dont get it I play slippi my first match up is donkey kong, the next day i take a break from melee and play ultimate online I kept queuing with the same Donkey Kong that I played in melee the day before...
I fcking knew he was going to make this video 😂