Just about nobody is playing as Ness today in today’s Super Smash Bros. Melee competition at Evo 2014. Good reason. The Earthbound hero is considered a bottom-tiercharacter for competitive play. But a guy named Vrud played him. He even dressed the part.
Vrud didn’t win, but he put in a valiant effort that shocked Evo’s announcers and excited the 30,000 people watching the Evo 2014 livestream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY6HHcuTjmw
Today’s Smash matches are all best-of-three rounds. Vrud lost his the first round. Above, you’ll see his second.
By contrast, here’s a win by S2J, a top player using Captain Falcon, who is one of the better-regarded characters in the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oed8yz4e2Bw
And here’s an incredible show of force by an exceptionally good Yoshi player, VGBC aMSa. Bear in mind, people used to think Yoshi wasn’t a great character for competitive play!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCxnbzgqZbY
You can watch all of the Evo 2014 matches for Smash and seven other fighting games via Twitch. We’ve got all three streams for you right here
https://kotaku.com/watch-the-years-biggest-fighting-game-tournament-right-1603553691
If you see any great Evo moments that you think are worth a spotlight on Kotaku, let me know!
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