The Legend of Game 4 MkLeo

every great game has its legends oh look at the class look at the moves [Music] [Applause] this game is a young one we live in between the gaps in chapters stories still being written around us whether they remain is still to be found and yet some legends are undeniable some myths demand that you believe in them from their inception and in smash ultimate there's one story so powerful it threatens to warp the petty bastions of logic reason and counterpicks it has wrapped its grip around our heart and forced it firmly into our collective throat seizing its place as ultimate's most enduring folk tale activated target acquired it is the singular tale of one player and one situation the ultimate statistical outlier a legend resonant for its specificity as much as its totality when those conditions arise and when that player is on stage you can feel the fingers of myth wrap themselves around you threatening to shake spectator and player alike until they are of accord with the pull of fate this story is not inevitable there have been setbacks times where it seems more coincidence than magic it's not even totally consistent but if you ask any ultimate player they will speak of it with reverence on their lips or at least a good amount of disbelief this legend is still being written but it's the very excitement and bewilderment that this story might be coming to a close that makes it clear we have to tell it if tweek is up 2-1 against a 2-0 against me it means danger this is the legend of game four leia he's still in it no he is not he's gone in the upsmash across the way no he doesn't mk leo fighting back against sweet direction no way man he's all over him zero to sixty jumping to the ledge three stock for mk mk leo has been number one for so long that it feels like a truism of the smash ultimate world mk leia is the best player in the world the sun rises in the east and sets in the west water is wet there was a time when this was less certain though lest we forget the top seed at smash ultimate's first official major was not mk leo it was tweek who had finished no worse than third at a pgr event in smash 4's last six months and who owed a six to three lifetime record against leo in smash 4. leo had genesis 5 ceo and smash khan all under his belt in 2018 but the last time leo and tweak were at the same tournament shine 2018 tweek eliminated leo in losers quarterfinals smash conference united was arguably smash ultimate's first major even though it occurred in the preseason leading up to the first pgru season which began just a few weeks later at genesis 6. here mk leia would begin to prove he was the best in the world that's not what i was expecting at all not at all did you know that mk leo had a richter well he didn't despite that he busted out the vampire slayer against a bit man in winner's top 24. forward bro oh gets a side b wow so much knockout not gonna kill yet a bit man who was pgru ranked in season one and had been one of the best robs in the world since smash 4 sent the richter packing but leo entered serious mode after two games and switched to his first true main ike what followed was likely unbeknownst to anyone in that room the first spark of a major piece of smash history as leo's ike took care of business to send eight bit men packing to losers going to be the end of ap man mk leo taking it in an extremely close game five mk leo's biggest test was samsora his grand finals opponent piloting peach in her powerful pre-patch form samsora jumped out to a 2-0 lead including a dominant game 2 in which leo didn't hold the lead for a single missing second completely but it's okay for insurance once again three of them it will be enough for fair to kill him and he finds it leia was dominant in games three and four holding the lead for nearly ninety percent of each game but game five that was all samsara all samsura that is until the literal last second doesn't have a jump oh my god just like game two mk leo didn't hold the lead for a single second in game 5. the difference though was leo found the forward tilt at 69 percent to win the game in game 5 snatching victory from the jaws of defeat it was a great comeback win it was not quite the stuff of legends at least not yet mk leia won genesis 6 ultimate's first official major but thanks to a couple of upsets he didn't have to go through tweak to do it that set up frostbite 2019 as the first potential meeting of the two giants of early ultimate and it delivered with the pair meeting in winners finals leo jumped out to a 2-0 lead and the statement seemed clear the king was ascending to the throne hey that's fine just winner's bracket right loser's side leo is a different beast and the champion we dropped the hammer on leo a reverse 6-0 and with the rest of the winter and early spring fairly light in terms of events leia was going to have to hold that one for a while after suffering some of his worst ultimate results of his career leia was hoping to use smash factor eight as a springboard into the rest of the summer of smash with huge events like evo and smash con just on the horizon standing in his way was mars against whom leo had a three set win streak easy pickings right we have almost a fuller sin oh so let's sum up where things stand at this point in ultimate history leo has pulled a couple of reverse threos but when his back was against the wall with tweek and mars his two strongest contenders for title of best in the world they managed to shut him out but hey every legend has to start somewhere right oh my gosh now you might be thinking to yourself this is supposed to be a video about how great leo is myth legend all that dramatic stuff we talked about in the intro right instead tweek has six straight games on him and he just lost a game forward to mars if this is going to be a legend then something legendary has gotta happen sad it's important to remember that ultimate was still in its infancy at this point the game hadn't even been out for a year and leo's joker was only a few months old we had genesis we had frostbite but we still hadn't been to the scene's biggest event albeit one with a whole lot of best of threes evo if there's ever an arena to make history in it's evo as the first evo with smash ultimate evo 2019 remains the biggest smash tournament of all time with an absolutely absurd total entrance count of 3 3534 which is a full 800 more than the next biggest tournament smash con 2019 the previous record holder evo 2016 with 2662 entrants there were more factors than the size that put something special in the era evo leo had managed to end tweak streak at momocon putting the pair at a 2-2 record in a battle for the title of ultimate's number one player a rivalry charged by the recent release of the first ever pgru but the shape of ultimate had changed since their frostbite showdown i mean back when they played at frostbite the matchup was wario vs lucina although they had claimed number one and number two in the pgru bear in mind that neither leo nor tweek looked unbeatable they had both suffered a character crisis in the interim and posted noticeably shaky results funnily enough both of them put up 33rd place finishes at their first majors playing joker but while tweek abandoned the character leo stuck with joker leading to such results as that very momocon victory over tweet that's it mk leo fighting back against tweet tweak on the other hand journeyed from character to character until he landed on pokemon trainer honing it at locals and finally proving its medal at low tier city just before evo all signs pointed to the end of the character crisis big pop-up from tweak he's jumping all over the stage and with that the stage was set for evo to be a no reservations bonafide crowning of the champion and boy howdy did it not disappoint tweek went on an absolute tear beating protobanom abendango samsora and gluteny on his way to winner's finals leo on the other hand had set fire to the losers bracket after an early loss to kameh going through meister scat avendango zack ray raito samsora and gluteny dropping only a single game to meister at the start of his run dominant tweak loses bracket leo do you feel that something incredible is about to happen but because of a certain company's lack of response to our calls about getting footage we can't show you but the best legends are passed down in speech and story mutating with each retelling so we'll tell you instead game one stadium the two trade blows evenly all the way to the end when only six percent separates them game two smashville tweek takes a stock leo takes one back tweek retakes the lead and from there he doesn't let go it's a solid two stock [Music] game three we're back to ps2 leo manages to secure the lead in game three despite tweaks charizard living to a frankly absurd percent and puts one on the board [Music] game four this is where everything starts and how does it start with tweak absolutely dominating leo leo can rack up damage but for every inch he gets tweak takes a mile it's looking like it might be a 2 stock and then something changes it's subtle at first but you can feel it leo starts to become impossible to hit and he's bullying tweak back airing him to the edge of the stage over and over punishing pokemon switches playing at a completely different speed by the end tweek is able to scrape together a few hits but it's too little too late in the face of elimination smash's biggest trophy ever on the line something just will not let leo be beat something keeps him in it and so as you know he wins game four the rest as they say is history you'd think that a legend like this needs repetition to take hold but it's not true all it needs is one moment don't let leo get to game four that's where he's at his best from this moment the legend is born it's only leo's third reverse 3-0 but it doesn't matter in the ears of the people the words game for leo are already codified as myth i mean we're not saying it didn't happen again after that it happened a whole hell of a lot like statistical anomaly a lot but it's those sets that prove it was the evo 2019 set that meant everything i mean look at this set from a week later you gotta keep in mind that it was game four that was pivotal and evo that's really the one that decided the entire set would tweak just barely missed an input and he lost evo because of it listen to kony tweek has barely had enough time to brush himself off but game 4 leo is already on the lips of every commentator and of course it doesn't help that this set we're talking about right now was just fuel for the fire the tail is over it book's cut i'm sorry no reverse three stock in game four this time just your run of the mill regular three stock sorry tweak but we're gonna keep seeing this for a while especially when the person trying to make it stick is tweak okay poor tweak at congo saga tweak is back on his wario tweek manages to go up 2-1 but uh by this point you sort of know what that means to take the l the resiliency of this man is uncanny bro for those keeping count that's eight games straight where tweek has failed to eliminate leo three at evo three at smash con and two here in this play and the pace wait what wait what what's this i'm getting a dispatch that no oh no tweet at this point you should just drop the first game maybe that'll help that was so good so uh yeah that elimination game count is at 11 now i mean at this point it almost seems like it might just be a leo versus tweak thing right and to be honest that's part of why we love this story so much right like really if you're enjoying watching tweek have his dreams crushed over and over you might just have a problem but hey it means we can make this video anyway if you did think it was just versus tweak don't worry good guy larry lure is here to squash any doubts at genesis larry goes up 2-0 against leo with his wolf in winner's top being 64. right here oh my god imagine leo going to losers that early yeah right that'll never happen larry recovering again here we go down throw paleo coming to life man oh my god okay at this point mk leo has won four out of his last five sets in which he has gone down 0-2 in the one that he lost he essentially reversed 3-0 gluteny right back in the reset the man is about as untouchable as it gets now it's grand finals at genesis 7. if you remember he's already pulled a reverse 3-0 versus larry ler in this very bracket so when you see game three against mars going in this direction after mars had a huge lead well you know what's going to happen right you thought this isn't a fairy tale children everything in life isn't flowers and lollipops even if you're mk leia [Music] two weeks later and about 2 500 miles to the northeast leo finds himself down 2-0 once again we know at this point that leo thrives under pressure but against prodigy now known as karama leia learned a valuable lesson there are some fires even he shouldn't play with this graph shows mk leo's stock losses at frostbite looking at every set he played from the set against karama onward if you want the recipe to beat leo here it is simply kill him before 60 4 times in three games the loss to karama merely set up one of the best if not the best losers run smash ultimate has ever seen leo played against nine pgru players in an 11 set run facing elimination games three times first against zach ray then against t both times after falling down 2-1 [Applause] that path led to tweek once again on the same exact stage where he was slapped down by tweaks wario with the reverse 6-0 one year prior the last time tweek went up 2-0 on the stage he closed out with ease what about this time [Music] and then the long freeze much has been made of leo's quarantine woes but regardless of whether you thought leia was washed or not it was hard to ignore quarantine was a different beast despite our best hopes was the magic of game four leo gone here's the thing we deal with stats here but legends exist because they transcend data they thrive in the hearts and minds of the people and i don't know about you but our hearts and minds over the past two years not in the greatest shape game for leo shouldn't exist it doesn't make any sense and yet it does as much because we believe in it as because of leo's own monumental skill in the wasteland of online play nothing can thrive especially not a collective hope in something that shouldn't exist now take leo out of the crowd out of the convention center away from his opponent away from the commentators and the photographers and the screaming fans take him away from the magic in a word put him in a small empty room make it silent and then put him down 0-2 basically i'm saying that leo is ultimate's tinkerbell and when he can't hear us clap he can't do his magic did we really ever expect him to be the same slowly the ice thaws and finally finally after what feels like an eternity we get to come back ultimate summit 3 marks the return to offline ultimate the best players in the world will be there and everyone is hungry to prove they have a claim to the crown leo has started to establish his proficiency with not one but two new dlc characters and tweek has become confident in a new main of his own sound familiar since tweek's first two wins on leo at frostbite 2019 he has lost 13 sets straight and a shaky group stage from tweek means that they're set to play in the very first round of winner's bracket something's in the air again do you want to feel it right i don't know if you want to play with that right there on that platform but how about tweet goes up 2-0 now i know you feel it fate has taken hold of this set in its hand gripping it and twisting it into its own ends look feel believe leia is up a full stock and change in game three the legend could never have died online ultimate is fake and leia will always reverse 3-0 tweak and he's the best player in the world and violet is a mid-tier anyways and pyromithra is broken and game four is on the way oh the legend is dead isn't it you know for a second it's embarrassing to admit i actually believed that the magic still existed silly me and so when leo goes down 0-2 against spargo you could be forgiven for thinking that it was all gonna what a fitting end to this rule-breaking impossible unbelievable trend and then the wind shifts again the game starts and leo is all over spargo he's done almost 60 percent without getting hit and he's ducking and weaving while poking with the gun listen to the commentary that said that it is more likely that you threoleo then you win off of 20. leo is more likely to come back and win this against hope when tweeks should have just killed our belief forever we still can't help it and maybe it's that hope that brings leo back to life because you know what happens next game four and you know what happens after game four you die you die it is not your time man that towards grand finals the rematch leo goes down zero two but the magic isn't there he's behind in game three from the start and there's no reversal happening here tweek shuts him out six owing him in the tournament and taking his first sets against leo in over two years [Music] playing diddy kong was like a really crazy decision to make because no one thought he was like top tier this is the most fun i've ever had with the game but to be honest this is even more confusing than before it's hard to commit to a legend when you can't keep the story straight leo keeps winning then losing all in the same event maybe now leo's reverse threos are just reverse threos maybe it's not a legend anymore it's just smash but here's the thing tweak beat him the way you're supposed to never letting him get to game four we didn't ever actually see the game four and wait another second the first time leo reverse 3-0 tweak at evo tweak won six games in a row after just like he had here and if there's one thing we know about leo it's that he loves the crowd some it may have been the return to offline smash but the lifeblood of the community was still cold there were no vendors no crowd no terrible venue food you know the good stuff but with riptide the floodgates were open and with leo and tweak having dominated the competition so thoroughly at summit it seemed like a foregone conclusion that they would meet again and there they were the undeniable two best players of smash ultimate meeting again with the crowd around them but with a crowd behind him leo shifts into a different being no switch to pyra and mithra here watch as he starts to combo tweak and yell cheer let yourself believe hey tinkerbell can you hear them absolutely dunks on them right there with that see that spike remember evo tweaks beaten game three leo now but he still never managed to take down game 4 leo leia roars out of the gate with an incredible combo and within a few minutes he's up two stocks it's not a three stock in game four this time but it's damn close oh there's the three stock the crowd goes ballistic offline smash is alive and so is the legend it's kind of hard to place the legend of game four leo in the post-quarantine world first tweak through everything we knew into disarray by finally closing it out twice in a row at summit but then there was the set against spargo and then leo snapped tweak right back to reality at riptide despite all the back and forth though leo sits comfortably over 50 percent at 9 for 16 when going down 0-2 we love it when we can turn statistical tidbits like this into laws of nature but sadly reality is not so simple we literally saw the magic fail twice in the same day and yet in the crowded riptide just a couple weeks later it was clear that everybody still believed numbers don't lie everything is right with the world again it's not the legend of game 3 leo after all it's the legend of game 4 leo exactly what we need an unshakable belief for an uncertain time unshakable but what about this red is usually bad right but that's a game four what happened to answer this question we have to go back to leo's home mexico city and smash factor 8 all the way back in july 2019. from ultimate's release through riptide this was the only time leo had ever lost a game 4 after going down 2-0 and then winning game 3. yes that's a ludicrously specific condition but somehow against some of the best players in the world leo had forced it 10 times every other time he won the game the explanation for all of this it has to be here in this one game game 4 smash factor 8 grand finals this should have been whether you're looking at it from the head or the heart the single hardest game to win in smash ultimate history what did mars do how did he overcome the juggernaut that is game for leo what was it that rendered leo human in that moment smash is and always has been a game of pixels the bottom blast zone of yoshi's story was the closest to the stage four of any of the legal stages at smash factor eight which is still true in the rule sets run at every post quarantine major as well by six units instead of connecting with the back air that would have won the game and forced to game five leia whiffed and was unable to recover because of mars's counterpick stage the other nine times when leo didn't sd on his final stock he closed out game five as well every single time one hundred percent once game four leo is activated the only one who can beat him is himself wait do you hear that what's happening over there earlier this can't be right this must be a glitch you could write off the mars laws leo sd'd pixels away from the winning blow here esem was the one who sd'd and yet he was still able to come back and take down game four leo something we hadn't seen in over two years and without leo's help something we'd really never seen before what does it mean it means smash is played by human beings no matter how much control leo has seemed to exert on these situations in the past it means esam is really really good and he is now the only player in ultimate history to hold a winning record over mk leo with more than two sets played an unreal statistic for both players it also means that legends are just that this is how we've been doing things forever we take a feeling and experience and we try to make it immortal nobody who experienced this one live or this one or this or this or any of these can deny the feeling that overtakes the room when leia wins game three and takes that momentum into game four leia wasn't able to make the losers run we've seen him make so many times before at glitch 8.5 as esam was able to pick up another 3-1 win in grand finals but he came damn close taking out tilde cosmos chag and meister before reaching cola in losers finals leia went down 2-0 he takes the first stock with ease he breaks a shield he dominates game three baby look at this this is not a man who's about to lose this set 18 seconds into game four cola's first stock is gone there's the three stock it's over right right they still believe oh they still believe oh my god oh my god he believed in it all right there it's a big wild yeah he's gotta stop his heart right though gotta take a deep breath gotta wait because you're gonna get another opportunity you know he's not ready but leo beats cola moves on to grand finals and for east sam the storm approaches look we know leo can lose game four now he can lose it straight up but you just watch what we all watched are you really gonna tell me you don't believe anymore since this is a living legend we really should have known the story would progress while we were making this video indeed during production leo produced his magic one more time it was poor priority 6 in october against his countryman spargo the prodigy who at times in 2021 had seen most poised to usurp mk leo's throne as the king of smash ultimate it was just the first set of grand finals and leo had the reset to play with but spargo is not a player you want to give momentum to spargo held that momentum through game three's first stock and looked poised to force the reset but leo needed just one reversal to take the lead and rode that wave all the way to game four the way the legend goes you'd think leia would go on to just run over spargo in the next two games not so much spargo had the lead on the second stock in games four and five oh but way too far down there rage bileth is a monster though and it was leo who used momentum to his advantage in game four following up a shield pop on the second stock with a blazing fast third stock to force the game five and how did that game five go well as ee said when history's on your side good things tend to happen away from taking this tournament there it is and that is your champion of poor priority six m k lyo with that win leo's final record in these sets where his back was fully against the wall down 0-2 stands at 11 wins and eight losses a 57.9 win rate game for leo will always be smash ultimate's greatest legend and we can be sure that we haven't seen the final episode hey thanks for watching if you want more content like this please check out pgstats.com and follow us for more information this has been turned down for walt thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time

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Id: Pixq7vQKazE

Length: 30min 4sec (1804 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 01 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/KenshiroTheKid]

TurnDownForWalt casually dropping amazing content for ult also

[u/Brain_Tonic]

Leo actually the 🐐

[u/IceAnt573]

The way Abadango is being pronounced is killing me.

I wonder if PGStats can give Leo's overall record in Game 5 sets.

There have been times where he was down 1-2 (the Cosmos sets are pretty notable for this) and times where he has lost Game 5 sets, but I think it paints a really good picture of something that also feels like a known fact even if it isn't infallible:

The longer a set goes on, the more likely Leo is to win.

[u/Severe-Operation-347]

One issue with this: It's not really about Game 4 Leo, it's about the statistic. It doesn't mention SSC 2019 Grand Finals, which was the other important tournament aside from EVO that caused the term "Game 4 Leo" because Leo did a similar reverse 3 stock comeback as he did to Tweek, just one week later against Samsora in the Grand Finals of that tournament. Those two events happening a single week after one another was what caused the term to truly take place and make people talk about Game 4 Leo.

There's also very little mention of other times Leo won a Game 4 situation that wasn't part of a reverse 3-0 either.

[u/itsIzumi]

The rotoscoping in the EVO part was beautiful, I'm glad they found a way to still show that section.

[u/chaotixM2]

shine 2019? samsora beat game 4 leo twice?

[u/KiyomaroHS]

Wished they covered mainstage vs spargo and swt vs cosmos.