The Most Nerfed Character in Smash

when anyone brings out the topic of character Nerfs and smash the main examples would obviously be characters like Smash 4 Bayonetta brawl Meta Knight even characters who didn't need it but the most overlooked characters the one that's been hiding under our noses all this time Kirby made his debut to the world in 1992 with the release of Kirby's Dreamland published on a Nintendo Game Boy this game did numbers and by numbers I mean [ __ ] Christ not only did Kirby's Dreamland sell incredibly well on this thing a lot of Mainline is spin-off titles saw similar if not the same amounts of success this cost Kirby to become one of the most well-known and talk about video game characters ever and with all the success and the fact that he sacrificed baby it wasn't surprising that he'd make an appearance at his next big and Innovative project [Music] before smash was plagued by the influx of both Pokemon reps and a mistake the roster was much smaller the animations were a lot weirder and Kirby was apparently a lot better when smash was still new to the gaming scene there were a lot of mechanics in the game that could nowadays be considered broken with City recoveries a smaller moveset and even this [ __ ] [Music] foreign while there wasn't much of a competitive scene if one at all there definitely was some very obvious top tiers he won being Kirby yeah honestly I'm just as surprised as you seeing him being anything more than this alongside Pikachu Kirby currently sits of the s-bot and materialist due to his strong and fast attacks that could kill anyone under 100 a great Edge guarding game considering he has one of the best recoveries and gray spacing due to a horrendously disjointed back here Sakurai really has the habit of doing this huh he also has this [ __ ] but with these strengths come obvious weaknesses for example remember when I said he had one of the best recoveries in the game yeah you forgot what game this was didn't you it doesn't matter smash 64 was very Infamous with bad recoveries no matter how good of a character you are you get hit off stage once you better pray to some God that your opponent isn't good enough to realize one hit is an instant KO this packed in with the fact that Kirby was a light character was made him extremely vulnerable to getting juggled which isn't Fun despite these weaknesses his strengths far outweigh them by a mile at least enough to have good tournament results in the late 2010s but I'm only Imagining the conversations in the 1990s with something like this dude this character feels broken yeah nah I'm not good with him so I think he sucks oh okay well then he's bad while he was and still is consent one of 64's best characters it wouldn't be long until Sakurai would crush his most prized creation and things would change for the worst we think we've got a great answer [Music] with the release of the infamously failed but iconic GameCube came along a new Smash game I mean hey the first one did so well why not make a second one while we're at it let's wash our car and clean your house melee drove in not only new players to smash but it also expanded upon the first game with new stages more characters new mechanics a full moveset and no my baby melee was the start of competitive Smash and just like most competitive games there had to be a tier list tier lists are mainly made to determine what characters are tournament viable and what characters you should avoid like the black plague well there were some Jake and frankly broken characters of the S and a tears all the way at the bottom were the complete opposite Kirby was and still is considered one of the worst characters in melee ranking 25th just barely above Bowser you may be thinking but K just the game before he was one of the most broken characters ever what happened to him and to that I respond oh you don't know just how heavy the Nerf Hammer can hit somebody compared to the game prior Kirby's overall power was just severely nerfed most of his attacks were considerably weaker and had smaller sweet spots which made koing opponents near impossible he had some of the worst approach options if any at all and the lack of good projectiles and he also went from having one of the best combo abilities in Smash 64 to one of the worst in mainland all that tied up with this outside of the ledge when coming back yep that's one of the bad things about Kirby when you mash out of the throws you can oh no jumps at all huh yeah do something with this character is good with all this roped in with Kirby barely having any winning matchups it's not surprising that if Bowser was just a bit better Kirby would be the worst character in the game seeing such a powerful character have such a fall from grace this is a painful sight to see and it really didn't get much better with the introduction of brawl people were desperately begging for this game to dial because I swear to God if I had to hear this sound one more time I'm gonna lose my [ __ ] Bro ended up failing people went back to melee yeah bro wasn't the best game some people may even call it bad the gameplay was slower competitive battles was god-awful and brawl midnight mixing with random tripping mint fine I'll go back to melee you don't have to threaten my family well Kirby was sort of busting brawl it still didn't make him any good it just made him better than the others he was giving back his combo ability to having one of the strongest in the game he has many great setups into attack streams that connect more than well one of the strongest grabs in the game and they can even kill now and all that's counteracted by the fact that it has slow movement speed and lack of projectiles which makes it difficult to approach campers hey it could have been worse God damn it Smash 4 wasn't Kirby's strong suit but hey it wasn't mini character strong suit if you noticed my last video I briefly breezed past Smash 4 making a one-off joke and skipping straight to Ultimate but unfortunately I can't do the same thing okay but in all seriousness Smash 4 was a really bad game it basically feels like a more polished version of brawl just with worse mechanics rage was busted characters were too light and floaty which made zero to death much easier than they should be custom moves were [ __ ] and as rise to get ready to start something up two back ears twist I'm starting to see a repeated theme in Smash titles Kirby was one of the lightest and floatiest characters in the game and even though he had really good recovery come on it was predictable and just like the past two other games his Mobility was slow and he liked projectiles come on start taking notes Sakurai also since he was very small it gave him fairly poor reach which meant his grabs were bad again this ranked him he had again F tier but at least he's better than them all right while smash ultimate wasn't the first release constant patches to balance characters they were the first to do it good until they weren't this game was a huge step up from Smash 4 with a bunch of low tiers becoming High tiers high chairs becoming low tiers and Kirby was something many people were hoping this could be a Redemption Arc for Kirby praying that he could be God anything but an effort D tier and he was for a while then reality hit so this is how it feels to have all your hopes and dreamshop.com with many of the same problems he suffered from previous smash titles plus the influx of sword and projectile uses which makes it so much worse to be reminded of your slow approaching options all affected with the rise of ultimate online [Music] are you really surprised this character isn't the best I'm not saying that ultimate Kirby isn't viable for a detailed character he produces solid results in all honesty I'm just saying there are better options preferably not that one while Kirby may not be the best in Ultimate it's honestly 10 times better than what was done in previous match titles so I guess you get what you get I mean hey that's not gonna stop me from doing this online so I'm smooth chilling while Kirby started off strong and eventually had a fairly brutal Fall From Grace it doesn't change the fact that he's still a fun character to play yeah I mean I prefer if he was a bit higher on a tier list but not everything should be approached at a competitive view if you have fun playing the character you personally like and prefer playing him that's really all that matters at the end of the day don't let some dumb stupid tier list or Pro players discourage you from having fun playing the game that you love and enjoy at the end of the day we can all still say we're better [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: Decay

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Keywords: Super Smash Bros., Decayy, Competitive Smash, smash bros

Id: _eu6coRQnME

Length: 7min 55sec (475 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 15 2023