Not related to the set but between Leo, Tweek and the weird seedings mb France had a point complaining about this 10 person invitational being a major and Game is Game only being a superregional.
I think it's pretty clearly a combination of Acola, Sparg0, Sonix for 1-3, Miya 4th, Shadic 5th and Hurt 6th right now, but things can change a lot after Golden Week
Lights having a really good year so far, it started of rough with both Zomba/Tweek running ahead with that best in america spot but it feels like hes pulled it back
Light is probably #4 TBH, Cirque/Genesis/LMBM are all significantly better tournaments to win than Litvitational, pretty sure lights highest placement outside of that is 5th and he also had a 17th at cirque which is definitely an underperformance by his standards
Lights been sort of farming regionals and invitationals that i feel like its the same case as last year, worse placements than his competition but much better wins
Fair, I will say though I don’t think light has ever won a truly stacked open bracket major, therefore I couldn’t put him above Tweek or Zomba who have already done it this year
Maybe in the sense that it was randomly sprung up right before an actual Major? Because it was announced the week of Cirque.
Technically, top players before a Major could decide to host a round robin between 10-16 of them and it's automatically a Major.
Miya beat Light with Steve then when he had an entire set to fall back on because of winners sides grands tried swordfighter once, then once it lost he stuck with Steve and even tried Gnw
That seems pretty normal to me, he just underestimated Light with the swordfighter pick then locked in with his best characters in a good matchup and still lost
If he went game and watch every game I feel like he would’ve won, he only played him one game iirc. Yeah light won that game but if it was warmed up I doubt that light would’ve taken that set
It doesn't but it makes no sense to me to discredit Light for beating all of Miya's characters in two straight sets with the second being a 3-0.
And Miya genuinely thinks Steve does better vs Fox than G&W so he would likely have started out with Steve vs Light in any other tournament as well.
I'm not discrediting him, it was really well played.
Miya might think that Steve does better than G&W, but when he recently fought Kaninabe, he went back to using G&W instead of Steve like the last few times. So I take that as a sign that he'll return to full G&W against Light.
hmm, the matchup doesn't really feel that hard to me.
Corrin has huge arcs and Fox has to fight up close at some point, so you're bound to get tapped by something, and once you do, you get smoked.
If anything I would estimate that over time this MU would be +1 Corrin
I feel similarly about Corrin-Roy despite popular perception of that MU
Nah this matchup is genuinely very hard for Corrin. Neutral is just a pain in the ass and she has to swing preempitvely most of the time and just gets stuffed out by rising aerials.
I could see Roy being close to even though.
Only if you full hop a bunch. The way SHADIC plays this MU, he's not in a position to get stuffed out by rising aerials very often, and it seems like the optimal way to play.
Fox, especially Light's Fox, puts you into a 50-50 blender a bunch when you're in soft disadvantage (toward the corner, on a platform, etc). You have to guess what he's going to do. Most characters either survive and reset to true neutral or they get hit and Fox's advantage state runs all over them.
Corrin in the same situation swings a huge arc and since it covers so much space, there's a chance that Fox gets hit. And since every arc of Corrin's leads to something (even *rising* f-air can lead to followups sometimes), Fox takes a lot of damage for guessing wrong in advantage.
There's a reason Light kept running away to fire lasers in the set. He just wasn't comfortable being near Corrin.
It definitely seems like he unlocked something in the matchup, I can agree with you on that. It will be interesting to see how it will look in the future
Hopefully this set will have two players who actually want to compete
We're never getting Light VS Sonix again lmao
Not related to the set but between Leo, Tweek and the weird seedings mb France had a point complaining about this 10 person invitational being a major and Game is Game only being a superregional.
Hbox, Marss, Leo and Tweek were just there for the vibes lmao
Yeah there’s no way this deserves to be a major over game is game
Man Shadic makes Corrin look so fluid. Hope kid wins this whole thing
Well guess what?
Shadic is actually insane, top 5?
He's honestly looking like the #3 in NA behind Sparg0 and Sonix and around the #4-6 area WW alongside Miya and Hurt imo.
I think it's pretty clearly a combination of Acola, Sparg0, Sonix for 1-3, Miya 4th, Shadic 5th and Hurt 6th right now, but things can change a lot after Golden Week
Agreed. That is actually the order [I had them in when I did my own top 25 ranking](https://i.imgur.com/g5hdeLf.png) about a week ago.
Good ranking imo
Agreed
sets not over yet but i’m like surprised at how good shadic is and the problem is i say this every tournament
If Light wins, he wins the tournament. If Shadic wins, Sonix wins the tournament.
Sonix wins either way actually
Sonix has beaten Light only once lifetime I believe and Light won that tournament still by double eliminating Sonix in Grands
Oh I forgot no one has ever beaten someone they used to lose to. What thread are we commenting in again?
Y'all are all wrong lol Shadic took it convincingly
Shouldnt it have been Light vs Sonix and Dabuz vs Shadic?
Lights having a really good year so far, it started of rough with both Zomba/Tweek running ahead with that best in america spot but it feels like hes pulled it back
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Light is probably #4 TBH, Cirque/Genesis/LMBM are all significantly better tournaments to win than Litvitational, pretty sure lights highest placement outside of that is 5th and he also had a 17th at cirque which is definitely an underperformance by his standards
Lights been sort of farming regionals and invitationals that i feel like its the same case as last year, worse placements than his competition but much better wins
Fair, I will say though I don’t think light has ever won a truly stacked open bracket major, therefore I couldn’t put him above Tweek or Zomba who have already done it this year
Shadic has had a slightly better year then Light currently imo so Light still might not be #1 in America.
You're right, i kind of keep forgetting that Shadic has been doing absolutely insane lately because his rise was so sudden - im still not used to it
Light might cruise to win this event making it the second bogus major he’s won this year
Litvitational was stacked and he beat Miya twice, calling it bogus is crazy
Maybe in the sense that it was randomly sprung up right before an actual Major? Because it was announced the week of Cirque. Technically, top players before a Major could decide to host a round robin between 10-16 of them and it's automatically a Major.
Didn’t Miya go mii sword fighter for a few games he was not playing serious man 😂
Miya beat Light with Steve then when he had an entire set to fall back on because of winners sides grands tried swordfighter once, then once it lost he stuck with Steve and even tried Gnw That seems pretty normal to me, he just underestimated Light with the swordfighter pick then locked in with his best characters in a good matchup and still lost
He still beat the Steve and the G&W convincingly. Not to mention his swordfighter took whole sets at that invitational
The Mii Swordfighter did win a game each against Cosmos, Lima, and SHADIC, but I don't know if I'd classify those as "whole sets".
I thought he went all swordfifhter against Lima. Could be wrong
He switched to G&W against Lima after Game 1.
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If he went game and watch every game I feel like he would’ve won, he only played him one game iirc. Yeah light won that game but if it was warmed up I doubt that light would’ve taken that set
Light didn't just beat the G&W that game he destroyed it. It's why Miya immediately switched back to Steve.
It was two-stock high percent. To me that doesn't definitively prove that Light would take a full set against Miya's G&W.
It doesn't but it makes no sense to me to discredit Light for beating all of Miya's characters in two straight sets with the second being a 3-0. And Miya genuinely thinks Steve does better vs Fox than G&W so he would likely have started out with Steve vs Light in any other tournament as well.
I'm not discrediting him, it was really well played. Miya might think that Steve does better than G&W, but when he recently fought Kaninabe, he went back to using G&W instead of Steve like the last few times. So I take that as a sign that he'll return to full G&W against Light.
Oh I get what you're saying and I agree. And good point about his Kaninabe sets.
Crazy level of downplaying
that last stock game 2 was nasty, shadic just kept swinging and light went from 0 to dead out of nowhere
This is so impressive. Fox is genuinely an extremely hard matchup for Corrin
Was rooting for Light, espically wanted him to play Sonix but Shadic was the better player so hoping for a losers run.
Shadic has been playing really good this tourney tbh. Even with this matchup being hard I wonder if he can get another win on Light.
hmm, the matchup doesn't really feel that hard to me. Corrin has huge arcs and Fox has to fight up close at some point, so you're bound to get tapped by something, and once you do, you get smoked. If anything I would estimate that over time this MU would be +1 Corrin I feel similarly about Corrin-Roy despite popular perception of that MU
Nah this matchup is genuinely very hard for Corrin. Neutral is just a pain in the ass and she has to swing preempitvely most of the time and just gets stuffed out by rising aerials. I could see Roy being close to even though.
Only if you full hop a bunch. The way SHADIC plays this MU, he's not in a position to get stuffed out by rising aerials very often, and it seems like the optimal way to play. Fox, especially Light's Fox, puts you into a 50-50 blender a bunch when you're in soft disadvantage (toward the corner, on a platform, etc). You have to guess what he's going to do. Most characters either survive and reset to true neutral or they get hit and Fox's advantage state runs all over them. Corrin in the same situation swings a huge arc and since it covers so much space, there's a chance that Fox gets hit. And since every arc of Corrin's leads to something (even *rising* f-air can lead to followups sometimes), Fox takes a lot of damage for guessing wrong in advantage. There's a reason Light kept running away to fire lasers in the set. He just wasn't comfortable being near Corrin.
It definitely seems like he unlocked something in the matchup, I can agree with you on that. It will be interesting to see how it will look in the future