AI in Melee is broken. 

heh,heh,h,h,e,hhmmm ,,, bimg head nana ::)))

I learned more about Nana from this 5 minute video than I have in 8 years of watching Melee

Nana grabs you by the throat, smacks you once, and whispers softly in your ear, "Tonight. You," just before she vanishes in a puff of smoke... Truly terrifying.

My heart breaks for HBox. Basically the Melee equivalent of "no one wanted to be my partner, so I had to partner with the teacher".

Nana really grabbed this man, looked him in the eyes and said: "This ain't over. Imma kill you in my next life." And then disappeared Striking fear into the heart of Zain.

Love how you blended your current design work/colors with these explanations. Great work as usual!

dude you are so good at editing

I love how, with Zain being so shook from the grab and it getting cut short, it seems like the only thing that prevented Nana from continuing to be a menace is the respawn she goes through where she’s forced to blip out of existence mid-attack to return to popo

3:11 I would be really interested to see if changing this (having Nana at level 9 always being the obvious) would meaningfully change how people have to deal with ice climbers

Every single day I miss SluG :(

As a kid playing Melee, observing the CPU’s behavior was always intriguing. Fascinating deep dive here!

What an amazing video. This community sure blows me away sometimes. Very lucky to have creators like you.

I remember being a kid and knowing that lvl 9 Gannondorf was like the final boss of melee. I never knew until today that professional melee players utilize that as well. I must have played so much as a kid I just intuitively knew that like that was just a far more challenging character to play against.

After years of melee.. I never knew the CPU of Nana..very well done and graphic wise.

Its cool to see a video visualising the attack sensor ranges! I recently reverse engineered these tables in Smash 64 in order to improve Smash Remix’s AI for their new fighters. I wonder how the tables differ between games.

Great video, editting and explanation, very clear and understandable! Also, I'm glad the music volume is on the same level as your narration, so I don't have to change it every segment of the video

Videos like this are part of what makes Melee special.

Great upload, stellar editing. Actually useful and fun information.

The editing was so good here, awesome job and great video

Nana doing what is effectively a pump fake before dematerializing is the most menacing thing I've ever seen in this game.

When the title hit and you cranked up Hero Town I already knew this was gonna be a banger. How/when do you decide on the song for each video? Your one on the Jmook recovery was so integrated I couldn't figure out which came first. This is easily the highest effort per-second Smash content currently being made.

First video of yours I’ve seen and I’m excited to see more. Great stuff man, this was super interesting and well made

Very interesting analysis video! Thanks for uploading! I didn't know about a lot of this level moves stuff, & would love to hear more!

Good choice with the Vulfpeck! Love the visuals, editing and sound mixing, good work!

This is the best explanation of IC mechanics I've ever seen. Great job! Really love your videos

Not a melee guy, but the great editing, concise explanations, and good tunes means I spent the last half hour watching every video you have uploaded. Keep it up :)

I was listening to a vulfpeck playlist when I clicked on this video. It took me a while to realize that it was also the bgm for the video and not my music app playing over the video lmao

Found ya from the GDIME #7 shoutout! Had to browse through a lot of comments to reach your channel but MAN it was worth it, these visuals are so good!! p.s., The prints are really pretty and unique and there's even a hint of inspiration from the main man himself in there! Love to see it :D

One of the best Melee videos I've seen in a while. Great job.

love the song choice! I never thought I’d hear this in the background of a video, I thought it’d be too distracting, but you just happen to be an excellent visual storyteller. awesome!

Bro I swear every video you just get better and better, keep it up! :D

So much good info presented so well. Idk how you do it, but it must take so much work

these videos explain things well and are impeccably edited. keep it up dude! :)

the level 9 bots are essentially frame perfect 9 year olds

Sweet visuals and great explanations. Here's a sub, you deserve many more

i discovered this in my recommended and im shocked with how great the editing is

Bro, this was awesome! I love learning new stuff about the game like this

I've never seen such a video for melee, it's really amazing ! Gj dude !

1:46 This might have been the best single joke I've seen all month. Excellent pacing and style.

Absolutely delightful and insightful. Can't wait for the next one!

Wow, this was such an incredible video. I learned so much here. Amazing stuff man, criminally underrated

this is insanely well produced and interesting! well done!

Welcome back. My favourite Melee channel on RU-vid.

I don't watch much smash at all, but this was excellent presentation! I may have to check out more from your channel.

Absolutely loving your stuff. The art is sick but I wish there were higher res/more zoomed in images! I want to see what the Melee is hard poster says for example

Awesome stuff as usual. Just bought a couple stickers too. Keep up the good work!

This is well produced! Nice work.

Great editing and presentation!

nana when popo is at 0%: mmm crayons nana when popo is at 140%: SO THOU HAS CHOSEN DEATH

The graphic design on these transitions are top-notch 💯

Very educational. Never knew about different moves being unavailable to the cpus at lower levels.

you always deliver with some sick shit brodi, big ups.

great video and i loved the vulfpeck as the music

Amazing video. I think we’re all in agreement: Why didn’t any of us know this sooner? I’ve been picking up esoteric Melee knowledge from RU-vid and forums for 10 years, and I never knew any of this.

Amazing editing 😊

Great video! It's insane that people are analyzing and playing this game this hard 22 years later.

Appreciate the Vulfpeck!

Man, neat content! Awesome edit!

Such a rad breakdown!

Great editing, great music, great knowledge

Melee and Vulfpeck, you sir have earned a subscription

Excellent production value

Amazing stuff, keep it up

great quality of videos !

I can’t believe nana is rarely going to be able to grab, she legit going to stay around 1-5.

Amazing editing

The slight UP music you played with the Luigi joke was fucking perfect 😂😂😂

Great vid!!!

Amazing video, really well made! Keep it up please

Very informative on how Nana's AI works didn't know that she increased her level by the amount of percentage Popo has I also miss Slug :(

the goat uploads again

another absolutely incredible video, one of the best channels in gaming

Perfect explanation!

What a beautiful video!

Fascinating!

Anyone got a link to the 2v2 where Hungrybox is playing with a lv9 ganon?

good ole Vulfpeck always bangs

Slug, Popo and Nana it's the name of the album. Great video.

This 5 min video must’ve taken at least 10 hours… great job!

I love the new visual design

oh man im not sure if i ever saw the full sequence play though idk what I saw even though i learned so much 😢

That was. SPECTACULAR. I'm subbing right now

Had no idea the cloud was named Randall

HERO TOWN MOMENT LET’S GO

1:47 I really liked that.

Nana: "Imma about to ends this whole man's career"

its so insane how much they gutted nanas ai in ult, just get to popo by any means necessary usually straight into the opponent with no attack or airdodging to ledge as u try to upb to save her..

What's the song at 1:46 ? I remember it from my childhood, but I can't place it.

"Nana will always recover towards Randall." All hail the AI Overlord, Randall!

man, I miss slug

Dude starts out with Hero Town in the background you know I'm gonna give a like

The rapid short range attacking and frame-perfect inputs that lvl 9 AIs are capable of means that they tend to be much harder to fight if you use the strategies you would against a top level player, instead of simply exploiting how dumb they are about navigating the space. Peach in particular can be absolutely brutal and pull off 50% combos with alarming speed if you try and rush into her face and get really aggressive. (Which was very useful for trying to figure out strategies with Roy that actually help his approach. For one, dashing into a side-B is infinitely safer than his standard dash attack, because the dash attack has a very short window for it's hitbox, and Roy's own hurtbox extends past the attack distance, meaning if you try to use it for approach he'll usually whiff AND run into an attack. Dashing side-b immediately halts his momentum and is a good opener for his combos; dashing side-b to grab to back throw to side smash is highly effective against the space animals. The terrible range and low knockback on his dash attack actually makes it much better as a mid-combo move than an approach.)

You learn something new about Super Smash Brothers Melee every day...

Holy… I didn’t expect Nana of all characters to be so goddamn BROKEN

Ooo, this was **exceptionally** informative

Love the use of vulfpeck can I get a link to your spotify?

Such a sick video

SICK song choice. Amazing band.

Could you make a tutorial on how to achieve the silhouette effect?

This would be a cool mode in slippi. 2v2 match making you pick your player and teammate