Apex 2015 - Armada (Fox) Vs. PPMD (Marth, Falco) - Grand Finals - SSBM 

It showed pretty well it could defeat him ;)

Adam Lindgren Were you expecting PP to be at this level of play? He seemed a lot weaker at Evo, which was before his hiatus.

Adam Lindgren it couldn't defeat PP's falco...

Nathan Harris I never count my opponents out. I knew that he had been preparing a ton for the event so I knew he would be good. So good shit to him =)

Sempai noticed me! This is the closest I've come to a celebrity response. Anyway, your Fox looked good, especially since you'd barely used it before now. 2015 might be your time since I bet you'll keep getting better with the Fox and already took 2nd in the biggest event of all time. Shame about the Peach though, but it looked kinda hard to use against Marth and Jiggs. I heard you're a school teacher, is that true?

It still holds up very well

2015 armada would still be top 5 today

PPMD still plays on slippi

@@EA_SP0RTCENTERdefinitely not but he’d be close with a little work

Always has been, always will be.

Still watching. 9:54 is so hype.

still watching 😔

@@s3mdd Check out Golden Guardians! He's on there, and they all play a lot.

yup

Pp is sick. Literally :(

+PsyK Films :(

Gibran Salazar cry with me ?

+PsyK Films sure bro

Oh god the lips actually match up with that

Charles Washington

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StarTard's YT Hub PP's Falco was on point first set for sure, and his Marth was on point in the second set as well. But GOD DAMN does Armada's fox look sloppy.

+Samuel Ward I was about t comment the same thing xD

Good thing Hungrybox won't be changing to Fox.

Not with good Marth players like PPMD. Also Mango is considering switching to Falcon.

LukeMM95 Where'd you hear that?

lol m2k He posted it on Twitter.

LukeMM95 Hmm interesting, I never saw that on his Twitter. I'll be surprised if he does though

M2k ?

yeah and what about mang

They are all likeable.

@@dickbutt7310 mango kinda rude though

All 5 are likeable

MisterMcWilli LMAO!!!!!

Matt Schultz what are you talking about. Mango and m2k and hbox played awful and the tournament was run like crap

IncomingGhost Name a more memorable tournament (protip: you can't) >PPMD winning it all >salty suite >MY B >Bizzaro flame >last minute changes lead to grand finals being held at 2am but still having 100k viewers

Matt Schultz one of the most memorable. Not necessarily the greatest. I like big house 4

don't forget about the power going out and the community pulling through and relocating THE WHOLE VENUE

IncomingGhost Comment deleted

I didn't even know it happened

I cri evrytiem

Dan salvato got I think 9th AT APEX PogChamp Kappa LINK VIABLE BOYS?

Not sure but I think I faintly heard someone dissing PPMD

something something, "and your shitty marth" or something..

Chevrium Sounded to me like "Quit playing this shitty something"

It was "quit playing your shitty marth!"

Chevrium he might've said something like "quit playing this shitty unviable character"

BriLife PP was a shooting star. If he ever comes back, it would be improbable that he's as good as he used to.

Armada went 5-1 with Hbox in 2018...

Any true fan of melee does. I think the same thing watching these older videos.

Wait what happened to him???

Schéraz He is dealing physical problems. From what I understand he has low testosterone which gives him not energy and a lack of focus. So he has been taking a lot of time off trying to figure out the cause of it.

Psychological problems

He hath returned

Yes

Hello! This is one of my most favorite sets of all time; metagame did indeed make me come here again, but APEX 2015 has some other peak Melee moments such as "my B" and amazing Bizzaroflame clips. Bless this tourney.

Bless everything about this tourney

He did play at the last apex 2014, but I think it was due to financial constraints or time issues he wasnt able to go.

Hey, just so you know, Team Spooky streamed Smash 64 finals, not VGBootcamp, so 64 will prooobably be uploaded there. Not sure, though.

64 is on TeamSpooky now

***** I was wondering why he wasn't in grand finals lol

I think I heard that clash tournaments was banned from Apex and since Isai is CT and didn't wanna change his team, I think that's why he didn't show. Correct me if I'm wrong!

Pm sucks

cant understand it

Someone in the audience said "Quit playing this shitty unviable character"

LOL

Daniel Mendoza Lmao I was looking for that one comment pointing it out

+Nathan Harris Seriously, me too. Did you watch Battle Of The Five Gods?

As much as I could stomach.

Nathan Harris Haha. I felt so depressed about PPMD's performance on Friday. He's such an amazing player. Do you think it's related to his depression and health issues and what not still?

I did hear about some health issues, such as really low energy from chemical imbalance. I heard his depression was getting better but that he's taking supplements from doctors to get his energy back. I'm not sure what the current story is. He certainly didn't seem to think he was back up to 100%. I'm just starting to wonder if he's ever going to get back to where he was.

Nathan Harris Ah yeah for sure. I wonder too. I'd like to believe so haha. Let us have hope! Everyone send PPMD your life energy! =p

Could have been the invisible ceiling glitch, SDI, or stage shenanigans.

+Roronoa D Vegeta Armada counterpicked to dreamland and ppmd probably didn't want him to switch to peach

He said in his interview he wanted data on armadas fox on dreamland so that in the second set he had an edge and he knew it would be peach Falco if he stayed

@@electromagneticlemon damn, thats next level

no pls im drunk already

leffen is a better fox(in general) but leffen is complete ass at fox dittos which is why its hard for him to win majors but armada has an amazing fox

ShadowshadeGaming101 Sorry to say it but Armada's Fox is clearly better. I love both players, but it's obvious Armada's tech skill is better than Leffen's. Just look at their Fox ditto set which I'm sure you have. Also, Armada's Fox beat Hungrybox's Jigglypuff, took a set off PPMD's Marth, and beat Mango's Falcon. Can't say that for Leffen. His Fox didn't just beat Leffen's Fox just because he's bad at Fox dittos, although I'm not sure that's the case since he's beaten Hax, and Chillin a lot. He just can't beat Armada's, and for a reason.

If you follow tourneys in Europe, you'll have seen that Armada has used fox before Paragon and Evo. He's been training w/ fox for at least several months.

Wiitubeaccount The thing is that several months of practice is not very much in melee...

Wiitubeaccount I played with him a lot between March/May last year, but because smash of summer I dropped him completely. So I'm not super new to the char by any means, but my experience with him is very limited to other top Foxes (or compared to my Peach)

He knew what he was doing. It was the right choice. The reason he lost was because at the starting he messed up, and lost his stock, and at 0%. Instead of Armada losing the stock, PP lost the stock at 0% which is a big game changer. He also got him to the last stock as well, despite the -1 for him, and +1 for Armada. He would've had it for sure if it wasn't for that screw up.

Jesse Lol no, its because he had to go to dreamland and knew armada would counterpick peach

If you watch the interviews, PP actually assessed Marth to be a good idea for Dreamland either way. If Armada had gone Peach, it would have been a win for PP, so PP knew Armada would go Fox, and he'd get another opportunity to learn more about the Marth. He used the info he gathered in game five in the reset.

Because armada counter picked to dreamland, and peach dominates falco on dreamland. He looked at those two options (Marth vs fox which hadn't been doing well, or falco vs Peach on a very bad stage matchup wise) and made the right decision, because as he won the second set with only Marth, he was able to adapt to armadas play style.

Except PP came back to win three games straight in the match-up. It was a calculated loss on his part.

Solace Snipe Quit playing this shitty unviable character

Elie4Elite Thanks! i hear it now

Lol what a fool. Zain just took down Hbox

Jack Pakela - Trumpet marth is unviable but zain is viable

Also wondering this lol

Annotations need to be on. If you're on a phone though, I'm pretty sure you can't see annotations, so maybe that's why you didn't see the annotation link for set 2 pop up.

thanks!

XxBlusilencerxX And for anyone who's on mobile, set 2 is a private video so here's a link. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K6E6Zp5sYvs.html&feature=iv&src_vid=DEsp996TGak&annotation_id=annotation_2604564691

+Mistifyed 2 shines into a firefox?

+Shadowgale Shale firebird actually

Explain?

@@MrAwsomeman102 D1 got outted as a sexual predator to say the least

@@gatorssbm he actually isn’t a predator. Read about the situation because it was with someone around his age. I also think they were both drunk

@@screwcassidy4366 Well yeah its not that black and white when it comes to the details but its still pretty suspicious. But overall in a best case scenario he was simply unresponsible in a circumstance involving alcohol and thats pretty hard to justify.

@@gatorssbm yes I agree. I’m not defending him at all, because he could easily lie and say he doesn’t remember.

+Liam Hopfensperger sorry, first of all he didn't tech right. he got shot down from the side b and then he just rolled right. he didn't tech right at all. i slowed down the video and there is no puff of smoke from wavedashing after the roll. which means he did not wavedash. to further prove he did not wavedash, by slowing the video down and pausing very frequently after he gets up from the roll, he does not do the crouching part of fox's jump animation, which means he did not jump, which means he did not wavedash. D1 says that armada held down, allowing him to grab the edge. But I tried and I can never slide off the edge.

+Liam Hopfensperger lol, he just held down the stick when he rolled....

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