CAN I DEFEAT THE LEVEL 9 CPU KAZUYA IN SMASH ULTIMATE? 

I heard this joke from somewhere else but, some dude said: "I think the CPU finally found it's main."

Kazuya CPU is really making roll out seem like a great move.

hbox: "i'm losing to a line of computer code" chess and go players: "first time?"

Sakurai watching Hbox beat Kazuya: “We must make him stronger”

This Video went from fun and games to “I’m losing to a bunch of ones and zeros. I’m human damn it I can win.”

In WaDi's defense, although he got bodied, 0 to death in 12 seconds in the first stock, he went on to *win* that game.

12:35 The moment Kazuya decided to have mercy on HBox and let him win the set

One of the requirements to get sponsored will gonna be "being able to consistently defeat a lvl 9 Kazuya CPU"

That bit at 8:44 was terrifying. Just the AI not going down for a second and just observing/calculating things seconds before making their move and absolutely destroying is amazing.

the fact that kazuya could have ended it right there but showed mercy is scary 12:34

One thing about this AI when I faced him is that he is REALLY good at parrying. He parried like 80% of my moves one match

LMFAO SOMEONE IN CHAT SAID “Ruh roh.” After he lost game 2 I’m dyin his reaction to second stock was s-tier

Plot twist: Lvl 9 Kazuya is actually Sakurai playing while developing the game

Hbox: Getting clapped by a CPU The background music: *vibin*

Wish I was a youtuber rn. Lv9 cpu Kazuya is such easy content for everyone.

Just imagine when a amiibo comes out for him. Level 50 is going to be insane

Cpus really seems to struggle with moves that have movement like alolan whip, falcon kick and somehow even rollout

I'm really interested in the fact that people didn't know that Lv9 CPUs are usually frame 1 on moves so that's why they always do crazy combos that a normal person couldn't.

Hbox after winning first round: “C’mon Wadi, that wasn’t so hard.” Level 9 Kazuya CPU: “And I took that personally…”

the level 9 cpu kazuya is on electric wind god crack

Nerfing Kazuya’s Lvl 9 CPU is something I can’t imagine Sakurai would do.

I'm just starting the vid, Hungrybox better win on his first try if he's mocking WaDi like that.

Now imagine if he DIDN'T just completely fail at avoiding Rollout

Bandai Namco really wanted their character to have a good CPU, lol

Im just impressed how the AI has improved over the course of Smash Bros games

I will never get bored of CPU lvl 9 Kazuya 😂

Hbox while watching sakurai’s move set overview: WTF 4 KILL THROWS Hbox now: THERE IS NO WAY BACK THROW JUST KILLED JIGGLY PUFF AT 166%

Hbox: You cant defeat me Lvl 9 kazuya: I know, but he can "kazuya amiibo appears"

She do be yodelin in the background doe As a former Swiss resident, I approve

12:33 Kazuya said "I give you one more chance"

I swear he is just Ganon on steroids

For more context: Wadi was in a best of 5 with the cpu and lost 2-3

You know it's getting serious when you start to hear the GameCube controller

"Im losing to a line of code..." the most human against Skynet line ever!!

"17 minutes of HBox trying to convince himself he is as good as WaDi"

10:48 That really just brought him from 83% to 124%

2:36 i feel like I could see Hungrybox change from 'oh this will be a fun gimmick' to 'oh damn I might actually lose'

I live for the day I can see a pro player legit go down 2-1 to a CPU.

I love how He got serious there and talked him self up. Very cool

“Im losing to the game. Im losing to a line of code.” Proceeded by “I am the game, I am the code.” I love it 😂😂

Seeing level 9 kazuya occasionally pop off just makes me more excited for what a amiibo kazuya could do

This reminds me of OG smash ultimate when Challenger Approaching CPU’s were overly tough.

My favorite line: “I am the code.” Sounds like something Batman would say.

Me: breathes Kazuya cpu: you free trail of existing has ended.

This is a peek of what's to come for Kazuya mains in tournaments. If he doesn't get nerfed... maybe the next DLC will be strong enough to beat Kazuya...

Bruh.... I was sold on the title WELL PLAYED!!! I would never... I struggle with lower level AI sadly!!! But BIG UPS to ya on that completed challenge for sure!!!

When you go hyper aggressive the PC can never adapt

Getting bullied by the cpu has gotten me to a point where I question" why do I play smash just to suffer".....kazuya just stand there

Some guy said it best: "The CPU has finally found its Main"

Bro you’re so funny!! I be cryinnnn listenin to your reactions to things that happen to you.

Me who 3 stocks the Kazuya Lv.9 CPU "Yo, anyone wanna sponsor me?" Lmao

Out of all of the videos you’ve made, I’ve never laughed so hard but feared for your life at the same time.

You know the AI is pretty hard to defeat when you pop off at defeating it xD

Nice Also you got clipped too. Lost 2 3stock matches in a row to a lv9...

I died the second he lost that first stock. 😆

His up B is like actually broken. Does insane damage, comes out quick, and you can DI out of punishes a lot of the time.

I was entertained by this. Thank you!

Some of the tensest gameplay I've seen all summer

if he wouldve just up thrown instead of back throw you woulda lost for sure lol

"I'm surprised he didn't get dropped by his team" dam hbones doing my boi WaDi so dirty

I'm glad I'm not the only one who struggles against lvl9 Kazuya...makes me feel a little better about myself.

i feel like part of the stress is the pressure of saying i got beat by a cpu

Advice: Play as defensively as possible. Only go in if you are ready to kill. The more you let Kazuya get to your face, the worse your situation will be.

Fun stuff. That Kazuya does scary things. I just played a bunch of matches, mostly winning 2 and 3 stocks, but I had a few close calls, and a couple losses. He can punish very hard, but only from very close. I was able to camp him effectively as Megaman, and with Ganondorf, I would generally go unpunished as long as I spaced my tilts, smashes and aerials well. Also, he tended to spot dodge too early against Wizards foot, so the slowness seems to have helped.

12:34 "What does it tell you when an assassin misses his target? He's not really trying!"

I wish other cpu's were like this but have this be lv10 instead of lv9

This was thoroughly entertaining.

He's like playing against a Bowser that's half the size but with faster frame data with the same damage/knockback, armor on his command grab, a longer range projectile, and still retaining quite a bit of weight LOL.

It took me one shot to beat a level 9 Kazuya without items and stage settings, it was hard but I beat him with my goddess Palutena with no issues.

Good job, that was fun to watch!

I would love to see a compilation of streamers getting rekt by Kazuya

The fact that this went to game 5 is crazy in itself regardless

the 6th god...KAZUYA

This is really showing me that majority of people who play smash don’t even touch any other fighter.

wow riveting gameplay where for 2 minutes straight i got to watch short hop back air 30 times into roll out and even the cpu was like "just end it you're being really unfun rn."

I really hoped to see Kazuya win, because in my opinion, seeing Kazuya making these Combos is much more hyped than a jigglypuff making combos.

I never thought I would see so much hype over a smash cpu

This was just hilarious to watch

It was satisfying seeing hungrybox trash talk WaDi, then immediately get destroyed.

I can’t wait to see how strong the last character AI is.

Remeber, CPUs have frame perfect reaction, so if they miss a tech, its not skill issue, its *MERCY*

There will never ever be a player that fights kazuya lvl 9 like hungrybox.

This was like a grand finals level challenge. That’s awesome

Now listen to that final match with "My Last Stand" playing in the background

Some people in the chat were mentioning how the CPU was playing like a level 8.

This was so hype. Clutch box activated.

I’ve never felt hopelessness in a video this hard before

The fact an NPC can consistently take stocks off the pros is incredible to me.

It was set in stone before it even begun, hbox is too goated

Had me nervous for a sec bud, glad you took it haha.

Do this again when the Kazuya Amiibo comes out. Level 50 kazuya is going to be the true final boss.

haven't played cpu 9 kazuya yet lmao gonna try this weekend

Man all these Kazuya fights make me wanna fight him too. It's been 2 or 3 months since I played cuz I'm bored waiting for offline tournaments to come back

7:42 those are some serious magnet hands.

i think that it would have been cool if they had made a "kazuya challenge" like the sephiroth challenge before kazuya came out, where people would fight level 9 kazuya to unlock him early. it could have been the sephiroth challenge but better

As someone who practices against friends by using level 9 cpus on his own time and has played thousands of rounds against them I have a few theories about the AI in this game from the patterns of gameplay that I noticed (I only say theories because I don’t have a solid way to prove this): Theory 1) When the AI gets down to 1 stock left it REALLY tries harder and REALLY FEELS like a true level 9 (almost 10) cpu at that point as if everything is on the line like in a tournament and it must win! It’s the hardest stock to beat out of the others and each stock gets harder the more you take from the AI! One way of testing this is try to do a 3 or 5 stock battle and get the cpu down to 1 stock left then keep jumping to your death until both you and the cpu have 1 stock a piece and now the battle will really begin because the AI now calculates it really has a chance to win against you and that the W comes down to this stock! That’s why when I saw HungryBox’s gameplay I kept waiting to see what happens when the cpu had 1 stock left! Theory 2) If you played against your friend and let’s say he was player 2 playing with controllers then you changed the second player to cpu level 9 with same character (or maybe even another character) the AI will implement similar play style skills of your friend with the crazy hard level 9 AI skill blended together and will play more like him. Each time you turn off your switch or quit the game back to switch home screen the AI slowly returns back to its regular fighting pattern. Theory 3) The AI seems to kinda know what buttons you’re pressing on your controller before you land an attack on it. What I mean by this is if you run towards the AI it can kinda predict you’re holding the left stick right or left and that there’s a good chance you’ll follow up with pressing B or A for some kinda of running smash attack and even adapts its position before you come close to it. I’ve also noticed sometimes the AI could have used an UP+B for a ledge grab recover and it sometimes just gracefully falls to its death for no reason when edge guarding making me question “wtf?!? It could have lived lol” and I noticed each time I’m somewhat high in the air and held down on the left stick for a good amount of seconds it kinda predicts there’s a high chance you might do a down smash or get a 2 frame where it will trick it to kinda give up or wait as long as it can before it tries to recover using UP+B (This rarely happens). Also, if you keep spamming the same attacks like say a side smash multiple times to hit the AI it will catch the pattern and adapt its play style so it punishes you and forces you to adapt yourself to hit it another way, you’ll know this is happening because it will be hard to land a hit with the same attack multiple times! 4) Let’s say you set up 2 player smash and set both players to CPU Level 9 and have them play against each other, one CPU player is bound to be better at playing then another. After a few rounds see which player consistently wins while keeping the characters the same and then change the characters around from player 1 and 2 and the one cpu that kept winning will most likely be using a better AI gameplay skill method to have a higher chance at winning the match even when swapping characters! Theory 5) Every time you play another set with the same CPU even after a win and same stage it’s not guaranteed you’ll win again because it sometimes feels like the AI plays even more aggressively on some sets and more easy going in other sets regardless of it set to Level 9. Anyways, cool video and now I’m gonna try playing more level 9 Kazuya’s after watching this video!

1:57 haha look it’s the funny song guy that goes: dame dame

Wadi got clipped by a Kazuya combo that wasn't even true lmaooooo

i see actually at the clip from the start of video shows Panda uses mewtwo against kazuya and the level 9 cpu kazuya have advantage being both same fighters at ground mewtwo doesn't so good at aerial so kazuya could give a pressure but hungrybox uses jigglypuff where it could give pressure at air, more aerial multi hits, and good at off stage because of it's jump like kirby it's fits to counter kazuya because he doesn't so good at the air and even sakurai at kazuya presentation say he wasn't so good at jump and heavy and he's not so floaty without up special. by the way at 7:01 the pokemon theme music actually hilariously somehow fit the battle

The craziest part about this Is the fact that if this was the best of three... He would have lost