Every Smash Bros Character's WORST Matchup 

watch it all be steve

11:29 I actually kinda love the idea that Doctor Mario’s doctorate is a PhD. Like he didn’t get an MD at all, he’s like a doctor of Philosophy and is just playing dress-up.

0:42 Mario: Shulk 1:10 Donkey Kong: Steve/G&W 2:01 Link: Pythra 2:29 Samus/Dark Samus: Olimar 2:49 Yoshi: Shulk 3:26 Kirby: Steve/Sonic 3:48 Fox: Luigi 4:34 Pikachu: G&W 5:16 Luigi: Sephiroth 5:33 Ness: Palutena 6:16 Captain Falcon: G&W 6:58 Jigglypuff: Yoshi 7:25 Peach/Daisy: G&W 8:45 Bowser: Steve/Kazuya 9:19 Ice Climbers: Min-Min 9:52 Shiek: Steve/Pac-Man 10:53 Zelda: Joker 11:29 Dr. Mario: Shulk 11:42 Pichu: Samus 12:28 Falco: G&W 13:10 Marth/Lucina: Sonic 13:45 Young Link: Cloud 14:45 Ganondorf: Steve/Min-Min 15:14 Mewtwo: Bayonetta 16:20 Roy: Pikachu 17:27 Chrom: Joker 18:22 G&W: ZSS 19:33 Meta Knight: ZSS 20:00 Pit/Dark Pit: Diddy Kong 20:53 ZSS: Wolf 22:12 Wario: Steve/Olimar 23:05 Snake: Mega Man 23:56 Ike: Roy 24:36 Pokemon Trainer: Samus 25:03 Diddy Kong: Pac-Man 26:11 Lucas: Sephiroth 26:44 Sonic: Pikachu/None? You're welcome I'll do the rest when part(s) 2/3 come out

For Little Mac there is no single worst matchup. There is just the rest of the roster.

I appreciate you giving the alternate worst matchup when a character’s worst is Steve, he really did change the meta a lot

I’ve been loving these videos recently focusing on teaching people like me more about the game since there are so many characters to track. Hope to see more soon King ❤

0:45 Mario 1:10 Donkey Kong 2:02 Link 2:29 Samus/Dark Samus 2:47 Yoshi 3:26 Kirby 3:49 Fox 4:34 Pikachu 5:16 Luigi 5:34 Ness 6:16 Captain Falcon 6:59 Jigglypuff 7:25 Peach 8:45 Bowser 9:19 Ice Climbers 9:52 Sheik 10:52 Zelda 11:29 Dr. Mario 11:42 Pichu 12:28 Falco 13:10 Marth/Lucina 13:44 Young Link 14:44 Ganondorf 15:14 Mewtwo 16:19 Roy 17:27 Chrom 18:21 Mr. Game & Watch 19:33 Meta-Knight 20:00 Pit/Dark Pit 20:53 Zero Suit Samus 22:11 Wario 23:04 Snake 23:56 Ike 24:35 Pokémon Trainer 25:03 Diddy Kong 26:11 Lucas 26:44 Sonic

Please keep making these more educational/longer videos, that arent just gameplay, they are rly good

It’s really surprising just how many characters fare badly against G&W. He’s such an underappreciated character.

I assume it was editor's decision but googling what year is it just feels like the most poppt1 thing

On Samus/Olimar: There's no one thing that really makes the matchup worst, it's just a combination of a lot of small things. He's small, making him hard to hit and combo. He's able to basically make a wall with Pikmin that completely stops projectiles, including totally shutting down all levels of Charge Shot for basically no commitment on Olimar's end. Samus doesn't have super early kill confirms, so relies on building up a lot of damage on her opponent, but Olimar out-damages her with passive Pikmin damage. And Samus doesn't have a great way to knock Pikmin off of her - Screw Attack is great but leaves her vulnerable, and Up air or Nair only work for certain angles. And finally, Samus has good up-close options unless the opponent has disjoints, and every Pikmin is a disjointed attack.

It's great that you're making an update because even at the time I did not think Duck Hunt's worst matchup was Lucina. Can't wait to see what you chose in part 2.

Love that shulk has a lot of good matchips and he’s barely been changed through patches

something else about pit vs diddy that he doesnt mention is how pit just cant use down b against diddy kong due to monkey flip. down b is pits most useful move in disadvantage by far, and its just useless against diddy.

Any character against dedede is terrifying. He's too... crouch animation

13:40 fun fact, in this clip proto beats Ken's sonic with only lucina, resets the bracket and wins again with only lucina

As one of two dozen currently living Mewtwo mains, Bayo is a huge pain but not quite as brutal as Fox or Falco. Falco in particular has that huge, quick, disjointed reflector to defend against shadow ball, and his combo game combined with Mewtwo's size and weight make the matchup pretty grisly. Both him and Fox just have every tool a character would want to mess Mewtwo up

Despite kazuya and steve's addition to the game I still think min-min was the biggest mistake. I still don't understand how anyone could have ever thought that would be a good addition to the game

YES! This series is back! Can you make another tierlist too

Saying Doctor Mario’s PhD has only made him more lazy and even slower felt like a personal attack. I’m about to finish my PhD and it has had the exact same effect on me

The real counter pick is the friends we made along the way

I love these deep dives! I can tell how much thought and care you put into this and it really shows. Great work!

As a monke main I got to say byleth is monke’s worst matchup.

Watching the video, I was actually kind of surprised that ice climbers didn’t show up! I would’ve expected ice climbers to be one of foxes worst matchups given how Big D vs Light went. Awesome video though!

⚠️Spoilers from the video ⚠️ The Predator podium(part 1): Honorable mention: Steve - 6 1°: Mr game and watch - 5 2°: Shulk - 3 3°:Sonic - 2 Min-min - 2 Joker - 2 Zero Suit Samus - 2 Olimar - 2 Samus - 2 Pacman - 2 Sephiroth - 2 Pikachu - 2 12°: Pyra/Mythra - 1 Lucina - 1 Luigi - 1 Palutena - 1 Yoshi - 1 Kazuya - 1 Snake - 1 Cloud - 1 Bayonetta - 1 Diddy Kong - 1 Wolf - 1 MegaMan - 1 Roy - 1

“And Palutena is like Lebron James” is perfect out of context. Great insight Jordan!

This is great, I was wonder if you would update this and you did, good job

I'm no Sephiroth or Lucas main, but I think the nail in the coffin for Lucas v Sephiroth is that Lucas' magnet doesn't cover himself, so he can't absord side B

Poppt preparing for little Z’s follow up vid where he challenges these worst matchups by naming half of them as g&w lmao

Years after subspace emissary pikachu: ay my son is acting up again Samus: I got this

Mewtwos is definitely not Bayo. It’s a three way tie for Fox, Falco, and Link.

dk's worst mu is falco and wario is sonic

"Pichu can't do anything against samus" Meanwhile Poppt1 against a samus: Wins

About Sonic, indeed he's a character that forces you to play his game. I'm a Wolf main and I have a rushdown playstyle, getting up close and personal. But against Sonic, I'm forced to change that and camp him. But by doing that, I'd dare say Wolf becomes quite the complicated matchup for Sonic. The laser can completely neutralize Sonic's spin dash on the ground. Also, with his great air mobility, you can just jump over Sonic and then he can't connect that Spin Dash. When playing on a stage with platforms, and Sonic wants to use the homming attack, camping him by staying under a platform does the trick quite easily. On FD, you can camp him too until he finishes the move and then punish him. Unfortunately, it becomes a game of "who tires the other out faster", and it's one of the most boring matches ever. But it works in the end.

Zelda main here, I'd say the hardest matchup is probably Palutena. Palu has fast and safe disjoints that are hard to deal with, significantly faster movement speed, and the ability to play the zoning game with Zelda and force an approach. On top of that she is quite tricky for Zelda to edgeguard.

As an Ike main who has conversed with pretty much all the top Ike mains, the matchup most consistently viewed as his worst is ROB. Roy is bad, but ROB is worse-Ike can't get any advantage state going and just dies offstage.

I never thought I'd see Palutena be compared to Lebron James

Couple things, this is commenting on both this and the followup video: Very interesting and well researched overall, love how you elaborated on every mu and why they are bad. 1. Yoshi's worst mu is definitely Samus. Shulk is bad on paper but it's actually a matchup that Yoshi wins a lot and he has a lot of win conditions. Even in the clip you used, Ranger loses to Pharaoh way more than he wins lol. Samus is genuinely difficult and the Yoshis are LOSING that mu in practice, just look at Yoshidora vs Yuara(?). 2. There's no way that Meta Knight is K Rool's worst mu. It's probably Falco, Palu, or surprisingly Mii Gunner (look that one up, he quite literally will never get back to stage if gunner spams the grenades at ledge at a specific point). 3. Incineroar's worst matchup definitely isn't Zero Suit, I actually don't know if it comes close. From the good Incin's I've spoken to it's probably Min min or Mario. Skyjay vs Proto and Kurama at summit really highlights this. Min min also has the same justification as ganon (both characters are slow, have bad recoveries, and no tools to reliably deal with arms). 4. Mario's worst matchup is probably Ice Climbers, as he literally can't play the game against them as opposed to shulk. Mario mains win against Shulk fairly frequently, there are plenty of VODs out there, but you'll never see one beat an Ice Climbers on or near the level of Big D, it looks unwinnable, especially if you watched the Summit Set. Still a great video though some of these picks are mad confusing!

if we have to say a bad matchup for Sonic is fox, pikachu loses because sonic has better camp than him and fox can always stay close to you and leave you no stage or time to think, which forces you to play in a very different and unique way, but it's still even lmao

Pichu probably struggles more against dark Samus than regular Samus because the charge shot can hit while holding ledge whereas Samus’ shot sails right over the head.

the amazing air mobility and dj superarmor means its really hard to get edgeguards or rest confirms as puff on yoshi i havent played vs yoshi very often but it seems like a pain to deal with

So I will state some counter points on the snake one. He can actually low profile the jab/nair lemons, crash bomb, and to an extent, bair. While his projectiles can be slowed a little, snake can still use them as area denial. As for the up air bit, simply letting go of cipher early can somewhat counteract it and can also drop and detonate c4s on a megaman who isn’t paying attention.

"Diddy has more range than Pt and Dark Pit, which doesn't make sense since Pit has a sword" MANY non-swordies can outrange Pit. It's a sucky life to live, lol.

As a C. Falcon main, I agree with Game & Watch, and I'd say I struggle a lot with Samus as well.

It is true Sonic has a hard time hitting pikachu especially with all those projectiles stopping Sonic since he can’t power through them. Any small character in general does make Sonic actually struggle, and if you add him trying to jump over fast projectiles it just becomes more complicated.

Yessir could you do another every smash bros character in a nutshell video? That one is my favorite video that you have made.

Kazyua v Bowser **is not that bad at all**. It’s hardly losing. Kazyua’s neutral is the only thing that makes the matchup difficult. Kazyua’s has a terrible disadvantage, terrible off stage, and can’t get back from the ledge. Yeah we get comboed, but that’s about it

Really weird for the bowser matchup, I honestly never knew that bowser struggled cause I always seem to come out on top even against good kazuya players. Online at least

Leon Says Bowser Kazuya is even and Bowser Steve is only -1

Hey man great video, one thing that would be great is time stamps for each character. Keep making great content

found u like yesterday, i love ur content!!! very informative videos and also super entertaining

in my opinion sonics worst matchups (though they still could be considered even) are pika, aegis, and fox. They all can match his speed enough, and have a lot of tools that help in the matchup.

yo I'm ready to see little z try to debunk this and fail horribly

15:00 Believe it or not, Ganon does have some wiggle room against those 2. Against Min Min, he can edgeguard her extremely well, and he has some way to deal with ARMS through clanking. Fun fact: Dragon Arm can't shoot the laser if it gets clanked (not Ganon specific but it's good info). Against Steve, blocks and minecarts become less of a problem due to Ganon's raw power, he can even Up-b Steve in minecart. With that said, I do agree that they're still difficult, and are by no means easy MUs, I just wanted to shed a little bit of light on 2 MUs I unironically love as Ganon. If you see this Poppt, great video as always!

A good way to make sure that every entry on this list was updated from the last video and to make every entry more unique would be to give two or three picks for each character

I agree with most of this, though it is noteworthy that some characters worst matchups are not even that bad because they are just that good. Some things I want to add is that Wario hates Sonic (Im not sure if its his worst matchup but it is very bad), and Sonic may not lose any matchups but either Fox or Pyra/Mythra comes pretty close.

So I play Samus, but I've never bothered to go out of my way to look at top player matchup charts to gauge matchup opinions. But when I saw Olimar on screen, it felt like I've known it in my soul for ages. Those little carrots block literally everything, and him being short makes it obnoxious to try to box with him. Edit: For PT, I'd actually say Squirtle is more obnoxious than Ivysaur. I mean all three are easy to deal with, but Squirtle can sometimes squeeze under medium charge shot from regular Samus (Not Dark though. Interestingly, Dark Samus' lower CS release makes it optimal in both our best and worst MUs). But a medium CS chews through Razor Leaf on reaction and usually hits Ivysaur for it. And if Ivysaur has to recover, morph bomb just says "no".

im so glad you said this about joker and chrom. I have been up two stocks vs a joker and they just get arsene and kill me at like 30% with his counter. Other characters like palutena or lucina chrom can perfectly space his up special and dodge the counters(this is honestly hard to do consistently), but joker hits no matter WHERE chrom up specials. Way below the stage? getting hit. All the way to the right? hit. Even at the end, coming straight down it stops chrom where he is and gets hit. Joker is the reason im trying to learn other characters since having THAT glaring of a weakness and disadvantage just makes me not want to play. Especially when joker is obviously top 5 and is seen everywhere.

I like the thought and effort into this video, it's a fun listen! Great video Jordan! And I wanna say, I definitely agree with Seph as one of Luigi's worst matchups, but I feel like Rosa is the worst MU, then Min Min, then Seph, from what I have experienced and observed.

Ness 5 worst in order are 1: GnW 2: GnW 3: GnW 4: GnW 5: Lucina

I think it's crazy that Sonix lost to Riddle's Terry. It seems Terry has that x factor that other characters who lose the matchup don't: deals high damage on small strings and trades, and has a go meter so even if they're combo'd to high percents, they have go.

Ice climbers have surprisingly good matchups against many top tiers like Pikachu, Mario, Joker and can even get a little handsy with Steve. But Min Min and Sephiroth just MELT the poor dears

This videos are sick! Thanks poppt1

Steve must be Donkey Kong 40th worst MU at max, really not his worst, kinda mid imo

Bruh....i came for DDD, and you cut it at sonic?! Part 2 better be tonight ir tommorrow SMH

Glad poppt is keeping us up to date with the current meta

how do you do the falco tech that was demonstrated in his segment

pyra mythra link is near unwinnable 💀

8:46 As a Bowser main who’s played a lot of the game by now, I completely disagree with what is being said here, especially about the Kazuya mu. It’s extremely hard for both of these characters to win neutral, if one of them wins the other is taking 0-100% before they can do anything, hence why this mu is often considered Truely even for Bowser. Steve I can understand but bowser doesn’t struggle with Steve as much as the little electric rat. Pikachu has been widely agreed apon worst mu for bowser because he’s a big target for pika’s multihit chains with fair and bair and makes it very difficult for bowser to win neutral thanks to their mashy based playstyle.

Jordan talking about Ness-Palu: “The movement in comparison is on a whole another level” Hikasan: *turns into judge Simon*

Thank you so much for doing this

Sorry for not making it last stream. Just by the time you started, I was already asleep. Regardless, I enjoyed getting to know what each character's worst matchup in detail even though I'm a casual.

Honestly, as someone that plays a good amount of both samus and duck hunt, I feel like that matchup is on the same scale as olimar samus for the same reasons, can can either be used to counter pressure you from a range, or used as just a wall on the stage that blocks charge shot and has to be considered with every action, and while it's not an instant thing or anything, the gunmen can be used either for more pressure or for an easy block of a charge shot if necessary, which prevents any punishes that could come from a jump or shield stun.

Lol i love how you put your main at the top like everyone else

I thought the worst thing you could get as Kirby was Ike!

I was thinking Falco for Zelda. Zelda hates characters able to rush her down as she has almost no fast, reliable option besides Nair (Which is an inconsistent move). Remaining options are Dash Attack, Jab (which is also an oddity compared to most of the cast as she only has one hit instead of a multiple part combo so she doesn't move while doing it), her mediocre tilts (Up Tilt only true combos with the back hit and is pretty small for an anti-air, F-Tilt's a decent kill move with the sweetspot but nothing to write home about besides that, D-Tilt to Fair sometimes works with not much else you can do but bait/read an air dodge out of it), and Neutral B or Up B out of shield to get people off her in neutral (Second hit of Up-B is also DIable so some characters can get away with only the sour spot hitting them.) She has to fish for grabs or reads for fair/bair sweetspots and up air to get any real distance. (All of which she is punished for missing.) Therefore, she can't use her strongest point, Phantom when people are in her face all the time. The speed of Falco, the laser to interrupt Phantom summoning from almost anywhere on stage so long as he faces her (Unless she does the difficult displacement tech) and the mileage Falco gets from any combo starter he can easily hit because of Zelda's unsafe moves. On top of all that, he has a reflector. As a Zelda main, it's torturous.

I need the series ASAP its my fav of all time on this channel

Nice Jordan these are always appreciated.

Auto-reticle is another reason why the Palu-Ness matchup is so bad. It can gimp his recover at most higher angles of recovery and his ascending speed is so bad at the start of his second jump, it will eat it a lot of the time if timed right. It also clanks and stuffs out his up special with the right timing too.

You should give them there Canon strength and make a tournament

Well, I guess I know who I’m learning to play: the big three of bad matchups, game and watch, shulk, and Steve

i’m a peach main, and when i played against that one fire escape spirit where it was all mr. game and watch i felt like it was my own personal hell.

I had no Idea yoshi's armour could even be broken. I usually don't even bother trying to edgeguard against the green dino.

You should win a tournament as a counterpicker and only pick your opponents worst matchup (possibly excluding steve). I think it'd be a funny video and maybe give some insight into how effective counterpicking is vs maining.

I just wanna say I liked the chill vid with nick. Thanks Australian man.

I'd love to see the next video and thanks for the first video. I love your contnet.

Loving the Luigi player who is dresses as Luigi at 4:00

With only 3 Months left this year, I must start my Villian Saga as a Steve/Gaming Watch main.

Hype, been waiting for this

24:56 he says that a leaf doesn't counter a military grade missile, yet it was shown about 2 minutes earlier with megaman vs snake that a leaf, does in fact, counter a missile

Please please please continue the series with a part 2 and 3 I’m new and need this so much outdated info out here😅

I like how Andrik was shown for Captain Falcon, he’s a beast ✨👏😎

Lucas being a little manas boy and getting destroyed by a far edgier mamas boy is really funny to me lol

you NEED to make a part 2, you stopped right before my main

icies two worst matchups are definitely belmonts or hero. i haven't seen a single other ice climbers player say minmin is our worst matchup so idk where you got that from.

Hi there poppt, whilst steve is a bad matchup for DK (-2 at least) he still suffers more vs GnW, pikachu, young link, mega man and there are a few others about as bad as steve but I'm not sure which is worse (sheik, bayonetta, zero suit, samus)

Hate yoshi/Luigi in smash so you know what time it is ? "I'm really feeling it" xD lol good video

Ganondorf's worst matchup is everyone

Nice! Time to see how many people destroy Kirby, King Dedede, and Meta Knight!

Everyone should try to run in a buttoned up labcoat just one time just to see how ridiculous it is for Dr Mario to wear one