It's Melee Combo Horse - Guardian Showdown Episode 2 

toph kinda unfair on everyone else for practising upthrow upair all week

You know, I expected Zain to win, but I didn't expect him to win without attempting a single edge-cancel-extravaganza marth combo.

Day 1 of requesting a GG Melee compilation of every time n0ne says "Zain.." like a disappointed parent

When N0ne's fighting a smile it's always a good time

Universal Soldier's 3 gentlemens in a row was a GG melee classic moment. Legend

None repeatedly just making his a gentleman is 400 IQ

n0ne hella evil for that empty gentleman for non-falcon specialists lmao

This may be a local rule, but if you're the guy setting the "challenge" in horse and everyone does it, then the guy who made the challenge too easy takes a letter. This makes it so people are incentivized to do things right at the limit of their ability, making things interesting

how Falcon's gentleman works, from SSBWiki: "The mechanics of neutral attack continuations in Melee are complex.[1] In essence, a neutral attack's infinite is triggered if the player presses or releases the A button a set number of times while executing the first few hits, but these "toggles" do not count if the character is in freeze frames, or is standing still after a hit yet still within the window to continue into the next hit (or "idle continuable time"). The first press to initiate the neutral attack also does not count. Captain Falcon specifically has a toggle count of 4, meaning that under normal circumstances the infinite launches after 4 toggles, which is when the player presses A (or Z) the third time. As a result, the input to trigger the Gentleman is normally the same input that triggers the infinite, meaning that to get only the Gentleman, the player must "drop" at least one of the toggles by placing them inside freeze frames or idle continuable time. Therefore, missing one of the first hits makes it riskier to go for (as there are no freeze frames to drop a toggle with), as having to wait for idle time slows down the combo and makes it easier to react to. With such technical information unavailable for a large part of the technique's life, players created several subjective ways to achieve it. The player can perform the third neutral attack input by pressing any button in conjunction with the neutral attack (Isai finds this easiest to achieve with Z). S2J discovered that one can hold down on the control stick after the initial jab and continue the rest of the combo to do the Gentleman. The safest and most guaranteed (but not necessarily the easiest) method is to simply allow each jab to complete its animation. However, the first two methods do not work if the jab combo whiffs (even the last method has a chance of failing if the first or second jabs whiff), leaving Captain Falcon wide open if the opponent can escape it in time. In the PAL version of Melee, Captain Falcon's toggle count for triggering the infinite is changed from 4 to 7, so it cannot be triggered until the player presses and releases A a minimum of 4 times (and none of the toggles are dropped). This makes the Gentleman trivial to perform, making the combo much safer both on whiff and on hit."

Lol n0ne pointing out zains missed L cancel multiple times was pricless

Traditionally in games like horse or skate you have to call what you're gonna do BEFORE you do it. That way you can't just do whatever and add stuff to it at the end like the "No tipper F-smash". like in HORSE you'd show from where you're shooting and then say "swish" or "backboard" before attempting the shot.

I forget what tournament they did this at, but I always loved the event. Would love to see more of this in the future

Omg no way! I always thought about something like Combo Horse, sorta like Tech Skill horse that Relno beasted on at SmashTheRecord!!

What about a combo contest. 1 hour to come up with and record your best combo and it gets judged by guest stars!

That was so sick. Also I feel like n0ne is living in a technical difficulty

How is Toph so cracked lol

never challenge a falcon main on their ability to roll.

Zain's misfire combo was so funny. I wish he had hit one so badly

Marth Fox FD is Zain’s happy place

The reason Zain couldn't connect the nair rest in his combos at 17:58 is because by law, it doesn't hit unless you shout out FirePuff12 while you're doing it

n0ne saying he can't even pivot is hilarious

That mirror makes it look like none is in a huge room with two matching beds. If that's not a mirror and he actually does have two beds in his bedroom that's baller as fuck.

First: I like this format, really entertaining. Second: I feel the ruleset should be revised a bit. If something like Pivot counts (like it did in the final example) then I also think that cross-ups and such (can be seen at 22:50) should also be considered part of the combo. But maybe that's just me, dunno.

this was one of the funniest videos you guys have done in a while. would love to see this one again

This is my favorite of the minigames that GG has put out for sure... hope to see way more videos in this series. Thank you GG! So funny and great to see more gameplay than game knowledge.

When i'm sad I come watch Toph at 5:01 say "So you guys have to drill" and some for reason i laugh every time. Thanks for the content GG.

Definitely need more of this!

This was so much fun to watch

n0ne bullying Zain is one of my favorite things

we definitely gonna need more melee horse vids this is dope

Usually in horse if everyone does your shot/trick you get a letter. Might be better with that format but really fun episode regardless

THE ROLL IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART

this is such a fun idea, would love to see this at a summit event or something!

If you do this again, the participants should call out their combo before they do it. Like anything that they want to people after to copy has to be declared beforehand. Otherwise you can just spam random tech skill and see what happens which is impossible to purposefully copy. (I've always thought this was a fundamental rule when I play Basketball horse)

Love this game. I love all the other GG melee games, but watching them actually play melee is 👌

Hilarious concept! Love it!

Half expected Zain to go "This next combo is called Nine"

great vid, wish it was just combos and not niche tech skill but that's just me I mean n0ne going young link and bomb dropping is dirty

Next time, with special guest Relno!

i love melee combo horse

I love this channel so much

In the future, I would say the person making the combo should have to call what they are attempting initially and if they fail for trying to set the bar too high they would earn the letter. Rather than them just failing and everyone trying to do whatever they scrapped together.

To empty gentleman consistently, you can briefly walk between jabs 1-2 or 2-3. Don't walk too much or it will reset to jab 1.

guys you NEED to get Axe on as a guest for the next round of this plz

I was cracking up the whole time

every time i buffer roll on slippi i hear none's voice in my head

Sick vid!

this is a banger

I love GG Melee!

Try to bring SilentWolf, KJH, Lord, etc on the next show. I think that would be super entertaining

26:21 zain channeling his inner mango with that laugh

Next episode, you guys have to have a guest appearance from Savestate. It would be hilarious to see Savestate do some insane stuff, and then say "you try."

rule for next time: if everybody is able to do your combo, you get a letter

GG Melee gives me life

This vid was goated

in the future, I think the person who picks the combo should have to try and perform it again with everyone else.

great episode. moky as a guest on this would be so good

The best strategy is to do a couple of random G&W hammers and say "hit those numbers"

14:13 LMFAO what a soundbyte

Good idea but the rules need a bit of refining I think Would maybe be good if the person doing it had to call the combo before doing it, do it first, and if they fail they get a letter and it moves to the next player Also for combos make it so the only thing that mattered was hitting the right moves, no tech no specific hitboxes, just combo the right moves in the right order with the right settings. Makes it so you only have to do tech that's actually necessary for the combo

awesome content

To empty gentlemen easily you can buffer walk after jab 2, let stick back to neutral once you start walking and press A. Hold A until you interrupt again otherwise jab 4 comes out.

This is fun

Great game

Hell yeah

I wanna do this but with stomp knee Bring it on GG melee

12:46 isai with the cape be like:

this is so scuffed but its great

We need Moky in here asap

well i learned how to empty gentleman and bomb drop regrab today

you're supposed to call the thing you do before you do it so if you mess up then someone else sets the trick

What music is that playing in the background? Some nice drum and bass

None : "I can't even do pivots" Bruhhhhh

Ed giga brain for the gentleman lmao

I vote: Next time, I vote they have to call out their combo first. If they mess it up, skip their turn and onto the next

I have a suggestion!!! What if there was a bonus where the other 3 had an opportunity to do the intended combo and make the 1 gain a letter?

This ones called misfire lmao

Drill uptilt doesnt combo unless you get a late last hit on drill. Aim for drill input on airborne frame 2 and fast fall on first possible frame to guarantee max plus frames. Also staleness is a thing

I would throw a game and watch hammer. "yeah get this number". statistically two of them are going to fail

Nobody: Isai's tag: 12:48

26:13 LMAOOOOOO

N0ne was like : these guys cant gentlemen for shit, look at me

POG

n0ne should have used Game & Watch and tried a side-B combo; in the same way as Zain who wanted a misfire with Luigi :p

I'm surprised nobody went for a Peach combo that includes a (certain kind of) turnip that was thrown upwards previously and had to hit at a certain time mid-combo. That could have been difficult.

Instead of spelling out horse it should be…

Why don't players do this event more? It was insanely fun. But for future reference, if they do the event, the players have to be miked, the player's reactions are 90% of the fun.

next time, call out what the combo will be before they go, so they can’t just accidentally do a sick combo.

Did the drill on Mario not work coz it was too low %? Pretty sure that's why the spotdodge happens

ayy i proposed this like 3 months ago but it got zero thumbs so i thought it would never happen

None not being able to pivot is kinda surprising

so sic

n0ne the only one playing by the rules

what mod is that?

Luckily PP and Toph didn't get the last Ganon combo, because if it counted without them turning around before jab this would be a sham!

Why is it so hard to find how to empty gentleman? All my googles only result in how to do it when you hit your opponent! -_-

5:28 wait n0ne missed the l cancel :(

I call this one missfire lmfao

What if I fullhop ahahahaha

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