10:20 I love when top level Smash temporarily returns to little brother tactics. Just charging a Smash Attack right in front of his face, and it almost worked lol
I don’t even feel like Leo isn’t back like people are saying. This Joker today was UP TO STANDARD imo. He showed great things and you can see the improvement already. Kaninabe just closed this time unfortunately
@damarihanson3876 Oh yeah I agree, honestly some of his recent sets playing as Joker in particular he's playing better than he ever has. He hits shit these days he never would in the past. It's really just that other people have improved more, and it was a pretty slow overtaking over like a year. But with how insanely dominant he was back in the day, my man could only ever really go down relative to the competition
Sonix could honestly be as dominant as Leo. Sonics matchup chart is absolutely insane, because i’m pretty sure he doesn’t even have 1 losing matchup if played at top level. Sonix is breaking the skill barrier of that very difficult character. One day, Sonix will be just as dominant as Joker Leo
Yo Kaninabe's recovery mixups are great. He also uses side b well into disadvantage. I hope Leo adapts to it next time though (he did a little here). Every mixup is just another potential option to be punished.
Light is just so much faster and more aggressive while Kaninabe is much more patient and will stick to his opponent’s pace to try and bait out their options
Leo looks so demotivated after he lost and I don’t blame him he was so close. His losers set vs muteace he went byleth and got 3-0d despite losing each game convincingly. Feel like his loss here was too much for him
Kaninabe was playing better and Leo really should've just tried his hardest to close it out game 4 when he had arsene and NOT allow it to go to game 5. I do not understand why he went byleth versus mute though, that just seemed silly. That mu was already exposed at Genesis 9
@@lokks2130 I agree I think they were both playing really good but kaninabe was so good at waiting out arsene and ledgetrapping leo. I think Leo kinda gave up on the rest of the tournament and just went byleth
I wish Leo punished kaninabe more for jumping off of ledge EVERY SINGLE TIME. He was mixing up his timings but come on how many times can you get away with it I agree, he should've stayed Joker versus Mute. I know he doesn't like that mu but he always beats Peaches with Joker.
Leo is a phenomenal player but with a game as diverse as Smash no one player with any one character is going to remain the top player forever. Congrats to Kaninabe on this set, he's an insane talent. As for Leo, he needs to get back to work being the champ leads to complacency and he needs to be hungry again.
🤣as a fox main I can confirm. But it's never a "yeah fuck you" to the opponent. It's just feeling ourselves and buying in on our own self hype. And it's unnecessary 🤣
@@colinhoeg4728 When We tap the taunt button to do the "Let's go" Firefox taunt, we power up. When other character press whatever taunt buttons, they press to taunt. We and those "others" are NOT the same.
Kanninabe took risks with the forward smashed and very predictable landing nairs but it paid off I think Leo got too comfortable and sort of playing the match up like it was Light cause in certain situations light would’ve got impatient and went for random upsmash but kanninabe was way more patient which won him this set
I'd say it was riskier doing the early, very predictable falling rebel guard, Kanny called it out perfectly he just fucked the spacing up. Overall I agree with you 100% tho. Leo definitely got complacent and was use to Light's fox where he typically throws more caution to the wind and it cost him the set.
Spoilers Was wholesome to see the crowd seeing for Leo sad he lost the set and he seemed quite upset seemed to have gotten to him surprisingly. Sad too see hope he finds confidence in a lineup of characters. His joker is great and I wish he kept faith in it this event after all it barely lost here.
Alright I’m just going to say this. Fox is a top 10 character let it be known. Also, Light, Kaninabe, Mukou, and Passeriman are the best Fox players, in that order in my professional opinion lol! GO FOX 🦊
I don't blame Leo losing interest in the game. When he was no. 1 TOO MANY people were throwing SH*T at him. Now he isn't interested in being no.1 MANY people misses his winnings. AND many paple are still throwing sh*t at him for "falling off". I admire him still competing beacause I would have quit a long time ago .
Estoy de acuerdo con todos, no sé por qué Leo está desmotivado y parece no importarle ya nada de esto. Es bastante triste porque es mi jugador favorito desde Smash 4 y ahora, algunas veces no dan ganas de verlo jugar porque ya se sabe que va a perder contra cualquier random que le toque. Ojalá vuelva nuestro Leo de 2018-2019 😔
I noticed that on game four they were able to play a Zelda song on a Kingdom Hearts stage, are they using a modded game or is there a way to play any song on any stage?
"Leo losing game 4 is beyond me". Have you watched smash lately. That statistic is no longer a thing. He's just a regular top player now, he gets out played more often.
Im surprised leo wasnt going for many edge guards and letting Fox recover for free. And some of those side bs and smash attacks were kind of sus getting him punished. Thought overall it was a really fun match to watch.
Minor spoilers 15:22 right there if Leo went for fair 1 instead of dair which I expected him to do in the moment I feel like he won game 4 and took the set 3-1 and it wouldn’t have become a game 5 set. Just something I saw and was surprised about it so I marked it. This was a good set.
@@timjim7163 sure but if he wants to win, he can. At ludwig, he dismantled everyone. Of course he growned up and don't have more time for the game I guess.
