Playing the WORLD'S BEST Steve Player.. 

Recorded my tournament yesterday and it was great. Video coming up later this upcoming week long upload 🎉🎉

My first thought when I was this was Acola but lowkey Salem playin Steve in a way I’ve never seen before. You don’t see many “fundies” Steve’s like that

Salem has the best neutral and TNT usage out of any Steve. Imagine if he was actually camping in these friendlies.

I really like how Salem seems to favor gold over diamond for the better frame data over the extra power, it works better with the more old school fundamental play style that he uses

ZeRos gonna have Steve nightmares like the rest of us now

He’s actually the best Steve, I remember before he got banned he was cooking very hard with that character, still haven’t seen acola do half the things Salem was doing

13:38 We finally achieved it… *AIR MAC*

He wasn't kidding, this actually looks like a real Steve. I've never seen anyone use TNT that well, and even made it look fun.

13:36 There is a new Steve glitch everyday

Most respectable Steve I've ever seen

I knew Steve was gonna break this game day 1 of the character when i pissed off my entire friend group just mashing and figuring shit out.

Same as the other video, having a little commentary from his part would go a long way. Like after each match maybe he calls or something and then like "Man you where so lucky with that spotdodge *plays the clip of the moment he refers to* " could improve the video imo. Aun asi sigue asi brother

Salem was playing Steve but ZeRo was playing "You Died. Respawn."

When Steve beat Mario’s FS, I think it was a hitbox extension plus he had diamond. If I remember correctly, which ever smash attack does more damage takes priority.

Time (for him) to find out why steve is banned

Everyone knows that before he got banned he was winning all the online tournies with steve

Best video I've seen from you in a while I pretty much learned Steve watching Salem and M2K videos really cool to see how much he has evolved playing Steve since then.

Are we just not going to talk about 13:37??? Mac LITERALLY became an air fighter for a sec, he was standing on NOTHING!!!

THE ZERO LITTLE MAC RETURNS

Oh man, how i missed these kind of videos. Ty for coming back Zero.

Love watching the thought process you narrate in these matches! Keep em coming!

Bro love the content you are literally a inspiration for when I was having mental and physical hatred towards myself

I'm one of a few ppl that love watching any Steve gameplay, glad to see you try out different characters and had fun playing against Steve! ☺️

I swear nothing woold make me happier than seeing zero compete again

I like this type of videos where You seem to enjoy the game

just quickley saw the Lawsuit video and im glad its over, really enjoyed the videos u did back in the days. Now ur back and in this SHAPE!?!?!?!?!?! im happy for you bro. Well done! mans achived it no cap! 2. hand proud of u

Fundies Steve is horrifying

I can really appreciate salem not camping and replying on gimmicks I’d love a Steve like him to make it to the top

I think tournament zero would find a way to beat steve. No doubt in my mind.

Damn Steve is broke. He had you looking like me at my locals.

I feel like I’m one of the few people who like watching Steve

Loving all the new content! Salem's Steve was refreshing.

Zero is officially back y’all

havent watched you in like 2 years you GLOWED UP BRO LOOKING HEALTHY

I wish you would have tried the Belmont's. I would have liked to see that

Steve mirror match has to happen

Oh god the fear and hunger battle mode from the steve appearance

I really thought it was Acola but Salem was a really cool plot twist

Happy to see you continue

Whenever I play against Steve, I use Little Mac. I know I have a bad recovery, but have you seen his tilts? What Steve players like to do is put up a wall and mine. Your tilts as Mac are safe. Your down tilt is pretty fast and good at range so you don't have to get hit by a fsmash from behind the wall. Also, if you think the Steve will fsmash, up tilt instead to clash and it leaves Steve in stun for a good amount of time for a simple, yet strong punish. My personal favorite thing to do against minecart or when Steve does the down smash on tnt is to just challenge it with upward fsmash. Super armor, baby! If they have a single block in front of them, you can catch them with a side b surprise attack. It sucks that it'll be Trade Blows: The Game, but you'll gain more damage output in your favor. My Ken and Roy suck against Steve, sadly :(

watching this again after taking ult back up after so long and trying to work on my fundamentals, especially defensive ones, wow salem looks even scarier, also its so nice to see incredible fundamentals on a steve player, reminds me of the days of smash 4 and earlier

Love you Gonzalo, thank you for bringing Salem back to us ❤

Salem’s zero suit apex win pretty much got me into competitive smash, melee ironically enough

Youre awesome zero keep up with the videos

The key to beating Steve or kaz is to play chess not checkers because they win 9 out of the 10 interactions and you can lose a game off 1 interaction so basically that famous clip of zero getting killed by bayo in smash 4 the way he played that game is how he has to play Steve and kazuya

Thank you zero! Some normalcy in my life with your videos.

Pretty rare to see so much grounded neutral. Many characters/players spam their aerial to approach. But he just walks to you with a sword x).

The lil Mac was looking cleann. I had high hopes man

Time to learn Kazuya

Mans got COOKED, great content lmao

I agree that the fundamentals show more in Salem's Steve than in most, but the thing about Steve is that his gimmicks are actually very good, so Salem's Steve would be better if he did use them more. His TNT usage was very good, but it does use a lot of resources, and ZeRo wasn't taking advantage of that.

Ay I see that fresh cut tho 🥶

SALEM BEEN ON THAT ENDERMAN WAVE TOO, I REMEMBER HIM SPANKING M2K & OTHERS WITH HIS ENDERMAN!! HE IS SUPER ENTERTAINING TO WATCH!!!

He plays steve like tea plays pacman

Not a Fear & Hunger battle sound for Steve oh no

I like how he doesn't have a rolling habit like the #1 Steve. He just plays smarter.

Block wall + TNT is SO BROKEN and if you mess up approaching one time you eat an up tilt that leads to like 50% dmg or stray minecart or diamond f smash at 50 and you may just die

I can feel your frustration with steve bro!You have to read his side-b or dair and punish him,exploit his recovery when off stage and stay away from diamond baits they will kill you 70% of the time!.I main peach so usually i use my patience against him and i have a good results with him to be honest!Great games with Salem ! Cheers to both!!

One last thing saw the spot dodge cancel to from Salem reading your grab a lot Salem is an amazing player it's interesting to watch. I have not seen the ZeRo Diddy pop gun cancels you gotta read his spot dodge jab multi hits when he does that you could delay your attack but that's harder that's how you beat it you can't run up grab he is gonna read it and it's easy to react to he doesn't even have to read it just react you could spot dodge cancel reading dash attack it beats that to lol

13:37 Little Mac is standing on thin air

To beat Steve, you need speed, meaty aerials, and and ranged pressure

I’m convinced Salem (if caught up with the meta) would obliterate most of ultimate’s current top players

Remember when Pichu was the "first" Steve?

Watching Steve sure makes me glad I'm not the one playing

bro became bob the builder

You KNOW Salem would win a tournament with that Steve for sure!!

Can someone tell me what's the name of the music that plays in the first match? Please

You had me for a second there LOL But imagine? Acola in a ZeRo video?

LMAO, Steve's side smash range bonkers

Oh my gosh, I have not seen ZeRo in a while! He looks like a whole different person!

That ending XD

I think you may be able to do it with Diddy Kong

YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE… selects Kazuya

Never seen ZeRo lose this bad before it's crazy he started my smash career lol

Salem actually SCRAPS with Steve... And it looks impressive and scary.

Salem is a joy to watch with Steve

The one who put Steve on the map, SALEMM 🐐

Thumbnail face says "The risk i took was calculated... But i am so bad st math"

Partially unrelated, but I feel like absolutely hardcore characters like Steve and maybe even Hero can still be in tournaments, but in their own little zone. Like, there's the regular tournaments, and then there could be a steve-only tournament or a hero-only tournament.

I thought It was acola but this is still good stuff and you’re pretty good

Tell me you never seen ACOLA play without telling ME😂😂😂😂

This was so fun!! Please play with Chaparrito!!

ok now imagine if he integrated nil combos

I'm always a fan of the ZeRo Little Mac

zero turned into a chad looool

I have truly missed the Zero Little Mac bro 😭

Salem’s Steve is the first I’ve ever enjoyed watching.

Suggestion: prayer. Failing that, human sacrifice. That might do it :D

bro glazin his enemy for 15:08 minutes and getting beat up 😭

Little mac main here, i dont think it was a good idea to jump everytime to ledge. 😆 Also you can still mash Side B to ledge and you will still make it far and its safer since its faster just make sure you hold towards the stage those. Mashing Side B can also be a good brust opiton on the ground since it can has a lot of invincibility to beat a lot of moves as well.

Why didn't you use Diddy or Shiek? You were awesome with those characters

been trying to figure out the song of the first battle in the vid (cloud v steve) 😭

Bro was literally floating air mac I guess 🙃

Salem is back.

I expected lucina to be honest

Use Yoshi, his second jump comes in handy against Steve, he’s pretty quick, has a command grab, has eggs, fast in the air, and let’s not forget… he’s a chunky boiiii 🙌🏽 (Deceptively hard to kill)

Hone up that Cloud again bro... I think you can do it ZeRo!

Why don’t you have the latency mod?

Thumbnail is trippy af

Finally.. The random Mac appears. Hell yeahh 🎉