3:38 about K. Rool a dude in the chat mentions Bruho. Riddles fought Bruho and lost with Kazuya, but it's online and if I recall correctly, Riddles hadn't been playing that much with Kazuya around those days. Video is "Riddles (Kazuya) vs Bruho (King K. Rool) - Smashpros Ranked | 19 Oct '23" by SmashLibrarian. Timestamp 3 minutes and 10 seconds of that video, there's this quote: "This sh1t is impossible with Kazuya".
Funny you have bowser as 60/40 in Kazuya's favor because both Hero and Leon have that as bowser's worst possible matchup and extremely difficult. As a bowser player as well it feels like the only matchup where, if we're trading hit for hit I'm actually losing and Bowser's only strength is how hard he hits.
As a Bowser main, Kazuya was a MU that got easier and easier over the span of the game. I actually feel like it is 55/45 in Bowser's favor, you must be patient and use your faster speed to bait and punish. Bowser's speed not his strength let's him win this MU in my opinion. I would not put Kazuya anywhere near top ten hardest MU. I actually find this matchup fun. I like FD as a stage vs. Kazuya. Plats benefit Kazuya more than you. Being able to do a retreating jump into wavebounce firebreath to whiff punish grab, electric, and Fair/Nair anywhere on stage without plats in the way is huge in this MU, it's great at depleting his red aura after 100%.
as a Mega Man player who has fought Kazuya a lot, i agree with the Mega Man placement. its so damn stressful, i have to spend like over a minute camping out as hard as possible and doing chip damage, but if i make a single mistake, the game could suddenly become even or losing
You realize only four characters are losing for Kazuya, right? And only two are top tier. Diddy and Sonic. The majority of the roster is even or winning
@@StrawHatAura yeah thats the same with shulk but somehow hes not top 3 like kazuya. Hes more on the range of top 15-20 because hes downsights are way to strong to be considered top 10
I saw somebody say that kaz is bowser's worst matchup, but I still think there are worse, bc there are characters who both zero death bowser and don't fear his advantage state at all
I just watched this to see Riddles analyse the matchup Kaz has with my main, but all I got was “Ridley is really big.” I mean, you’re not wrong, but what do I do with this information?
@@StrawHatAura Ridley also outranges Kazuya and can try to outspace him, qnd also generally wins offstage. It is still a pretty bad matchup, but I wanted to know what kind of counterplay I should go for.
Seeing chat on these matchup charts is so infuriating because you either have randoms trying to talk about shi they don’t know about or asking questions that were already answered like damn swallow your pride and sthu
Fellow gnw main here, I’m surprised you think we win. Yes we advantage state Kaz to hell and back but since we’re so light and our kill power is mid Kaz needs to win a lot less interactions to take a stock, when factoring in rage and such
Kazuya really has no choice but to block Din's Fire. I don't know if you can even reflector kick the Phantom Slashes, but it's difficult if even possible. Her up air is pretty big too, and he gets juggled miserably
