Smash Ultimate: Art of Mario 

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One of my favorite quotes from a smash streamer (cant remember his name) "If you buy a 60-dollar game, with over 70 characters in it, just to play as supa' fuckin' Mario, then you're a legend, you're a legend"

15:28 I know this is a serious guide video but that Robin spiking himself with Elwind is one of the jankiest but funniest things I’ve seen

Yknow, I picked up Mario only for sick Fairs. But now, about a year later, here I am actually learning how to correctly play Mario. Thank you so much Izaw. This is beyond amazing!

Time Stamps 1:00 Jab 1:30 Forward Tilt 1:42 Down Tilt 2:08 Up Tilt 2:21 Forward Smash 2:40 Down Smash 3:00 Up Smash 3:21 Dash Attack 3:58 Neutral Air 4:48 Up Air 6:31 Back Air 7:17 Forward Air 8:00 Down Air 9:15 Fire Ball 11:24 Super Jump Punch (Recovery) 11:52 Cape 12:32 FLUUD 13:25 Adaptation

Are we not gonna talk about how mario had the balls to parry a shield breaker from lucina at 13:53????

these guides are always so in depth and helpful, you truly show the best every character has to offer!!

COUNTRY ROADS LETS A GO ITSA ME MARIO!

I’m definitely in the minority of people who want The Art of Doc which is just diet Art of Mario

Mario's best attributes are his extremely safe aerials when landing, and his airspeed. Those two things make him a top 10 character.

I’m like 10 months too late but if anyone doesn’t know this still then Mario’s cape actually makes Mario immediately grab the ledge, so he can easily ledge trump or avoid getting 2 framed, just another option that he did not mention in his video

I told you that I'd vote for you if you made this video and you damn delivered. You're awesome :3

This kind of quality is the stuff you get from a great player who is also a great teacher. These are so much better and well crafted than the stuff the pros make. Keep doing what your doing my guy. P.s one for Lucas would be incredible 👌

Awesome guide. The only little thing left out was the fact that the cape helps u snap the ledge thus making it a trumping tool as well

I don't always share smash teachers, but when I do, it's IzaW Art of Smash Ultimate.

I remember picking Mario in the early days of Smash 4, landing my first down-throw, and then free-styling a 40% combo (probably not a true combo but it worked) with practice at all. That was when it started to dawn on me how far the series had come and how much farther it was going to go in the future. Good moment in my gaming career.

God there needs to be one of these for every character, no one, and I mean no one, makes guides as well informed and detailed as this

Loved the techs. Loved the music choice. Loved the guide. As always!

Art of Mario: jus fookin up air i dunno

10:30 “If the opponent attack’s the fireball with an aerial before the block. Which will NEGLECT it.” That poor fireball is so under appreciated.

Izaw my fav part of all this was those mario oddesey transitions i cried when i saw those

13:17 (Insert "Why are we still here?" meme)

I gotta get back into the Mario life, I sometimes forget that he was my main for like 12 years. Good video

Art of Sheik next would be very cool, but she isn’t in the game.

Every time I see one of these videos, it always makes me want to main that character. You make the best guides...

Amazing guide even after almost a year later. You taught me how to utilize mario's tools well, and how to react to every situation. This guide is well crafted, helpful, and simply awesome! Thank you so much!

Art of Ganondorf next would be extremely sexy

Mario is pretty underated his moveset is rlly fun and you can make so many combos with mario he's fast pretty small and can put good pressure on people

Tbh watching those combos that explained the stuff in the video was amazing with the Odyssey music. Nice one!

ART OF YOSHI i donated in smash 4 now i gotta hope for ultimate

Yeah, I also use up air whenever my opponent is in the air for 0.09 picoseconds. Why do you ask?

Here comes the best of the best doing my main AGAIN! I love it!

I'm a starter main mario and thanks for the guidance PD: I'm spanish

This guide is PERFECTION. you covered everything to the T. Amazing vid. You could see the time and effort put into every second. Subscribed 💯

Been waiting on a Mario video from you. Excellent work like always! Keep it up man.

this is incredibly helpful. You put a lot of emphasis on pressuring opponents' shields which is important and seems often overlooked

Starts with DLCs and the first character... Incinaroar mains be like: God Dammit

I just started as Mario being my main and this popped up on recommended! This Works out perfectly! 😂

Right as I pick up Mario, this man comes and shows me how to play him. Thanks Izaw!

I’m new to competitive smash and have no one really to teach me. You have helped me a lot with nit just this guide, but the other Art of guides. You put so much effort into the guides. Thanks for the video!

ART OF PACMAN- such a cool and complex character- i do not have nearly enough hours on him to even begin to understand the depth of item and hydrant tech- would surely be a very interesting (and helpful) video

Bless you, Izaw! I love all your guides and videos, so one for my main is an absolute treat. Keep up the great work!

God damn it dude, the quality of these videos is just breath taking, really nice video.

YESS!!! So happy you made a Mario guide already! Taking notes

I don’t even play Mario. Ima sword main but this will still be a better sword guide because you’re so informative and make interesting and well done tutorials!

I think you also should've touched on combos into forward air. Mario has some very deadly combos that end with forward air. Basically if your opponent is around 50% you can hit them with an short hop up air followed by another up air, then fastfall and lastly full hop forward air. Hitting a short hop up air in neutral is not very optimal, but luckily there are a lot of ways to get it in combos. Down throw and down tilt work at around 40%. Probably Mario's best combo is down throw at around 29% into short hop up air, followed by a neutral air, then fast fall, run up, short hop up air, up air, fastfall, full hop forward air. Also possible is fastfall back air, run up down tilt, short hop up air, up air, fastfall, full hop forward air. If you feel like you're going to miss the forward air in one because the opponent DI-s in you can always go for a short/full hop up air, which can lead into more up airs and an up special. It's actually good if the opponent DI-s away, because then the forward air becomes easier to hit. If you are having trouble getting the full hop forward air out on time you can also go for short hop forward air, but that's a bit harder to land. I feel like this where Mario's meta should be pushed to, but I haven't seen a lot of top players do this kind of stuff sadly. Please let this be known be giving this comment a like. (yes ik I'm kinda begging for likes rn but I want this to be known) (and also because I spent way to much time typing out this comment)

I always love these art of videos. Even if I never even play the characters. It is just so well made and put together!

Thank you so much for these vids. This is best smash content on RU-vid, and I greatly appreciate this. It's so hard to find in depth analysis of how to actually play smash correctly, but this does it perfectly. Keep it up izaw, we support ya👍

Really appreciate this. I've been a Mario main for 20 years, since Smash 64, and always was laughed at. This really helped me.

You forgot the Mario Tornados reset combo 💪 Good video.

Amazing video, you're such a great teacher! I found myself doing a lot of the combos you were doing leading to good kills, you really are great at what you do.

Best Mario guide I’ve seen in a long time

MARIO MAINS RISE UP

I want to see another Art of Roy. Your literally the reason he is my main in smash 4 and ultimate.

Mario is my main. It was the first video game character I saw. No matter how OP or crappy, he is my number one. How I play: Grab> throw> attempt to spike :D.

Love the music choices. Excellent work as per usual dude. Sharing with everyone.

Mario is top tier anyone that says otherwise is delirious

This guide is ridiculously detailed thanks for all the info! I got a Mario combo video on my channel 👍

My favorite character got a guide, and it's actually good! Good job IzAw!

I really REALLY appreciate your work! The amount of effort you put into these videos is just amazing! You already helped me with your "Art of..." Videos in Smash 4 and I'm glad to see the same (or even increased) quality for ultimate :D keep it on mate!

Yo, Izaw. I'm a Mario main and a member of the Mario discord recently, and this video helped my Mario improve. Thanks for the guide! Also, can you do Palutena and/or Zelda and/or Bayonetta next?

This was super informative and I'm sure a ton of work went into it. Very well done in general. I don't play Mario but of course I'll watch anyway because it's interesting to see an Art Of video anyday. I do have some criticism though (for lack of a better word). This video has massive amount of information, but personally I find it hard to follow since I don't have that great of an attention span (I'm sure many others suffer from the same thing). The style you take is not necessarily bad, it just might be impractical for a large portion of your viewers. When humour is introduced, however, it is very easy for me to stay engage and absorb all the information that someone gives me. For example, Art of Dedede for Smash 4 was a great video, and I was able to stay focused on it and absorb all the information in that video. Anyway, this isn't a major issue or anything considering I can just pause and play the parts that I didn't pay attention to, but is food for thought regardless. With all that being said, you have easily some of the most informative and accurate smash videos on youtube and I am super glad you exist. Cheers my dude.

Really awesome video, there is so much helpful and useful content here it is hard to soak it all in the first time through. Great resource.

Man this is a REAL character guide explaining his options and his concept is amaizing !!!

Here after Prodigy beat Mkleo with an aggressive Mario. :)

One day I will see art of Pit in my recommended. When that day comes, I can die in peace. After this video, I want MARIO as my secondary. Amazing work!

This couldn't have come at a better time, it's beyond helpful. Thanks again Izaw

This is the most complete guide I've ever seen, great work!

I think an Art of Ken would help as they're heavily underused but have a lot of potential. Even now there is so much us Kens don't know and I always learn new things from these videos.

One Sentence: *F O R W A R D A E R I A L*

Incredibly detailed video and amazing quality as always. How many more characters do you intend to cover? Do you already know which ones?

Thank you so much for this video dude, i feel like picking up mario again after dropping him for some years, absolutely love your content.

Can you do a art of DOCTOR mario? (im serious)

7:03 How does he d-tilt the other way quickly?

Thanks for the video. Since the game release, I've been switching characters from characters, trying to figure out my style. Found my playstyle, now, I just need to see how the characters work and I found Mario's gameplay interesting since it involves a lot of combo gaming. But what strikes me the most is that his tool are very useful and versatile, making the character even more tricky to play against.

As a Mario main taking the game to a new level, I took notes on everything mentioned here. Such a great resource, thank you Izaw!

I’ve played Mario ever seen I was little and I main him in every smash game I played thanks for the tips and trick dude. Can you please do a Art of Pit I’ve be trying to master him in Ultimate because he’s fun and underrated and I see potential in him to be the best. Thanks for the vid Izaw and keep up the good work your videos really help out others

Everyone here wishing for Art of reasonable characters and here I am never gonna get my art of Ridley

OMG. This video has crazy high information density.

I’M SO HAPPY FOR THIS MARIO MAINS RISE UP seriously tho, thank you so much for this, as there isn’t a lot of Mario videos out there. i feel that people underrate him HARD, which is understandable, but i am glad there’s someone out there who likes him

I've been anticipating this video. Mario ditto is the new falcon ditto. Change my mind.

Can we get luigi next please? They were who was next before ultimate happened, i think.

Just wanted to say I love this series, keep it up

I play Smash for fun and I’ve mained Mario since brawl, thanks for this video. Super helpful and informative

It's probably obvious for which character should come next, and it's one of the first characters ever introduced into Smash, and Mario's first villain: DK!

Never do Art of Pichu. I played him in Melee because I love the character and it was satisfying to body people with him. Don't really need even MORE people picking up Pichu in Ultimate because he's toptier now lol

Just what I needed, I hit elite with Mario right before this was uploaded, this will allow me to up my play thanks man!

Awesome video! One bit of tech that Izaw missed: you can change the angle of Mario's up special by pressing forward or back on the control stick after the initial input. Pressing the stick in the direction of the recovery will increase his horizontal recovery but decrease his vertical recovery. Pressing away from the direction of the recovery will increase vertical recovery and decrease horizontal recovery.

Ohhh my gosh yes! I clicked so fast. This means we're getting art of link really sooon😍😍😍. Also good job yet again izaw, this was good.

...Does this mean Luigi will happen? ...please?

Awesome video dude. Good work.

I love everything about Mario from fludd to cape everything

Falcon next please 😁 Falcon mains where you at?

Art of Olimar for ultimate. As an olimar main I’d love to see your commentary on the new and improved captain

Mario mains ASSEMBLE!! Also the cape is OP, I can't think of any other move that can turn someone around.

I’m glad that the art of series is taking off again and I look forward to the next one (My personal vote would be for shulk, but you would probably have to remake the video every time new shulk is discovered) Anyways keep up the amazing work Izaw

15:29 THE CAPE MADE ROBIN SPIKE HIMSELF LOLLL

Amazing guide!!!Seriously! Wish you had the time to do all the characters. Appreciate your hard work 🙏

Amazing video… The only thing ‘potentially missed’, was switch up options if you are trying to recover as Mario (minus what you covered with backward side b, into back air). Learning to be comfortable with using wall jumps all the time, not only looks sick, but also creates for some more aggressive options around the ledge - wether it is being able to ledge guard a little lower, into a drifting wall jump (up-b to recover), or wall jump just high enough above the ledge into immediate back air to punish close ledge contesting. This can be done safely if you do it unpredictably and/or learn to drift backwards a little bit back onto the edge from being above it. The other CRUCIAL, recovery option while on ledge is a rising down-a. It is an astonishingly fast option from the ledge, feeling instant. You can do this back onto the ledge for safety if you miss (be careful of punish though, because that would be #2 time grabbing the ledge), or chain with a neutral or falling up air. Either that or just run underneath to control the center of the stage again. Hope this helped some people. Thanks for making this video!

Izaw, you're the GOAT when it comes to Smash Ultimate character guides