Smash Ultimate is STILL Broken 

Hi everyone! Thanks for 100K views! When I first made this video, I wasn’t even expecting to get a tiny percentage of that! All these comments have made my day. A few misconceptions I want to talk about: - The reason why some moves / characters aren’t in this video is because I wanted to limit it to 10 minutes. I can assure you that I do think Pyra / Mythra are “broken” too lol - I know a version of the Luigi 0-to-Death was patched early, but I’m referring to the specific combo shown in the video that has existed for about 4 years - Kazuya Mishima Thanks again for watching :)

As a Tekken player: He's your problem now.

Steve is alot like S4 Cloud. If you approach him, he wins. If you don’t approach him, he wins

Steve looks absurd to actually fight, but looking in from outside, him being this ridiculous looks hilarious to watch

This man basically said what we are all thinking about smash ultimate in one nice video. The worst part is, none of these characters are going to get nerfed because there are no more patches for smash ultimate.

The fact that neither Steve or Kazuya really got patched before the end to reduce SOME of their wonkyness is what baffles me to this day.

Steve makes the whole rest of the game look balanced and thoroughly thought out

"Luigi wins by doing nothing" Now what happens if he does do something

Although Smash Ultimate has caused a lot of frustration in my life (Quickplay, losing to disjoints as a Jigglypuff main, etc), this is still one of my favorite games of all time.

I think Kazuya has the exact same issues that Bayo had in Smash 4, which is the fact that they feel *exactly* out of their original game. Which ordinarily, wouldn't be bad! It's bad when it comes to Tekken, a game known for it's high skill ceiling, but high reward system (And it's been made slightly easier for smash purposes, iirc EWGF is no longer frame perfect) Or Bayo, who came from a character action game, a genre known for just basically being "Blend your enemies into a fine paste."

2:33 small correction: this WAS actually patched once, that patch is the reason the combo ends in up-air up-b instead of d-air up-b so basically it was a nothing patch, but there was an attempt to patch it

I find it funny that, even before the end of Smash Ultimate's lifespan, the strongest character in the game by *far* is... Steve. Not Kazuya, the character plagued with obscene moves from his 3D title. Not Pyra and Mythra, the tag-team duo with great speed and kill power combined into one. Not Palutena, the versatile goddess with tools for basically everything. Not ROB, despite how easy he is to play and how powerful his simple stuff is. Not even Pikachu, the dedicated (at least) high-tier character because of his archetype. It's Steve. The block man with an absurd amount of jank. The Lego figure with grounded aerials and instant ledge kills. The ugly duckling that became the swan once he learned how to land. Steve. It's fucking Steve.

I do like how Steve's combos are truly based on the creativity and imagination of the player. it represents minecraft as whole rather well (even if it is broken)

One thing I think a lot of people overlook is that, yes it is very upsetting to play AGAINST most characters (every character). But it's also very fun to play YOUR character.

i only use steve to troll. it makes the game sooo hilarious

If SSBU has vergil, im 101% sure there would be an entire section dedicated to him 💀

aegis dodging the “broken and OP” allegations 😭😭 amazing video!!

I'm very pleased that you're following the spirit of Heeew after his hiatus.

Surprised you didn't mention that R.O.B's side-B can also reflect projectiles. It's far from the best reflector but it makes life harder for zoners and gives R.O.B. a trick up his sleeve against characters with big killing projectiles (Cloud Limit Blade Beam, Hero Kafrizz, Robin Thoron, Samus, Mewtwo, etc.

Ever since Smash Ult's final DLC, they pretty much said "K, we're done". Sadly, none of these things will be fixed. Everyone and their mother in Quickplay and elsewhere will continue to abuse these things, toxicity will continue.

Link also has a special property, namely that he gets 90% boost to his fall speed when fast falling, which is more than the 60% boost that the majority of characters get. This is why Link, despite not having very high fall speed, has one of the best fastfalls in the game, which makes his nair that much more op

Honestly, Kazuya and Steve are the top contenders for "What bs are they gonna pull this time?" Leaning more to Steve simply because of his block, minecart and anvil mechanics...

Man I gotta be honest, I just really hope Steve isn't in the next smash game. I don't know if there's ever been a character that feels worse to play against, and I experienced Brawl Meta and 4's Bayonetta.

If you think Luigis entire gameplan revolves around grab and thats literally the only thing your going for, your gonna get destroyed. Luigi can hit you at any percent and still deal insane amount of damage and that can lead to a kill confirm combo or up b. Literally being near the character is bad because he has crazy fast frame data and and a up b that kills mad early. Not to mention he can literally get out of almost any combo in the game that isnt true with down b

I think it"s funny that link had a section about his nair being broken, RIGHT AFTER mii brawler's section even tho his nair's just as dumb if not more (pretty much does everything better than link's apart from range + grant him insane combos)

As an inkling main, the last two mentioned in the video are slightly more easier to deal with. Online, Steve's, when they wall off players, usually leave a block empty in the middle, good for Splat bombs, and inkling has good recovery and fast air speed, it's harder to kill off stage, also inkling's forward air attack the upper hit box and can deal with Steve's Minecart (still hella hard to fight one) and inkling straight up bullies Kuzuka, being very hard to hit and able to low profile under his projectiles and use splat bomb to abuse his recovery (at least in my experiences of fight him, it varies from person to person) also splat bomb is ridiculously good

Luigi being the way he is the entire games life span is probably the most insane thing I’ve seen in smash since birth

Fantastic job editing this! It was a lot of fun to watch

The Steve bit hurts to watch. No character should have that strong of buttons with a force approach mechanic.

3:00 I wouldn't have died there

I fell like the reason for these strong options is that the devs wanna make the game balanced but at the same time don’t wanna make the characters too complicated so they won’t be discouraged from getting better

i'd get into ultimate... if: -Online wasn't so expensive -Had a netcode that was ANY better than 12 frames of delay by default -buffed ridley (and everyone in d tier)

The outro aged like fine milk

2:14 link can actually rising nair through corrin tipper f smash and then still hit corrin by drifting in

10:19 until you match with any steve and then the fun vanishes faster than my father

Definitely see you become a huge figure in the smash community you keep the work up. This only your third video and its that well scripted and edited, prop’s honestly. Definitely got sub off this video 10/10

Overall a very good video! My main gripes come in the Kazuya section, where you showed off untrue combos (which is understandable given that his combos are hard) and that you didn’t list all his moves that comboed into electric, overall still quite a good watch though :)

EWGF is so busted as a move....that it turns your shield off lol

what a great video, it's so good. The best thing is that I don't even play Smash anymore, I just got bored of it (I stopped to play around the the time of Steve release, probably earlier, I don't remember) and now I play other fighting games, but I had such a great time with it

Steve and Kazuya will kill the game if left unchecked imo. I have seen plenty of people leave the scene because of them

Great video. You captured Heeew’s style very faithfully.

out of all the heeew inspired broken videos this one felt the closest to an actual heeew video. stellar job dude

This was amazing you’re amazing at smash especially steve. I subscribed! 👍

You weren't finished with Luigi 1)Has so many kill combos and high damage combos 2) Really good at converting hits 3) Good frame data 4) Has good mid-range projectiles, has a huge disjointed grab 5) Has a frame 8 whiff-punish tool that kills super early and is 6 frames in the air 6) But must of all, on top of all that, he has frame 1 invincible, frame 4 startup reversal in the air

this man saw that heeew doesn’t post anymore and said “fine, i’ll do it myself”

1:29 thrust uppercut music sync was godly and I'm mad I couldn't find anyone else mention it 😢

Bro for a moment I thought Heeew uploaded again, cool that you gave the shoutout and thanks for keeping this series alive for him

Steve being arguably the strongest character in the game.. kinda makes sense considering what he's capable of

7:49 oh, so like 1.8 pvp?

I greatly appreciate how this video didn't go the route of hating on DLC. The line you used at 10:35 is definitely the best mentality regarding these things. Mad respect to you, great video.

As a fellow Link main myself. I have no shame in truly admitting that his Nair is indeed broken OP. He needs it after all.

I always enjoy watching Heeew content. Even if it wasn't actually made by heeew. It would be interesting to see this style expanded to more than just fighting games too.

Like how you demonstrated "Gates of Hell" on little mac cause its told if he gets hit by that he might as well SD cause theres NO WAY for him to get back up

When i heard *"Kazuya"* A chill ran down my spine

3:15 valid ragequit😭

I've just been "yeah that's what they do, that's not broken" with this whole vid mostly. What's really crappy in my mind isn't that the high tiers are good it's that the low tiers are crap. Give the bad characters some more redeeming qualities for their huge weaknesses!

Steve in a vacuum is one of the coolest fighting characters with so much creativity. Its just sucks that it is so unmatched by everyone else and that makes it so annoying to fight. However just being one of the best characters is not grounds for a ban. I'm not saying that they should never be banned because as you said, the meta is always changing so who knows if we do end up with some game breaking discoveries with Steve or any other character for that matter. As of right now though I really don't think they should be banned.

cant believe how you literally mentioned pretty much everything i have an issue with outside of it seeming like dark pit / pit 's side b is the most powerful move in existence great video

Hey bro.....pls do another video that is similar to this one. Absolutely spitting out facts out here man!

a couple moves that I wanna mention that are also super broken :0 -Steve's Up Tilt is fast, lagless, is a great anti air, and combos into practically everything. Up tilt is the exact same thing. -Sephiroth's Forward Tilt is HUGE and can function as both a spacing tool, an anti air, and a 2-framing option. Better than the belmonts in almost every conceivable way. -Jigglypuff Forward Throw sends people at a horrible angle, often forcing them to burn an option, which Jigglypuff loves to take advantage of. Some characters just die at 0 off a forward throw edgeguard. -Samus and Dark Samus's Charge Shot is extremely overcentralizing and can do just about anything. It zones, it combos, and it kills. Samus players can pressure just by charging it up. -Mii Gunner's Grenade Launcher is a disgusting ledgetrapping tool that is insanely easy to use and doesn't require much forethought. Does great damage and kills, sometimes you just can't get off the ledge against Mii Gunner. Awesome video regardless!! :0

Small correction from a Link main: Link's nair is not minimum -3 on shield. UFD or Kurogane Hammer give the safe on shield value frames for aerials assuming that you immediately hit the ground and enter landing lag after hitting a shield, whereas this is typically not easy to pull off for any character. For every frame you remain airborne after hitting a shield, you lose that many frames of safeness. For sweetspot nair, this is negligible. However, for soft nair, this typically makes the move unsafe if not spaced, depending on how tall the opponent is. You can potentially get away with it against Pichu, Kirby, and the like, but Marth can grab you for it 9 times out of 10 unless you spotdodge. Gimr's video "ONE FRAME" is a similar phenomena to this. Not implying it's not broken though. It is dumb. I love it.

2:20 I like how every patch that tried nerfing the combo still is the same every time

4:08 I guess someone hasn't heard about Peach and Daisy

I think Steve's kit being so versatile and dynamic is a good thing; it makes combos extremely creative and often requires foresight and setup, allowing him to have arguably the highest skill ceiling in the game. The problem arises not from his gimmicks in a vacuum, but the fact that he has such powerful tools paired with an already decent kit. If you took away Steve's blocks, he would still be a mid tier, and that is too strong for a character with such powerful options

Comeback mechanics in general are a terrible idea in smash. I love Terry and he was one of my most wanted characters ever but who was the genius who thought giving him infinite supers would be balanced? In other fightning games comeback mechanics make sense cause they are universal (and sometimes even then they can be a pain in the ass for example the comeback Ultra combo in SF4, they give you a reversal move that deals almost 50% damage for losing) in smash though it depends in your character and each one has their own rules (Kazuya loses his if he misses too much or if he gets hit enough but Terry can take your 3 stocks out of Power Geysers). I love this game but I wouldn't play it competitively to save my life

I thought this was a heeew video until the end, well done!

That "I'm not gonna sugarcoat it" was a very nice touch

Great vid, I was actually planning on making this myself and calling it “Smash Ultimate is Broken 2.5” as soon as Christmas rolled around and I didn’t have to worry about school, but I guess you beat me to it. I still have the script in case you want to use it for a sequel to this one since I’ll probably be too burnt out to do it :).

Kazuya is one of the funniest things in the whole game lmao. Even if I lose I still have fun playing or fighting him. Steve on the other hand, I would gladly never look at or fight again lol

2:40 It’s literally why watching any Luigi match is boring

I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. It doesn’t matter how good ewgf is if I can’t do the input because I’m bad

Towards the end of playing smash bros regularly, I almost stopped playing all together because of Kazuya. Even if you know how to fight him, it's not fun at all, because the only thing you can really do is try to camp him out so he moves first and leaves himself open.

Let's not forget how it's possible to end hitlag and cancel spikes with Steve.

As a Young Link main. Kazuya gives me FITS 😑. Like, the man is solid at everything AND invincible at times??? Literally counters my whole strategy smh. I respect Steve players.

These type of video are like the most funniest and coolest that i might ever seen

Link had his chain mail leg armor made just like the Hyland shield

I am shocked Hero was not mentioned once considering he is the 4th if not 3rd most broken character

"Steve's combo routes are virtually endless" I mean, minecraft is a virtually endless game, so I guess it fits

I love how peach and daisy weren’t on here yet they’re still very much op

although kazuya and steve are broken in there own ways they shouldnt be banned its nothing like bayo or meta knight were the only way to win is play them and there was 0 counter play. kazuya has boken combos but his nuetral so bad that he balances out alot

For some reason @10:31, Steve from Minecraft in my head became the British guy from Tekken

Wow, its really cool they implemented creative mode in smash with the NILs

surprised you didn’t mention terrys stagnant GO! after 100% and how it can be combo’d into along with the crazy hitboxes/damage

Another great game ruined by money. It's basically pay to win at this point. At least Melee's broken moves were unintentional.

Another broken Kazuya attack is that one move that is like a EGWF but stronger, strangest hitbox I ever seen, hitting from really below. Another op thing most don't know is that Shulk F Smash with Smash Monado can kill at 29% and Up Smash Buster Monado can break shields if charged, was glorious to see.

kazuya on online quickmatches always gets my blood pressure up....he is menace

To this day. I still fully believe that all developers for every platform fighting game have a massive foot fetish. Because there is no reason why all these kicks, or literally just sticking your foot forward for a long time, are beating projectiles, swords, etc.

as soon as i heard kazuya, i felt very called out (yes, he actually is incredibly busted but god is he fun to play)

Kazuya = Brawl Meta Knight Steve = Smash 4 Bayonetta

2:32 "has never been patched" wasn't there a patch where the old combo no longer worked but it was immediately replaced with the new dair > up-air > dair > up-air combo? I could be misremembering though

Honestly, this just made me appreciate Steve more LOL. This character is insane.

I get Heeew vibes and i like it.

I remember you made these typa videos years ago for the previous games? Did you delete them or it was someone else?

_ROB, throwing out his forsaken beyblade death machine for the millionth time in a single match:_ Go my child, hold down the neutral

The brokenness of Ultimate is a lot more difficult and entertaining than in other games.

Game balance when someone pays $5.99

Link fr be deflecting nuclear explosions by kicking it

9:00 I love playing smash....

This is honestly why i think nintendo shouldn’t of stopped the patches so quickly, because stuff like EWGF and steve in general need to be toned down imo. I dont think they should’ve had sakurai work on the game longer obviously, he deserves a break, but there should still be a balance steam team so stuff like electric wind god fist can be nerfed (making it have more lag on whiff/shield, lessing kazuyas ability to confirm into it, etc), and steve can be nerfed to (a laundry list of nerfs that need to be done to steve, but for now lets say he can’t place blocks off stage and they’re weaker so opponents can break through easier)

Many of these combos can be di’d out of with some practice; you learn a lot of how these 0-death combos work and how to tell when you need to start working on it. I’m not saying the game is perfect; by no means is it perfect. Watching plenty of tournaments, you’ll see players try to use these combos and it just doesn’t work out. Definitely sucks if you’re newer playing in onlines; the learning curve isn’t fun, but what fighting game truly is fun from the start?