The Evolution of Combos 

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Man those gluto clips are so crazy. One of the best players on the scene right now, despite recent results

Imagine Banjo players on his release learning that KFC up tilt was going to be his most consistent kill confirm

I'm surprised shiek wasn't covered in this tbh

Jiggs became so crazy. Everyone thought she was just the trash puffball, but in recent years people have discovered ladder combos and IDJ Dair loops into rest 0 to deaths, Jiggs became not only playable, but a genuinely fun character

No sheik showcase, sadge :( Jokes aside, still a great watch. Sometimes we forget how far the meta evolved, but if you watch year one footage you get reminded.

Still waiting for Mewtwo, Lucas, and Yoshi to get optimized combos.

As soon as I saw Sean and Bacon on the screen I was like yup here we go

Nice video. Pretty interesting evolution indeed. Honestly, out of all the characters mentioned, I feel like Fox's combos have evolved the most, and it was definitely Light who took the character's combos to the next level, being one of the players who SOLO main their character too. Truly amazing, maybe even underrated player I feel like.

That megaman clip was nasty

Hopefully yall do a part 2 on characters that aren't known as much for combos (even zoners like Samus and how they've evolved over time). Great video!

Absolutely loved this vid

Great video! I also would have mentioned rob combos as very simple things like double toss and up air have been used to get 0tds easier and sheik, whose meta still keeps getting developed and got so much better after the buffs. I would have also mentioned witch strike for bayo because although it's really hard to execute, it can cheese stocks really easily (such as the demon vs spargo clip at mainstage)

These shorter more structured videos are by far my favourite

really cool video , kinda wish this could turn into a mini series ,freaturing different characters and aspects of the game

This is ssoooooooo sick

That mega man combo was absolutely disgusting. Y'all know which one

Great content idea

Awesome video would love to see Marth in a part 2

Love this video

It's more of an evolution of advantage state but I see the vision

I would have loved to see luigi and ices in this video, mario could be a great pick too for a second video on this topic

great video

The mega man section was pretty off We had those combos way before 2023. I could even do triple zdrop dair into stuff (not into full kill combo) but I wasn't even THAT good, and was aware of those that could do the full thing while clip fishing. The segment also tragically left out the very interesting series of nerfs that DRASTICALLY hindered his initially insane pseudo-infinites and stuff off item mechanics, leaf shield 2frames faster, and "lemon salad" (grounded pellets could originally be canceled into leaf shield) The current meta stuff mega can do is pretty, and wasn't covered much (was around for a while, but his airdodge-zdrop is very plus on shield and also has crazy hitstun for combos, leads into grounded footstool or whatever you want)

Need a pt 2

I‘m surprised we didn‘t show the kaninabe nair dair dash attk up smash

3:45 is WILD

The evolution of combos Meanwhile Gannon.

That first combo ended at 10 but ok (Spargo just happened to follow that airdodge). Edit: The title is misleading as hell tbh. While a few of these are definitely combos (Pika bridges, Peach everything), most of this is just some combos mixed in with good advantage state to keep the "combo" going. If they have time to mash a defensive option, it's by definition not a combo because that usually implies that they can escape.

Not me downthrow fairing or downthrow upairing everything

Nice

Please make another video with different characters 🙏

this is a great vid, puts into perspective how much time and effort goes into this game. it takes like 2k-3k hours of playing this game just to do stuff the pros were doing year one

Damn bams on this? How’s the heat these days.

Man some chars in ultimate have cool combo games. I think the only thing I’d like from Smash 6 is if more chars got as much combo potential as these chars.

🔥🤘🏻🔥

5:12 can someone give the music?

You wrote the chapter of wario as warrior by mistake

Wolf wasn’t really the best example. 2020 CDK still has better punishes than Jakal and Ouch!?.

You mean strings?

Persona 3 theme😣

No Mario 😢

So in other words bayos meta just advanced back to her smash 4 bs lol

this is such an odd (bad) video lol, half of the examples are more situational awareness things than any optimization in strings, the gluto section states one change (up tilt nerf) with none of the old examples actually having a single up tilt? Then they show a bunch of different gluttony combos which all arose from varying degrees of situational awareness and are more of character understanding and reads than "combos" the only really good example here was pikachu and peach imo but even then these clips needed a heavy amount of cherrypicking to push their narratives

i wouldnt really call these combos, this is not how combos work lol

disgusting leo clip

This intro was so hot it’s not funny

Infinite combos should be ban in all scenes. They is nothing more lame. It’s never happened to me personally but it’s so boring to see.

It only took you people playing this game for nearly a decade to play this game like me... smh...

You sure Falco in the thumbnail but you don't show Falco in the video what is wrong with you dude went from just like getting single hit upstairs to like a whole 90 to 120% from just a single down tilt or up till or grab. Like dude. Not cool.