Why do people Taunt? (MSC Special) 

"when a CPU taunts it doesn't make you angry" HAHA HAHAHA YEAH

Can't lie. *Nothing* triggers me more than when you play an opponent that's complete ass, wins and taunts, then leaves the lobby.

I get mad when a CPU taunts at me, and I have a reason: Sakurai sat there, writing this line of code, knowing he would eventually taunt millions of smash players around the world.

I get mad when CPUs taunt me

I cant be the only one who gets triggered when a CPU taunts me right? lmao

People taunt to A.Put someone on tilt B.To show fun or respect

CPU taunts make me considerably angrier than player ones.

Why people taunt: To make their opponent salty.

Its all fun and games until someone says "gg ez"

Show me yo moves

**when someone kills me** me: oh man i play like trash :| **when someone taunts when i get killed** me: **skills intensifies**

When I taunt as Ness, I just want the opponent to know that's it's okay either

I taunt: Against CPU's Against cocky taunting players At the beggining of a ditto match After a nice stylish kill After the opponent makes a nice stylish kill (sometimes) Taunting when someone SD's or just when you killed them with a simple back throw or up air is lame as fuck.

Good info, however if a Captain Falcon player doesn't taunt "show me your moves" before a match, that is utter disrespect.

In smash bros, I taunt for style. If I want to anger my opponent, I spam crouch.

I don't use the normal Taunts. When I play King Dedede and get a match winning kill or a star or screen ko, I use his crouching move, he just lays down and my friends get really salty over it

I get pissed when a lvl 9 CPU taunts lmao

Mario Kart doesn't have taunts, but it has the best "FUCK YOU" game I've ever seen. There's just so many ways to ruin someone's day. People who are trying to regain their speed are sitting ducks, and everyone behind them has permission to ream their ass for no reason whatsoever. Get lightning, wait for everyone to start gliding over a bottomless pit, or for them to get items. Now everyone gets jack shit. Get a blue shell, don't use it, and if the leaders are actually paying attention, they'll hit the brakes so they won't be first. Now everyone's just stalling in place and you can easily pass them, and nobody wants to pass YOU because you can insta-fuck them. Use a star, then if you don't feel like winning, you can juggle some poor soul by backing up and running into them over and over. You can even do this to do the guy in 1st place if he's lapping you. Not like he can defend himself, all he gets are bananas and shells.

The worst part is after a smash match they change their name to "TOO EASY" then leaves.

Smash Ultimate doesn't even let anyone Taunt online So they rapidly crouch instead

Pretty impressed with how in depth you were able to get in such a seemingly simple topic. Keep up the good work!

Gonna answer the question before I watch the video... Because they can

I taunt for three main reasons: 1. To salute the other player in Captain Falcon / Ganondorf dittos. If the other player doesn't salute, I both know he's going 200% serious and that he must be destroyed for the sake of memes. Only at the start of each battle. 2. To tell the other player I consider the way he played to take my recently lost stock good, fun, respectable and/or cool. Only during the invincibility frames after respawning. 3. To tell the other player I consider playing against them easy. When they lose a stock, I break their shield, or can just afford to taunt because their pressure is almost non-existent.

I think taunting is *Okey*

because they think they are good when you sd

I always taunt at the start of mirror matches, not to taunt, but more like "Hey, we both chose [x]!"

Be a gentleman and proceed to punch your opponent in the face instead of taunting.

Short Answer: Because we're all sadists.

Yes

Salt cancelling is definitely the most difficult tech in all of Smash Bros, Melee included, especially when it's tied to taunting. Whether in game or in real life, people lose tournaments to it. I'm actually glad a video was made on this.

I play smash brawl and I main sonic so... I use it to my advantage *YOU'RE TOO SLOW INTENSIFIES*

Having a "respect" emote in Smash Bros alongside taunts would be nice, especially considering Nintendo's tendency to not allow players to verbally communicate online. The most friendly gesture you can give is taunting before the fight even starts and hope your opponent is mutually tolerant enough to not perceive it as a preemptive troll. Of course, this is assuming you even wanted to play Smash Wii U online with how poorly implemented it was, but that's beyond the point...! I think a "respect" action could go a surprisingly long way to lessen frustration for those of us that don't necessarily have an aggressively competitive mentality. There's few things more irritating than losing to a faceless opponent, and something as simple as being able to communicate that you aren't a sore winner/loser would be very alleviating.

If Wario taunt's its either disrespect or disrespect. No inbetween.

Just gonna say this now: I'm awful at this game. I hate when people taunt my deaths, but I try to taunt when I respawn so that we can clear everything up and to show them I'm just trying to have fun. 9 times out of 10, however, they wait for my invincibility to go away and they do some "sick combo xD" on me and taunt it again it really does make me angry.

Capain falcon taunt: Disrespect Jigglypuff pressing down 20 times in a row: ULTIMATE DISRESPECT

This actually explains a lot. Good job!

I think I'm pretty much the only one who taunts at the beginning of the fight as a greeting. I even taunt after a hype kill just out of hype. Mostly because most of the "taunts" don't even look like taunts. Especially when I'm using my main.

7:52 hearing him say "big diddies" made my day

In my opinion, a very underrated taunt is Pit's " Is That All Ya Got!?" Though, this was a very good and complex video for such a simple topic. Keep up the great work and show me ya moves! Also, fun fact, not sure if this is for every character but if youre metal as Wario, then no noises will come out of the taunts beside the noise when he closes his mouth.

I'm offended when a CPU taunts me 😭

LOL Chillin will forever have that Apex Salty Suite set follow him throughout life.

I think taunting spamming is useful to show that you don't want to fight here. In Smash 3DS, I hate Jungle Japes. The water is wayyy to high up and is just a "push me into the water" stage for me. So I'll just spend time spamming the taunt button in hopes to show I don't actually want to do anything here and hopefully, the other player will do the same. If the other player accidently kills himself, I'd do the same thing to balance it out. Fuck Jungle Japes 3DS.

Great video keep up the great work!

This video is very well put together

to taunt or not to taunt that is the question

the Psychology of Smash.

I mean, tf2 may have cocky taunts, but it also has fun emote like taunts like the conga for example, that was spisificly made to bring people together

I find this very educational. Thanks for sharing this information. Great video.

i clicked on this video so fast i left sonic mains behind!!! they are too slow!!!

MY favorite taunt is "Show me your moves!"

the best taunt is king dedede when you hold down

It always puts a smile on our faces when my cousin and I taunt after one of our deaths trying to show off. We respect each other's pride even when it ends up killing us instead of the intended awesome moment.

Idk why I'm just realizing this but MSC sounds a helluva lot like IntroSpective....and nobody has seen them in the same room at the same time...

1 view but 8 likes? Jesus, RU-vid is just as broken as meta knight in brawl.

Great video man!

I loved stringing together taunts to make a create new meaning for example captain falcon's side taunt "Come On" and his up taunt "show your moves" another would be Metaknight's "Fight me" and Pit's "you're not ready yet".

I use emotes as taunts in overwatch. Especially reapers slow clap.

And I taunt to trigger my enemies

DUDE back when I was a kid I just really loved the animations and my thoughts on it were a lot more in line with your idea of what an "emote" might be. Especially Captain Falcon's. It was just plain fun, nothing to get offended over.

I love taunts but I don't use then out of disrespect I use it as a give a good luck at the start of a game

It depends on what the character does and says such as falco's up taunt where he kicks his deflector back and forth and says " piece of cake."

Should've talked about taunt servers where people get mad at you for playing the game.

Nice Kirby art. And great video. I liked it quite a bit.

This is a very tense moment!

I must view taunts differently or something, because I usually don't get affected by them... Taunts are usually never a personal attack on the player or anything. Taunting is just for good fun to me. Even when they're _trying_ to be rude about it, it's just an action on a video game. No harm done.

Because in classic mode you would get more points for taunting while the game ended. We were conditioned to do it in classic modes of games like melee. The points given were 500 and was called Fighting Stance. Now I just taunt after every kill I get.

Surprisingly annoying taunts: Ness (hand spark) Zelda (hand wave) Ganondorf (Pulling out sword) Mario (Game Over Pose) Marth (Japanese Talk) Mewtwo (Psyshock Hand) Bowser ("Balancing Act") Charizard (The Dumb Look) Mr. Game and Watch (Bell Rings Combined) Lucario (Small Aura Burst From Hand)

Captain Falcon vs Ness in a nutshell: "Show me your moves!" "Ok!" "FALCON PUNCH!" / "PK THUNDER!"

Personally, I only consider taunts angering when my opponent taunts after an SD, or after they killed me in a very boring way. But what's even more infuriating is when they change their tag to "You suck" or "No effort", or when they just leave the room. It's just too childish and non-respectful when people do things like that.

I usually taunt if I manage to land a good kill.

This Helped me a lot in smash thank you

Wow you really taught me a lot about taunting and changed my opinion on it. I now see taunting as an attack

0:32 Only one purpose, to provoke your opponent... a training mode CPU set to 125% damage. Truly, taunting is a terrifying art form.

To piss you off.

The taunt I really hate is Squid bagging (Splatoon)

As a Corrin main, I always start games with his 'are you ready?' taunt.

dont really mind if people taunt at me, unless its Peach.

If you guys have played Jojo's all star battles then you'd know how important taunts are in that game after a character is knocked down if they don't tech and are grounded the up character can taunt adding a kinda cut scene for the taunting player and lowering the downed players special meter by a little its awesome to do a huge combo on an opponent adding ending with a taunt and getting another taunt it gets the losing player all salty and has in game attributes that can actually give taunting good reason

*IM REALLY FEELING IT!*

Thnx for the information

I can´t Taunt My D-pad is broken

In alot of games i view taunting as a weakness. Clearly ive done something to rile someone up. I take it as respect.

nice vid, love it

Are there any resources that describe the practical uses or smash taunts like luigi's kick, snake's box, and greninja's water fountains?

and I'm that one guy who plays reaper then slow claps when I kill someone playing soldier, junkrat, symmetra, torbjörn, or bastion while also spamming my voice line xd

whenever I start a Dito I taunt out of respect

More games need respect emotes. And you are definitely right with the non taunting actions being used to taunt. In a game called river city ransom underground, you only have a fist bump as any form of noncombat interaction. But if someone whups you and then spams the fist bump that's seen as a taunt. an "in your face!" sort of thing. Even I do it when I take out a greifer.

I love king dedede’s crouch only he can lay down so majestically and stare right at the camera right at the opponent....smiling it’s so great...plus when you do it fast it looks like he’s break dancing😂😂

15 minutes ago I went to this Chanel and thought "when will MSC post another video?" and here it is

last time I came this early. I was dumped.

My favourite Taunt is Q's one from Street Fighter 3. It gives him a little damage resistance every time he uses it, and stacks up to 3 times (round-reset)

i just like to see the characters' personalities.... also in the realm of splatoon taunts can evolve into their own nonverbal language, like how spinning in a circle can be either mockery or signal an invitation to party

I taunt. it's all fun. I'm not into competitive gaming because people get upset at the slightest thing and apparently taunting is wrong. People can't be humble nowadays. Heck, I taunt against computers, my gf, and my cousins and we have a great time and they do the same. I personally don't care if anyone taunts. it's all fun and games

Remember When Hungrybox got taunted and then his opponent immediately lost all four of his stocks?

taunts are just extra motivation to get you back. i tend not to approach recless but to concentrate more

In smash bros, at least 64 and melee the game rewarded you with points to get the taunt on screen when the match finishes. This has the potential to make such actions automatic and hold no malice for some who have been playing smash for so long. Well thought out video.

I try my best to tilt the enemy, because I can't win otherwise :')

I always taunt before the start of an online match as a way or saying, "Lets have fun,"

I like your thinking.

0:09 tbh the donkey kong taunt is a classic, and i perceive it as a "all in good fun" message. It rlly depends on moments, the taunt itself and the character choice. Like a Sonic taunt might aggrivate me more then Olimar one. x)