Why NO ONE Plays: Ice Climbers | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 

It's a sad life for the ice climbers…when they’re popping off its the biggest spectacle of the entire set but when they’re failing they’re fumbling around like a drunken penguin…

Ice climbers in the hands of a player dedicated and smart enough to use them to a higher limit is the most terrifying thing but someone whos just half assing everything WILL get 3 stocked

Their desync combos are hella satisfying to watch.

Ice Climbers are interesting characters; If Nana dies you feel like you have like one more lives (even if Popo sucks alone. He has no air recovery alone). But Nana's AI is very unpredictable. Sometimes she does very stupid things. Still, the idea behind them is still fun.

The execution might not be great, but I always loved the concept of a duo character like Ice Climbers. So much so that I even made up a whole moveset for Team Rocket as a duo character!

One of my least favorite things in gaming is relying on AI partners. Ice Climbers must be hell to play as. Especially at a top level.

Wild that you're covering Icies, I just started giving them an honest try in Ultimate. Desyncs have my hands SORE.

Big D: "I don't believe in consistency"

"Why no one plays Ice Climbers" Me: We're not the GOAR Big D

Oddly enough, my two favorite characters to play is Jigglypuff and Ice Climbers (I just play casually with friends.) Desyncs always looked so cool but I know I could never ever do anything remotely as awesome looking due to the investment needed.

I'm a huge fan of Big D's performance. He deserves a cold one (Alcoholic or not.) for putting in proper work on characters that don't put in work properly.

Big D has a screw loose but massive respect for him doing so well with icies

I remember the first ever character I tried out way back when I started with Brawl with some friends was the Ice Climbers. They told me I might find them easy and fun to start, and I think with some of the simplicities they have, they were absolutely right. To this day I can't desync them anywhere near the levels of what was shown in this video, but they're still fun. Their attacks are simple, they're small and agile, they hit decently hard and they're pretty cute. I don't main them, but until I got Sora, they were for years my character that had the highest GSP among my played characters. I might have the potential to learn how to desync them like that, but I think when there's other characters I'm both more comfortable and more familiar with, it's just not worth all that effort and time to practice for me, which I think is also likely the case for a lot of people similarly to one of your points in this video with the comparative effort and payoff.

Bro, I was watching yeet smash’s everyone is broken and the ice climbers one was so cool. I didn’t know you could use them both at the same time. So I watched more videos of ice climbers cuz they’re cool. And I started using them. I’m an ice climbers main because I saw a broken combo on a yeetsmash video of a character I barely knew existed

They removed the Wobbling

Yes finally my main, I’ve been playing ic’s from the beginning of ultimate and I hadn’t stopped learning while playing them they are just so different and unique and there combos are so rewarding to use this character is impossible to master because you always are faced with different scenarios and you have so many options to factor because of nana, the difficulty in ice climbers is not in learning the combos or fundamentals it’s just the overwhelming amount of options and which option to use in which scenarios and that’s what make big D and Dabuz ( I also play Rosa) my favorite player it’s that they can use all there strengths, utilities and options almost perfectly it’s so mesmerizing to watch and I aspire to reach these heights someday really liked the episode thanks varus

Always good time when Vars uploads

Wow, the why no one plays series has reached 30 episodes! Crazy to think about how many niche picks there are. And all four of the characters I play (Joker, Sephiroth, Robin, Mewtwo) are on there, somehow

Icicle shot is really underrated as a projectile. First off, shielding DOESNT reflect it, just bounces it away. The hit box only becomes active against the climbers if. struck. Second, it has some WHACK ass interaction with basically every samus style charge shot in the game. Something about the way it hits them makes the icicles completely eat the shot AND continue going forward. Also a good tool for air stalling and interrupting low recoveries.

One of my favourite parts of Big Ds matches is commentators (Coney) losing at at Nana’s AI

Great Video!

Been waiting for this episode as an icys main!

Day 1 of waiting for why no one plays Lucario, why no one plays, Corrin, or why everyone plays mr game and watch

Oh hey that’s me 4:18

great video, cant wait for the bowser jr one !

Please do Duck Hunt next. Im so curious on why it aint more popular! In my eyes he has everything he needs, but no one plays them

Selfishly waiting for the “Why Everyone MAINS Yoshi” video.

Big D is a legend

A title that's not click bait!

0:05 I see.

Part of me wonders how good Ice Climbers would be if they were smash's "Negative Edge" character. Essentially, when you press the button, Popo attacks. When you release the button, Nana attacks. Sure, this would make them an absolute *monster* once they catch you (And there'd be some odd overlap with other "hold" mechanics like smash attacks) but I think that their lack of options in neutral justifies this, and at a casual level they'd function pretty much the same as they already do: you'd get both ice climbers working at the same time if you only tapped the buttons, after all. Edit: The more I think about it, the more I realize this would easily make them the next Kazuya... so probably a bad idea.

i play them because i wanna style on people with desync combos xd

Been my main for a while, theyre too much fun to stop once you learn the desyncs

I learned how to do the grab into fsmash thing and damn it’s nice.

Sad the ices don't get enough attention. Their of game was pretty fun if not difficult. I love these rascals so much! They're also my main in smash

It's no surprise to me that Ice Climbers are kind of built with such massive disadvantages. Look at almost any other fighting game that has a "delayed double" effect, they all tend to be some of the most powerful abilities in their game: Zero's Heat Doubles (Capcom vs.), Rose's Soul Illusion (Street Fighter 5)... and having an effect like this active on a character permanently would mean they'd have to be pretty awful in other ways to compensate.

I'm glad no one plays ICs, cause they're my personal favorite characters and have been my main go-to since I was a kid playing Melee. I was like the Seto Kaiba of ICs 😂

7:00 bro popped off because he thought he won

hitting the projectile back doesn’t change ownership of the projectile, so it won’t actually damage the Icies.

I don't like playing Ice Climbers, but watching a good one is so entertaining

I love this character

As Sakurai said on the “Something About” series: Long Live the… ICE CLIMBERS! 🤣

I'm playing kazuya as a tutorial into icies, so I can't be called carried

goated character

the only other p`layer that i can think that mained ice climbers is wadi... we all know what happened

What is the background music for this video? I really like it!

there are times when i KO an opponent off one touch, and it's the greatest feeling in the world. then there are times when my popo is getting builled on the left side of kalos while my nana brainlessly dash-dances on the right platform for twenty straight seconds, and i ask myself why i play this character.

I love them because they're adorable

What is especially strange about the Ice Climbers is that those two, a character that NO ONE plays, actually climbed from being a nice and obscure low-tier to a high-tier courtesy of Big D's ongoing and improving performance with the Ice Climbers. I am happy that the Ice Climbers had such an improvement, but I'm also shocked at this at the same time. Their appearance in Ultimate is a shell of their former selves, but nonetheless, the Ice Climbers have been viable for three games in a row, even if they're at their worst in Ultimate.

you don't talk about elemental status changes a lot, is that a factor in type matchup, especially since ice climbers have many ice moves?

been waiting for this one. the reason no one plays them is because they are yet to see the light

He Finally did it :)

bruh that clip of the hero prematurely celebrating and getting bodied lmao

They are still goated they just need a third member

Salty mew2king is the best 0:50

I've been playing Ice Climbers since the game came out, and for the life of me, I've only ever gotten a desync from an opponent separating them. They are one of the most fun (and broken with items on) characters casually, but competitively, they can be a nightmare. I've found some non desync easy combos, such as how up air combos into itself, but any desync stuff, I usually can't pull off. They are one of the best damage rackers in the game when combined, but their KO game suffers as dash attack doesn't KO, Belay is purely situational, and their smash attacks are very short ranged. However, I did learn that Down tilt can do quite a bit of knockback. Squall Hammer, if I recall, is an easy out of shield option as well. I'll never reach them on a competitive level, but I am happy that they at least got into B- Tier on the tier list.

Big D:🗿🍷

I swear the ice climbers is the characters I can't find easily a solo montage

Actually Nana's CPU level increases as Popo crosses certain dmg thresholds. She starts at 3 and goes up to 9 at wich she should be able to shield and dodge. Edit: I guess this isnt in ultimate. I know it existed in one of the previous titles but it seems like in ultimate her AI lvl is defaulted to 77/100. For comparrison lvl 8 AI is 75/100. So yeah she is a tad bit smarter than a lvl 8 AI.

The reason why no one plays ice climbers, but it notice their light fighters.

As a icey main i can agree

Can you do one for pit?

We need a "why no on plays Dark Pit"

Whats the background song?

I like them

As a dark Pit main. I need an episode on him, please!

Long Live the ICE CLIMBERS

Requesting "why everyone mains peach"

You're smash's last hope

ICs mains REPRESENT 🫡🫡🫡

I swear I saw an update awhile back that said Nana is not harder to kill

This video made me main Ice Climbers… I know that was the exact opposite of the purpose to educate why it’s a bad character and why no one mains them, but it made me do the exact opposite

Kids, teens, young adults just don’t have the patience to learn characters like Ice Climbers or Olimar, or anyone else that take time to learn them. It’s the same in games like SF’s Dhalsim,

I play as them

Ice climbers are very fun to play

MrDanish ButterCookie: Exists

Well explained. Nana is 6 frames delayed though, not 7. Also shielding doesn't truly reflect IBs the way that hitting them does. They lose their hitbox if shielded.

I barely run into Ice climbers on elite

Still kinda waiting for why no one plays the Mii’s.

ics main here and i agree that we are a glass canon type fighter relying on our good combo game to win. the hardest part about playing ics in this game is winning neutral or even getting inside in neutral and thats why ics dont have a +2 matchup

Nana in Ultimate can't attack on her own?? Why would nintendo do that? All it did was create interesting interactions in the previous games

What he said at 10:20 is frustrating asf

I commented this just to say I got my ass kicked by an ice climber earlier today. They exist and target are deadly.

Bro ice climbers is one of my mains help-

Icie players unite! Funnest character imo

“With respect to Kazuya players, that shit is broken asf”

Why no one plays king k rool or lucario

Why everyone plays Young Link

As an ice climbers main, I can confirm that ALMOST nobody plays Ice Climbers.

Background music is kinda loud. The harps are overpowering your voice over. 😅😅

Hi! Did we just fight on elite smash? I was a Ryu named “Faust” If so, GGs I had a lot of fun!

Question: Are The Ice Climbers Always Sweating?

No one plays ice climbers cause it reminds them that they have no friends

extremely common Big D W

Icies in groupsmash im tellin yall!!

can you do Wario next

Wanna do why no one plays dedede next?

No more why no one plays ice climbers😡😡😡

I'm pretty curious what your thoughts are on Zelda. She's very strong, requires minimal combos to get kills, and yet seems to be disliked by many

WHY NO ONE PLAYS LUCARIO. PLEASE BRO