Why NO ONE Plays: King K. Rool | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 

Let it be known however that if Gangplank Galleon is set to play as the stage music K. Rool players become unstoppable

Over in the corner, you see Brent charging a down smash with malicious intent.

A good way to sum up K. Rool is he plays like a boss fight. He’ll CRUSH you if you don’t know how to fight him but once you learn the patterns and all of his little tricks, he’s toast.

Knowing about all the weaknesses K Rool has it makes it more amazing how Kirby Kid has managed to do so well with the character 😊

Honestly really happy that the Krool community is super chill and always trying to push the character further. Played him for almost 5 years now and hes still probably my favorite character in the game to this day. Great video man :)

This was my favourite character for four reasons. 1. I suck at combos 2.He's hard hitting 3.He's a heavy 4. He's satisfying to play

I'd like to introduce you to King of Skill. Hes a K'rool main that managed to take his guy to top 100 of HB's online tourney.

K Rool is the thinking man's heavy. At higher levels it's just mind games with all the crazy set ups and interactions he has. You know they know your weaknesses. How you mitigate them with crown slides, blunderbuss cancels and drift and good armor plays make the difference

A King who fights in a ship. A Pirate who fights in an aircraft. A Mad Scientist who fights in a castle. I loved this villain.

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Vars I regret to inform you that my tiny local has 3 King K. Rool mains

oh my god guys hes gonna do it again for real tho the bane of online play, I've been playing a ton of k rool recently online and he's fun as hell, I can see why Brent plays him so much

I think I figured out how to fix heavies in smash: reduce the amount of hitstun they receive from attacks. If King K Rool received 80% of the hitstun that an average character received, he would be much harder to combo and his survivability would actually mean something.

Ya gonna need to answer to king of skill for this one dawg.

King k rool is a good definition of what I like to call the The Sentinel effect in the history of marvel vs capcom 3 sentinel was a beast in the high teir but then eventually everyone figured out how to defeat him

He’s a character you have to play against the character for. You can’t just be better. He has so many unique tools you absolutely need to know how to fight him or you will get fucked up

It's so weird. K. Rool feels like he should just be a top-tier.

The crocodile needs a buff if you ask me.

If you ask me who has the best looking spike in the entire game K Rool's back air is the one without question despite being beaten by better characters with better mobility. He's for me the most entertaining character of the game his clumsiness and strong presence I enjoy it.

King K. Rool has come crazy setups and confirms that can be deadly if you understand how to play him. It just sucks that most of his combos means that he has to bait and punish, but if they don't take the bait, he's combo food instead. On top of that he doesn't have any multi-hit attacks, let alone combos that don't involve baiting and punishing.

Id love to see "Why No One Plays Mega Man" next. they're such a cool character with tons of tech and some of the sickest item combos in the game.

I personally dropped my old main of Meta Knight and decided to follow the meme hype of K Rool, and I’m glad I did. He’s brought me more wins and fun than Meta Knight could ever do. Do I struggle with him at times? Yeah, I do. But that’s where player and character knowledge comes into play. I like showing that I don’t need or want to play a top tier to win and have fun.

I play King K Rool. Really appreciated this video, really loved every point put in the video. And yes, K Rool is criminally underrated. K Rool I do think has some decent matchups across the chart, more notably, K Rool does well against characters like Min Min and Diddy. Good video.

One of those characters who was called "broken" at launch just for him to be a low tier later on

The amount of times I've killed a K. rool with their own crown is genuinely depressing.

I hear them, trumpets in the distance, the kingdom of skill is coming

*Offended King of Skill noises*

I’ve been wrecking jokers online with my kroc he’s way too fun to play

Him getting nerfed into the ground a few weeks after Ultimate was released did damage to his popularity too. He wasn't even top tier, but people just hated playing against him, so he got nerfed bad.

Honestly, if K Rool's crown would just make up its mind if it wants to be an item or a boomerang, he would instantly jump to C tier.

lmao i see 10 k rools everytime i hop on wifi

"I'm not mashing, I'm applying Pressure."

I would love to see a why no one plays belmonts, in theory they seem like really good characters, solid ledge trapping, crazy disjoints on whip, cross is an amazing projectile etc.

Me and 2 others in my high school e sports team all play k rool. The other teams always get so confused thinking it’s all the same guy. We have only lost once and we shall make it to the very top with the funny crocodile no matter what. Crocodile supremacy baby! 🔥

King of skill King k rool Both have king in the name so its fitting

Banger vid 🔥

Finally I see someone say K. Rool’s real weaknesses as opposed to “he is a heavy” Half of these moves have blindspots and god knows why. It’d be a nice risk rewards sorta thing for some of them but when they whiff for no reason and you eat 80% while sitting there like “damn this dude shoulda gotten hit bro”

Definitely one of the most well designed characters in the game

krool is one of the few heavies i can fight and not ever break a sweat on, his gameplan falls apart that much. Every single match ive lost to a krool it feel very justified because 90% of the time they were the better player.

"Heavyweights struggle to find any success" I guess Rob must be light now

One of the best villain ever :D

King of Skill is lurking in the background of the comment section. I know it I can feel it 😳

Finally, a video essay to show to my friends on why I'm not the problem

I can feel the Duck Hunt video getting closer

Me and my friend both play K. Rool. He is a lot of fun.

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY REQUEST THIS VIDEO WAS AMZING

I like how the comments are just full of K rool mains lol. Me included

IT’S MY BOY!!!

For the first few months of ultimate's release, I played K Rool religiously. I'd beat my friends, and felt like I was doing pretty well. Then my best friend picked up Young Link and I got subjected to what felt like the worst matchup in the history of matchups. It got so bad that I dropped the character altogether, and I haven't looked back since.

I just lost a tournament in my school with K.rool and a day later this pops up in my feed

i was super excited to see king k rool be invited into smash, but i never thought i would main him (Banjo Kazooie too, but nothing clicked). Him and bowser are my most satisfying heavy mains. Watching this video, i would surely play him all the time again.

I don't play King. K., but I like fighting him and love seeing him, even when I'm losing and they are teabagging me, I just can't be mad at him, he's funny haha Respect to K.rool mains though I know he's pretty difficult to make work a lot of the time 👑 🐊

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If I don't wrong K rool was one of my first mains when I started to play ultimate

He needed two critical buffs to deal with the roster but never got them. K rools moves are more satisfying to hit than other characters for me and also trying to find setups

The more I see the problems with heavies in smash the more I appreciate rivals of aether, and that doesn't mean that rivals heavies are better, it's just that the mechanics of the game give them an edge, for example there's this mechanic called Hit cancel (Wisely made a video talking about it if u want to see it) but what it does is that when u hit an opponent in the air u can fastfall immediately and avoid all the end lag of ur move, this would be amazing for Krool, it would be busted if Krool could hit u with an upair to immediately negate that second of endlag to go and continue with another aereal, but what makes it fair is that for u to be able to Hit cancel u need to HIT THE OPPONENT, so if u wiff and atack and fail there's still all the endlag of the move. What I'm trying to say with all this is that the heavies in smash have problems that on paper look so irrelevant that in fact are game changers, and these deterrents can be changed so easily that is basically a joke at this point

*cries in king k-rool main*

unfortunately for my friends, they are not pros (neither am I but I know more about smash characters than them) so when I go K Rool, they lose HARD. Sooooo I play other characters to not just obliterate them. That said I play K Rool because dammit I'm not competitive, I'm sentimental, and Donkey Kong 64 was my childhood game and to have K Rool in was a gift from Sakurai.

I freaking love playing K. Rool in Smash and remember the extreme hype from his trailer. I feel like he's one of the most fun and well designed characters in the entire game, crafted with so much heart and soul into the model, animations and humor that was well warranted for his return, playing pretty much almost 1:1 like his boss outings. But even with that factored in, he's sadly not a completely viable fighter with flaws even a few in his design itself to not win big as much as the top tiers (cringe) but that makes playing him more rewarding when you know how to play and get Ws as him despite that. Play who you want and don't let other's opinions stop you from your passion unless you geniunely want feel like it's better for you to, it's why I continue to play him to this day. If it weren't for K. Rool returning to Smash and the players still trying or joining to push him (based af) I would've never been as big into staying in the Smash community, which is already hell imo. Offtopic, but we need him to return to DKC and other mainline DK games/the series itself.

Did u forget dedede was pretty high tier in brawl

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i think i agree with your assesment: K. Rool's main failing is that he has no "thow it out" move that he can spam when there's nothing better to do, closest thing he has for that is his up tilt, and even that one doesnt cover his back and is still quite laggy

The one and only thing you need to know as a King K Rool main: For the 10% of players that know how to kill you, half your moves are useless so rely on Nair, Titls, Bait Grab, Spike and Projectiles. Also if you're being ledge trapped, immediately recover to land on the stage from the sky although you'll take a mean hit but its better then losing a stock

K.rool is the rare occasion for when the boss is the same when you unlock him as when you fought him.

Let's go my main

K Rool is one of the rarest tournament characters, but one of the most common character online.

What song is that in the background?

SO much potential though

I think it'd be cool if you did Meta Knight next. He is a character that has a lot of good things on paper (recovery, edge guarding, combos, frame data, straightforward neutral, good specials, etc) but doesn't seem to have much representation.

Still a King K Rool main till this day! TILL THIS DAY!!!

This will help the algorithm.

In short: people learned the boss fight.

I still wouldn’t agree that his weaknesses outnumber his strengths.

The King has lost his crown

pichu please. Amazing video tho

I’d like to add that, with his projectiles and armor, K Rool has the best neutral game of any of the heavies. Although Incin comes close. K Rool is really happy to stay in neutral and trade stray hits.

Simple solution…make tournaments for each weight class.

Our favorite Heavy Zoner

you should make a why no one/everyone plays diddy kong

Krool doesn't have the highest damaging throw(command grabs don't count), is olimar bthrow with blue and 3 Pikmins in grab

this is a stark contrast to my high school league where 1/5 people play k rool

It so funny to se King K rool in the why no one plays

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K rool is surprising technical at high level. He has alot of gimicks he can get u with. But ifbu are ready it kinda dont matter Also villager video when?

The reason like K Rool most is because he's a menace when we are both off the stage. This oversized leather purse can go to the bottom of the mf bastzone just to back air or Nair you and safely go back to the ledge. If he back throws you when you play a character with a bad recovery, you can kiss your stock goodbye.

I was at a high school only tournament with Bruho in attendance and he only lost one game 💀

Good old heavy syndrome, if ur in advantage state ur top tier, any other time you're bottoms 5

I remember when everyone was hyping up king k rool at the beginning of smash. I used to main him at that time.

Why no one plays King K Rool, except for King of Skill

I remember super early game people thought k rool was super good, then after like a year people agreed he was trash. A former pr player in my region who no longer competes actually predicted him being bad; after playing him in tournament early ult.

Idk bout u guys but every single time I enter tournaments in my region it’s over ran by k rools plumbers and sword characters with the rare pikachus samus and palus

As a K Rool main I object

The true answer is nobody is cool enough, except for me

As a k rool main, the problem with him is that he’s essentially a one trick pony. Once you learn his gimmicks he doesn’t have much to do. I think nintendo should’ve reduced the end lag for a some of his attacks and he’d be better

It takes skill no matter how low tier the character is

As someone that mains mario and dr mario I can confirm that I've beat almost every K rool main I've seen online

I love playing K. Rool and I would main him if you took away belly armor and his weight in exchange for not making him a heavy and big body. His moves just click with me so much. I will say that K. Rool is like Byleth in that he can punish a bad option very badly, but he’s also like Palutena in the fact that he has counterplay to borderline anything, it’s just up to the player to pick the right option at the right time. If you can, you lay waste to your opponent.

You should start a “Why a NORMAL amount of people play” series

*cries*

Something about the thumbnails for these videos makes me click every time. They’re very appealing