Young Link 2022 Optimal Combo Routes [Smash Ultimate]

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This video explains all the optimal Young Link combos, with the exception of some platform extensions. For me, optimal means balancing between high damage / kill potential, high reliability & consistency (works versus almost all characters and works on DI) and a good resulting advantage state. With this in mind, I explain all the optimal combo routes for all the combo starters on grounded opponent.
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00:00 Introduction
02:15 Down Tilt
05:35 Hard NAir
07:02 Soft NAir
08:29 BAir1 & FAir1
10:25 ZAir
11:37 Grab
14:56 Up B (GSA)
15:54 Jab Locks
16:39 Projectiles Start
17:36 Close hit Boomerang
19:54 Far hit Boomerang
21:56 Fire Arrow
23:55 Bomb Toss
25:53 Bomb ZDrop
27:30 Conclusion & Bonus Combos
29:29 Ending
Combo spreadsheet summarizing this video and keeping it up to date: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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Комментарии : 119

@samc6129 2 года назад

Bro this is nuts! Young links world wide rejoice!

@patrickburton1401 2 года назад

Damn I wish there were a content creator for every character that made intricate videos like this. Nice work. Gameplay is great but the video is superb.

@hivesteel 2 года назад

Chapters are working woo!! 00:00 Introduction 02:15 Down Tilt 05:35 Hard NAir 07:02 Soft NAir 08:29 BAir1 & FAir1 10:25 ZAir 11:37 Grab 14:56 Up B (GSA) 15:54 Jab Locks 16:39 Projectiles Start 17:36 Close hit Boomerang 19:54 Far hit Boomerang 21:56 Fire Arrow 23:55 Bomb Toss 25:53 Bomb ZDrop 27:30 Conclusion & Bonus Combos 29:29 Ending

@EvPanther Год назад

Thank you for the awesome guide on these combos, they have really helped a lot with me trying to main Young Link

@dominicstacy8718 Год назад

Amazing stuff I look forward to grinding. Thanks for all the time you put into this

@Clubvirg Год назад

Geeeeez I'm only five mins in, and I'm already so glad I found this video, omg. Thanks for all your hard work man. The fact that these combos are up-to-date makes it that much better. Much-appreciated 🙏

@nj4442 Год назад

So underrated. Appreciate all your work on this

@loganl4459 Год назад

I found this video this morning, about 100+ hours on yink. I had his basic combos down but this video has renewed my vigor for labbing and improvement. I've watched it 5 times this morning already! Thank you for all your hard work.

@dillonmoraga5385 Год назад

This video is amazing. Thanks for putting in the time!

@BrownLightning15 2 года назад

Amazing vid, I definitely feel like you should do the platform vid, since all but FD and (sometimes) TnC will have plats so it would do all Young Link players a good favor to have a video resource to pull up and practice too. Good stuff!👍🏾

@BladeMaster0182 5 месяцев назад

Wow, what a guide. I'm just learning YLink (and Smash in general) so a lot of this is advanced for me but even the theory of it and your in-depth explainations taught me so much

@LPMasterRob Год назад

Really really good video. Appreciate the effort that went into learning and then presenting everything so well!

@hivesteel Год назад

Thank you and good luck!!

@twistgaming3089 2 года назад

Great video, hope it blows up

@MikeHaggarKJ Год назад

Great job on this video and the documents.

@cesaryelarodriguez440 6 месяцев назад

This is the best guide of Young link in RU-vid. I'm learning the character and this is so useful to me

@Lotobedra 2 года назад

Incredible guide, thank you

@B3rT286 Год назад

Great video thanks I’ll use this to improve my YL.

@mickflurry 9 месяцев назад

holy i can't imagine the amount of time and effort it took to compile all the combos and put it together in a clean, easy to follow video. almost can't believe it's free LOL. amazing work!

@jujube0899 3 месяца назад

yo u are so underated in my opinion I can see you work so hard for this vid

@hivesteel 3 месяца назад

thank you man, if the vid helped I’m happy :)

@grandvillagrand 9 месяцев назад

You sir are amazing keep it up so far the best video 👍

@_joejoe_7863 Год назад

This is perfect thank you

@gumbothefish2267 2 года назад

This needs WAY more likes. Reminds me of why I main young link

@ProNerdy 2 года назад

Really good video, crazy good editing, must have taken weeks 😄 I also love being shouted out as well.

@hivesteel 2 года назад

Your video really opened my eyes to what was possible with tighter execution and I've been robbing people ever since so you definitely deserved the shoutout :D

@stevecraft8588 Год назад

Bruh your insane. Thank you

@eduardomurostovar3659 Год назад

Excelent video. It's time to get up the beast 😏

@im_Spade_ 2 года назад

This is insanely, insanely useful. Your work is MEGA underappreciated and you deserve WAY more subs. I'm already subbed but fr, this is absolutely amazing. Us Yink mains don't deserve the hard work you put in 🙏 Edit: 23:34 OMG I've done that tech chase SO many times and I love it. Edit 2: 28:51 LMAOOO

@hivesteel 2 года назад

Haha the meme combos at the end for style xD and I think I get at least 1 arrow->DAir tech chase kill per set so I had to put it in. Appreciate the kind words I’ll try to keep putting out content regularly

@im_Spade_ 2 года назад

@@hivesteel please do! I love your mentality/psychological videos as well as these in depth ones. 👌

@baka57950 Год назад

Thank you

@joakimgustavssonskold172 8 месяцев назад

this is the best video on youtube

@hivesteel 8 месяцев назад

Facts

@schmaffew2343 2 года назад

Hivesteel, something I would like to add to your optimal young link combo video is if you get up b, into back air into back air off stage and you don't wanna suicide up b you can b reverse fire arrow and its not very consistant but if its not that far off stage it can bait out a punish able air dodge and if its far off stage it puts them into a terrible position while getting you closer to being back on stage.

@hivesteel 2 года назад

Listen to this man!! If you think the turnaround arrow is too risky, b-reverse instead and you might get extra dmg while staying safe!

@SorcerersSongs 2 года назад

couldnt give a shit abt young link combos but this is such a well made video! Mad love!

@gogomarto3813 9 месяцев назад

That work! thanks

@raizen-yt4241 2 года назад

Excelente guia my friend

@zacharymazzuca1150 2 года назад

Ok I gotta hit the lab with yl again. I’m a zss main but this looks so fun

@jonathanstrange5561 Год назад

Double hit down air then up air can lead to some good arial strings mid combo

@kanyaebruh 3 месяца назад

bro landing those mid air arrows like it’s easy

@Bladieblah 2 года назад

I've decided to pick up Young link because he seems like a fun character. Amazing work on this guide, I honestly did not expect this level of detail. I'm a Sheik main and while Void has god something similar for Sheik (90 minute combo lecture) I haven't seen this kind of dedication for any other character, really great stuff! P.S. Just my curiosity but what is your GSP currently? Even if you don't care about online, I'm just curious. I think it would be hell to play against your Young Link lol

@hivesteel 2 года назад

glad it helps, good luck picking up the character:) I want to learn Sheik but so hard! My gsp isn’t that high, around 11.7 mil when I played last weekend. online is good for forcing practice on specific stuff.

@xxwallzxx4509 2 года назад

Thanks.. I just tried Young Link right now. Not sure if I am a big fan yet. The first few were cpu and I lost the first 3 and won the rest. I still don't have combos yet. Just checking him out and seeing how he feels. Played with his projectiles a bit. Now is to learn combos. I can be good in projectiles. But.. I still need to practice and learn these combos. Also, I didn't like his T-Rex hurtboxes. I got used to big Link and his range. It felt off for me and I was losing against Shiek on exchanges and range. Yup.. that happened. Edit: Bomb was something I liked with Link in Smash 4. I wasn't bad at it and was good at the timing parts to lead into stuff. Granted I did have too much fun with it. But still.. really fun.

@hivesteel 2 года назад

He’s not easy but amazing potential, good luck!

@nonamesonme1 2 года назад

Hey man ty for the guide! Just wondering if a yl main can help me. Let's say you use an attack cancel backair to hit the first Backair at low %. Do you just use jump c stick backair for the rest of the back air chain or do u have to keep doing attack cancel backairs? I'm slowly getting used to getting 4back air true combo vs like samus. But it's tough to keep up the inputs.

@hivesteel 2 года назад

In my experience: the second BAir you can do normally: short hop buffered BAir (Jump+Cstick or Jump+A+Left analog stick). There’s no need to attack cancel since you’re facing the correct direction. Then the 3rd and maybe 4th you NEED to IRAR. You absolutely need to dash forward a little bit to catch up to them, then do the back air. So IRAR is your only option.

@nonamesonme1 2 года назад

From the man himself!:) Ahh yeah I've played less than 6months and am trying to get better than someone whom spent many years of their childhood/teenage years playing. Huge mountain to climb haha. I struggle with young links range so I need to combo more to get more out of the hits that I finally connect. Trust me to pick a very technical character as my main when new to the game haha. Love YL though.

@vyseskies Год назад

do you think it's optimal to use shoulder button to jump as Young Link? Amazing video

@hivesteel Год назад

yes absolutely I still use a Y for short hopping but use shoulder way more

@seththemage6029 11 месяцев назад

Gotdamn this vid opened my eyes at how underbaked my punish game is. I am capable of so much more, but I tend to go for basic nair/uair/ftilt finishers instead of really maximizing my openings.

@hivesteel 11 месяцев назад

You gotta to keep up with those crazy DLC characters nowadays! GL

@bond3161 Год назад

Great guide good pace I thought bomb hit sends target randomly left or right??

@hivesteel Год назад

It’s not really random but it is definitely hard to predict!

@bond3161 Год назад

@@hivesteel so what is it then

@hivesteel Год назад

Bomb has 4 hits, depends on where the bomb is relative to the opponents hitbox on the last hit. So the previous hits combined with where the bomb thrown, bomb momentum and the opponents momentum can all impact the launch direction

@schmaffew2343 2 года назад

Combine this with XLR8's combo guide, and use these when you dont feel safe, that way you can still get the cool creative combo's, now I consistently get at least one 60% damage combo clip a game thanks!! also a way I found that made the bair more consistent from low % down tilt is attack cancel bair instead of instant rar

@hivesteel 2 года назад

The XLR8 guide is the best one there is rn for playing around platform. Also check out my IRAR video, IRAR can be the same as attack cancel (in terms spacing and speed) but with extra flexibility so it’s worth grinding a bit :)

@schmaffew2343 2 года назад

@@hivesteel Thanks for the suggestion!

@captaindavenport6480 2 года назад

Never heard of tilt and smash boomerang... How do you input each of those?

@hivesteel 2 года назад

Same as tilt and smash attack! If you angle forward slightly OR hold forward for a little while and press B, you'll get tilt input. If you press forward and B together you'll get a smash input.

@captaindavenport6480 2 года назад

@@hivesteel thank you!

@starbutter2730 2 года назад

Is there any way you could make a video on platform stuff with Young Link?

@hivesteel 2 года назад

YL Discord peeps and I worked on this guide a while back: docs.google.com/document/d/1G7D2fyhVlxRakZ3D287FXW7FB_1w03TPXNJXJcWLouU Video will come some day..

@starbutter2730 2 года назад

@@hivesteel ty i really appreciate this🙏

@grantlynn1659 6 месяцев назад

Jesus Christ these people are playing on a whole mother level. I understand the words and the language and the definition but stringing then all together in the combos is like “wait what does bair do again? What’s down tilt, oh yeah, it’s down a but just the one side”

@raxmax1421 Год назад

Any Bair cbain tutorials? I'm having trouble chaining them together without turning around

@hivesteel Год назад

I could make a short vid but basically it’s just IRAR rising BAir > fast fall > repeat. You can adjust dash distance and drift for consistency but otherwise there’s not much more to it

@chyn515 Год назад

Can slingshot be an alternative to IRAR for the combo of young links?

@hivesteel Год назад

I think slingshot is not a big help for combos, it’s more for pressure strings and neutral movement, check my slingshot video

@esvbanARPGs Год назад

hi, what is TA arrow (other than shoot arrow?) ? what does TA mean.

@hivesteel Год назад

TurnAround Arrow! You change your direction without changing your momentum.

@gibraltar4841 2 года назад

@thumper3063 Год назад

Can someone please explain how he does a bair instantly like that? I can rar. But have to have a little run-up before. I just can't understand how it's done instantly. TIA

@hivesteel Год назад

check my IRAR video homie

@DylanDipHorrorGames 2 года назад

Young link keeps wave bouncing when I try to b reverse... help?

@hivesteel 2 года назад

Check out my video about special movement.. if you still can’t get it maybe your controller has snapback ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s3PPIZDcTpU.html

@ultimate6439 2 года назад

How do you arrow after bair?? I always face the wrong direction

@hivesteel 2 года назад

during back air end lag you just need to press B + direction you want to face to buffer a turnaround arrow

@ultimate6439 2 года назад

@@hivesteel I got it now, thanks !

@kennethlamar4792 Год назад

Hmmm is link hard to use

@CoreyArt 2 года назад

how do you bair so quickly when moving forward ?

@hivesteel 2 года назад

It's called IRAR! I made a video about it :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QMNPPxPRStA.html

@CoreyArt 2 года назад

@@hivesteel Great video! This is extremely hard to do from a stationary position! After you do one IRAR bair, what do you do input to get another bair going so it combos? Do you fast fall, press a ( Or do you have like a shoulder botton input for attack or something like that)?

@hivesteel 2 года назад

yeah I bair->fast fall->buffer dash during landing lag->turnaround+jump+bair when dash actually comes out.. it’s not easy but once you get the rhythm it’s very doable. Also for the 3rd/4th bair you have to dash longer to catch them so it becomes actually easier and IRAR’s flexibility shines

@juanrodriguezluis4811 Год назад

There are a chance to see the controls to?? There are so many tutorials on internet, but nobody shows the control input 🤦🏻‍♂️

@hivesteel Год назад

I feel u, I show the inputs on my Tech tutorial series and it takes SO LONG to set up, so I can't imagine doing it for 30 hours of combo. I could do shorts showing specific combos' inputs but not sure there's enough interest

@jebstuart3162 2 года назад

"Don't let me see you fishing for Dair pogos, they're not consistent." 🙄 But against heavies? Please?

@Ghost-zr4gi Год назад

How do you back air so easily after the fair?

@hivesteel Год назад

Make sure you fast fall the fair correctly then IRAR back air

@Ghost-zr4gi Год назад

@@hivesteel yea i ended up figuring it out. Buffering the dash for the IRAR while still in the fair animation helped with the timing too. Thank you.

@kennethlamar4792 Год назад

what tier is young link I aware of adult link an toon link but not young link

@hivesteel Год назад

He’s a bit weird because he’s strong versus some top tiers but has bad matchups and general consistency problem. Strong for sure, often seen in the ~top 25, so mid-high tier.

@juanrodriguezluis4811 Год назад

How can I Fair them Bair fast and consistently?

@hivesteel Год назад

make sure you fast fall the fair (JUST before the FAir2 is optimal but just after FAir2 also works) then full hop IRAR back air, adjusting your dash distance based on DI, %, opponent's character..

@vellichor7676 Год назад

Brother, I'm having the exact same issue. I've been playing Smash since 1999 -- I don't feel like a noob, I suppose, and am currently in Elite Smash -- and yet for the life of me stringing together a bunch of Bair's is nigh impossible. And that's in training; the idea of ever attempting to link together Bair's in an actual battle is laughable.

@Kayoloz 6 месяцев назад

How do you turn around so quikly to bair????????????????

@hivesteel 6 месяцев назад

IRAR, I got a video on it

@idksomething-wg5hz 5 месяцев назад

@@hivesteelI'm fairly new to the game, played brawl when i was younger and didn't even know sheild existed lmao. Now that I've started gotten back into smash, i never realised HOW ANNOYING SOME OF THESE TECHS ARE. WHY DOES A COMBO NEED A 1 FRAME INPUT RAHHHH. I've learnt you can replace 90% of Irar with just excepting that i have a skill issue and do another fair Do you think you could do another guide very similar to this but rank it on difficulty? I know this is optimised but perhaps a beginner to pro combo guide

@yinja3406 2 года назад

how do you hop?

@hivesteel 2 года назад

short hop with Y, full hop with L! Check my Purah Tech Tutorial #0 for more info

@yinja3406 2 года назад

@@hivesteel do you have the link

@nbohr1more917 9 месяцев назад

Doesn’t matter if it’s optimal I like side-b bomb dair

@kevfitzgerald6638 Год назад

I dont think Dtilt - arrow works on di away

@hivesteel Год назад

Definitely hard if you get the tipper hit box of dtilt

@ketz_165 2 года назад

Are you a programmer? That max equation at the beginning is making me think of my python class right now 😂

@hivesteel 2 года назад

Ha! Sure I do a lot of programming but I come from a math background, I meant like arg max en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arg_max

@neondouble_ Год назад

I stopped playing young link because I couldn't do the combos. Without the combos young link is easily top 5 most toxic characters in the game

@LaTraque556 Год назад

Young link was nerf ? Its impossible to jump arrow double jump now

@hivesteel Год назад

Nope Everything in this video still works

@chyn515 Год назад

I checked the update log, and there is nothing about the end lag of arrow.

@ariel4219 2 года назад

hum i hate being that guy, but down tilt fair isn't true at 0 percent... also just di'ing down and away would probably decimate a lot of the combos you've demonstrated...

@hivesteel 2 года назад

hilt dtilt > fair is true unless they have a frame 1 or frame 2 air dodge and you frame trap them anyway~ tip dtilt combos are definitely ruined by good DI out but they have to react very quickly. Hilt dtilt combos and most other stuff in here are not so affected.

@ariel4219 Год назад

@@hivesteel didn't knew about down tilt fair so thanks for the info :) tho i can assure you that your oponent that knows a little bit about yink will di away... nice video tho