@@EduardoC Still went down to the wire in every match and any sizable lead was diminished by the time Leo is close to being killed. That game 3 still had Marss eat a b-air at the ledge and almost die before securing the victory within 10 seconds later. I think Mars accepted you won't hold a sizable lead against Leo for too long and that's why he ended up taking every last stock trade he could. He didn't play for the future, he played for that exact moment with no fear. MKLeo will bring it back to the wire even if you're 3 stocks to 1 by the end of the match. It's only about making sure that last stock is gone.
I love that they show the bans and counter picks in the corner, just a nice quality of life change to see whats going on in the players minds a little Also ESAMS expressions alone during the match is a reason to keep the player cam on
Justin Castillo Lucario doesnt get stronger the longer the game goes on. He gets stronger when he takes damage, also, once Lucario dies he loses all his strength. If he dies 6 minutes in, hes weak even tho the match is going on for a long time.
I thought something was off but then I saw ESAM jumping all over the place and being too fast for the pleb ass camera to catch up.. yeah the off-screen hurt him.
Fun Fact: at 9:17 when Esam points to the crowd that was actually to my friend Lynn and I. We were repping Panda Global jerseys and were popping off super fucking hard in the front row. What a time to be alive
SPOILERS: man I know Esam loves his lylat stage, but I feel like that pick keeps hurting him more than it’s helping. That last match was hard to watch....
yeah I saw him pick that and I was just confused, he dominated the space on every other stage, lylat's weird layout especially the sides really just ended up hurting him. I think he just saw it was available and naturally leaned towards it w/o thinking just going back to smashville or something, he even acknowledged this on twitter.
That is just classic pikachu spamming moves because he has an amazing offstage game. It was after the thunder though, Esam has been doing it since sm4sh.
because nepotism brought him in from smash 4 even though he has no technical knowledge and can only appeal to the crowd through shitty jokes and memes that usually have nothing to do with what's actually happening on screen
@@gimmieyogrits The fact that you're defending his jokes in the first place shows that you missed my point. No, they didn't go over my head, but when you have no technical knowledge and resort to just referencing x or y and then saying something like "he took that stock like x did y!", it gets old. And the fake hype from 4 was always complete bullshit, and he just feels leftover from that terrible, terrible time. The amount of times EE and TKbreezy go off topic in TOP MATCHES shows they really shouldn't be there. Coney and D1 do a much better job. It just makes matches frustrating to watch because there's no option to turn off commentary without losing the game sound.
17:19 that taunt was hilarious .. also... fuckk man esam might've had his best and most influential set of his life if it wasn't for 16:55 skullbash. perhaps wouldve even taken away all the hype from marss just for defeating leo in such a dominant fashion. a shame. not a big esam fan but i wouldve loved to see. god samn side b.
SPOILERS BUT: GOD DAMN IT ESAM THAT SKULLBASHHHHH AGHHHHHHHHH I KNEW IF HE DIDNT TAKE G4 THEN AND THERE IT WAS OVER... AND WHY THE LYLAT PICK?!!?!? man it hurts to be an esam fan, oh well 4th aint too bad and he'll clutch it out one of these days, just not today.
Xrlylyl lylylyl you know what’s funny that happens in other smash games too. Just have to be fast like ESAM to get that offscreen dmg in the middle of stage
That last stage pick was awful. Joker was damn near invisible the way he blends with the background. He should've went back to Yoshi's island. The wall gave him more mixups with his recovery, while restricting Joker's to be even more linear for edgeguarding. Soon as I saw his pick, I knew he lost it. It seems like such an obviously bad idea.
The commentators kept acting like Leo was choking but imo Leo wasn’t used to the insane pressure esam was giving him during his arsene, the time where he normally has control of the match had it all stripped every time before he could do anything and it was harder to edgeguard because pikcahu’s busted recovery, but esam was a legend in edgeguarding joker with arsene, Leo wasn’t choking, esam is just better than his 14th spot would suggest
I've been wondering for a while now, what are they doing when they get up and walk near the center of the table between games? Are they banning stages or something?
Do you mean a direct link to Top 8 bracket? There's a link to all Genesis events and brackets at the bottom of description, but for future events we can look into adding direct ones for e.g. ultimate all brackets, ultimate top 8, melee etc.
Funny how both these players made huge counterpick mistakes that cost them a game. Leo shouldn't have taken ESAM to Yoshi's, he should've remembered that ESAM washed him in game 4 of their set at Shine there. ESAM has a somewhat better excuse, he hasn't played Leo's Joker on Lylat and idk if there's much VOD footage of Leo playing Joker on Lylat out there, but it cost him game 5. Either way, great set. They're 2-2 now, hopefully ESAM can pull into the lead again next time.
Also mkleo's di was great he was moving around so well that his Jaír wasn't able to drag him down fast enough to cancel out the 4th hit to start the loop
*Any top level player ending up getting a full stock lead on MkLeo*
MkLeo: "It's fiction. We made it up."
Epoch Divergence yo what about Marss?
@@EduardoC Still went down to the wire in every match and any sizable lead was diminished by the time Leo is close to being killed.
That game 3 still had Marss eat a b-air at the ledge and almost die before securing the victory within 10 seconds later. I think Mars accepted you won't hold a sizable lead against Leo for too long and that's why he ended up taking every last stock trade he could. He didn't play for the future, he played for that exact moment with no fear. MKLeo will bring it back to the wire even if you're 3 stocks to 1 by the end of the match. It's only about making sure that last stock is gone.
Eduardo C full stock lead, the games were still marss holding on to dear life
I mean marss did a zero to death ( very non true) and marss was at 132%
Beyond Belief reference?!
I love that they show the bans and counter picks in the corner, just a nice quality of life change to see whats going on in the players minds a little
Also ESAMS expressions alone during the match is a reason to keep the player cam on
7:17 screen ko blastzone gives ESAM 1.2% hmmm
Weird
yo that is super weird, someone should clip that and ask around.. curious if it's some big glitch we just don't know about
It's plot poison, instead of protecting the protagonist it slowly sabotaged the antagonist
Pichu effect?
Esam too fast for camera so he got hurt offscreen
Mkleo = Lucario. As the match goes on he gets more powerful.
Agatha Grunt-thruster doesnt make any sense bruh
@@TQo1 the more lucario loses the stronger he gets
TQ BD you either don’t play smash or haven’t played Lucario
Justin Castillo Lucario doesnt get stronger the longer the game goes on. He gets stronger when he takes damage, also, once Lucario dies he loses all his strength. If he dies 6 minutes in, hes weak even tho the match is going on for a long time.
TQ BD no one cares about the technicalities
18:50 I'M SHOOK
7:18 ESAM takes 1.2% for NO REASON AT ALL
Edit: sakurai please don't put blast zones on center stage of smashville
He was off screen
@@Wentle they gotta fix those smashville blast zones I guess 😂
Oh shoot! How did that happen?
I thought something was off but then I saw ESAM jumping all over the place and being too fast for the pleb ass camera to catch up.. yeah the off-screen hurt him.
Died at 120% ish to a near ledge back air wouldn’t have mattered anyways.
pikachu: at 60 percent
arsene: *finally, he's at kill percent*
Fun Fact: at 9:17 when Esam points to the crowd that was actually to my friend Lynn and I. We were repping Panda Global jerseys and were popping off super fucking hard in the front row. What a time to be alive
LETS GO ESAM
PAVLIK I'M ISAAC AKA LUIS THE POKEMON TRAINER YOU SAW AT SIX RUGS IM HELLA JEALOUS AND CRAZY I FOUND YOU IN THE COMMENTS
Yo that's sick! Your PT NASTY
@@pavlikgribanovsky3580 THANKSK BRO I NEED TO SHOW YOU A CLIP OF ME ON STREAM CUZ I MADE A DAMN HIGHLIGHT
You need to turn caps off that's what you need to do
SPOILERS: man I know Esam loves his lylat stage, but I feel like that pick keeps hurting him more than it’s helping. That last match was hard to watch....
I couldn't even see joker in that stage.
yeah I saw him pick that and I was just confused, he dominated the space on every other stage, lylat's weird layout especially the sides really just ended up hurting him. I think he just saw it was available and naturally leaned towards it w/o thinking just going back to smashville or something, he even acknowledged this on twitter.
Ty for saying spoilers, I mean, it didn’t stop me from reading it but it was my choice😂👍👍👍
Should’ve picked town and city or yoshis
Lapo the comments of these videos are essentially for discussing the games, so yeah at least you aren’t mad like other people randomly get
ESAM: *Taunts*
MKLeo: So you have chosen death
Incredible gameplay from ESAM, that pressure was insane, year of the rat baby just you wait, props to leo
Mouse
@@bruce4139 No in the Lunar Calendar it's called Year of the Rat
Top notch set to cast, love to both players!
Incredible skills and competitors. Loved the bro hug at the end. Champions in skills and character. This is why I like these two.
LOL esam a champion in character?
MKLEO GM 1-3 : reality is often disappointing
MKLEO GM 4 : that is it was
MKLEO GM 5 : now reality is whatever I want
I like to think of Leo as Thanos too
That up air after the whiffed forward air at 4:16 offstage.... Man that was one of the neatest things I've seen.
That is just classic pikachu spamming moves because he has an amazing offstage game. It was after the thunder though, Esam has been doing it since sm4sh.
@@lagalil what using thunder? Duh
8:58 that edgeguarding was NICE
EE: "That boy was delaying it like he was on cpt time" HOW DOES THIS MAN GET AWAY WITH THIS 😂
THIS MANS SAID HENNY POTTER
Henny thing is possible
because nepotism brought him in from smash 4 even though he has no technical knowledge and can only appeal to the crowd through shitty jokes and memes that usually have nothing to do with what's actually happening on screen
@@toastwalrus maybe his jokes go over your head and you can't relate?
@@gimmieyogrits
The fact that you're defending his jokes in the first place shows that you missed my point. No, they didn't go over my head, but when you have no technical knowledge and resort to just referencing x or y and then saying something like "he took that stock like x did y!", it gets old. And the fake hype from 4 was always complete bullshit, and he just feels leftover from that terrible, terrible time. The amount of times EE and TKbreezy go off topic in TOP MATCHES shows they really shouldn't be there. Coney and D1 do a much better job. It just makes matches frustrating to watch because there's no option to turn off commentary without losing the game sound.
That was the longest and most brutal taunt to get bodied I've ever seen.
yes
Damn, except for that last game Esam went off
Esam played himself by going with lylat. Literally 2 stocks were done thanks to that stage. Joker just sharked him so. Nasty.
Got so many extensions his last name should be cord
-EE
3:31 that's moment is epic
“Man with the extension, so many extensions last name should be cord” I died
17:19 ESAM should not have taunted
Fred Huang Esam usually taunts to pumps up himself
@@BocchitheGwak only thing he pumped was his last chance to continue
@@thelordoftheweebs9501 the read was undeniably sick and taunt well deserved, he wouldn't have won the set either way lol
exam's movement mixup with pikachu quick attack is fucking insane
17:19 that taunt was hilarious ..
also...
fuckk man esam might've had his best and most influential set of his life if it wasn't for 16:55 skullbash. perhaps wouldve even taken away all the hype from marss just for defeating leo in such a dominant fashion. a shame. not a big esam fan but i wouldve loved to see. god samn side b.
It was looking good but it's leo.
SPOILERS BUT:
GOD DAMN IT ESAM THAT SKULLBASHHHHH AGHHHHHHHHH I KNEW IF HE DIDNT TAKE G4 THEN AND THERE IT WAS OVER... AND WHY THE LYLAT PICK?!!?!? man it hurts to be an esam fan, oh well 4th aint too bad and he'll clutch it out one of these days, just not today.
time st amp?
lylat is good for pika too
Kyleish didn’t esam say Lylat was one of pika’s best stages tho?
@@kyberstudios7358 that would make it one of the most studied stages for opponents to know how to handle Pikachu on it.
7:18
Random 1.2%
Esam too fast for the pleb ass camera to catch up so he took damage due to the offscreen LMAO
Lol thats a new glitch. The game thought he was outside the camera zone. I wonder if you can die from that
Xrlylyl lylylyl you know what’s funny that happens in other smash games too. Just have to be fast like ESAM to get that offscreen dmg in the middle of stage
Died at 120% ish to a near ledge back air wouldn’t have mattered anyways.
No one:
Literally no one:
MkLeo every battle: “I’ll let him get a lead and then I’ll CRUSH his soul”
Y tf did esam take 1% right after he kilt mk leo at 7:19??
Sammy G rhe screen scrolled and he went off for a slight bit. (also leo cheats lul)
Engagement-ring, wedding-ring, and suffer-ring.
-EE
I swear I need to remember this
Commenting so you remember it
your semi annual reminder to remember this
@@RavanaMuse you’re gods gift to this earth
@@irodhd you and your family will be blessed for sending me this reminder
I love this commentary duo more and more as I listen to them, shit is inspiring
Even though Esam lost he still did a great job and made us pika mains proud. Great job to both of them. Esam had better bring home the gold next time!
Man... Esam such a great, nice dude and competitive player
I love the commentators also I’m so gonna start using “faded” in my vocabulary lol
U must be one of the gen x peeeps. Faded being used for the last 20 years
ESAM was amazing at this match getting 2 fights from Leo, even more than Samsora 💪🏼
samsora has beaten mkleo's joker before
@@V4Vroom so has esam.
@@V4Vroom Sure, then he lost 3-0
@@thelordoftheweebs9501 Esam has only beaten Leo's secondary characters, not his main.
My two favorite players. Love to watch! Hate to see the outcome..
Esam got this
*picks Lylat*
Holy shit, I did not realize how well Joker blends in, with the background. Nvm, he don't got this.
It’s like Esam lost his mojo last match and Leo just went crazy
8:56 that edgeguard was probably the best ive ever seen. MKLeo did everythingn right to avoid it
Thats why pika is the best
Did anybody notice ESAM take a random 1.2% damage at 7:20
Off screen apparently
While maybe not THE best commentator.
EE is awesome and is the best commentator smash has.
Made this match enjoyable to watch
AWESOME SET!!
ESAM I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU BRO!
Bro your color commentary is dope. "That little electric menace." Yes!
Leo’s plot armor doesn’t care about a 2 stock lead lol.
Idk if I have ever got so excited watching ESAM play this. Did an excellent job against MKLeo. Good matches!
At 6:52 In the second game Mk Leo rolled back to stage and was hit by the foward smash even though he was behind pikachu. bruh moment
top text as if pikachu is better...
top text lmfao... tell me you’re trolling. Pikachu is far more cancer than joker.
@top text Stay mad!
How come ESAM took damage at 7:19, was it because he was off screen?
ばぐやん
That set was not easy for leo especially for joker kinda struggles against pika
Bowser jr. Is worse his specials all are counter able by thunder jolt and dash attack as well he really cant approach at all
@@bruce4139 who cares about bowser jr.?
For me byleth is the best character to counter pick against pikachu
ESAM played so well. His time will come. Good job to Leo as always
Why did Esam take damage at 7:18 ? I thought only pichu hurts itself
7:19 amo cuando celebran antes de tiempo , el dolor es más intenso cuando pierden jajajaj
7:19 wait esam took off screen damage and punished because of the star KO?
First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, then the suffering
I miss when ESAM made top 8
Esam's got like the whole Panda Global Jersey set and Mkleo is sticking with Adidas leaf zip up hoodie and maroon v neck
21:52 the drillbit lololol
Esams good sportsmanship is a title in its own right. Hell of a set.
Probably ESAM's best Ultimate playing yet. Don't know what caused him to check out G5 but he performed.
I think everyone has "studied" lylat to handle pikachu and now it's just a rope to the neck every time Esam picks it.
I've never seen Arsen be so negated before haha. Props to Esam and good job Leo.
最高の動画やな
esam lost because of the skull bash, once you dwell on a bad past move, you can't fully focus on anticipating the future
Skull bash on stage is almost always a bad move.
*GAME 4 LEO HAS ENTERED THE CHAT*
What happened to the player cams game 3
Man this dude is good with pikachu
everyone is good at pikachu
it was a footstool when he dropped down real low on yoshi island
7:19 why esam took damages?
He went off-screen for abitf
HOW DID HE CHANGE DIRECTIONS AT 14:30 SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME
B reverse my guy
Can anybody give a time stamp where esam esam did a jab lock then down tilt? I forgot where it is
that hug was so wholesome. pure souls
It’s kind of funny that the victory music is from Fire Emblem, considering how salty the smash community is towards that franchise xD
That last stage pick was awful. Joker was damn near invisible the way he blends with the background. He should've went back to Yoshi's island. The wall gave him more mixups with his recovery, while restricting Joker's to be even more linear for edgeguarding. Soon as I saw his pick, I knew he lost it. It seems like such an obviously bad idea.
The commentators kept acting like Leo was choking but imo Leo wasn’t used to the insane pressure esam was giving him during his arsene, the time where he normally has control of the match had it all stripped every time before he could do anything and it was harder to edgeguard because pikcahu’s busted recovery, but esam was a legend in edgeguarding joker with arsene, Leo wasn’t choking, esam is just better than his 14th spot would suggest
Then game 5 leo said... *NO*
This match was WILD
15:35 ESAM thought DSR was on
He said "I don't live here. I don't pay taxes." Great commentary.
What a great set. Good job esam! Keep it up! And these games had me worried and on edge hahaha. 😂
I thought semifinals were best-2-out of 3? I thought it was only winners final losers final and grand final that were 3 out 5.
It depends on the tournament
Esam should absolutely stop picking lylat. Everyone has studied that stage so much to handle him. He even did better on yoshis story xD
I'm starting to think ESAM takes bets out on himself that he'll lose to MkLeo on game 5.
I've been wondering for a while now, what are they doing when they get up and walk near the center of the table between games? Are they banning stages or something?
Yes
15:49 > Giorno's piano playing
3:33 ... does joker get another airdodge after gun?? Wow what a set
With each gun you can dodge so...yes?
@@disgaealikerasapOG man that’s just crazy. Joker is busted !!
Saw the timer and knew it was a good game
Does ESAM have LEDs on his controller?
Anyone else see him teleport at 3:51? When he did down gun
he fastfell... he didnt teleport lol
Jesus! That was CRAZY!
3:32 look what mkleo does with joker. wtf?
At 7:18 essam takes 1 % for no reason lmao wtf
When it ko's and zooms in he was in magnifying glass for a small moment, giving him magnifying glass damage.
2gg can we get the bracket in the description plz?
*summit
Do you mean a direct link to Top 8 bracket? There's a link to all Genesis events and brackets at the bottom of description, but for future events we can look into adding direct ones for e.g. ultimate all brackets, ultimate top 8, melee etc.
Funny how both these players made huge counterpick mistakes that cost them a game. Leo shouldn't have taken ESAM to Yoshi's, he should've remembered that ESAM washed him in game 4 of their set at Shine there. ESAM has a somewhat better excuse, he hasn't played Leo's Joker on Lylat and idk if there's much VOD footage of Leo playing Joker on Lylat out there, but it cost him game 5. Either way, great set. They're 2-2 now, hopefully ESAM can pull into the lead again next time.
That last game was so unfair. U couldn’t even see the joker , blending in with the background
What happen to ZeRo?
@Pog Zero is the type of Player I wanna be like but after hearing the news I'm ashamed of him.
what a set!
Did he footstool Leo?
Why Esam almost never uses down smash? It's super strong
Game 2 spoilers:
LEFFEN WOULD BE PROUD
My thoughts exactly. That was Melee levels of edge guarding
What happened to nair loop?
Not sure but when esam does it on strea it looks like it can be sdi'd out of really fast. I see him get like 1-2 loops then it ends.
Also mkleo's di was great he was moving around so well that his Jaír wasn't able to drag him down fast enough to cancel out the 4th hit to start the loop
Esam’s shining brain is the best anti MKleo technology. Better luck next time ESAM GGs
MKLeo is honestly the comeback king. Something really clicked in the last game and there was nothing ESAM could do.