If Hax$ never had the complications with his hands, I have no doubt he would be one of the gods. He was already just behind the gods when he had to quit, and he was still improving at a very quick pace. Hopefully he fixes his hands one day in the future and claims the melee throne.
I feel like hax's skill ceiling is too high for what's good for your hands on a gc controller. As far back as you can go, his dash dancing has been abnormally fast. Average dash dance speed is maybe 4-5 turns per second, and hax was pushing 10 and above regularly. The amount of physical stress it must take to play like that, on top of all the fox tech (double shine waveshine, etc) on a gamecube controller just isn't doable. I think with digital inputs definitely, but hax was sitting on the fringe of what should and shouldn't be done on a gc controller for a long time
TheAsh Well, that have that recent new stem cell research and stuff. If Hax went through the relatively quick operation, the cartilage in his hands and knuckles would regenerate, and he could play like the god he was meant to be.
+FiurerVenezolano He had to get surgery for a hand injury which prevented him from playing for months. He made a very brief return earlier this year but didn't look as sharp as he did in 2014, and then announced he was taking another break due to insomnia. It's too bad too, because just before he ran into all these health issues, his Fox looked it was ready to go all the way (very nearly defeated M2K at a national).
Just want to comment that I come back and watch this at least once a week. Seriously this may be one of the best combo videos ever made for melee. Good shit man.
I miss you Hax. Sorry your hands have been through hell, I wish you the best. You are a legend. I hope you're doing well in life wherever you are right now.
+Collin Quinn wrong. he's had chronic insomnia, he said the hand issues were real but were mostly an excuse/exaggerated. He hasn't been able to sleep for months now, that's why he's been playing league but not melee... he thinks competition made him sleepless.
I mean, he had no cartilidge in his hands, and suffers from insomnia, a sleeping disorder involving lack if sleep and sleeping for as long as desired. He's not retired, but he was so good with his Falcon and Fox :(
Still cant beat mango. But he's well on his way. I'd love to see him play against westballz. both of them (imo) have been playing amazingly better in the last 4 months.
+Sticky Plays He beat Mango at WHOBO MLG Winners Finals vs Mango's Falco/Fox. If you want to see him play Westballz, check out the SmashPractice pre evo stream VOD. It's also on their youtube channel.
Although I believe Hax's Fox is amazing and shows results, I still feel like he should at least give Falcon another chance if he were to lose a game or two. Just give the people some Falcon love. His Falcon was not just amazing and hype, but a work of art. He even looked...happy while playing Falcon, with Fox I never see him crack a smile...from what I've seen at least. But I'm not one to judge or tell people who to main or not to main. Play who you want to play, just as long as you have fun with a character you (hopefully) love to play as.
His fox is so clunky yet technical at the same time. It has like no fluidity to it, it's very stop and go, but when it goes oh good lord it presses buttons.
I have very little doubt that there is still much hate in Hax's heart towards Falcon. It's probably quite cathartic for him to prove to the Melee community, first hand, that _all_ of his former complaints about maining Falcon and Falcon's shortcomings were right.
+r0blee He said in an interview that he loves Captain Falcon, but he only plays Fox because he believes his true potential in Melee lies within Fox. He only destroys Falcons because he knows how to destroy them so well, being a former Falcon main.
this is a video that makes me want to learn melee; ive been really wanting to for a while, but it never really happened. if/when i do (most likely when lol), im maining fox simply because of what hax has shown is possible when playing.
Did I miss something or did Had quit SSBM for good? It would make sense if you have no cartilidge in your hand, I could only imagine how much that can hurt while playing.
when he is waveshining spacies it looks almost as if he is just walking... is it a waveshine down into a short walk to keep a spacie in a waveshine? i know with floaties you can just do normal waveshines and theyll be stuck in them for days but those ones hax was doing looked like he was just shining while walking... how?
He's just that fast. He does everything down to the frame he can initiate it, so he shines and jumps on frame 4, then wavedashes diagonally to max length on frame 1 in the air, then inputs the walk directly on touching the ground, then shines. Rinse and repeat.
Coach McGuirk when you do this sorta tech after awhile it becomes second nature. For me theres no such thing as a shine since just shining is pointless shine = waveshine. My hands are automatic when it comes to a lot of tech, after years you just don't think about it.
Arcin321 I never miss waveshines either. That has nothing to do with my comment. i was talking about hit knockback. when i do 5 waveshines I against a peach I hit with all of them. when I do it against a fox i hit like 2. why is it so much easier for them to DI out? and how does hax avoid that? he's just that good at making hard reads about how they might DI??
Arcin321 do you just go around to random videos and comment on unrelated topics that you are good at tech skills? I think I saw you replying to someone on a cooking channel talking about how you only waveshine and they were asking about eggs...
he can, but not to the same extent, i mean, fox wont ruin ur hands either, but if u dashdance like hax and do multishine shield pressure, then ur hands may just disagree with your decisions
HAX$ HE"S THE MAN OF 20XX along with GATZU and WIZZROBE, he the fox 20XX man. He's top 10 in my book. He's that good with both is characters fox and captain falcon. His falcon can make people erupt with screams and chanting his name to win his matches. FOX on the other hand is the same but instead of an amazing knee fox has a shine that can kill characters at less than 10%. Especially Marth and Falco. HAX is on his way to being another GOD of MELEE. He's just that great at what he does. I'd rather be kneed by his falcon than be destroyed by his 20XX fox any day. His falcon is his pride and joy so I guess its whatever he fells like destroying people with his pink falcon or his blue fox. In all honesty both characters are amazing but I'm putting my money on that he will only main fox next year and will be able to take matches off all the gods come next year. Hax fukin money is a person u want to look upon to becoming good at melee. No more no less.
He's that busted tho No one has a gun pointed at my head. He's that amazing at melee with his Fox and Falcon. His Fox will be him to God statue next year. He's gonna top 6 in tournaments. Plus he's 20XX himself with all the other 20GX players too. All I'm saying is he's a beast at Melee he should be considered a God by now. But he got to defeat Gods to be God material. He can take games off of them but he can take sets off them. When he ready to surpass them. So for now he's semi God status he just hates playing sheiks and smashes.
"You did this from playing a video game?"
"... 20XX dude."
he sacrificed his hands to the fox gods
*demons
If Hax$ never had the complications with his hands, I have no doubt he would be one of the gods. He was already just behind the gods when he had to quit, and he was still improving at a very quick pace. Hopefully he fixes his hands one day in the future and claims the melee throne.
Just to add on to this he was neck and neck with leffen, and look where leffen is
I feel like hax's skill ceiling is too high for what's good for your hands on a gc controller. As far back as you can go, his dash dancing has been abnormally fast. Average dash dance speed is maybe 4-5 turns per second, and hax was pushing 10 and above regularly. The amount of physical stress it must take to play like that, on top of all the fox tech (double shine waveshine, etc) on a gamecube controller just isn't doable. I think with digital inputs definitely, but hax was sitting on the fringe of what should and shouldn't be done on a gc controller for a long time
TheAsh
Well, that have that recent new stem cell research and stuff.
If Hax went through the relatively quick operation, the cartilage in his hands and knuckles would regenerate, and he could play like the god he was meant to be.
I think he actually got that bone removed and he's back to playing melee again
Fartonaut are you dumb? He uses the boxx now
"you did this from playing a videogame?"
+Greg K "20XX dude"
+Bill Roger savage
+Bill Roger I was using savage as a slang term for legendary. Like how sports fans and rappers say "savage" instead of legendary or amazing.
Franklin Green
That's not even how it works lmao
i watched this sooooo much back in the day. this combo video shaped the playstyle i chased for years back in the day. thank you for the memories.
Cheers man! Was a great time to be a melee player. Hard to believe it’s almost been 10 years…
This man is a FUCKING LEGEND. He skipped 113
This makes me miss Hax so much :(
lol oops I offended someone on the internet
+My Pal You're a loser.
+David Sky what happend to him?
+Rainbow Raven he dropped Falcon
The entirety of Hax's Fox career is a combo video
We miss you Hax ;-;
+FiurerVenezolano He had to get surgery for a hand injury which prevented him from playing for months. He made a very brief return earlier this year but didn't look as sharp as he did in 2014, and then announced he was taking another break due to insomnia. It's too bad too, because just before he ran into all these health issues, his Fox looked it was ready to go all the way (very nearly defeated M2K at a national).
+FiurerVenezolano I see what you did there
+FiurerVenezolano XD
+tknick90 #NoHealthJohnsForHaxFuckingMoney
15:52 was so creative and b-e-a-UTIFUL!
Hax F. Money Drinking Game:
Take a shot for every shine.
For every quad-shine grab, drink your whole glass.
Don't Die.
+Owain FireEmblem Does that mean I have to take a glass for multi-shines! ;_;
Chris Pham Basically
Owain FireEmblem My poor liver...
Chris Pham It said don't die
Owain FireEmblem It's not a matter whether or not I die. I'll live, provided I have like five liver donors lined up!
Just want to comment that I come back and watch this at least once a week. Seriously this may be one of the best combo videos ever made for melee. Good shit man.
For anybody wondering, Song 2 is Spring Break by Shockline
I miss you Hax. Sorry your hands have been through hell, I wish you the best. You are a legend. I hope you're doing well in life wherever you are right now.
That Justice 4 set featured some of the greatest Fox play we've ever seen.
Sometimes Hax$ legit looks like TAS.
Sometimes?
Damn your hot, wanna smash? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
FD fox only no items.
The Poopsicle87647 sure bb
Exactly. People give Hax crap for switching from Falcon to Fox.
No matter what character Hax would've switched to, he'd give 110% effort.
Hax was by far my favorite player to watch, especially when he switched to fox.
Came for Hax, left with 4 great songs added to my playlist. Thanks for the video and songs.
Still a legendary video
I'm hearing Tobu's music all over nowadays, good to see him getting more exposure!
syncs up beautifully with the soundtrack at 2:53
max hucking foney
fax mucking honey c:
show me the car fax
Max Fucking Honey
Next year, next God! It will happen.
16 minutes of perfection
This is disgusting!!! I only heard Hax being mentioned before so i had no expectations on this video but HOLY SHIT! These combos are amazing!
brillant vid, the combos are well chosen and the music is fine 10/10
It sucks he had to quit temporarily due to his health issues, he was to the point where he would probably be in 7th or higher at this point.
+Collin Quinn wait what happened to him?
He fucked up his wrist, he did joint damage and had to get a cast for 6+ months. Hes playing again I think.
Collin Quinn yikes thats awful!
how the fuck do u no.. haxxxxx bitch haxxxxx
+Collin Quinn wrong. he's had chronic insomnia, he said the hand issues were real but were mostly an excuse/exaggerated. He hasn't been able to sleep for months now, that's why he's been playing league but not melee... he thinks competition made him sleepless.
I'm a Marth main but dang I love seeing the Moon get messed up. DJ too.
Hax$ is going to be number 1 once his health issues are sorted out
Return hype!
Come back and play more hax we all miss you
My hands hurt watching this. rip hax hands
hax's facial expressions when he plays is hilarious xD
I mean, he had no cartilidge in his hands, and suffers from insomnia, a sleeping disorder involving lack if sleep and sleeping for as long as desired. He's not retired, but he was so good with his Falcon and Fox :(
Makes me want to pick up Melee tbh
Still cant beat mango. But he's well on his way. I'd love to see him play against westballz. both of them (imo) have been playing amazingly better in the last 4 months.
+Sticky Plays He beat Mango at WHOBO MLG Winners Finals vs Mango's Falco/Fox.
If you want to see him play Westballz, check out the SmashPractice pre evo stream VOD. It's also on their youtube channel.
+Sticky Plays dumbass
+TrollOrd assdumb
Hluihc Vgfxfjj no u
+Sticky Plays he just beat westballz today
I've only played Fox competitively once and I had hand cramps for hours.
never again will i sacrifice my hands to the fox demons
Although I believe Hax's Fox is amazing and shows results, I still feel like he should at least give Falcon another chance if he were to lose a game or two. Just give the people some Falcon love. His Falcon was not just amazing and hype, but a work of art. He even looked...happy while playing Falcon, with Fox I never see him crack a smile...from what I've seen at least. But I'm not one to judge or tell people who to main or not to main. Play who you want to play, just as long as you have fun with a character you (hopefully) love to play as.
He always complained about falcon lol. He felt like he was more of a fox player because of his "20xx" mentality. And he showed it lol
I just love how technical he plays I mean just look at how many inputs he does in one combo
His fox is so clunky yet technical at the same time. It has like no fluidity to it, it's very stop and go, but when it goes oh good lord it presses buttons.
He was ready to be the next God
ITS A DESTRUCTION!!
My hands hurt just from watching.
My hands hurt real bad after watching this
Watching this just makes me think "How does hax ever lose?"
I swear Hax goes out of his way to fuck up falcon mains (poor wizy in this video)
I have very little doubt that there is still much hate in Hax's heart towards Falcon. It's probably quite cathartic for him to prove to the Melee community, first hand, that _all_ of his former complaints about maining Falcon and Falcon's shortcomings were right.
+r0blee
He said in an interview that he loves Captain Falcon, but he only plays Fox because he believes his true potential in Melee lies within Fox.
He only destroys Falcons because he knows how to destroy them so well, being a former Falcon main.
i mean waveshine on falcon is one of the most bread and butter combos out there, hes just "being optimal" with his punishes
13:49 Can't believe that Falco got away with that shine out of shield.
hax got stuck in his shine, falco reacted and punished, it was haxs mistake
My wrists hurt just from watching this
HIS MUSCLES CALCIFIED HE WASN'T MEANT TO PLAY MELEE
Wow he's so good at shining
2:13: sees spotdodge shine into long fox combo into sheik dying
highlight? That was a tragedy.
this is a video that makes me want to learn melee; ive been really wanting to for a while, but it never really happened. if/when i do (most likely when lol), im maining fox simply because of what hax has shown is possible when playing.
Also that fourstock on dj Nintendo in tournament was fucking nuts
5:01 that guy in the blue striped shirt in the background lmao
I know the cause of the hand injury, all of the salty handshakes from players he beat destroyed the cartilage
4:25 zhu tryna break hax's hands..
Guess who's back...
Hax
fucking
money
Tobu!!!!!
Still amazed hax was pulling off things like 6:39 in tourney back then
fuck, you can almost see how much pain he is in each match. HF$
AMASING!! xdf
whats that final tweet hes talking about? Is he talking about his decision to quit?
dang i didnt know hax was this good! 0.0
13:38 shines are synced with the music
I'd love to see him against Allys Ike.
20XX dude...
MFW Hax fucking money
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Did I miss something or did Had quit SSBM for good?
It would make sense if you have no cartilidge in your hand, I could only imagine how much that can hurt while playing.
what is that interview where he talks about the doctor and MRI?
+Dorito Remix Super nebs
Damn. What if Leffen takes over and lasts the longest because he's not too rough on his hands with the super technical stuff?
This guy had the most potential out of any fox TBH. Then his hands got nuked.
Who wants to see a Hax vs. Westballz Grand Finals at Genesis 3?
is that pc chris at 14:04? Would love to watch that game if its around please
um what's the meaning of the tweet at the end of the video?
I feel bad because I'm a Marth main.
when he is waveshining spacies it looks almost as if he is just walking... is it a waveshine down into a short walk to keep a spacie in a waveshine? i know with floaties you can just do normal waveshines and theyll be stuck in them for days but those ones hax was doing looked like he was just shining while walking... how?
He's just that fast. He does everything down to the frame he can initiate it, so he shines and jumps on frame 4, then wavedashes diagonally to max length on frame 1 in the air, then inputs the walk directly on touching the ground, then shines. Rinse and repeat.
Coach McGuirk when you do this sorta tech after awhile it becomes second nature. For me theres no such thing as a shine since just shining is pointless shine = waveshine. My hands are automatic when it comes to a lot of tech, after years you just don't think about it.
Arcin321 I never miss waveshines either. That has nothing to do with my comment. i was talking about hit knockback. when i do 5 waveshines I against a peach I hit with all of them. when I do it against a fox i hit like 2. why is it so much easier for them to DI out? and how does hax avoid that? he's just that good at making hard reads about how they might DI??
Arcin321 do you just go around to random videos and comment on unrelated topics that you are good at tech skills? I think I saw you replying to someone on a cooking channel talking about how you only waveshine and they were asking about eggs...
***** ....What...? I've never even watched videos about cooking..? Rarely do I even comment on Melee videos either lol.
1:43 why is mango playing marth? Or am I just looking at this wrong?
Wait hold the fuck up his hands have no cartilage? holy shit dude
I love hax f money and I love this video. 10k of the views are mine at least XD
Fox demolishes your hands now does falco do the same thing?
he can, but not to the same extent, i mean, fox wont ruin ur hands either, but if u dashdance like hax and do multishine shield pressure, then ur hands may just disagree with your decisions
So what happened to hax, i haven't seen any tourniment stuff with him in like a year
His hands are fucked up
insomnia, and other mental health issues.
Does anyone know if hax uses b and y, or b and X for multi-shining?
He uses y b. X b is better for falco and is almost impossible to do with fox
Zion SSB シオン thanks man
The Poopsicle87647 No problem. Check out my channel I will be uploading a tech skill video soon/
Raise your hand if you hate edgeguarding Samus
to me
hax = leffen
+SlayPlenty man you are so wrong, like abismally wrong. Not only playstyle differ a ton, but mental game and skill
dont care. they are both shitters.
hax a shitter? well..i will abandon ship, i have nothing to do here. good bye good sir
HAX$ HE"S THE MAN OF 20XX along with GATZU and WIZZROBE, he the fox 20XX man. He's top 10 in my book. He's that good with both is characters fox and captain falcon. His falcon can make people erupt with screams and chanting his name to win his matches. FOX on the other hand is the same but instead of an amazing knee fox has a shine that can kill characters at less than 10%. Especially Marth and Falco. HAX is on his way to being another GOD of MELEE. He's just that great at what he does. I'd rather be kneed by his falcon than be destroyed by his 20XX fox any day. His falcon is his pride and joy so I guess its whatever he fells like destroying people with his pink falcon or his blue fox. In all honesty both characters are amazing but I'm putting my money on that he will only main fox next year and will be able to take matches off all the gods come next year. Hax fukin money is a person u want to look upon to becoming good at melee. No more no less.
The way you talk about him makes it seem like he has a gun to your head.
He's that busted tho
No one has a gun pointed at my head. He's that amazing at melee with his Fox and Falcon. His Fox will be him to God statue next year. He's gonna top 6 in tournaments. Plus he's 20XX himself with all the other 20GX players too. All I'm saying is he's a beast at Melee he should be considered a God by now. But he got to defeat Gods to be God material. He can take games off of them but he can take sets off them. When he ready to surpass them. So for now he's semi God status he just hates playing sheiks and smashes.
+Alfredo Toledo Half way through I was expecting buy one get one free
Jack vs tas fox
7:40 is TAS.
ouch
I think Hax makes those faces while playing because he is cringing at how Falcon cannot do some of the things Fox can
I'd really like to hear commentators instead of the music tbh
otherwise great video
where are you hax money?
hax fucking $
god , somebody really chose some crappy ass music for this compilation. I saw the whole thing in mute.
*cough* *cough*
Good vid, but music has room for improvement.
Hax believing in 20XX is like Tom Cruise believing in Scientology; every loves him but can he just keep it to himself?
F
Nice compilation but music is meh
Music is awful