He is though and he’s been on the top 100 PGR forever. Also still is currently ranked as a top samus maybe 2nd best as of right now for the current PGR. if that doesn’t count as the best Samus then who is? Nobody will be considered the best unless samus wins a major and a super major. What if Mang0 did this? would he be called out for calling him the best Falco?
that's not really relevant to his skill with marth though lol. he could have done the frame data stuff and been ass, or he could have been the best in the world without doing the frame data stuff. like, its cool, but not relevant to this discussion
@@patternsincereal8289 What if he actually enjoyed playing Melee? He didn't like playing it, probably didn't practice for himself but Ken, so he mostly didn't try, and when played he didn't even try hard and still got far. And yet, he showed that when wanted to play seriously he was nuts. Just imagining Isai liking the game, putting time into perfecting a character he liked, developing those techniques that people theorized he knew and used them way before they were given names by other people, and practicing day and night with Ken... imagine how HUGE these two would've been if Isai had the passion to play Melee as he had for SM64. I get goosebumps thinking of an alternate universe where Isai became Melee's GOAT, he'd still be playing it, I'm sure, though I'm not sure he'd be the best now, but very close to top10 no doubt.
I think about this all the time. I check in on PPMD’s channel whenever they post. I sincerely believe in their recovery. I have so much hope for a future where we get to see them shine again, care free and healthy-for our sake and for theirs. From what I’ve gathered PP is a sweetheart, a kind person, and an amazing player ♥️
Rensi I’m an abolitionist and that applies to gender. PPMD has a trans pride flag in the background of the stream and I know PP has had medical struggles with testosterone levels and other issues. I try to use the neutral pronoun they to describe PP bc I don’t know what their preferred pronouns are-I only know they’ve made a point of showing solidarity with the trans community so I thought I would respect the fact that I don’t know PP’s preferred pronouns. Also because moving away from gendered pronouns is a good practice to have in general.
I’m not sure if you’ve done a list like this, but I’d like to see where you rank Melee “Titles/slang based on players” Examples: Clutchbox, Johnny Stock, Losers side mango, ken combo.
Hugs, your smash content is fast approaching my favorite in the community! I love the way you explain stuff, as well as your general good vibes! Keep up the awesome work!
He certainly claims that, but realistically I can't imagine it's not Axe. His pika is so many leagues ahead of anyone else's and the characters are so similar
his results and longevity are lackluster compared to wobbles and chudat. Its like Sfat's fox, or Hax's falcon, huge peak and fan favorite but clearly lackluster result and longevity compared to the others.
I remember Mang0 saying once that Plup doesn't play samus the right way, he's too aggressive. I think that's why Duck has arguably better tournament results and wins than Plup even though we all know Plup is the better melee player. idk how Hugs picked himself anyway though lol
I have to agree... Axe is main reason YL has moved up in the tier list when for his entire existence he was considered a firm low tier. Even when Armada played him, it was just against Puff, and that's one match-up. Axe has beaten some pretty good high and top tier mains with his YL.
It's interesting watching this in 2023, since there's definitely a few others that while I'm not sure they take GOAT status for the character can at least be in the conversation now, notably SluG for Ice Climbers, Jmook for Shiek, and Aklo for Link
bro i'm pissed i can't believe you didn't put bizz in the ganon meantions he literally put out so many ganon guides and is the king of style when it comes to ganon... GRRRRRR
its p similar to this list but a most influential players of each character list would be really interesting (eg. bombsoldier for falco) think a reddit thread exists but would be cool to have a more concise list from you hugo
I don't think its that bad of a blow out for the new gen tbh, mostly cause they had a fair bit of years of being mediocre (by top player standards) that people forget about. Zain, Cody and Jmook all started in 2015 and were only top 5 in 2020. Compare that to Mango and Plup who were never bad in comparison to the 2 latter cases and Ken in the formers case, who had easily the most dominate prime of all time winning the absolute majority of majors. I think Zain specifically wins and maybe Jmook but probably not Cody (and by extension all the other current top foxes). edit: forgot to mention Junebug/DK, you got me there lol.
@@shady8045 yeah ur right in ur point, but also i believe as time goes on, more and more people will play low teirs because of the fact that like everyone plays fox and falco so im sure the game will change and i mean we are seeing it with doc and dk mains.
@@ellesdee1 that's actually a good point. Honestly it would be so cool for all the "god does anyone play this character" comments to end up being outdated. That already happened with DK (junebug is like a million times better than everyone he considered lol), maybe it will some of the others too. the only one that seems like its solved is Ganon tbh, for most of the low tiers the sky is the limit tbh.
@@shady8045 yeah i mean its every game really, for example back in like good cod days, after like everyone used good guns like people starting using dumb classes to win, same application goes with melee, as time goes more ppl wanna have fun and not sweat. I mean imo, slippy matches are filled with mid teirs and its bc ppl are really having fun
Hugo predicted 1 or 2 years, but 4 months after this video and I think we can already make the case for Zain being the Marth GOAT. Sure, it's netplay, but with Slippi, netplay results are almost 100% legit, and no Marth has EVER looked as dominant as he is right now. 2020 would be the Zain era had it not been for the virus.
The most impressive Kriby I've ever seen is the Swedish player Hack who used him as a counter pick against Ice at BEAST (Loser bracket quarter finals). He almost made the character look viable. The video is on youtube if you're curious, but it's nothing like being in the audience when the match went down.
Definitely should have had N0ne in the Mario category, Ive never in my life seen anyone play that character so uniquely and dominantly because people have no experience playing a mario like that
Plup definitely deserves GOAT status for Samus.. Not even a question in my opinion. Other than that I agree with most on the list. Keep up the great content Hugo baby!!
I hear you about the Scop argument, but I think it’s a different list. Best character mains/strong secondaries vs. best at each character. The only reason why Armada, Mango, and other elite players aren’t the best at bs characters is because they don’t play them at tournament. The times they actually pull out those characters are in joke/super niche situations but we still put them there. Armada Kirby, M2K Pichu, Axe YLink, Zain Roy, etc.
Fly Amanita wasn't even considered for ICs GOAT??? I feel like he had a MASSIVE case with his consistent top 30-20 appearances when he played, his wins against top players, and his relative lack of wobbling . I agree Chu Dat is ultimately the GOAT, but man I would've at least TALKED about Amanita.
I'm pretty sure HugS decided to do this entire segment just so that he could put himself as the best Samus
it actually seemed like he was dreading putting himself as the best samus lol
@@Goreblender Because he knew he'd get people saying things like the comment above.
He’s not lol
He is though and he’s been on the top 100 PGR forever. Also still is currently ranked as a top samus maybe 2nd best as of right now for the current PGR. if that doesn’t count as the best Samus then who is? Nobody will be considered the best unless samus wins a major and a super major.
What if Mang0 did this? would he be called out for calling him the best Falco?
TheJediOutcast well because it’s deserved. There’s a reason nobody bats an eye when armada puts himself at the top.
FYI the cheating pichu was Chaos. Codeman is from my old scene, he's a good dude and a real good pichu with no cheating required
He took a game off S2J last year iirc, he’s the GOAT Pichu and he didn’t even win the set LOL
2020 and we still referring to every decent pichu player as "that one hacker guy"
Iv TO'd for codeman, his Pichu is nuts.
I like how Chaos has a smash mod named after him.
Completely unintentional, but I thought it was funny.
@@TheAuraRealm
too bad it’s in the game that pichu was not in
Name of PPMD's next video: HOW I ACCIDENTALLY BECAME THE WORLD'S BEST PICHU
The year is 20XX: all pro players are competing for GOAT Pichu
20PI: Chaos takes Genesis 69. Then people finds out he brided the pro players
"There's no one else that needs to be mentioned, right?"
*1 edit later*
"Fox...*(PPMD edited in)
Yeah I was gonna stop watching this video if he didn't put ppmd as one of the greatest marth players.
“Dude it’s like an arm”
- mang0, 2019, regarding the wizzrod
M2K didn’t just revolutionize the character. He revolutionized the entire game with his works with frame data
that's not really relevant to his skill with marth though lol. he could have done the frame data stuff and been ass, or he could have been the best in the world without doing the frame data stuff. like, its cool, but not relevant to this discussion
@@gwen6622 no but it's still goated
@@gwen6622 It is revelant, M2k mathematically optimized marth gameplay with frame data.
@@TheEllord33 i think that's pretty overstated lol. optimized for his era maybe
@@gwen6622 it's not overstated. Smash isn't just a mathematical game. But he did master the math aspect of the game
If he puts Samus accuracy into account, Hugs would be out of the list
Why have I watched multiple hours by now of hugs on excel
I'm not even subbed and same. He just keeps getting recommended rn
PPMD is the biggest what if of Melee.
Isai tho
@@patternsincereal8289 What if he actually enjoyed playing Melee? He didn't like playing it, probably didn't practice for himself but Ken, so he mostly didn't try, and when played he didn't even try hard and still got far. And yet, he showed that when wanted to play seriously he was nuts. Just imagining Isai liking the game, putting time into perfecting a character he liked, developing those techniques that people theorized he knew and used them way before they were given names by other people, and practicing day and night with Ken... imagine how HUGE these two would've been if Isai had the passion to play Melee as he had for SM64. I get goosebumps thinking of an alternate universe where Isai became Melee's GOAT, he'd still be playing it, I'm sure, though I'm not sure he'd be the best now, but very close to top10 no doubt.
I think about this all the time. I check in on PPMD’s channel whenever they post. I sincerely believe in their recovery. I have so much hope for a future where we get to see them shine again, care free and healthy-for our sake and for theirs. From what I’ve gathered PP is a sweetheart, a kind person, and an amazing player ♥️
Rensi I’m an abolitionist and that applies to gender. PPMD has a trans pride flag in the background of the stream and I know PP has had medical struggles with testosterone levels and other issues. I try to use the neutral pronoun they to describe PP bc I don’t know what their preferred pronouns are-I only
know they’ve made a point of showing solidarity with the trans community so I thought I would respect the fact that I don’t know PP’s preferred pronouns. Also because moving away from gendered pronouns is a good practice to have in general.
@@kempiskindofabigdeal Nah, he's a dude. It's kind of disingenuous to just assume that he doesn't identify as a male based on a medical condition.
I’m not sure if you’ve done a list like this, but I’d like to see where you rank Melee “Titles/slang based on players”
Examples: Clutchbox, Johnny Stock, Losers side mango, ken combo.
Oooo I really like this idea.
s2j edgeguard
W I Z Z R O D
@@realw1ll IT'S LIKE AN ARM
I really hope he does this one
PPMD taking EVO with Pichu this year for sure
Hugs, your smash content is fast approaching my favorite in the community! I love the way you explain stuff, as well as your general good vibes! Keep up the awesome work!
Real talk though, the best pichu is probably M2K
He certainly claims that, but realistically I can't imagine it's not Axe. His pika is so many leagues ahead of anyone else's and the characters are so similar
@@AlexRoseGames I remember Axe on stream saying his Pichu is not that good. Although they are similar they have different game plans.
@@thearcane2 nair nair nair nair?
"If you're talking DONG size, it's definitely comes with the territory of being a falcon main"
Wizzrod
L O N G E V I T Y
Thank you for putting me there Hugs/everyone that suggested/voted for that. I appreciate ya and want to try out that Melee GGPO!!!
TS ssb yes he is
“If we’re talking dong size?!” 😂😂
no one can compete with Wizzrod's longevity
Noooooooo Leffen's Mewtwo is not like HBox's Ness, he's played entirely tournaments as Mewtwo. He beat Prof's fox 3-1 as Mewtwo at PXB
But you forget the big picture here of how hbox's ness beat the best Samus that also made this video here.
11:40 Hbox appeared on Fox News tho
Fly Amanita is a legend and deserves to be on the icies list
Agree, easily my favorite icys
that was my first thought too
@@MrJstream exactly
his results and longevity are lackluster compared to wobbles and chudat. Its like Sfat's fox, or Hax's falcon, huge peak and fan favorite but clearly lackluster result and longevity compared to the others.
Nah man it’s Chudat. Sorry man
I think Drephen is a candidate for Zelda, honestly
No. Drephen's Zelda isn't good.
Nah. Drephen's Zelda isn't that good, especially when compared to Narcissa or The Lake. Even my Zelda is better.
make the chillin prime tier list
Yessssssss please hugs!!!!!
B
Little did hugs know DK was about to get some new lore
"that's what i mean by longevity" LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO
I remember Mang0 saying once that Plup doesn't play samus the right way, he's too aggressive. I think that's why Duck has arguably better tournament results and wins than Plup even though we all know Plup is the better melee player. idk how Hugs picked himself anyway though lol
EXPAND UR COLUMNS MAN, IT WAS SO PAINFUL LOOKING AT THAT
What about scar? He got 5th that one time
6th
6th
6th 🤓
5th owo
HugS it is severely disappointing that you put caveman over axe as the ylink goat damn well knowing that axe won the swag bracket
axe's YL was basiically floating on the sides of yoshi story for 10-15 seconds straight. what a mad man haha
I have to agree... Axe is main reason YL has moved up in the tier list when for his entire existence he was considered a firm low tier.
Even when Armada played him, it was just against Puff, and that's one match-up. Axe has beaten some pretty good high and top tier mains with his YL.
Duck competed and ranked at the top 20 during a harder era.
wtf harder era. The hardest era is always the current one
It's interesting watching this in 2023, since there's definitely a few others that while I'm not sure they take GOAT status for the character can at least be in the conversation now, notably SluG for Ice Climbers, Jmook for Shiek, and Aklo for Link
And Cody Schwa for Fox
Donttestme for roy
Junebug for DK and Mekk for Ganon also, even though it’s just a summer rank getting ranked at all with those characters in the current meta is insane.
Hugo: They're gonna kill me for not saying Germ is the best Link
Also Hugo: Leffen over Mango, no fear
Yea but i mean leffen vs mango fox is like no contest, no matter how much you hate leff u can't deny the dude is THE fox
The fact that Ken and Isai are on this list with COMPLETELY disregarding PC Chris is BM.
what happened to the clickbait thumbnail list
cant believe he didnt put hanky panky as the best peach, absolutely gutted
bro i'm pissed i can't believe you didn't put bizz in the ganon meantions he literally put out so many ganon guides and is the king of style when it comes to ganon... GRRRRRR
Feel like Hax shouldve had a mention for falcon
Nah man, he said he only mentioned people that had a shot at being the best, Hax is nowhere near close to that
None shouldve been up there
Nah sorry, none , isai and wizzys accomplishments out weigh that
I didn’t realize he was cutting between each character when he was putting them in, I thought he had his tier list memorized
Mango has a legit case for being on the puff list behind Hbox
PPMD will always be the best marth in my heart just because he 4 stocked m2k on an FD marth ditto back in apex 2014 winners finals
I really want to see people's reactions to this list. If enough players actually do it, a compilation to that would be tight
its p similar to this list but a most influential players of each character list would be really interesting (eg. bombsoldier for falco)
think a reddit thread exists but would be cool to have a more concise list from you hugo
How tf is Plup not the top Luigi, dude went to winner's semis in a major the only time he's ever played solo luigi at tourney.
i believe he did beat only one top 20/30 player along the way ?
Ah nvm he addressed it later
Abate literally got top 8 at The Big House 5 I believe which was more stacked
@@jijmotorp3079 he ebat swedish delight and took a game off m2k
@@jijmotorp3079 drugged fox as well ^
This is the best tier list I have seen by a top player so far and it was done in less than two minutes
« And that’s what I mean by longevity. » good one, Hugo
Was rishi not busting out the DK by this point? Like not even a mention.
wait wasnt mango's puff literally the thing that catapulted him to the top and only switched up to falco to prove a point
I mean yeah but are you really gonna argue that Mango has more of a legacy than Hbox as a puff player?
When people think of Mango they think Falco
With the new slippi being released, how about a top 10 best events for melee as a whole? Comparing like the smash doc to netplay to wombo combo etc
Plup is clearly the greatest Samus, 3 years doing what he did is enough to clear both Hugs and Duck by a mile.
I love you, but duck wins...
I’m on team plup, but it’s just a really close call
@@maddoxandhisband9146 plup crushes the other two contenders and it's not even close
Would love a 2023 update, it'd be fire content
I’m glad you put yourself over plup or duck. You are the samus that I watched and always tried to model my samus after.
I laughed so hard on giving ppmd , pichu.
watching this in late 2024 like 😭😭
I don't think its that bad of a blow out for the new gen tbh, mostly cause they had a fair bit of years of being mediocre (by top player standards) that people forget about. Zain, Cody and Jmook all started in 2015 and were only top 5 in 2020. Compare that to Mango and Plup who were never bad in comparison to the 2 latter cases and Ken in the formers case, who had easily the most dominate prime of all time winning the absolute majority of majors. I think Zain specifically wins and maybe Jmook but probably not Cody (and by extension all the other current top foxes).
edit: forgot to mention Junebug/DK, you got me there lol.
@@shady8045 yeah ur right in ur point, but also i believe as time goes on, more and more people will play low teirs because of the fact that like everyone plays fox and falco so im sure the game will change and i mean we are seeing it with doc and dk mains.
@@ellesdee1 that's actually a good point. Honestly it would be so cool for all the "god does anyone play this character" comments to end up being outdated. That already happened with DK (junebug is like a million times better than everyone he considered lol), maybe it will some of the others too. the only one that seems like its solved is Ganon tbh, for most of the low tiers the sky is the limit tbh.
@@shady8045 yeah i mean its every game really, for example back in like good cod days, after like everyone used good guns like people starting using dumb classes to win, same application goes with melee, as time goes more ppl wanna have fun and not sweat. I mean imo, slippy matches are filled with mid teirs and its bc ppl are really having fun
I’m confused as to how Axe isn’t in the running for pikachu
I'm glad you took into account the Wizzrod lol
Hugs: This is my list
Chillingdude: But I´m not a rapper
you should update this list... maybe dk: ringler, Luigi: Eddie Mexico, Marth: Zain?, fox: mango?
Not even MENTIONING Bizarro Flame in the Ganon category after his legendary EZ MONAAAAYYY conquests is just plan wrong smh
LMAO PPMD AT THE END
Mango is the only person who had two characters on here
Plup not getting samus is a crime. And if he didnt get it duck shouldve gotten it
Simpletons in the comment section don't seem to understand that the "AT" in GOAT stands for ALL TIME.
I'm only getting recommended these 2 year old videos lol, but it would be cool to see this revisited
Hugo predicted 1 or 2 years, but 4 months after this video and I think we can already make the case for Zain being the Marth GOAT. Sure, it's netplay, but with Slippi, netplay results are almost 100% legit, and no Marth has EVER looked as dominant as he is right now. 2020 would be the Zain era had it not been for the virus.
The fact that my Kirby isn’t listed is a tragedy
Marth goats are zain, m2k, and ken. Hugs: that’s it, no one else Also Hugs: proceeds to put ppmd
What about Fly Amanita for Icies?
I love these man your history with the smash scene makes some really great videos. Plus it just feels chill asf
Hugs really out here calling both m2ks sheik and marth counterpick characters smh
finally Germ getting recognition
21:58 like milk
Hugs' knowledge of Melee players is encyclopedic. It's very impressive.
Loving the stream and youtube content recently!
Mango is undefeated against Hungrybox in the Jigglypuff ditto. Also how is Hax$ not in the falcon running?
The most impressive Kriby I've ever seen is the Swedish player Hack who used him as a counter pick against Ice at BEAST (Loser bracket quarter finals). He almost made the character look viable. The video is on youtube if you're curious, but it's nothing like being in the audience when the match went down.
This content is so interesting. Your knowledge of history of the game is incredible. Great video
m2k should have been in the running for fox GOAT. He basically invented technical fox
there's no point in putting him on the list against mango/leffen. same reason you don't have a list for peach
No way lol
Definitely should have had N0ne in the Mario category, Ive never in my life seen anyone play that character so uniquely and dominantly because people have no experience playing a mario like that
Bro is m2k marth or sheik? You say both are counterpicks
Hugs putting himself as the best Samus while undeniably being the worst Samus currently LMAOO
No mention of Hax for falcon?
Plup definitely deserves GOAT status for Samus.. Not even a question in my opinion. Other than that I agree with most on the list. Keep up the great content Hugo baby!!
For DK what about Moe? He beat Prof in tournament with DK
Watched the whole thing. Worth it.
we really forgot about Rishi’s DK huh
we need a tournament with these players using these characters
We all know u reachin on that Samus pick 👀
Did all the gods get on the list? Ah shit not PPMD...
*notices Pichu is blank*
Alright, we'll give him Pichu, I'm sure his Pichu is sick
Damn HugS doesn't know about the god tier Mewtwo main Zhyrri.
yeah, zhyrri and zoma are both great
Yo I fucking FORGOT about Pikachad holy shit
I hear you about the Scop argument, but I think it’s a different list. Best character mains/strong secondaries vs. best at each character.
The only reason why Armada, Mango, and other elite players aren’t the best at bs characters is because they don’t play them at tournament. The times they actually pull out those characters are in joke/super niche situations but we still put them there. Armada Kirby, M2K Pichu, Axe YLink, Zain Roy, etc.
M2K actually played pichu in tourny so he's probably the best by default.
their is a lot of videos about it but never outside of pools or not meaningless matches.
codeman is best pichu
Kirbykaze I feel deserves to be on the list. His run with shiek went pretty uncontested for a while.
If hugs re did the list today it would be completely different.
I would love to see your list of character inventors
Mang0 a GOAT of Fox, Falco, aaand Mario
watching this vid 4 months later and i think hugs would put zain as the best marth if he revisited it
you forgot borp for sheik
Fly Amanita wasn't even considered for ICs GOAT??? I feel like he had a MASSIVE case with his consistent top 30-20 appearances when he played, his wins against top players, and his relative lack of wobbling . I agree Chu Dat is ultimately the GOAT, but man I would've at least TALKED about Amanita.
Scorpion Master has the magic
A Rookie has the sexual harassment claims