How I Became The Top Kimberly At EVO 2023

[@Diaphone]

Just started a new YT channel for clips / videos that didn't make the main channel. The full matches from my EVO run will be uploaded there shortly so please subscribe / check it out! ruclips.net/channel/UCp0dVho_Z6OC-3z7rNGkgLA
Also yes - I'll still be playing Kim unless there is some broken DLC character that comes out.

[@Prezzii]

Your the reason I main kim and I’m loving it

[@NHParadox]

15:05 Master Kim here - Can Confirm the online $5 Kimberly pizza slice Wall DI Special is Online Certified but nobody falls for it at locals xD
I cried.

[@Diaphone]

Full matches ruclips.net/video/rPCQ8uBYLGI/видео.html

[@Thenongboonka]

I was looking for you on the live streaming stage everyday but couldnt find one. Im glad you represent Kim to this rank in Evo! So pround of you!
Also super hype to hear you still stick with Kim 🎉🎉🎉

[@CalebAdams]

The fact you placed where you did playing Kim is amazing man! You should be incredibly proud of yourself, bravo 👏🏻

[@Bloo561]

The one time I wanna develop a ego and pop off is the one time I die, I will forever hold that L in Granblue Rising lol. Honestly though just so nobody gets it confused me and Diaphone knows each other for a good while and it was all in good fun. Congrats on your runs in SF6 and GBVSR.

[@Diaphone]

Much love ❤

[@bigdunks4eva]

i'm glad you touched on the psychological aspect of gaming. there's definitely a noticeable drop in my play when i'm frustrated, nervous or just in a general bad mood when i decide to play.

[@DaShonuff]

Congrats on that Kim placement man. I hope you don't stop playing Kimberly. I just got Diamond and there is so much to learn. Hope more Kim Vids are coming on how to deal with certain match ups.

[@greenman2264]

Killer peformance, man. Hope you see you doing even better in the future!

[@MadSnake123]

Congratulations my man. You have been an inspiration as a Kimberly player, I loved her since day 1 but I was thinking into dropping her for Ken or Cammy, but then I found your channel and I became instantly hooked to her. I'm ready to make a push to Master rank all thanks to you. Amazing performance for one of the best Kimberlies in the entire planet.

[@testifyfgc8705]

I was bummed I didn't catch any of your matches live. Much respect and love. Appreciate the kim representation at EVO you played nutty

[@AustinPS97]

Very good performances at EVO, Diaphone. The pop-off from BLOO with your reaction had me DYING.😅

[@Soulclenz100]

Im glad you kept at it for Granblue i was rooting for you the whole time, you have helped me better myself as a granblue player and for that i respect you. Great job at EVO Diaphone, these are accomplishments to be proud of!

[@user-ub4hw6ln9j]

You're my inspiration for Kimberly. I have no confidence to play her but I want to.

[@shaqthegr8884]

- nothing is impossible, not if you keep training
Zangief.

[@imoj]

This was a really cool video! Love that you stuck to Kim and I'm sure you'll become even stronger!
Also that grandblue moment was nice, *never* pop off before winning the set!

[@Syldarion]

It was awesome to catch some of this live. Amazing sets brother. I don't play her, but I love watching your mastery with Kim.

[@Blackbeard2k]

So you're actually the best kim in the world? Amazing!

[@deadfr0g]

I always knew he was the coolest cukimber!

[@Diaphone]

It’s tough to say just based on one tournament placement, but I certainly got an argument for it.
If I had to choose someone besides myself, it would be jaccy from Japan, they are also #1 on the CFN leaderboards right now too.
We both have things we do better than the other, I learn a lot from them 🙏

[@Blackbeard2k]

@@Diaphone Makes sense, figured I'd just take this moment to let you revel in it for a bit lol.
Your community is very happy for and proud of you 🙌

[@BeeYawn]

I was rooting for you. Its incredible that you made it so high showing off Kimberly. Just wish you could've popped off in top 6

[@Rebel00852]

Nice upload, I liked the first person view of the monitor. Reminds me of my Magic the Gathering tourney days when you talk about the pre-match anxiety.

[@Zoophilla]

Bro you cooked. Proud to be a Kim player and a supporter of u bossman!

[@shockway1]

First time tuning in. I like getting recaps of big events and you did that well! Liked and subscribed. :D

[@GaupTerontino]

Been waiting for this video to drop since I heard you attended EVO! Amazing bro!

[@KKPanda]

Really cool seeing a "perspective" recap of EVO. Grats on placement, looked great out there.

[@drayden99]

I’ve been really hard on myself lately and hearing your confidence in your play is great. Taking a page from your book

[@matlockmalonex9667]

I got to play my day 2 day pools match right next to you actually, you were cookin! Good tourney run man!

[@cartergodley9754]

We do like it make more, please. Also, it was awsome to meet you at evo!

[@Its_KZ]

Hey Diaphone! As a kim player AND very green to taking fighter games seriously (casually and i mean very casually played some games growing up) seeing you place pretty damn well with Kim is awesome. Used alot of your videos when I picked up sf6! Was able to catch a few of your matches at Evo. Excited to see your kim evolve in future tourneys 🤟🤟🤟 Mad respect!

[@illya0000]

hopefully you keep playin kim i’ve learned a lot from your gameplay

[@Gabrol]

great video diaphone!
very good analysis of kim matchups, tech and player adaptation, thank you

[@yourfathersbelt]

Of course you have to continue making stuff like this, couldn't even see you play on stream. Saw Shine a couple times on stream and that was it.

[@newlifeenergy]

Bro you are crazy good 😅 I'm platinum star 2 and doing pretty well still have alot to learn after seeing you play great vids

[@fellipessf4]

I was waiting for this vid. Congratz man, you played really well!
Sure to be prepared for playing well in tournament it's important, but being nervous really sucks. I think people who gets used to offline tournaments and not being nervous, can even beat someone better than him and go really far. I hope that will be your case in near future :3

[@Latino_Burrito]

Holy crap dude I saw one of your videos AGES ago when I was starting to get into Guilty Gear and watched one of your guides. I hope you don’t take offense to this but I just assumed you were one of those content creators who was good enough at the fighting game they played where they could make educational content on it, however once they ran into a pro player they get absolutely washed. Yet here you are practically a pro yourself playing on the biggest stage! You have my respect. I also totally thought you were just a guilty gear specialist LMAO I’m sorry. Awesome job bro

[@Jtn53]

Practically a pro? He's been an actual pro since at least GGST

[@DirtyOldmanOG]

Thanks for the video, because I didn’t get to se any of your matches while I was at evo. It was nice meeting you in person for the first time.

[@RockBottom7626]

Sick matches. Bonchan was that barrier which you were honestly relatively close to beating. He just grinded SF6 so much and his Luke is from a mechanical standpoint the best in the business (yes, I would say even better than Menard, there is a reason Menard switched to Blanka against moke).
But it is never an excuse for not winning, and I still want to see you take EVO with Kimberly next time :D

[@rhompbus]

I got a fist bump from you and said hi to the stream while you were in line at Evo lol lets gooo

[@jscriber100]

Great job at Evo and the tag fight with Kizzie in Project L, found me. Ya'll avoided looking at each other after the set, haha.

[@Diaphone]

That set wasn’t fair LOL

[@Darksid3c3]

gz again :) thanks for sharing with us. I loved it

[@-nomi.-]

this is the kind of commitment to a character you don't see much now. respect

[@Peritestes]

Nice work!! I was cheering for you in both games.

[@SoFishtry]

Was great seeing you have such a good run (though I only caught the GBVS bits) congrats!

[@AggroSZN]

Congrats on your performance, I love kim but I couldn't hang as far as making her my main. Goodluck in your journey with Kim going forward. You already know who I'm waiting on....

[@karue7581]

Love your gameplay and these analysis videos! Congrats on your performance!

[@eichimaru4056]

Love that kind of content

[@ghostdoggtv]

The kendrick beef fucked up my algorithm so im not entirely sure if its relevant, but this type of tournament commentary is noice. Hoping for more 🙏

[@THTB614]

Good stuff on the run! Placing that well in a tournament as massive as EVO is just straight props. Also Ryukichi is from the SF4 days. They didnt play too much 5 from what i remember, but its great to see them back to playing.

[@Waffles2186]

Hey dude I was in your Pools 2 (day 2) didn’t get to play you but still saw you there I didn’t make it out of the second pool still had fun hope you did too.

[@kuros3]

Achievement. Just another skill of a ninja

[@muffinmonkeys]

I've never seen Diaphone as animated as when he got hit with the Wattpad button. @28:10

[@tomasgarcia7499]

Congrats man! It’s good to see you doing well.

[@firehammock3021]

This was a great video. Congrats on doing so well!

[@Adakwen]

Awesome stuff!!

[@DaPhenomAce]

Definitely wanna see more stuff like this. It was super entertaining

[@G_dspeed]

Great work diaphone!

[@yawnfgc9277]

i like this format a lot this was really fun to watch!

[@FinalbossLin_Street_fighter]

Kimberly is officially my secondary character so I love these vids

[@artnos]

this is great content, we can live through and see your POV as a top evo player

[@BigMujK]

Imagine being Diaphones pools, checking to see if you made it to the vid and then being called free 😂😂

[@abelmelo6409]

Nice content man, please always record your matches like this.

[@BigBabyLaw]

Vegas is expensive, but the food isn’t bad there! You didn’t go to the right places big dawg 😮‍💨

[@raven-crows]

17:17 So the issue where it automatically lowers the vid's quality is a youtube bug. I was nearly losing my mind because it happens a lot.

[@cosmogang]

Digging the background music. Kimberly is the best btw

[@brizzleyoh]

I did not know you could tatsu after forward heavy kick…. Wow love that! I’m gonna try it out and see if it stops spammers from mashing out of the forward jump!

[@MechaMatchups]

This is great - thanks for the video!
I never thought to record my matches in local tourments. I was wondering, what's your set-up to record this footage. I'm imagining some kind of tri-pod that holds your phone?

[@JayDayKay]

bro is handsome

[@munchkin8465]

bro is adorable

[@pjhoke4261]

Loved the walkthrough

[@ScottySkilz1]

keep up the good work

[@Playa-V]

Well done . This year’s Evo for SF6 was crazy.

[@JDHackett]

That Marisa got straight up Bushinryu'd. Good shit my dude.

[@blastarrow6562]

Good job!

[@pazukunous]

18:56 lol that dude in the back left is not taking that loss well

[@Zykles]

damn, now my "HOW I PLACED AS THE THIRD BEST KIMBERLY AT EVO 2023" is going to look mad unoriginal smh

[@CheddarGetter]

Reynald had ChrisCCG and SonicFOX back to bacK? dayummmmm

[@fabianofuba3099]

Congrats man!
The Best Kimberly of The World.
🇧🇷

[@PwnerGeist]

i was watching GBV and +r at the same time I didn't know that was you turning up over there

[@androtaz2621]

Damn dude you should be proud. You're a legitimate beast across multiple games. How many people get to say they got knocked out the bracket by Bonchan?

[@casualgamerdad2878]

Have been waiting for this video. Excellent run. I was rooting for Haitani's modern Chun in Top 6.

[@misplaydave]

You did an amazing job at EVO

[@wurlbfree1981]

Congrats 👏🏿 i was routing for you.

[@Eltanin]

Loved seeing you play but bro, you gotta sit up straight lol. Your gamer posture is kinda nasty whenever the camera cut to player cam

[@keylimecookies]

Closing in on diamond 4 with my Ryu!!! I can’t wait to play with the best!!!!!

[@akimbou3459]

thats my goat

[@KingConan]

Hey, your audio technicas peeled just like mine…I’m not alone 😂

[@Gianluciniho]

15:02 is so funny to me cuz i got hit the first time ever by this setup today and im diamond and got hit 3 times... the 4th time tho i got the game for it. we learnin bois

[@netolcc06]

Congratulations!

[@DarlingAFK]

homie in the back left at 18:56 is SOOO pissed bro i need to see what happened there

[@Regalman]

Congrats!

[@semja]

16:26 words to live by. Works in DBFZ all the time lmao

[@taxxxevasion]

kim believers we out here

[@Bogoers]

dia against kudo in the top right you can spot a wild sonicfox also congrats on the placement

[@SaucyCheeseburgerwithRanch]

Your Kimberly is actually insane
You did great at EVO!
Can we get some W’s in chat

[@cosmogang]

Diaphone's vooce at 0.5X speed sounds like he's absolutely plastered

[@axellis8333]

i like the talking thru it, any chance you compile the evo games into like a no commentary compilation?

[@Diaphone]

Checked pin

[@axellis8333]

@@Diaphone bless and mb, love your content

[@splittingskies9138]

Good stuff Diaphone. Humbled my guy in Granblue lol

[@Big-boy-Burrows]

Let's go bonchan

[@ryui-no9096]

Best Kimberly 👏

[@Pan-boyLandoSoychildDongLover]

Bonchan is one of my favorites. Legendary Nash and Karin player from SF5… I think he played Sagat in 4

[@BRANDEDAWESOME]

What setup did you use to record your matches?

[@Tell_It_Right]

@2:08 "Oh now I remember I ended with a DP." Yeah, I'm sure you forgot that. 😂

[@-ITH]

Fantastic.

[@jonathanarroyo6319]

MY GOAAT

[@RuTo94]

15:01 I still do this set up but instead of using DI I just wait and jump a second time to see if they DI if they DI just punish them for it. If they don't do anything just keep pressure in the corner.

[@lamMeTV]

inspires me to become the best Elena aswell