+Tony Green It is, his Hadangeki is indeed a green energy slash that acts as a projectile. Not only that but one of his Hyper move creates a copy of Zero that follows him around, mimicking every he does, just with a few tenth of seconds of delay. Because of this, with a good timing, Zero could spam his Hadangeki while in this mode, and the opponent would litteraly be stun locked, even on block, for the entire duration of the Hyper (and even then, with the right timing, Zero could just re-use it, should he had enough meter). So, it's not uncommon to hear a lot of "Hadangeki -Hadangeki -Hadangeki -Hadangeki -AAaaaaaAAAAh!-Hadangeki -Hadangeki -Hadangeki -AAaaaaAAAAh(...)-Hadangeki " when fighting a Zero
how to play cloud 101: equip a good weapon and an accessory. Put some awesome materia on it. When it's Cloud's turn select an attack action, like normal attack, some black magic, a summon or a limit break if the limit bar is full. When low on life, use a healing potion or spell. If an ally is fallen use a phoenix down or the phoenix summon. Pro tip: Knights of the Round summon does a lot of damage but its animation takes too long. That's it.
Jean Canestri Pro Tip: If you get hungry, then Double-Cast Knights of the Round. You should have adequate time to prepare and eat a warm home cooked dinner and take a brief nap to recharge your batteries by the time the second one is halfway done.
Uh yes and use....your attack move when an enemy is there and you attack them because you need to attack and defend and you save the world...I mean you save some things and you attack....I have played final fantasy.....of course...
+FLOWER BROS YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Alpha should'nt mess with our kind.We are going extinct.The last thing we need is to be turned into salt.
+Ruben Izq J-E-N-O-V-A (/watch?v=--ijjuvQMW8), On the Verge of Assault (/watch?v=PltBNk-8cv4), FFVII Game Over (/watch?v=_4EkxmmEeOM), Fight On (/watch?v=U84zAfb4b58), Yoshi's Island
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This was awesome! And, dude, you finally posted the first cut BEFORE the final cut, which actually makes logical sense! Keep doing this with all your 101's and you'll get more views per vid than ever!
I have never beat a single Cloud player. Even with my absolute main and my a-game I literally cannot figure the character out. Always seems brokenly strong and I can't close the distance. Why (inb4 im a n00b) i legit want to know what tricks im missing
I got cloud on the 15th and I thought "wow, he can dance while dashing! I don't want to tell anybody, I'll just show them!" then this video is released. You savage.
+AJ Nisich there is a limit to how many times you can footstool though and your jumps get shorter every time. Try it out while waiting for an online match maybe
+JRPGrinder anything thats considered an attack can't be interrupted by footstooling ergo the only time footstools interrupt are during dashes, walking, falling, standing, and tumbling
+JRPGrinder Footstools don't interrupt people that are on special states (Recovery moves, things like Sing or Rest, Counter, pretty much every attack but many will hit you if you try.) so you can pretty much do that and elevator your way through.
Alpha no joke when you gave ness the finishing touch and started the other song at the exact moment of the screen KO that got me hype as shit that was super impressive and amazing lol
I doubt Alpha gets someone who tries on For Glory often. I think it's mostly just people who know who Alpharad is and intentionally suck. Sure, FG is full of nubs, but not THAT many. I guess Alpha's just lucky.
0:33 oooooh, you don't know how cathartic it was to see those little bastards with their perma smiles off and about to suffer an agonizing death.......well done!
I'm gonna be honest, I fucking hate Cloud. He is broken. Fast, middleweight (arguably best weight level), does a FUCKTON damage, with a FUCKTON of knockback, and combos that are really easy to do that put a huge dent in the opponent (30-50).
Alpha, I don't care who wins what tournaments. You'll always be my favorite Smash player :D Also the result screen gag made me laugh harder than I have in a long time.
i'm surprised not to see a "time to prove Death Battle wrong" against link, you out of all people i would think make use of that stereotype but still great video (loved the zero reference by the way)
For some reason "You already know how this ends." "Cloud!" is one of my favorite jokes in this entire series.
I played one who did nothing but counter when he realized spamming a wasn't working
These last few How to Plays have been absolutely amazing. Glad to see your passion for making them is back in full force!
Glad to see your comment in almost every Smash Video, Intro xD
+Jean Lucca Mastrolinardo If there's Smash content, I'm lurking
I love your videos
+SimplebutAwesome thanks dude!
You inspired me to pick up zard :)
GAHAHHAH. The Star Wars clip alone completely demolished me.
much like anakin demolished the children.
inb4 top comment
it was so sad D:
+gamebrofy and edgy
Poor Lucas ;-;
Come on no Shulk Backslashing cloud. Missed oppurtunity, "Lookin' like Aerith".
why did I laugh so hard at that?
Because it's good.
+Paladin Plays I was hoping He'd dair a zelda (on the ground, maybe?) the go like how you said lol
Well.. I'm just gonna go cry in the corner.
Wouldn't that be more fitting in a Shulk 101/102
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SALT
OMG that Zero joke is perfect lol
+Tony Green Blade Beam looks very similar to Zero's Hangeki in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, and is about as spammable.
+Tony Green It is, his Hadangeki is indeed a green energy slash that acts as a projectile.
Not only that but one of his Hyper move creates a copy of Zero that follows him around, mimicking every he does, just with a few tenth of seconds of delay.
Because of this, with a good timing, Zero could spam his Hadangeki while in this mode, and the opponent would litteraly be stun locked, even on block, for the entire duration of the Hyper (and even then, with the right timing, Zero could just re-use it, should he had enough meter).
So, it's not uncommon to hear a lot of "Hadangeki -Hadangeki -Hadangeki -Hadangeki -AAaaaaaAAAAh!-Hadangeki -Hadangeki -Hadangeki -AAaaaaAAAAh(...)-Hadangeki " when fighting a Zero
Isn't Zero high tier on (U)MvC3?
Where was it?
+Matthew Flores Oh yeah true, but here in this video. That sword beam attack on Mac of stage reminded me of "Soul Fist" spamming for some reason.
Happy lil clouds confirmed?
That's Randall dude
+Awqua Naw Randy Orton for smash.
Bob Ross isn't dead Daddy Sakurai is Bob Ross in disguise. hiding happy little clouds in smash all along
SAVED
+Awqua KappaRoss
Alpha, i dont know how you made this vid in like 5 days when cloud came out, this was really good keep it up
+ThatAweSomeRandomGamer
i haven't slept much
+ThatAweSomeRandomGamer Im also suprised the rnt all cloud didto's with both players charging up down b. 4 glroy was looking moody
+ThatAweSomeRandomGamer Im also suprised the rnt all cloud didto's with both players charging up down b. 4 glroy was looking moody
Alpharad I dont know why that posted twice but eh
get some sleep, dream of little macs salty tears
+Alpharad go to sleep
right now
0:51
WHY THE HELL DID YOU HAVE TO HURT MY FEELS LIKE THIS
;~; saddens me too buddy
This is THE BEST Cloud montage I've seen yet. Insta-like, insta-favorite. GG Alpharad.
The skies are filled with clouds today. But hey, at least we don't have to deal with squalls, am I right?
The clouds can bring lightning strikes
+TheAAJYu "No cloud, no squall shall hinder us!"
+TheAAJYu I Hope the Lightning doesn't Return.
But then it Snows, whit like Vanille-a
+TheAAJYu Bruh, I've used that exact same joke at least six times now.
#GreatMindsPunAlike
+TheAAJYu As Long As the Tidus Never returns Im good
Can't wait to see him play Bayonetta or Corrin
+Jason Gorton He's gonna troll everyone so fucking hard with Corrin's side b.
Jake Smith Oh god yes.
+Jake Smith >Issuming he's even going to buy Corrin
I'm not gonna be suprised when Corrin videos start showing up a month after he's been released.
+JGamer king >*Assuming people aren't gonna be interested in a new diverse character
ROFL
+JGamer king He said Corrin actually looked really good. He's going to get him, dude. Just like every DLC character.
1:57 has to be a Top 10 Sm4sh Play of All-Time
if it wasnt fg
+Kyle Cunningham yes it was
+123adi123da it was on fg so its not really eligible to be a top smash play
it will never be
he jumped on robs head 3 times, which means its 3 foot stools. foot stools are a game mechanic.
how to play cloud 101: equip a good weapon and an accessory. Put some awesome materia on it. When it's Cloud's turn select an attack action, like normal attack, some black magic, a summon or a limit break if the limit bar is full. When low on life, use a healing potion or spell. If an ally is fallen use a phoenix down or the phoenix summon. Pro tip: Knights of the Round summon does a lot of damage but its animation takes too long. That's it.
Jean Canestri Pro Tip: If you get hungry, then Double-Cast Knights of the Round. You should have adequate time to prepare and eat a warm home cooked dinner and take a brief nap to recharge your batteries by the time the second one is halfway done.
Boye.
Uh yes and use....your attack move when an enemy is there and you attack them because you need to attack and defend and you save the world...I mean you save some things and you attack....I have played final fantasy.....of course...
i loved it when it showed salt instead of R.O.B. xD
FLOWER BROS YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
+FLOWER BROS YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Alpha should'nt mess with our kind.We are going extinct.The last thing we need is to be turned into salt.
maybe R.O.B. just put giant salt in his place and walked away xD
He proably won't be hunted anymore because they would think he is dead.
...
So many robs In this one
Dying race my ass my main still lives
+TylerZania Read the description.
+The Galling Ice there's 3 different rob skins. don't lie to me
TylerZania Like people changing their skin color it's something odd lol
+Alois Trancy
1. The youtuber who made this said it
2. Rob isn't that common
Falcon is but not rob
Ur just lucky
+TylerZania We live on.
We just have to survive.
From now on, I'm just going to call him Randall. XD
omg yeees the music at the end lol
Randall's limit break: Game-changing spike block
+Bret Ginn I thought it was randall the shootanator from neos forme
Bret Ginn Nobody knows.
There was no father. Randall just is.
LIMITS ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN
ME:
+Cloud Strife Beam Sword = Hadangeki
+123adi123da k
That Zack Fair joke, I laughed and it hurted ate the same time! And the Zero one just got me xD
Great job Alpharad!
Super Combo Time
Back Throw
Neutral B
Rip Zack Fair
I was not expecting that many references. Oh my god.
0:55 Ex-death shakes violently in his grave.
i like how the hitbox of everything is 3x the size it should be
Alpharad, could you please put a link to the songs?
I did. Click "read more" in the description.
+Alpharad Uuuh man, what a fail hahahaha.
Nice vid, keep it going
+Alpharad can you do a real Roy 101
+Sonic RH He should
+Ruben Izq J-E-N-O-V-A (/watch?v=--ijjuvQMW8), On the Verge of Assault (/watch?v=PltBNk-8cv4), FFVII Game Over (/watch?v=_4EkxmmEeOM), Fight On (/watch?v=U84zAfb4b58), Yoshi's Island
1:28 when i saw his trailer, that move reminded me of Zero right away.
that SA2 reference with ike was beautiful
It's better because he even interrupted the line just like SA2
+assasin8913 omg yessssssss
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I agree
Darts Vader is Luke's father
you are a scholar sir
FFnGV Why thank you.
+Ewan Heneghan Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader.
how to play cloud:
charge limit
up air a lot
limit crosh slash
This was awesome!
And, dude, you finally posted the first cut BEFORE the final cut, which actually makes logical sense! Keep doing this with all your 101's and you'll get more views per vid than ever!
I couldn't be happier with how this turned out. Great job, man!!
0:29 and now he has joined Cloud
And so has that JENOVA theme in the background 👀👀👀
Vaporized water with a huge butter knife
and Knuckles
+assasin8913 I wish :(
+assasin8913 Knockers
RIP Zack Fair
Never Forget :'(
I honestly think this is the best 101 you've ever done.
That Mega man KO at 0:53. You certainly are BRAVER than me.
I get that alpha wants the 101s to have less memes, but I kinda feel like the air horn is a HTP staple.
+Chillydogdude Still a great video :D
I have never beat a single Cloud player. Even with my absolute main and my a-game I literally cannot figure the character out. Always seems brokenly strong and I can't close the distance.
Why (inb4 im a n00b) i legit want to know what tricks im missing
Shield all of Clouds attacks and then punish. It's easy.
"Lacks solid combos"
*Slaps knee*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAA
SamyulDavis i defeated many with Robin and marth
can't say same, but if you have trouble, you'll learn something from alpharad's video, cloud the best
To beat a Cloud, you must be a Cloud.
obviously a photoshopped little mac
lel
I got cloud on the 15th and I thought "wow, he can dance while dashing! I don't want to tell anybody, I'll just show them!"
then this video is released. You savage.
Thanks Alpharad for teaching me how to play Zero in MvC3
Jesus christ that double footstool to dair was FILTHY
I didn't even know you could multi footstool
+AJ Nisich You can footstool someone multiple times. The opponent isn't stunned by a footstool if they are currently using an attack/recovery.
+AJ Nisich there is a limit to how many times you can footstool though and your jumps get shorter every time. Try it out while waiting for an online match maybe
+Andrew James when this happens it's called a draft jump
When did he double footstool? I didn't even see one
Salt is too proud to clap
2:03-2:08 O_o 4 Jumps?! What the-
Something to do with footstooling
+CyBr!d101 Foot-stools, but it doesn't affect ROB as he's using up-b
+CyBr!d101 Windbox, i guess?
Maybe footstools?
+CyBr!d101 "Limits are meant to be broken" -Cloud
When I saw Cloud'd blade beam in Smash I immediately thought of Zero's Hadangeki as well
Good stuff
R.I.P. In spaghetti. Neva forgetti, Zack Fair. Cloud is OP.
How to play Corrin Flakes 101
Alpha that last clip was so disgusting I threw my lunch in the trash.
You owe me $11.39
+The Progenitor Okay, I'm sorry. What's your paypal?
+Alpharad analbeads112
Alpharad IsRealMcPerson@gmail.com
Woah woah woah.... How did Cloud have multiple jumps on Ron before the down smash????
Footstool
*YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW THIS ENDS.*
-goes straight to the victory screen-
Alphaboi, this is by far one of the best ones. Had me rolling like Little Mac's in For Glory.
How the fuck did you get 3 air jumps in that last clip? Do footstools not interrupt R.O.B's recovery?
+JRPGrinder Footstools don't interrupt any up B's
+MoonDucky409 Shit that would explain so many things... Do footstools neither interrupt any ground B-s?
+JRPGrinder anything thats considered an attack can't be interrupted by footstooling ergo the only time footstools interrupt are during dashes, walking, falling, standing, and tumbling
Ohhh, I see. Thanks for the information! :D
+JRPGrinder Footstools don't interrupt people that are on special states (Recovery moves, things like Sing or Rest, Counter, pretty much every attack but many will hit you if you try.) so you can pretty much do that and elevator your way through.
Kinda disappointing how like half the clips here are from your cloud story for glory episode.
Only one is?
+Alpharad two, right? The walljump dair against ROB and the smash 4 gimmick?
+Alpharad Two, actually.
+Ben Autry oh, yeah. you're right. But two definitely does not equal half
+Alpharad Hi Alpha!
First Alpharad video worth watching in a long while.
Well done.
holy shit lol
this is easily one of your most clever/well produced 101 vids yet (all those references @_@)
*limit break intensifies
Such a pathetic clone, tried side b-ing to the stage and I spiked him down instead. It was as spiky as Cloud's hair.
0:20
*foxtrotting
jokes*
+Alpharad You made my day, never realized the blade beam resembled Zero's gungetki.. (I can't spell)
+Alpharad rip airhorns-where da fuck were they.Well, they're ded
+Meow CowProductions (MeowCowProductions) Not even close. It's Hadangeki.
+Sai Prime Yeah I knew I spelled it wrong, sorry about that...
Holy hell that was great, how you managed to pull together a 101 this good in like 3 days is beyond me. Keep it up! :D
Alpha no joke when you gave ness the finishing touch and started the other song at the exact moment of the screen KO that got me hype as shit that was super impressive and amazing lol
I doubt Alpha gets someone who tries on For Glory often. I think it's mostly just people who know who Alpharad is and intentionally suck. Sure, FG is full of nubs, but not THAT many. I guess Alpha's just lucky.
I use a different account when recording How to Play so people don't do dumb stuff just because it's me.
+Alpharad Did you record mad-dawg on your other account
+Alpharad how did you jump (or it seems) like 4 times VS R.O.B in the last clip?
+Alpharad that's pretty cool
+Marcel Perez footstool
Everyone is saying salt but no one is going to acknowledge the Star Wars clip or Zack Fair being in it? 😂
CrystalWing216 rip zack fair Q_Q
or the sonic adventure 2 quote about not being good enough to be a fake.
How to play Cloud:
Load 5.99 on your Nintendo account.
???
Free wins.
0:33 oooooh, you don't know how cathartic it was to see those little bastards with their perma smiles off and about to suffer an agonizing death.......well done!
I don't even know why, but I lost it when the 2nd-place-cam was replaced with a salt shaker.
I main Cloud because I like FFVII.
Spidertendo nice joke
You thought you were better than you are...
I'm gonna be honest, I fucking hate Cloud.
He is broken. Fast, middleweight (arguably best weight level), does a FUCKTON damage, with a FUCKTON of knockback, and combos that are really easy to do that put a huge dent in the opponent (30-50).
No worries. He's most likely going to get nerfed in the in the next update.
Plus, he has ridiculous end lag.
but he's so easy to gimp, almost as bad as little Mac, like a couple well timed vlade beams and he's dead or wasted his limit break
Not at all broken. Lot's of lag and easily gimped. The instant Cloud goes off the stage, you can easily kill him with only one attack of ANY kind.
Yeah, forgot about his crap recovery...
Still though, aside from that he is far superior to everyone else in raw statistics, in my opinion anyways.
Nice little Sonic Adventure 2 reference in the beginning. Also, this entire thing was golden.
As soon as the J-E-N-O-V-A theme came on, I knew I was gonna love this.
And I did.
0/10 you attacked a dude during a taunt, you should retire. Oh and your super combo time consisted of 3 hits, which is nothing.
But he did it a couple of seconds in the match.
so..?
+LoupiTheMightyCucco He deserved it for copying Cloud's Climhazzard and Omni Slash
+Kaitos Ike's up special is the animation the Hero class has in Fire Emblem when attacking. Also it looks nothing like climbhazard
Inti Santos Yeah whatever
I like ff13 :(
It was so pretty
Not nearly as entertaining when you're playing as the best character.
Cornasnake HazelScratched cloud is definitely not the best character...
Cornasnake HazelScratched
Not even close baby.
Sean If he's played right, I do think he's the best.
Cornasnake HazelScratched
Like any other character.
Sean Okay, I do retract my statement now because I played a Ryu who actually knows what he's doing and that's in my opinion the best.
I lost it at 0:33 ;u; thank you for making this. And thank's to Sakurai.
That beginning, doh. Much rood, such disrespect, so renegade. wow.
This video was 'rad'. 10/10
1:04 This is now my favorite thing in the HTP series. Someone gif that.
Alpha, I don't care who wins what tournaments. You'll always be my favorite Smash player :D
Also the result screen gag made me laugh harder than I have in a long time.
this shows how to play cloud very well. It showcases true combos and high quality gameplay. totally not an excuse to style on people and make jokes
I've seen plenty of good Cloud montages, but this one will always be my favorite :)
1:03
I just realized the Chocobo theme song plays while Ness is dizzy
that's beautiful
Not even a second has passed and there's a SA2 reference. Love it
When Corrin comes out, do an eight player smash, with all the beaten opponents pictures of salt. He got WAY more salt than any character in smash.
That last clip was just savage. Like, really, that was pure violence to someone's ego.
This was the best 101 you've done so far
I've never been more inspired to play smash. That wall jump to spike was crucial
Best video in a while, enjoyed this one. 9/10
Super video, great editing. Laughed the whole time
"Banana Combo" got me! Love these videos.
These things are supposed to be funny but I think you made me cry more than I did laugh with those references oh mY gOD
As always awesome video alph glad seeing my main having glory in battles
+Limitbreaker12 agreed
i'm surprised not to see a "time to prove Death Battle wrong" against link, you out of all people i would think make use of that stereotype but still great video (loved the zero reference by the way)
That last clip...
Wait how many air jumps does Cloud have?
When Alpharad said that Cloud was like Zero in the announcement reaction, he really went through with that joke.
I loved the J.E.N.O.V.A music at the beginning 😂❤️👌💯🔥
Me before ending credits "Wow this was great". Me when I see a cloud float across the bottom "God damnit Alpha this is why we can't have nice things"
Bad memories of UMvC suddenly flood my head
Thanks Alpha
Every time I think that this game couldn't possibly get any worse, Sakurai and his cronies somehow manage to find a way.
Daaaaaaayumn that Rob got did dirty as hell.
Holy shit
Last clip was hilarious.
GO FOR THE DISRESPECT!
the disres-
the disres-
ah I'll just spike him.
yo that foot stool on ROB to get back to stage was the smartest thing i have ever seen
That "You already know how this ends" part got me XDDDDD