Hello everyone. I'm a Donkey Kong player from Ecuador, and i wanted to say that i recently went to my first offline tournament nearly 2 months ago at an Esports arena that recently opened a few months ago in Guayaquil. I managed to make it to 3rd place out of 62 players with DK only. At one point had an entire crowd making monkey noises and cheering on me. My biggest accomplishment yet.
mechanically yeah. brawl was a regression. though it was definitely needed to slightly slow down the gameplay, and i think ultimate is genuinely the best smash game for that reason. its fast enough and consistent enough not to be boring, but not so fast its unapproachable for new players.
Hi! If everyone is interested, here in Mexico we do think donkey is a pretty strong character We have 3 big representatives of the character, Ego | Skelldany, Cosmic Hive | Duplex and Stock Bandits | Johnny, they are pretty strong and activately considered top 5 of their respective states
I feel so gratified, I have been grinding Elite Smash with DK since release and I always fundamentally believed he has all the tools to compete against most of the roster favorably. Thanks for pointing out his strengths!
@@why3994 It wasn't covered in the video. This guy's talking about the Eggdog Invitational which is a big Melee Invitational happening at the end of August. Like Summit, there's crowdfunding where you can vote in your favorite players to compete in the event. And as you can probably guess based on what OP said, Junebug is campaigning to get in.
Dude Chunkykong even from his early days has always terrified me, the guy is such a patient menace. I've also never seen someone practically SD to reset staling so PDKO percentages line up.. lmao
18:50 I looked at bus routes for a local that's a bit far between my college and house and it takes like three hours to get there not counting walking distances between the stops so yea I'd literally only be able to go by car
I wish you talked more about what aspects of Donkey's moveset and the ways people are utilising/exploiting those aspects makes him more effective than he used to be.
16:50 What in the world was that slow-mo edit? Why try to interpolate frames? It just makes it much harder to follow what's going on when 75-80% of the footage is completely made up.
You'd think that famous Jpop singer Hikaru Utada would main Sora, but cool to see her making waves in tween pop culture and the DK meta! Hikaru has such a simple and clean DK
i do wish he had covered rarikkusu and leo's set at delta 8, one of the funniest sets imagineable. Rari 3 stocks leo with dk g1, switches to falco and 2 stocks him, then leo pulls off the reverse 3-0, wild
You know, I kinda wanna see a tournament in 2024 of smash ultimate going back to the release version of the game, I think it would be interesting to watch (Yes im talking about version 1.0.0, with the broken Chrom Up-B)
Im not good at playing heavies but as a trapper archetype player most of the time i eat them for breakfast. Dk players are unusually skilled 4 no reason. Incin still gives me trouble.
DK is the goat, lol. If I boot up with one of my boys and they don't dk ditto the first round, I unplug and take the switch. Cpt. Falcon is also acceptable round one. No but actually been repping the character since N64, there's never been a moment where DK isn't fun, and Ult. is my favorite iteration of the character by far, not as broken as S4, but I love the polarizing nature of his tool kit, as long as your opponent isn't a corner camper its easily the most fun gameplay for both parties. All of their combos work against him and you can do silly and ridiculous combos on them. Just all around a good time.
low skill floor = the worst player is really bad high skill floor = the worst player can hold their own on it A good way to remember is if you say skill is out of 100% (playing perfectly) a low skill floor means the player can drop down to 0% (useless), a high skill floor means they can only drop down to 50% (at worst you can still take a stock) for example
I think there are multiple ways that phrase gets used. I'd interpret a "high skill floor" as meaning you need a higher amount of skill before your results get much better than you'd have with zero skill.
What is he then? Genuine question cuz I play pac quite frequently and his aerials and tilts make him an all rounder for me, although his specials make him who he is in most battles
@jaybanyan4417 While it may be common to think of Pac-Man as an "all rounder", due to his general roundness, this is not actually accurate. In reality, Pac-Man is a sector. The geometric name for a circle with a wedge removed, like Pac-Man, is a sector. Sectors are 2D shapes formed by two circular arcs and two straight line radii, creating a closed shape. In the case of Pac-Man, the missing wedge corresponds to the portion of the circle’s circumference that has been removed.
I told people for years DK has been slept on but nobody listened to me. Now I’m glad Hikaru and Chunky proved people wrong especially Chunky discovering UPB oos which is amazing for 4 years people said DK has no oos options now he does and it’s viable. I hope people continue to push DK because he’s far from bottom 15!
It’s so cool that Hikaru Nakamura, the famous chess player, was able to pull off such excellent results with Donkey Kong!
Not that one
I love his nooby playstyle he makes some dummy smart plays
Especially with his signature technique "the dongcloud"
😂
Sufficiently advanced heavy play is indistinguishable from beginner heavy play
Hello everyone. I'm a Donkey Kong player from Ecuador, and i wanted to say that i recently went to my first offline tournament nearly 2 months ago at an Esports arena that recently opened a few months ago in Guayaquil. I managed to make it to 3rd place out of 62 players with DK only. At one point had an entire crowd making monkey noises and cheering on me. My biggest accomplishment yet.
average DK W
Yo dude was any of Guayaquil's top players there?
Saludos desde Ecuador 🇪🇨🤙
@@MrKing_MC A few of them, but I forgot their names.
Sounds annoying… let the guy focus
congrats that’s awesome!
steve being his own archetype is just perfect lol
I mean technically so is DK if you think about it.
It’s funny that Steve just plays Minecraft in a different game
@@RED_XLRnot gonna lie, I still think dk is the only true grappler (the other were mostly bruiser maybe inveroar)
Steve it’s just it’s own game as a whole
@@ZAPRST8879 Luigi is incredibly reliant on grab
The fact is, people like to play DK and watch DK. That is going to boost his representation and therefore apparent viability.
"Melee and its predecessor Brawl"
Lmao glad I wasn't the only one to catch that. Should've been _successor_
Brawl is so bad, nobody counts it as a game after melee
@@starfox300id rather watch grass grow than play brawl 😂
He's not wrong
mechanically yeah. brawl was a regression. though it was definitely needed to slightly slow down the gameplay, and i think ultimate is genuinely the best smash game for that reason. its fast enough and consistent enough not to be boring, but not so fast its unapproachable for new players.
16:50 This is actually one of the coolest reads of all time I swear
Bad netcode and car culture.... a dastardly duo
Hi!
If everyone is interested, here in Mexico we do think donkey is a pretty strong character
We have 3 big representatives of the character, Ego | Skelldany, Cosmic Hive | Duplex and Stock Bandits | Johnny, they are pretty strong and activately considered top 5 of their respective states
Acola going DK against Spargo is one of the greatest sets of all time
Walt is gonna run out of characters to do videos on so he will just start making recaps of coinboxes
The discovery of aerial up b out of shield was actually tier changing. That shit is legitimately really good.
no longer can opponents pressure DK big boy shield for free without risk
I feel so gratified, I have been grinding Elite Smash with DK since release and I always fundamentally believed he has all the tools to compete against most of the roster favorably. Thanks for pointing out his strengths!
3:58 small correction here but the highest placing by a Donkey Kong Player ever was actually Hikaru at UFA 2022, where he got 3rd.
he meant highest placing in melee 😭😭😭
@@honathan2135 seemed unclear to me
@@Caleb-zl4wkcontext clues context clues context clues
@@Caleb-zl4wkIt's under the "Melee & Brawl" chapter of the video.
@@Caleb-zl4wk it was in a melee section
It's monke monday!!
No
its wednesday
True
Soon the Donkey Kong renaissance in Tekken
love how you sprinkled lyrics from the DK rap into the script
I always knew DK was underrated. Glad to see so many reps work hard to show his potential.
VOTE FOR JUNEBUG
I haven't watched the video yet so i have no idea what this means but sure I'll vote for junebug
@@why3994 It wasn't covered in the video. This guy's talking about the Eggdog Invitational which is a big Melee Invitational happening at the end of August.
Like Summit, there's crowdfunding where you can vote in your favorite players to compete in the event. And as you can probably guess based on what OP said, Junebug is campaigning to get in.
i assumed this was about the 2024 presidential election
The best player in Ireland is a DK called wombat (ik that doesn’t sound like much but he has some really good wins on EU players)
He's the best dk player in europe by far, he has some incredible wins
Really happy to have such a talented player here
Wait, the AKI player is the same DK player? That's awesome.
2024 SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE YEAR OF THE MONKE
LONG LIVE DONKEY KONG!
here as hurt and muteace were eliminated from tournaments by DK very recently
As a melee guy I don't usually watch ultimate content but Walt you just make such good shit that I couldn't help but pay full attention
Smash Brothers: The Wrath of Kong
there are already three comments saying "babe wake up Walt uploaded" also i woke up a few minutes ago
I WAS THE FIRST
I HAVE SEEN EVERYTHING
(If you know what this is from, good on you, you’re a chad)
@@ValentinesdayghostNgl the chica line is kinda cold
therefore, you are babe
@@d.s.alcoda lol
"Oh fuck your tierlist, truth is only hearsay.
We're just left to D-K.
Modernity has failed us...."
Lets see, we got sword characters... um, sword characters... sword characters...
in France, Sirove is doing big things. I remember him going last game last stock against spargo at some events
“Melee, and it’s predecessor Brawl”
Successor.
3:26 i think you got melee and brawl backwards here
Maybe he meant to say successor instead of predecessor
@@chasenewberry6866 that’s what I imagine. Doesn’t impede my understanding tho I know what he meant haha
It's a joke saying that brawl was worse than melee, and therefore precedes it
@@bucketspree4952 TIL
#iykyk
Yo, my boy Little mac got absolutely ignored in the archetypes, don't do my man dirty like that
I'm here after seeing Hurt get 49th outta nowhere.
DK rise in Melee and Ultimate. Amazing.
Babe wake up Walt uploaded
1:16 King Dedede’s recovery is decent.
until the super armor decides to unalive itself
Good distance but very predictable, and laggy.
@@Appletank8eh not really, i guess it is predictable but the super armour makes it very difficult to challenge and ddd can just go to ledge with it
Shout out to PM and ThunderzReign, the goat!
I never knew the chess legend himself, Hikaru is so good at smash bros
Dude Chunkykong even from his early days has always terrified me, the guy is such a patient menace. I've also never seen someone practically SD to reset staling so PDKO percentages line up.. lmao
14:23 IM SORRY THAT KILLED AT WHAT??
To be fair the Yoshi put down his controller
11:51 what is glutonny doing😭
I was just watching this when I see June bug made it to grand finals with DK in Melee at patchwork. This is insane
18:50 I looked at bus routes for a local that's a bit far between my college and house and it takes like three hours to get there not counting walking distances between the stops so yea I'd literally only be able to go by car
3:05 “Cargo Throw sets up for kills no other character could” meanwhile in the clips DK kills himself hahahhaha
How are ice climbers a swordie.
hammers have disjoint similar to swords
Junebug just won patchwork against salt it was epic
First time I've heard Palu called a Sword Character.
I wish you talked more about what aspects of Donkey's moveset and the ways people are utilising/exploiting those aspects makes him more effective than he used to be.
Nairo is still a huge influence. People wont admit that though but he keeps this character alive every day just about.
If supporting the DK Revolution won’t get people to support equitable transportation infrastructure across the country, what will?
Very cool to myself in a TDFW video
16:50 What in the world was that slow-mo edit? Why try to interpolate frames? It just makes it much harder to follow what's going on when 75-80% of the footage is completely made up.
No one plays DK for winning but they play it for fun
You'd think that famous Jpop singer Hikaru Utada would main Sora, but cool to see her making waves in tween pop culture and the DK meta! Hikaru has such a simple and clean DK
i do wish he had covered rarikkusu and leo's set at delta 8, one of the funniest sets imagineable. Rari 3 stocks leo with dk g1, switches to falco and 2 stocks him, then leo pulls off the reverse 3-0, wild
Video has very very good editing. Surprised you don’t have more subs man 👍
You know, I kinda wanna see a tournament in 2024 of smash ultimate going back to the release version of the game, I think it would be interesting to watch (Yes im talking about version 1.0.0, with the broken Chrom Up-B)
13:07 DK spanking wario
Thank you. This type of content is the reason i wake up in the morning
Babe, wake up! Walt uploaded!
1:13 this is the top of the barrel
Amazing vid as always Walt. Btw, Jahzzo got second at momocon 2024 not third
Wolf is definitely a sword character that isn’t really a sword character but is still a sword character.
Sword character until you fight a genuine sword character lol
would Mewtwo be a "sword character if you added hurtboxes to the sword"?
I think it's fun that DK has enough of a fanbase that multiple Smash games have dedicated player bases who are making waves in the tournament scene.
Glad you've covered my main big fan :)
No more journeys back in time!
3:23
Walt time traveller confirmed
That Falco vs fox is funny
I hope this was a play on Wusstunes DK video about it’s use in Melee
This was great, a similar video about Bayonetta would be excellent the character has really risen compared to the beginning of ultimate.
Im not good at playing heavies but as a trapper archetype player most of the time i eat them for breakfast.
Dk players are unusually skilled 4 no reason.
Incin still gives me trouble.
I fcking knew he was going to make this video 😂
8:50 That was hilarious😂
I LOVE DK, HES SO CHEESY
7:23 ok this joke is so fire LMAO
That DK is definitely not purple
Ah yes, Melee and its predecessor Brawl.
18:35 Another common car-based infrastructure L to add to the mountainous pile. May Henry Ford be facing eternal torment for his misdeeds.
We gonna act like Ult Bowser has bad movement now?
this is happening in melee too
3:25 I know it's petty but melee is brawl's predecessor not the other way around
Shouts out to my goat NOODL from south Jersey!!
20:08
thought this was the dk renaissance for melee
this is a dumb nitpick but chunkykong started competing in 2019, the tournaments were on challonge though so it wouldn’t show up on smashdata
I see you Duplex and Toasted
Mairudona H.O. beat hurt. I personally think that is DK's most impressive win so far due to how the matchup goes.
DK is the goat, lol. If I boot up with one of my boys and they don't dk ditto the first round, I unplug and take the switch. Cpt. Falcon is also acceptable round one. No but actually been repping the character since N64, there's never been a moment where DK isn't fun, and Ult. is my favorite iteration of the character by far, not as broken as S4, but I love the polarizing nature of his tool kit, as long as your opponent isn't a corner camper its easily the most fun gameplay for both parties. All of their combos work against him and you can do silly and ridiculous combos on them. Just all around a good time.
What channel am I on?
Results aside, from a design perspective, it feels like they hit the sweetspot with heavies in this game.
low skill floor = the worst player is really bad
high skill floor = the worst player can hold their own on it
A good way to remember is if you say skill is out of 100% (playing perfectly) a low skill floor means the player can drop down to 0% (useless), a high skill floor means they can only drop down to 50% (at worst you can still take a stock) for example
I think there are multiple ways that phrase gets used. I'd interpret a "high skill floor" as meaning you need a higher amount of skill before your results get much better than you'd have with zero skill.
I was watching and noticed R.O.B. isn't in ANY category lol. My boi down in the dumps
Bro called pac-man an all rounder
What is he then? Genuine question cuz I play pac quite frequently and his aerials and tilts make him an all rounder for me, although his specials make him who he is in most battles
he's a trapper/set-up character right?
@jaybanyan4417
While it may be common to think of Pac-Man as an "all rounder", due to his general roundness, this is not actually accurate. In reality, Pac-Man is a sector.
The geometric name for a circle with a wedge removed, like Pac-Man, is a sector. Sectors are 2D shapes formed by two circular arcs and two straight line radii, creating a closed shape. In the case of Pac-Man, the missing wedge corresponds to the portion of the circle’s circumference that has been removed.
AI be like
My boy’s all round
Where's my Samus Renaissance? :(
11:26 Jahzz0 got 2nd, not 3rd
The ding dong sounds like the hoo hah but missing the hbox
I told people for years DK has been slept on but nobody listened to me. Now I’m glad Hikaru and Chunky proved people wrong especially Chunky discovering UPB oos which is amazing for 4 years people said DK has no oos options now he does and it’s viable. I hope people continue to push DK because he’s far from bottom 15!
8:51 WAIT IS THE Cracked Aki player Hikaru the same as the DK PLAYER. If so he made the right decision.
No that’s a different guy
and i return as a dk won a major in melee
Ice Climbers are Sword Characters?
10:10 You know him well.
JUNEBUG IS MY LORD AND SAVIOR
Something about those shitty charackters with a low skill sealiing is realy appeling to me