@@1mawesomel1kethat I dunno, I think there is still some impressive stuff in this video. Although to be fair I don't think his opponents are SDIing much
@@biggumby77hes wrong, this was ahead of its time, no other fox moved and did combos like him at the time except for silentwolf, silentwolf for a long time and till this day is considered a legendary technical fox, him and dark were the ones that heightened the possibility of combos and fox
@@mellomessatsu Lovage was also up there. And for sure, this was waaaayyy ahead of its time. Yes, people are smarter / better now and have much better defense, but the techskill in this video is still unmatched by 99.9% of Foxes.
+Ricardo Salazar Mango would destroy dark. Dark is hands down the most technical beast to hold a gamecube controller. But he wouldnt be able to find openings on mango. Put it this way, dark got 4 stocked by zero last year. But he also whooped zero's ass in that set, but zero took it with a 4 stock.
***** Its because he isnt ever in a huge tournament environment. He doesnt get to play the top players. So he doesnt have a easy time adjusting and adapting. He is using his tech to literally stop people from being able to do anything. But against top players, they can get around and are used to adapting. Zero practiced with m2k so he definitely had an advantage when playing Dark.
I remember when shined blind came out-- and how much fun everyone had watching that video. Perfect dark is definitely this season's shined blind. I want to say- Best melee video to date?
@@robbyz512 i bet you suck lol. so many of the combos in this are completely true without at least decent SDI out. you can sdi out of jab upsmash dude, if you're running someone over THIS hard their DI doesn't matter unless they're actually sick. the average netplayer cannot invisible shine 4 times in a row whilst in the middle of a flawless combo, i'll tell you that much. Everything he tried to execute, he did perfectly, that's the point of the video. It's still sick
This guy's tech skill is amazing. I would love to see him perform in a US tournament regardless of how he'd place. I just want to see this tech used in a major tournament. And I want to see his hands as he plays. o.0
what makes this more amazing is how he is dash jump canceling his shines into a wavedash...crazzzy how he does that. This video is even more amazing then it was 7 months ago lol
*LEGENDARY* and iconic Melee video and montage of Dark's Fox showing of his tech skills. his crazy and awesome to think and see how much the meta has evolved. since this video how now its feels like everything that Dark's do in it is like a Child's Play to some players this days. crazy and incredible to think about it.
The most amazing part of this video is that you somehow managed to make Sandstorm cool again. Just incredible. Dark is awesome. Best fox combo video ever.
At first I thought Dark was reading the opponent's moves and responding with lightning efficiency. In reality, he has honed a few specific but highly effective combo entrances and chains so well that he doesn't need to do that. Once you're in his trap, his combos give you no freedom of movement, and he can predict how to smash you to death because he governs exactly what you'll do. He's eliminated the need to respond to the opponent in a genius way.
From the title and the skills employed, I would have believed this to be AR-reliant (See the "perfect control" ssbm vids), but for some reason I don't believe it is. Extreme props for the best fox I have seen, half those combo's looked completely inescapable under any condition other than player error. Shined Blind is childs play to this.
Wait, this IS a human playing... Right? RIGHT!? If we somehow combined Mang0's style, M2K's patience, Dark and Hax's tech skills, Armada's knowledge, and Leffen's aggression, I think we'd have the absolute PERFECT Fox: a Fox more technical, knowledgable, and stylistically perfect than any human player now. The arrival of 20XX is .... NOW.
***** i've tried an arcade stick before with he converter, it was to abnormal for me lol. i've tried some silly things with GC controller. holding it upside down, claw method, playing looking through a mirror lol. all for the sake of fun
"Combo/tech skill video starring Dark, everybody's favorite noob fox!" Good lord, if this is how a noob fox plays, I'd hate to go up against a pro one. o_O
Kids these days, don't know that this is old and I bet he's even higher and on another level in tech skill than this. This dude is so TAS and I wont ever see others do what he does. Also I bet he's learned the match-ups by now. I hope he posts new stuff so others can hush up about him only the knowledge of tech skill. Thanks.
West and Hax would win, Dark was known for being really technical but not really that good of a player, even read the description, "everyone's favourite noob fox" lol.
More?...I don't know if he's ever travelled to the U.S. for melee or otherwise tbh. Would've been nice to see him against MaNg0, Armada, M2K, Hbox, PPMD, Hax, Plup, Axe, DSW, Zhu, PC, KDJ, Zain(now)...but now some of those players are retired or inactive.
He doesn’t travel but is still fairly active in his home country of Chile. He is currently ranked within the top 5 and has played often on Blassy’s stream and there’s even a highlight video on his channel ruclips.net/channel/UCTVVykiW9T8ymOeHNwBMcgQ
being able to do insane tech skill stuff in your room or with your friends is one thing, but when you are playing to win, it's hard to apply it. A huge part of it is because he doesn't have many good players around to push him. also, he's the most technical fox probably, but he doesn't use the tech skill practically.
Will Scharnagl fair enough, lol Dark needs to play in the bigger tournaments and adapt to american/european top players, that is all. If he could afford to stay a year or two in the US, I bet he could give some serious trouble to top and god players. Sadly, he is in Chile, where the Melee scene is kinda small and where Top players are very few.
The ability to do that indicates that you have the technical skill to sustain whatever distance between you and your opponent that you wish. In a game that is almost entirely spacing and timing dependent, this matters A LOT. So yes, it will make your opponent surrender.
@redryan20000 to continue: -Jump(to jump out of a shine has to be within 3(?) frames of the down-b) -Waveland on stage(to waveland you have to push down forward and either the L or R trigger to airdodge into the ground which causes the character to slide) -dash left -shine(down-b) -turn around in shine -jump -wavedash backwards(done like wavelanding except the timing is more strict) -grab ledge -drop off ledge -shine(down-b) -turn around in shine one more post left.
It's a TAS. It plays the game at super slow speeds, like a few seconds per frame, and uses save states which save the game at whatever frame it's at when you save it, so you can reload it from there if you mess up. Combine those together and then speed it up and you have a perfect play.
It is done by walking off the stage at the exact frame you make the shine appear. Plus, they are not playing PAL, in PAL Marth would fall down to the ground after a Fox shines :)
10 years later and this is STILL insane
cracked
11 years later and it's STILL insane
Ooouuu yeaahhhh
2023 and this is still amazing
Any Smash veteran knows how insanely difficult it was/still is to pull these combos off. Dark is a monster.
Perfect Sandstorm, a Darude combo video.
It may be over a decade later but dark is still crazy, super ahead of his time
If you think this is super ahead of it's time you haven't played competitive online
@@1mawesomel1kethat id get my ass chopped off and handed to me in competitive online so fair point lmao
@@1mawesomel1kethat I dunno, I think there is still some impressive stuff in this video. Although to be fair I don't think his opponents are SDIing much
@@biggumby77hes wrong, this was ahead of its time, no other fox moved and did combos like him at the time except for silentwolf, silentwolf for a long time and till this day is considered a legendary technical fox, him and dark were the ones that heightened the possibility of combos and fox
@@mellomessatsu Lovage was also up there. And for sure, this was waaaayyy ahead of its time. Yes, people are smarter / better now and have much better defense, but the techskill in this video is still unmatched by 99.9% of Foxes.
This is the video that got me into melee instead of brawl
Sick
Rofl
nice
Good to know about it.
that's very SICK and COOL and a very NICE detail made by Dark's Fox video.
This kids tech is still insane to this day. I got to play some friendlies with him when I went to South America. Dudes a madman.
I wonder if he plays on slippi lmao
@@KongMonkE he participates on big tourneys but doesn't play too much unranked, just once on a while
This dude was ahead of his time, very creative with his combos.
This guy is human TAS!!!
Damn right!
gamerfreak5665 and you are the TAS master
+gamerfreak5665 I agree haha. I was thinking about it too. I want a mango ditto vs him, maybe mango could win.
+Ricardo Salazar Mango would destroy dark. Dark is hands down the most technical beast to hold a gamecube controller. But he wouldnt be able to find openings on mango. Put it this way, dark got 4 stocked by zero last year. But he also whooped zero's ass in that set, but zero took it with a 4 stock.
***** Its because he isnt ever in a huge tournament environment. He doesnt get to play the top players. So he doesnt have a easy time adjusting and adapting. He is using his tech to literally stop people from being able to do anything. But against top players, they can get around and are used to adapting. Zero practiced with m2k so he definitely had an advantage when playing Dark.
I remember when shined blind came out-- and how much fun everyone had watching that video. Perfect dark is definitely this season's shined blind.
I want to say- Best melee video to date?
blaakdawg Yes.
Did everyone just forget about this video? it still blows my mind more than any other, but i never hear anyone talk about it
Ikr. This game was definitely the best PVP game of the decade.
ri053 I'm still here.
@@robbyz512 LMAO no. Imagination can get as big as you want, and if an ''average neplay'' could do all that, send a video on your channel doing it.
@@robbyz512 i bet you suck lol. so many of the combos in this are completely true without at least decent SDI out. you can sdi out of jab upsmash dude, if you're running someone over THIS hard their DI doesn't matter unless they're actually sick. the average netplayer cannot invisible shine 4 times in a row whilst in the middle of a flawless combo, i'll tell you that much. Everything he tried to execute, he did perfectly, that's the point of the video. It's still sick
@@robbyz512 bruh
Just watching this have me arthritis
This guy's tech skill is amazing. I would love to see him perform in a US tournament regardless of how he'd place. I just want to see this tech used in a major tournament. And I want to see his hands as he plays. o.0
yeah dude
This has GOT to be the coolest combo video I've ever seen.
You have my MAJOR props as my favourite Fox player to watch. Unbelievable.
- Diakonos
4:21 = swaggiest thing Fox has ever done
what makes this more amazing is how he is dash jump canceling his shines into a wavedash...crazzzy how he does that. This video is even more amazing then it was 7 months ago lol
2023 and still hard af
Even if he's playing against level one computers that tech skill is phenomenal. Stop hating
Ur not wrong but doing tech stuff in training mode and fighting against Leffen’s fox or mangos falco that’s a different story
@@Pantherocroco This comment is 7 years old
@@Pantherocroco lol
Well I guess for once... the song is Darude-Sandstorm
Song name pls? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
*LEGENDARY* and iconic Melee video and montage of Dark's Fox
showing of his tech skills. his crazy and awesome to think and see how much the meta has evolved.
since this video how now its feels like everything that Dark's do in it is like a Child's Play to some players this days.
crazy and incredible to think about it.
The most amazing part of this video is that you somehow managed to make Sandstorm cool again. Just incredible.
Dark is awesome. Best fox combo video ever.
4:55 loooool the good ol days of ITG2 and it's amazing step charts/song list. Good times! Rest in peace RoXor.
No comments complaining about sandstorm? That's how you know this fox is good.
Maybe the tech skill helps.
That and the song actually is sandstorm.
He's probably the most technical player of all time, but he still can't win tournaments.
Tech skill is like maybe half the battle, probably a quarter. You definitely need it to do certain things at a speed that will actually combo though.
Thanks GG melee for putting me on to this, my favorite combo video now by far
were u born in 20XX?
It's like watching Jesus do handwarmers...
+Flysis Blue lol
I feel depressed when I open up Dolphin and figuring out I'm trash. Then there's this guy.
Jesus Christ this is incredible... Seriously, this is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.
Darude Shinestorm
my hands hurt just watching this xD super ahead of its time!!
Man playin in 2011 like its 2025
This will never not be sick. This is why we love melee.
Is this the same dark as "how fast is melee" (or something)
yes
Oh okay thanks
Edi; but how could you be so sure?
I'm pretty sure
Yez
i could watch this all day long
IS THAT DARUDE SANDSTORM I HEAR
no
its "Síntese Máscara da Rua"
I've seen this video like 20 times, literally, but I just noticed right now the triple shine at 3:27.
This combo video never gets old.
0:59 ya buddy... ive mastered this part of shining myself. thats why i love DARK.
Literally the BEST combo video I have ever seen! Congratulations on being too awesome!
At first I thought Dark was reading the opponent's moves and responding with lightning efficiency. In reality, he has honed a few specific but highly effective combo entrances and chains so well that he doesn't need to do that. Once you're in his trap, his combos give you no freedom of movement, and he can predict how to smash you to death because he governs exactly what you'll do. He's eliminated the need to respond to the opponent in a genius way.
A little sdi goes a long way
From the title and the skills employed, I would have believed this to be AR-reliant (See the "perfect control" ssbm vids), but for some reason I don't believe it is. Extreme props for the best fox I have seen, half those combo's looked completely inescapable under any condition other than player error. Shined Blind is childs play to this.
The year is 20XX...
Just realized this was posted on my birthday. Dope video dude.
This game brings back memories as a kid.
did anyone else scroll down to the comments section just to see people saying 'song name?'
Holy shit. This video used darude before it was as popular as the meme it is
Brandon Kim Darude-Sandstorm was popular in 2006...
***** no, its only just become popular recently...
The Freeman Initiative Gr8 b8 m8, I r8 8/8
***** how was that bait?
I think this is cooler than any TAS I've seen...
Dark is Mad-Dawg confirmed
Wait, this IS a human playing... Right? RIGHT!?
If we somehow combined Mang0's style, M2K's patience, Dark and Hax's tech skills, Armada's knowledge, and Leffen's aggression, I think we'd have the absolute PERFECT Fox: a Fox more technical, knowledgable, and stylistically perfect than any human player now. The arrival of 20XX is ....
NOW.
StarTard8 Mango and Leffen's should be switched. Although Mango really has both.
StarTard8 Leffen, aggressive? lmao, this scrub
StarTard8 M2K = knowledge, Armada = method, now take Leffen out as well, and there you have it.
likemikew88 We need Leffen tho for a pinch of disrespect.
He is extremely bad at mind games
Someone answer me, how does DARK hold his controller?
He doesn't use the claw
Nicolas Ramirez No fucking way. WTFFFFFF. Can we please send this man to the US already so we can observe his godliness in person.
he prob holds his controller like everybody else, i do this stuff too... all i do is just tilt the front downwards a tad bit.
***** i've tried an arcade stick before with he converter, it was to abnormal for me lol. i've tried some silly things with GC controller. holding it upside down, claw method, playing looking through a mirror lol. all for the sake of fun
Nicolas Ramirez What do you mean "he doesn't use the claw"?
this video has made me listen to sandstorm way more than i have ever wanted to.
same version of the video but with button inputs? xD
+ToasterEX It would take a year to make.
+Toaster the III That would take a TON of work... a skeleTON.
Nutty techskill for that time
and here i am struggling to do a perfect short hop up air in smash 4
Eight years later, did you ever get consistent short hop up airs?
I am convinced that nothing will ever be better than this Melee video. I now have nothing to ever look forward to.
Lol at people still thinking this is TAS. u should actually watch Dark play, or atleast SW or Hax
IKR! they don't think its possible cuz they never tried pushing there fingers that far.
Micheal Nelson
that's what she said.
Mark SKC lmao you made my night bro! xD
Sefunmi Relno's Fox had some spice as well.
Mango is a good player.
Dark is a good actor.
If anyone's gonna use this song ever again in a combo video they should change the title to "DaRead-ShineStorm"
Man is CRACKED and this was 10 years ago lol
can someone make a how fast is melee of this entire combo video
PLEASE GOD THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN!
+Razmik Degoian you know how long that project would take 0_o
Chris Arias whoa whoa whoa... are you doubting the melee community?
Not the melee community necessarily, I'm just doubting that anyone would have the motivation/patience to make an entire how fast is melee on this :O
Why hasn't this been done yet?
This is probably the best combo video of all time. No offense, King.
"Combo/tech skill video starring Dark, everybody's favorite noob fox!"
Good lord, if this is how a noob fox plays, I'd hate to go up against a pro one. o_O
Man this was not a fox combo video, this was a fox INSANITY video, Fox Rules!!!!
TAS in a nutshell.
you're a dumbass this is all possible to do. its just really fucking hard. its called skill. this would be much faster if it was TAS
Someone's jelly.
Jimmy Johnson so true, except the hard part. i play like this, but i will admit at first it was hard, but you get used to it and becomes easy
This isn't TAS
Kids these days, don't know that this is old and I bet he's even higher and on another level in tech skill than this. This dude is so TAS and I wont ever see others do what he does.
Also I bet he's learned the match-ups by now. I hope he posts new stuff so others can hush up about him only the knowledge of tech skill. Thanks.
Sakurai: let jump cancel shine. whats the worst that could happen?
10 years of fox vids did not prepare me for this
Poggers here from radio melee
You can die knowing you will never ever ever ever be as insane as this guy. v__v
"watch me do the same thing every fox does over and over again"
"Watch me be a cynic because this guy is 100x better than I am."
because every fox can do this over and over again lolol
i suggest you reevaluate your hypotenuse br0
This is almost as impressive as PP's performance at pound (smirk). Great job man.
Next week Dark vs n0ne, Astra 2016.
ayy lol happened today
How is this even humanly possible?! Amazing bro...
Alright i wanna see Dark vs Wes and Dark vs Hax
West and Hax would win, Dark was known for being really technical but not really that good of a player, even read the description, "everyone's favourite noob fox" lol.
yeah my friend weon-x played him an beat him.
+RJ Piccioni oh shit how do you know weon x?
Zion SSB シオン same region
10 years later still coming back to this
I wish dark got to travel to the states more. Does anyone know if he's still active?
More?...I don't know if he's ever travelled to the U.S. for melee or otherwise tbh. Would've been nice to see him against MaNg0, Armada, M2K, Hbox, PPMD, Hax, Plup, Axe, DSW, Zhu, PC, KDJ, Zain(now)...but now some of those players are retired or inactive.
He doesn’t travel but is still fairly active in his home country of Chile. He is currently ranked within the top 5 and has played often on Blassy’s stream and there’s even a highlight video on his channel ruclips.net/channel/UCTVVykiW9T8ymOeHNwBMcgQ
being able to do insane tech skill stuff in your room or with your friends is one thing, but when you are playing to win, it's hard to apply it.
A huge part of it is because he doesn't have many good players around to push him.
also, he's the most technical fox probably, but he doesn't use the tech skill practically.
It amazes me how someone can be so technical yet so mediocre at the game
dude, he beat n0ne at Astra 2016
I bet he destroys your ass though.
Rodrigo Pérez
I'm far worse than mediocre
Will Scharnagl fair enough, lol
Dark needs to play in the bigger tournaments and adapt to american/european top players, that is all. If he could afford to stay a year or two in the US, I bet he could give some serious trouble to top and god players.
Sadly, he is in Chile, where the Melee scene is kinda small and where Top players are very few.
Here before algorithm comments. 2022 is when I watched.
the fact he was multishining like 20 times in row and facing back and forth inbetween them blew my mind.
This really is the perfect video! I have to get good with Fox! Amazing job, definitely one of, if not the best smash video out there.
Song credits:
DJ Doo - The Beginning
Darude - Sandstorm
Affinity - Monolith
Also, The Beginning and Monolith were featured in In the Groove, not DDR.
the world needs perfect dark 2
The ability to do that indicates that you have the technical skill to sustain whatever distance between you and your opponent that you wish. In a game that is almost entirely spacing and timing dependent, this matters A LOT. So yes, it will make your opponent surrender.
If I was a Dark's victim just like the guys in the video, I'd cry in the night. This is insane
Dark was a decade ahead of his time.
@redryan20000 to continue:
-Jump(to jump out of a shine has to be within 3(?) frames of the down-b)
-Waveland on stage(to waveland you have to push down forward and either the L or R trigger to airdodge into the ground which causes the character to slide)
-dash left
-shine(down-b)
-turn around in shine
-jump
-wavedash backwards(done like wavelanding except the timing is more strict)
-grab ledge
-drop off ledge
-shine(down-b)
-turn around in shine
one more post left.
Ganon on Onett, the triple shine on ganon oFD, the shiengrab combos on Falcon, and that last team combo were INSANE.
we need more of this dude we dont see much of him atleast I havent this my first time seeing him dare i say 20XX
Dark should be the leader off the 20XX apocalypse
It's a TAS. It plays the game at super slow speeds, like a few seconds per frame, and uses save states which save the game at whatever frame it's at when you save it, so you can reload it from there if you mess up. Combine those together and then speed it up and you have a perfect play.
...
Perfect Darude, a Sandstorm video.
wonderful fox video, that is why he is top tier
One of the best combo videos Ive ever seen definently! Made in 2011 too!
this is still the godliest combo vid
I dropped my jaw, and now I can't find it because I was blinded by all this amazing tech skill.
mango the only fox that can do this kind of stuff.
Learning pro tech with Fox (or any character) is like learning a language. You practice and play the game enough and it'll click all of the sudden.
Mango makes this guy look like he's not even playing
Dark would take that as a compliment.
watching this and then shined blind really shows how the meta game has evolved.
shined blind was like basic edgeguards and this is just
:o....
It is done by walking off the stage at the exact frame you make the shine appear. Plus, they are not playing PAL, in PAL Marth would fall down to the ground after a Fox shines :)
My life for that Tech-skill
STILL the best SSBM combo video
Multishining on Randall. I love it.
As many times I see this, I want to believe this is unreal but can't