AI in Melee is broken.

Last year, at Double Down, SluG pulled an insane upset vs the #1 player in the world. But he didn’t do it alone. Today we take a closer look at some of the ins and outs of the secondary Ice Climber, Nana.

song is "Hero Town" by @Vulf

[michaelfradley]

heh, heh, h, h, e, hhmmm, ,, bimg head nana
::)))

[MisterZebra]

I learned more about Nana from this 5 minute video than I have in 8 years of watching Melee

[markg]

the level 9 bots are essentially frame perfect 9 year olds

[OtrTrash]

Nana grabs you by the throat, smacks you once, and whispers softly in your ear, "Tonight. You, " just before she vanishes in a puff of smoke... Truly terrifying.

[winkone]

My heart breaks for HBox. Basically the Melee equivalent of "no one wanted to be my partner, so I had to partner with the teacher".

[turndownforwalt]

Love how you blended your current design work/colors with these explanations. Great work as usual!

[elbarnes]

I love how, with Zain being so shook from the grab and it getting cut short, it seems like the only thing that prevented Nana from continuing to be a menace is the respawn she goes through where she’s forced to blip out of existence mid-attack to return to popo

[vocel]

Nana really grabbed this man, looked him in the eyes and said: "This ain't over. Imma kill you in my next life." And then disappeared

Striking fear into the heart of Zain.

[herobrineharry]

3:11 I would be really interested to see if changing this (having Nana at level 9 always being the obvious) would meaningfully change how people have to deal with ice climbers

[matthewwojtechko]

As a kid playing Melee, observing the CPU’s behavior was always intriguing. Fascinating deep dive here!

[CrispyGFX]

Nana doing what is effectively a pump fake before dematerializing is the most menacing thing I've ever seen in this game.

[ClassicBentobox]

What an amazing video. This community sure blows me away sometimes. Very lucky to have creators like you.

[shuraizo]

Great video, editting and explanation, very clear and understandable!
Also, I'm glad the music volume is on the same level as your narration, so I don't have to change it every segment of the video

[donnyf]

After years of melee.. I never knew the CPU of Nana..very well done and graphic wise.

[halofactorymoon]

Its cool to see a video visualising the attack sensor ranges! I recently reverse engineered these tables in Smash 64 in order to improve Smash Remix’s AI for their new fighters. I wonder how the tables differ between games.

[k_k_aisa]

Videos like this are part of what makes Melee special.

[alexlowe]

1:46 This might have been the best single joke I've seen all month. Excellent pacing and style.

[theradman]

Great upload, stellar editing. Actually useful and fun information.

[erikdoer]

When the title hit and you cranked up Hero Town I already knew this was gonna be a banger.

How/when do you decide on the song for each video? Your one on the Jmook recovery was so integrated I couldn't figure out which came first. This is easily the highest effort per-second Smash content currently being made.

[forestskilbred]

The editing was so good here, awesome job and great video