The Worst Matchup in Smash History was in Brawl(It's not Metaknight)

Metaknight has always plagued the top level of Brawl’s competitive scene, dominating the entire cast throughout the game’s history - which makes it even more surprising to learn that there is a far, far worse matchup buried deep within one of the more obscure character choices.
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Music used:
Intro / Cosmic Psycho - Begin
1:02 / Pizza Tower - A Secret Under the Debris (The Ancient Cheese Secret)
7:17 / Perfect Collection Ys III - Believe in my Heart (Special Arrange Version)
Outro / Super Smash Bros. Brawl - All-Star Rest Area
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The next video I’m working on features all of the obscure, character-specific tech found in Brawl. This game's got some weird stuff. Thanks for your support! New content coming soon.
-SKUNCH

[Brawlternative]

Absolutely floored to have so many people excited for new Brawl content in the year of our lord 2024. Been really enjoying going through all the discussions in the comments talking about matchups. Honestly just happy to see Brawl discourse in general :)

There's also a second video in the works already! Production is nearly done, aiming to drop it sometime in the middle of next week. Keep your eyes peeled :) starting to believe that 2024 might TRULY be the year of Brawl :)

[maneruloquendero]

As a Ness main, it's very stressful when my shirt gets grabbed by a door knob bc there's the possibility my shirt gets stuck again when the door knob releases it, potentially leaving me trapped forever

[anotherpersonfromnorfolk]

As a Ness main, who had gotten used to a lack of brawlposting. Hearing the name "Marth" activated my fight/flight response

[AURAxSTAR]

starting a brawl channel in 2024 is not something i ever expected anyone to do but i'm all here for it, banger video!

[kaloncpu]

"Would hate to have to play neutral again, on that stock, after I won it that first time" is such a good line lmao

[jmurray]

Feels like “you just grab people” is a secondary motto of this game next to “he puts the meta into meta knight”

[kman]

So in other words, brawls worst matchup is a child being kneed in the stomach for minutes on end

[bacheese]

PLEASE become the AsumSaus of Brawl. I need somebody to teach me about the history of my childhood game

[DoMayaPrime]

I lost a tournament well over 13 years ago, playing as wario. I remember very distinctly that a sheik player won with grabs, never doing any throws, learning all these years later that wario was just SOL vs grabs was enlightening. Thank you.

[demitrischoenwald]

All the Smash content I've ever seen about Brawl is about how "bad" it was competitively, but nobody ever talks about just *how bad* the spaghetti code is. I've watched the three videos you've posted backwards and let me just say, this is the most entertaining SSB subject I've ever had the pleasure of watching. I love Brawl, and I will probably never play another Smash game in my lifetime unless I end up with kids I want to raise right. I wanna see more details of the madness that is this twisted little game.

[whereisspacebar]

Someone please show this to Coney. He'd love this channel.

[Muggz]

The worst matchup in Smash isn't Brawl's NES vs. Marth, it's me vs. anyone else at all. Character doesn't matter - I will lose.

[SteamAPunk]

The production quality for a channel this small is nutz

[Fuges]

0:40 from what I’ve heard, there’s actually a character WORSE than brawl ganondorf, but the reason Ganondorf is at the bottom is because Pokemon trainer is ranked as one character. If Squirtle, ivysaur, and charizard were ranked separately then ivysaur would be at the very bottom

[driftwood]

Another awful matchup in brawl that doesn’t quite come to this is dedede vs Mario and Luigi. He had a standing infinite against both of them with down throw. It’s not even hard to do. Both characters rely on being in your face (although Mario’s fireballs are a pretty decent projectile) so they don’t really have a way to stay away from the grab.

[saiharamasukoi]

fantastic video. it means so much to me @ 9:49 where you talk about Brawl being more than just Meta Knight. like i totally agree, looking back Brawl does seem like it was a fever dream, but damn that fever dream meant a lot to me. i never played Brawl competitively (i only entered one tournament), but it holds such a special, immovable place in my heart for all the passion my friend group had for it. i was the guy in our group that knew how to DACUS. our little rivalries really compelled a lot of drunken party nights. it makes me so happy whenever i see someone else, IRL or online, that didn't just toss this game aside because it wasn't Melee (as great as Melee is).

also, the editing and effects work in this vid is gorgeous and so chill. i instantly hit that like & subscribe when i started watching, keep it up my dude

[mercury]

Thank you for explaining the jank brawl grabs. I always heard about the marth vs ness infinite but nobody really explained it to that detail. A 31f advantage move that can chain into itself is pretty insane lol

[RipplePuff_]

As someone who plays Brawl to this day and has been ranked in 2019 to current...

This is absolutely amazing content and what a Brawl lover myself has been dying for. Absolutely love it! Keep it up! <3

[mTricK]

You have to talk about how oppressive was Diddy Kong in the late stages of the competitive scene, some pro players from the day even think that Diddy Kong was the actual best character in Brawl.

[SmilePecoSmile]

In-depth non-Melee videos are always so fascinating to me. It feels like learning Melee all over again. Good work.