Who Would Canonically Win? — Greninja vs Diddy Kong

Who would win in a canonical fight between Greninja from Pokemon and Diddy Kong, the musical chimpnee of Congo Bongo Island from the Donkey Kong universe? Today we break down both of their abilities and have an animated battle to figure out that answer. Smash Bracket is an animated Vs Battle series created by InkThinks dedicated to answering the question... Who is canonically the strongest character in Super Smash Bros History?
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Music:
Tropical Splash - Skye T. / TehGM
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Thumbnail composition by: FlamingKitty

[SmashBracket]

I hope you enjoyed the video! Make sure to keep our channel tradition and spread fake spoilers in the comments below. And also...

[certainfriends]

Man it sure was crazy when Diddy grabbed the chaos emeralds and slapped Greninja into the moon

[leontriestomeme]

Smash bracket makes the fact that my memory sucks actually fun, cause I forget what episodes are in development and then get super hyped when I get notifications

[leontriestomeme]

The alternate universe version of Godzilla vs. Kong

[themanwithaplan]

I feel like you are one the first Vs battle I have seen with Diddy Kong that gets his personally right! He isn't just a monkey (dissipate how he is portrayed in Smash Bors.), but I fun loving kid how is still trying to figure out how the world works! AMAZING work with portraying the characters (honestly, don't know why I keep getting surprised by your work)!

[counterfeitlemon]

I want to clarify that the calculation that Ink showed for Diddy Kong crashing into the moon was only accounting for the power required to make the moon wiggle by one pixel. So even with an extreme lowball, it was 6 billion times higher than anything else Diddy had. If we were to actually calculate it getting knocked out of the sky, it would be even higher.

[Robertz]

When I first heard of this fight, I didn't think that I would enjoy it but this blew me away. Definitely one of my favorite smash fights (along with Kirby vs Jigglypuff and Pikachu vs Pacman). I'm a bit bias since greninja is my main and my all time favorite pokemon but this was an awesome battle regardless.

[ezequielschlaen]

If you think about it, Greninja shouldn't have been abre to steal Diddy's potion, as he was already holding the mystic water. But I guess not being abre to steal becuase you already have an item is as illogical as needing a specific move to steal the item

[rodrickgoldberg]

Dang, I thought Diddy would have won because of the moon feat. But I can respect your reasoning for not really including it when comparing it to all their other feats.
GG, Greninja. But future battles will push you to your limit!
As for next time, it may as well just be Steve and Alex fighting. Zombies are straight up cannon fodder. And while an Enderman can be intimidating at first with their erratic nature and teleporting away from all projectiles, they’re not so bad against an experienced Minecraft adventurer with good equipment. Which I’m assuming you’ll treat Steve and Alex as such.

[browncow]

The animated bits are looking slick. Looking forward to seeing that evolve in the future.

This analysis got me wondering about something random. How does the ground type Z-move work in the anime? That one was always pretty insane looking in Sun and Moon.

[kestrel]

Greninjas ability to steal items makes him a real dark horse depending on the matchup. Super star? His now. Chaos emerald? His now

[jasonbell]

Is nobody going to point out that thief doesn’t work with a held item?

[reygoh]

Why was the part where Diddy Kong popped out the flamethrower not in the fight, but in the post analysis section?

[caltontherobot]

well, i'm sad Diddy lost, but at least it wasn't gory, and the music track rocks.
looking forward to the godly Minecraft Battle Royale, especially the Music track Skye will make for the Royale

[Toadiferous]

I feel like if we're gonna exclude things like Diddy knocking the moon out of orbit, we shouldn't really count Greninja's "durability" surviving things like Z moves in the anime. Greninja is built like a glass canon in the games, not a Pokemon with high endurance. (72 base HP, 67 base defense, 71 base sp. def)

Plus he's Dark type which is weak to Fighting. Diddy Kong uses a ton of hand to hand fighting and acrobatics, so Greninja should be getting KO'd even faster.

Greninja is also balanced around having four move slots, and Thief can't be used while already holding an item (Mystic Water).

This fight did Diddy more justice than most people give him, but it really skewed Greninja a little too strong if you ask me.

[kingtallzilla]

Boomstick: I guess poor Diddy wasn't the "chimpney-ion" in the fight

Wiz: Ugh. (Wiz proceeds to slap himself in the face)

Wiz: The winner is Greninja

[himignicest]

dude, can i just say THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE, your channel is INSANE?? came from ur schraff video and I came upon your million underated works, like there's absolutely no way I thought this existed a few minutes ago, THE EFFORT IN EVERY VIDEO?? GOOD SIR THAN YOU FOR UR EXISTANCE

[John_the_Paul]

You almost scared the life out of me with that car shot

[chihuzu]

It’s sad to see Diddy dying to greninja, despite me loving him. I really love this fight cause not only did it study their strength, ability, etc but they also have NICE art style!

[ElijahW]

Diddy Kong: **exists in general vicinity**

Greninja: "So anyways, I started Water Shurikening-"