 All right, everyone, are you ready for a Nintendo Treehouse Live? I know I am. So what are you waiting for? Put your favorite emojis in the chat. Get your Mario Wonder Hype hats on. And let's welcome in your host, Nathaniel Rumpeljantz. Nintendo Treehouse Live happened in ETA 23 minutes and counting. Look at it. It's there. It's staring at us. It's it's looking at us all glorious. Like it's technically already live. There's some background music on it. You see it over here? See? Oh, look at that background music going on. It is. It is. Look, we'll pause it. They got like Smash Bros music going because right after the Mario segment, they're heading into a Smash Bros tournament. Oh man, guys, can you believe it? I as a content creator, the last two days, the last two days have been what I've been waiting for. Look, let's drop a little lo-fi and let's talk a bit. I'm a Nintendo news channel, right? So like there's a lot of dry periods. There's a lot of dry periods. It has been nothing but raining since the Mario Wonder Direct. Just raining. Not just Mario Wonder News, of course. Yeah, lots and lots and lots and lots of Mario Wonder News. Then we had like direct rumors for this this month. But you know, we get direct rumors in September. We get direct rumors in June. We get direct rumors in February, January, etc. That's pretty normal. But what I didn't expect today was an old leaker to come out of the woodworks dropping new information on Nintendo Switch 2. A leaker who has gotten things correct in the past coming out of the woodworks. That was reported in our latest episode of Prime News. Ah, and by the way, that's not the only story in there, right? Prime News is all about getting a bunch of stories out. In fact, I think I spent more time talking about Mario Wonder stuff than the leaks. But the leaks were the bigger story. Plus, we obviously had this treehouse happening. Guys, it has been a glorious couple of days. And I want to thank you guys for tuning into my videos, tuning into the channel, coming to the live streams. You know, we had a fairly big turnout for yesterday's live stream. For it just being a single game live stream. You know, it has over 4,000 views at the moment. Which for lives is actually pretty damn good. We are not a live streamer. You know, like we're not like XQC or anything like that where we're doing live streams for a living, stuff like that. But, you know, when it comes to just streams like that, it's for a non-Nintendo Direct, that's pretty good. Our Nintendo Direct streams obviously go a bit more wild, right? You know, we can get 8,000, 9,000, 10,000, 11,000 views on a direct stream. But for just a single game stream, 4,000 is sweet, man. It's so sweet. And here we are back again, Treehouse Live. Some of you don't need to see anymore of Mario Wonder. I will say this. My expectations for Mario Wonder in this Treehouse Live are low. Very, very, very low. That's all. They're low. Because I think they're just going to show us the preview demo. So they're going to go through all the stages. I think that we're in the preview. Now, maybe we get some interview stuff. Maybe this is Treehouse Live, so we could go beyond the demo. But I'm getting a suspicion we're not going to go much beyond the demo they held for media. But who knows? Who knows? Who knows what we're going to see today? All I know is I am more excited than ever. Alamona, can I speak Spanish? Puedo or albaño? I cannot speak it very well. No hablo espanol. Let's see here. Let's say hi to everyone who's in the chat today. Let's take a moment. We'll take the shades up. The headphones are falling a little forward. Yulia did my hair today, so I don't know. It's a little wild. I need a haircut. I need a haircut. My hair is getting a little wild. Let's see here. Tysburg is here. One of our members. Welcome. Legendary Link is here as well. AB James was here for a moment. Probably going to dip out because he said he doesn't want to see any more of the game. Magical Rebi is here. Nintendo All-Star is one of our moderators here. You know, speaking of AB James, it's not really about you in particular. I noticed a few people that have said like, Hey, I've seen too much of the game. It's Mario. They can't spoil the game for me. They could show me every stage and I wouldn't be spoiled. You want to know why the fun in Mario games is the act of playing. Mario is one of the few franchises that I can't watch someone play it and really get that pure enjoyment factor. It doesn't ruin what I'm what I play for myself. And I also end up not enjoying watching people play it as much. So Mario is like those games that needs to be experienced in my mind. So for me, it's almost impossible to spoil Mario Wonder. Like they could show the entire game. And I still would be like, that's cool. I just want to play the damn thing because nothing replaces playing the game. Some games that are more story driven, some games that are obviously more narrative focused, you know, a lot of Sony games have a really heavy emphasis on narrative. Yeah, you can argue seeing too much of that, hearing too much of that, watching too much of that, could be a spoiler since one of the primary driving factors to play the game is that story narrative. But since that's not really true in Mario games, in the end, my driving force to keep moving forward is how much fun I'm having while playing. It's not about who I don't know what this stage looks like or I don't know what that enemy looks like. That's not what drives me forward in Mario. What drives me forward is I'm just having fun. And I want to keep having fun. So let's keep having fun. So for me, you can't spoil Mario Wonder. It's just not possible. They already showed that Bowser is a castle. You can't spoil Mario Wonder to me. Like there's just, it's not a game that's spoilable to me. Now that's my opinion. Obviously I know other people can. We're going to continue to have tons of Mario Wonder coverage all the way to launch. The floodgates are obviously open. So some people like A.B. James and others might not enjoy all that Mario coverage. Good thing I dropped timestamps of course. So you could skip things. But you know, just expect to see a lot of Mario Wonder because this game looks great. Great. If it has the difficulty like Mario 3 and Super Mario World and I have some hope because Tezuka is the producer and he was the director of those games. We'll see what happens. All right. Magical Rebby's here. Tenno All-Stars is one of our members this year. Terencey Clark another member. Don Lewis another our Natsu who's a member. Long time member with the blue bomb. Just like the Tenno All-Stars. And moderator. Next up we have the Argonaut is here. Cody B another member. A Japanese Chinese. Some sort of symbol name. I don't know. It's a different language. I can't read it but you're here as well. Thank you so much. Ty Spirk is here. One of our members. Think I said hi already. Nick Gamer is here. Mr. Trumbullo another member is here. Terencey Clark another member. Yvonne Francois yet another member. How's it going? A bunch of members. Smeagol24 is here. Scrollin' down. Cloud9 is here. How's it going? Yahulius48. Dude that's one of the best user names I've read today. Yahulius48. How you doing? MughalEvo is here. Another member. How's it going? Don Lewis another member. Awesome Aubrey is here. You got another member. Cody B. I think I said hi already. He's scrolling down. DJ Club Rules is here. F.A. Castello another member. Pika Pika. Let's see here. Scrollin' on down. The caption under the video still says drag. Yeah I can't. So I forgot to change it before I went live. Maybe I can show you guys this. I think I can. So when I switched this in studio mode you see how like it doesn't show the background? So like it's hard for me to change the text when I can't see the background. So the only way is to just like maybe you didn't see it. Hold on. Let me switch over. Okay so now watch this and then watch me go to studio mode. Of course now it's gonna work because I'm there. So normally what happens is the transition and then see the back there it goes. You got I guess I can't show you. So basically the this blue background that you guys see isn't here normally. It's weird. Let's uh we can we can fix that text though. We'll get her fixed up. I don't I I guess I can't show you but basically the blue background's not there which makes it really hard to change the text. Once the stream has begun. Super Mario Wanda Treehouse Live. Such a long title. We're gonna go ahead and shrink that one down a little bit. Yeah all right. Looks so small now that's all right. You know what's not small? The amount of likes on this stream. We're over 50 likes everyone. Thank you so much. Let's see if we can get to 100 before this thing begins in earnest in 12 minutes. Let's get through. Everyone here we have uh spider mining 20s here. How's it going? Mr. M. See spider mining 20 is one of our members. Aaron Rathas here another one of our members. I don't know why I keep going Ethan. There's no T there. It's Aaron. How's it going buddy? Alla Mona is here. Mr. M. Oh I just had to jump in the chat to give me a moment to get back to where I was. Seen some power ups and 3D Mario games are making a debut in Wonder. Invisible Cap was in 64. Now it's a badge drill was in Galaxy. Yeah but drill drill didn't necessarily work exactly the same as it does here but there's some similarities. And Goomba Mario was in 3D world. Yeah yeah we had a little bit of Goomba Mario action in 3D world that's for sure. Again it wasn't like this because the idea of this Goomba Mario is you're actually stealthing through the level which is not how Goomba worked in 3D world but yeah I hear you. I don't want to see more but I don't need to see more but I want to. There you go. Vegeta is here. How's it going? Greco Supreme. Kirby Balls. That's right. Patrick Gast is here but not to 712. How's it going? One of our longtime members. Got the blue icon by his name. Mr. Trumbullo I think I already said hi to. Justice Dutton is here. J.P.G is in the house. Amy the brawler is here. Greco Supreme is here. Karumi the spirit nightmare is here. T-Master is here as well. Scroll down. Tempest is here. Gentleman is here. Be...G-87. I think I said hi already. Spiders mining 20 said hi already. What's up? What is today's Treehouse about? So today it's about Super Mario Wonder. As the title says. They have a Super Mario Wonder Treehouse. Then they're right after that is a Smash Ultimate like Squad Strike Challenge Tournament thing going on. I don't know if I'm going to stick around and watch that. We'll see. We'll see. But we're definitely going to watch the Nintendo Live Treehouse portion which does happen first. For Mario Wonder. I have no idea how long it is because they didn't really tell me. It might only be a half hour. It might be an hour long. I don't know how long the Treehouse segment is going to be. It's happening at Nintendo Live 2023. So let's see here. Cool. Can I skip what I don't want to see? Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, not in my live streams. Obviously you can't. I mean it's live. But in my videos like, you know, I put timestamps in most of them. And then if it's a dedicated single topic video, I mean the whole thing's about that one topic. So just don't watch the video, right? You'll know it is. So here's all you can tell on my channel the difference. A dedicated single topic video. I have decided I'm not going to be in the thumbnail. So if my face is in the thumbnail, that's a prime news episode which has multiple stories. If it in and we'll have timestamps and stuff. If it doesn't have me in the thumbnail, then it is likely a single topic video. So that's one like super quick way to tell if it's a single topic or not on my channel. Because I know sometimes the title will only have one topic but there'll be multiple topics in the video. It's just there's limitations on the title. I can only put so much in there. And I can't just be like, here's today's amazing switch news because like you can't just use that title every day. So yeah. Let's see here. Your YouTube notification wasn't loud enough to Sam West. Nice man. Let's see here. Karami the spirit nightmare here. Charles Trudell, one of our members of moderators here. Team master, Gareth Rudd. Chris Lanzer, one of our members this year as well. Nightshade223, one of our members this year. Let's get through this quickly because we're running out of time. Before that starts, the Cascade is here. Bedjied87, I think I said hi already but hi again. Let's see here. Scrolling down. Make sure we get through everyone. Karumi the spirit of nightmare. I hope to not see the cupolines in this game for the bosses. We'll see. Thomas Tanskos is here. Or Tanksos, I don't know. What's up, buddy? How you doing? Raymond Poros is here. You're playing Rocket League while listening to this. Nice. Erin Grosh was here. Amy the brawler, I think I said hi. Xi Smith is here. Mario and Ariel. Okay. Uh, scrolling down. Declan is here. What is the, what is the Nintendo Treehouse? I've never seen one. So Nintendo Treehouse, for those who don't know what this is. Treehouse is a segment of Nintendo of America. They're part of the staff and they generally handle localization. Okay, that's their primary job. They localize the games and that also means they tend to go hands on with the games a lot because that helps them figure out, you know, if there's not an exact, you know, Japanese one-to-one translation in English, sometimes it helps to play that part of the game and see what the intended meaning is. So they play a lot of the games. They help look over a little bit of the QA team as well, because Nintendo's primary QA quality assurance teams are here in North America as well under Nintendo of America. And then they do a lot of the translating, not just for the games, but they also have translators that go around with like Miyamoto and Tezuka and Takahashi and all the rest and do the Japanese-English translation during interviews. So what this then is a Treehouse Live is Nintendo Treehouse employees basically playing through whatever they're presenting. So today they're presenting Super Mario Bros. Wonder. So they're going to play Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Oftentimes in Treehouse segments we end up seeing stuff that wasn't allowed to be demoed. So we end up seeing extra content. And then on top of that they often have some sort of interview involved as well. So they'll bring on like some developers and interview them while they're playing the games. So it's a really interesting and unique thing that Nintendo started doing. What was this back? What E3 did they start doing Treehouse in? It was a while ago. It was E3s where they started Nintendo Treehouse Live. And it was crazy at E3 because it'd be like three straight days of Treehouse Live. Not just like, you know, an hour segment. But yeah, it's pretty neat. It's a pretty neat and unique thing that Nintendo does. Let's see. You're scrolling down. Bro, what is here as well? How's it going? I think I said hi to almost everyone. If I missed you, I deeply apologize. I didn't mean to miss anyone. It's just the show's about to be in five minutes. Uh, who would win in a Hell in the Cell match? Donkey Kong or Bowser? In a Hell in a Cell match. I mean, wouldn't Bowser almost win by default? The guy breathes fire and Donkey Kong can't escape it because he's stuck in a cell. Hang in. You know, there's those moments in Hell in the Cell when they break through and then they get on top. And they're both really strong. I don't even know that a cell could hold them. And yes, because I got a little blanket here. My feetsies are cold. My feet. I mean, my studio's in the basement with these hardwood floors on top of cement. They're not heated, so my feet get really cold sometimes. That is not why the camera angle is the way it is, by the way. I saw some people speculating that I'm hiding the fact I'm not wearing pants or something. I even saw someone say, show me your belly. Well, I don't know why the hell you want to see my stomach. That's weird. No. But in order, the reason the camera is the way it is is just an accident. I have one camera and I have to move it between sets. And as we were going live, I realized my camera was on the other set. So I drug it over here and I set it up quick and I was eyeballing it. Then I sat down and I realized, oh, I'm a little low in the frame. I actually want this to be down. Well, you know what? It is what it is. The framing is what it is today. This is what happens when you're a solo content creator. It is what it is. I don't have anyone else to fix it. I'd have to get up and earn up the stream to go make it look a smidge better. It's whatever. It's not even cold here. We're in the 80s today. I think we're about to get a heat wave this weekend. About to get up to the 90s or 100s. Let me see. Lance in here. That's 86 right now. It's just, it's just cold in my basement. We have air conditioning. 90 tomorrow, 105 on Sunday, then 98 on Monday, and 98 on Tuesday. Then we drop back down to 79. And then we just sort of chill in the 80s for the next week after that. So yeah, we're about to have one, two, three, four days in a row of some pretty hot weather, which it's not hot weather, like anything we can't handle or anything. And we were like 100. I'm like, no, we're dude, we get 100 degree weather in Wisconsin. Yeah, we get 90 degree weather in Wisconsin. Sometimes we have it for a couple of weeks. In a row. Like it's not unusual out here. So I find it funny. We were like, oh, it's a heat wave. I'm like, what are you talking about? We get this kind of weather every year my entire life. We've never called it a heat wave. We just call it summer. I will say we usually aren't going to be getting 90 degree weather in September, of course. But they told us our summer was going to be longer than usual this year. So, so they said treat summer like it's August. I'm like, all right, or treat September like it's August. Well, we would get 90 degree weather in August. So, and yes, obviously we're dropping Fahrenheit in summer. All right, we can probably switch over here. It starts in two minutes. We'll turn that off. Go here. We'll see. My framing here looks, looks all right. I'm a little tiny for those of you guys are watching me on a phone. I'm probably dinky. Do you know some of you guys will watch my live streams on TVs? How, how common? We'll just unmute their stream here. How common is it for people? How many, basically, how many of you watch my content, whether it's videos or just YouTube in general? How many of you guys watch it on your TV? I've never been someone that, that watches YouTube on TVs like ever, ever. I like never watch them on TVs. And I think I'm, yeah, see, I think I'm just old school. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I see a lot of people that do it. And like, I've, I, look, this behind me is a YouTube video playing. And like, that's the only time YouTube videos play on my TV. It's, it, to me, it's weird. All right. Now I didn't grow up with YouTube. Okay. So YouTube wasn't like part of my childhood or, or like even a common thing. We didn't really have social media networks until Facebook. And I was graduating high school when Facebook came out. So it was college only. So like, I didn't have all these social media platforms. So the idea of putting a social media platform on my TV is so foreign to me. It's so foreign. The only time I, yeah, we have MySpace or whatever. The only time I put YouTube on my TV was when I was subscribed to YouTube TV. And that wasn't YouTube. That was like cable subscription, basically. So I personally don't get it. I've never gotten the idea of putting YouTube on TV. So to me, it's so foreign. Like if I'm watching YouTube, it's, I'm on my phone. Sometimes I'll watch it on a computer monitor if I'm sitting on a computer, right? But I've never put it on a TV. It's so weird to me. And they are of course quiet as hell. And I can't do anything about it. I don't think. And I boost them at all. Oh, I can boost them. They are so quiet. You guys want me to turn them up? I can turn them up. Thank you, roadcaster. They updated this thing so now I can add DB to anything. They used to not let me add DB to these channels. I'm going to be helping. Yes, okay. Well, good. Using the power of one. So with that being said, Kendra, why don't we go ahead and show our first course? Sweet. Yeah. So that's the best I can do to start right out as playing. That's as loud as I can. This is the first time you've ever been able to play Daisy. And it's going Mario game. So he's definitely starting out as Daisy because she's red. It's great to see her in action. It is. Their stream is kind of blurry character over there that had things to say to me. It's called the talking flower. And he's kind of all over the place in the levels here. He talks about what's going on around you. Sometimes he might comment on what you're doing. Sometimes he might give you tips. Elephant Daisy. All kinds of fun stuff. I know I'm like, but now I need to get this immediately. Yes. Yes. So this is the preview power up for this game. So fun. As you can see, I can use my trunk to attack. I can also knock multiple blocks at a time. Yeah. He does look Serena. Oh, look how. Bye. And then you can also, you can pick up water. So there's a dry flower there and I'm going to water it. And it's going to give me some stuff. I love the way that Goomba was following you with his eyes. You saw what you did. Like, I know what you've done. Yeah. You see, so these, these coins that I'm gathering, they're called flower coins. And they're actually like the currency of the game. So you can spend them at what are called poplin shops. Poplins are the subjects of Prince Florian. And we'll meet one of them a little bit later. Yes. I love you coming into that pipe. There's so much, there's so much like fun animation work and some little character touches here and there. And it's so colorful, which I love. But now we're coming up to a really exciting part of the game. So BK. Yeah, this is the. They're streamers. And this is our main goal in each of these courses. Oh, I love the crawling animation. The power of one. Oh, the crawling animation is an elephant hilarious. Yeah, I'm going. There it goes. Love it. Yeah. So that animation is great. Wonderflowers will activate something wonderful in each of these courses. Sometimes they change the environment around you. Sometimes they change you, the player character into something unexpected. It's always a fun surprise. And it makes it really fun to explore, figure out where it is and then see what happens. My favorite part of the wonders is that you can hear when you trigger one, you can hear voices in the background yelling wonder, which is the game's way of saying buckle up. It's going down. And oh, go for it. Oh, no two wonders are alike, right? You never know what you're going to get. It's all that's my favorite part. It's always a fun surprise. Yeah, this is like one of the first levels. Also, you can opt to. It's jittery too. Yeah, that's on their end. The wonder sequence. I will refresh it quick without it. And sometimes there's benefit to doing that. But I just love the chaos. I'm like all about it. There's one thing we know about you. Crank quality back up to 1080. Really, really do. I feel seen. I might have fixed it up. Oh, there's a poplin. Refreshing. It looks like it fixed it. It looks a lot clearer anyways. And there's Prince Florian. Hypers Florian. Yeah. Oh, and I forgot to mention also. I fixed it, AB Jane. Wonder Seed was the thing that had the very end of the sequence that caused the wonder sequence to end. And you're going to want to grab those throughout the game. Those are super important to progression of the game. But now I'm going to hop over to what's called a badge challenge. So we have a new mechanic in the game. They're called badges. It's basically wearable power. Everyone talking about playing this game on drugs. You get new abilities. And there are many differences. Oh, the drug life. I don't know anything about it. It's okay. No, no, no, no. More Daisy. I must. I'm only Daisy. I know. I'm like, no, no, no. We're going to wonderful characters. Yes, I'm hopping back. I'm like, this is really important to me. I'm like, I need the blue toad energy up in here because yellow, yellow. No, I'm going to go with. Oh, a bit spicy change. Are you holding? I'm like, I'm like, I need the mellow energy of the blue toad. All right. This blue toad is kind of mellow and yellow toad. The better show more bosses. Who knows? I have no idea what they're going to show today. Yeah, totally me right now. Yeah. So I love how they don't even have the Mario Olen. You guys notice? This one. Why aren't they showing off the Mario Olen? Come on. I'm going to show you how it functions, but I do. So these challenges are kind of an opportunity for you to try out the new badge. They do. There are progressive levels for the badge. Nobody knows what they're talking about. So if you're looking for more of a challenge out of the blue, you can play those and try to complete them all. They do get surprisingly hard. They really do. Fun. Yeah. Oh, this is the wall climb badge challenge. And then, hang on one sec. We're going to tie this. This is the badge challenge wall climb challenge. So I can bounce up once, and then I can bounce against the wall again. Yep. It's one of the badges in the game. One thing to note too is when you're playing through courses, you can have many different types of badges. They kind of give you different play styles. So you want to figure out how you want to use it. Some are great for particular courses, but you can use them in different ways. The badge mechanics are pretty neat. I like it. And you go through and unlock the different ones. And you'll definitely have your own favorites. I really love that one, because it just enables you to get to areas that you might otherwise not be able to get to. I'm glad you switched to the Toad as well, because that was probably the best day of that Toad's life. The biggest vertical leap that Toad's ever had. Leap gave no Toad behind. So Rihanna, yeah, do you want to play? I would love to. Yeah, that's right. You are correct. And I'm going to play as Peach this time. So there's a reason to mess around with the different badges like every stage. And we're heading on to the next level. We're also going to change. So now that we've introduced badges, we're going to start using them in the levels. And for this one, we're going to use what's called the Crouching High Jump. So for that one, people who played some of the old school Mario games will recognize it. It looks very similar to the powered up jump that you can do in Super Mario Brothers 2 when you crouch down and then you would kind of like flash and jump really high. So we're just going to hop into this next level and show you what that's all about. One other thing to mention too is in a moment, you'll be seeing that we're going to be doing local multiplayer. So you'll actually see both players here using the same badge. And I really like Luigi's animation here. So cool. And I grabbed. So I just got this brand new power up. Also, this is a brand new enemy called a conch. And they do not mess around. But yes. When I saw the name of the enemy was called conch, I was like, oh my gosh, are they fans of Cronk from Emperor's Nugroo? I can also go up into the conch and move around like that. And I can go beneath these conchs and bust them open. Yeah. Just super handy, especially in this level. Save that poor flower. Oh, no. Here we go. Here you go. Oh, yeah. Boom. Thank you. There we go. All right. This little passageway here we can also go through. And if we didn't have the drill power up, we wouldn't be able to do that. But we have it so we can. But yeah, you can see as I crouch down, I'm able to do this. And it's kind of cool too because when you have the drill power up. The drill power up is like a super jump. So this is a perfect opportunity to talk about the online multiplayer. So we've got a couple of friends playing with us at the moment. And they're able to put down some of these little things, which are called standees. They're also doing some little emotes at us. Would you like me to demonstrate what I can do? Yeah, I actually. Yes. I would love if one of them could put down a standee. Go back to it. No, standee, no. I need you. OK, thank you. There we go. So actually there we go. So now they online have put down a standee and that is going to enable us to basically if one of us falls down here, what Riona was trying to show is that I can, boom, I can actually come back by using one of those standees. And I'm now also going to grab this drill power up, which one online many people looks really cute. Little baby peach. She looks cute. Yes. I just got to say another really cool thing is if you're playing so many of my daughter in functionality turned on, you can have people come in and they can leave those standees and then you'll have the ability to resurrect yourself in that way. So it's just super handy. And I'm glad we are able to show that. I want to take a minute to talk about the fashion in this game because an elephant overall is already stunning, but Princess Peach's drill dress is really, really good. Don't worry. Here, come a little to the left there. Yeah, there we go. Jump away. There we go. Don't worry. Teamwork. Teamwork. You can probably break these more easily with your drill power up, but I guess I'll get these. Yeah. Oh, and look at this. Look, haha, I love that. They're just crawling down there. You got this. That's exactly how an elephant is. That poor talking flower. Have I seen an elephant run? Yeah, they're just that good. Just keep thinking of the dumbbell. Just keep thinking of the dumbbell. Just keep thinking of the dumbbell. I'm losing myself watching this because it's so good. You're rescued and very grateful. This looks so good. Oh, here we go. Here we go. All right. Get my drill back. There we go. I really like the drill. Oh, look, and then up here you can get, these are called the beacons. And if you have the drill power, you can go into the ceiling. You can get some cool items from up there. You can see beacons all around different areas and different courses. Don't worry. I'm a professional. Is there something up there? That's okay. Oh, they messed it up. They messed it up. There is something up there. One thing I want to point out too, I haven't even shown it yet, but some enemies can actually land on your head when you have the drill. Fire flower. And it'll take them out. So maybe we'll be able to show you that later, but now... Oh, it's the wonder flower. Never mind. Wonder flower. They were talking about how each one is different. Oh, no. I got this giant friend. Okay, I'm going to go like this. Oh, god. I made a huge mistake. Oh, no. You got this. You got this. Go down. I'm going for all of it. Eat all those coins. Eat all those coins. Coins. Oh, my god. Sorry. I'm not... I know. I'm missing some of the coins. This looks fun. No. That's going to come down really low. Oh, no. Oh, no. That comp. Get out of the way. I missed some of the coins, but... It's okay. You got this. Get the wonder seed. Get him. Get out of the way. I'm going up. No. Oh, you got this. Here, here, here. Yeah, grab your power up from the item reserve. Oh, yeah. There you go. I want that one. Yeah. Wee. Nice. That one I put up in room. Power up. That's fine. Oh, no. There's the elephant power behind. Dude, that looks fun. That's cool. We can access them later. Mm-hmm. And it holds two, which is great. All right. Y'all got this, right? Specifically, I went here. Oh, see? See? They should have stayed up there. We're going to put a standy. Just in case. OK. OK. We got it. We actually got to go. Oh, no. We got to go. OK. Time. OK. OK. Run, run, run, run. OK. OK. Good job. Good job. The drill power makes it a lot easier. Yeah, I took the safe road. Get up there. Yeah. I don't know. Oh, sneak. So that is the thing you can do when you've got the drill power up. You can, you know, go into the ground and just pass by enemies if you want. Oh. A strategic retreat. Here. I'm like, OK, you're going to go that way. Yeah. You got this. Oh. You know what, maybe I'll come with you. You want it? You got it. No. You got me, too. Oh, no. You got this. Go, go, jump. OK. Jump. OK. Yeah. I should go. Yeah. Dude, I like the conchs. I'm not scared at all. I like the conchs. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Steady hands. Come on, conchs. All right. Let me see if I can get this enemy. Yes. There we go. Hey. I was like, I want to show that. Here we go. There's no public demo guys. There's no way to play a demo. Look at this pop lose. It's reached each side. Unfortunately. This is really nice. Living the dream. I know. This guy's got it figured out. All right. We did it. Yay. We made it. Wonderful. On to the next. Can I play next? Oh, wonderful. Please, please, please, please. It's so easy to say the word wonder. Yeah. I'm like, what's down for you? I can't appreciate it. You're welcome. I can feel the wonder. I'm enjoying every part. OK. I'm going to watch the video this time. A little lunch there, bud. Yes. All right. Here we go. Go on. I can feel the wonder. I do love that you can play as Yoshi in this game. You got to remember, Nintendo tries to put forward a family-friendly front. These are Nintendo employees. So they got to have a lot of laughing, a lot of smiling, because they got to present forward. You know, like, oh, we're happy. We love our jobs. So now we're hopping into a level with. This is probably a fun part of our job, though. Compared to their day-to-day work. More new enemies specifically. This one is called the skadadler. It's just going to skadaddle all over. And I noticed that you may have changed your badge. I sure did. So we now we're wearing the floating high-jump badge and some players again might recognize the inspo retro inspo. Hope there's more tracks in the game. Kind of similar to. Oh, poor Yoshi. Kind of similar to the Luigi jumps. Yoshi looks so upset with the elephant, Tom. And I'm just I'm just going for a ride. Poor Yoshi. So powerful. Yoshi is committed. The daddler was running for its life. I love this badge with Yoshi, because Yoshi already has a flutter jump, but with the badge clip Yoshi gets a pretty crazy jump. There we go. All right. Okay. I know. That's good. I was just like, oh, relentless. Such a cool animation to see them like running. And you can actually see them like peering. It's just so neat. I just love this. Seriously, I love the way this game is just so lighthearted and like, you know, silly in the best kind of way. Like it's just it makes me smile every time I play. And I have been playing it quite a bit. Yeah, their expressions are always so fresh and unique. Like when Yoshi has something in its mouth. That does look hilarious. That shall in his mouth did look hilarious. All right, let's get that 10 flower coin. I'm going to figure this out. Okay, so I was able to grab that 10 flower coin with the use of my badge. Some chronic back pain later. Obviously if you didn't have that badge on, you would just have to time your jumps to be able to grab it. But that's one of the cool things about the badges is that, you know, it offers you different opportunities. Oh, just push the pipe. So I know. I know you. It jumps. You got the quirk of that. Also, yeah, as the elephant, my ability to push things, I am strong. I'm so strong, so strong. Now, you could push those pipes though regularly, just without the elephant, right? Yeah, yeah, you can push. Even if you aren't in elephant form, you can totally push that stuff. It's just as elephant you are. You're super buff. Yeah. Okay. Yes, run. Oh, revenge. I know. I'm like, all right, fine. Oh, you got to be elephant though. Oh, I will. I'm just like, all right, here we go. There we go. There's all is right in the world. You're back. Oh, there it is. There it is. Of course. Of course, it's like running. There we go. There you go. All right. What happens on here? Wraps of the wonder here. All right. It's beautiful. Get all those stars. Draining stars. We'll do this tactic. Okay. Oh, those are the star powers. Nice. Yeah. Oh. It's just so satisfying the sound of breaking. Yes. Whoa. You got a one. The seed. That's quite a visual. So good. Nice. Perfect. Oh, quick. Do it together. Yeah. Come on. So much easier. It's fine. We're doing fine. Hershey's been doing lunges and squats. The gaps are very strong. Yes, she's super fine. Yoshi looks so good. He looks like he looks like Yoshi's about to break his back. Get off his back, man. Everybody in the pool. Come on. Yeah. We have plenty of things to make sure he's all right. Totally about this. So we're going to switch over to four players. Okay. That was so cool to see just how that all works. I like seeing Mario and Yoshi. Yeah. The drill power-ups pretty cool. I know Yoshi. Even if he's an elf. Yoshi being humble. So I think I'm going to be the elf. Yoshi doesn't have a back. I need that caffeine. I'm going to play as Nabot. I will be Mario. Nabot works a lot like the Yoshi's. Power-ups don't work on Nabot, but Nabot also doesn't take damage. So I got to know as I navigate to the next level, what's everyone's favorite thing about the game? I know. I'm like, that's a big question. For me, genuinely, it's all the little like animation touches and characterization that makes us feel really special and has like such new energy to it. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Well, that was it. I don't think that we're in the level and we're ready to go. Yeah. I know that was a big question. That was deep. Did we put a little incorrect badges? Oh, no. We've got to hop out. Ah-ha! Well, I can say something we didn't see, but with the elephant power-up, you get water in your trunk and you throw it at enemies like a Goomba. It doesn't defeat them. They just kind of like, whoa. Their expressions are really cute. I really like that part. And now, we've got Yona. Do you want to talk about this badge? Yes. So, since we're all playing local multiplayer, we're all going to use the same badge, which is my favorite badge, which is the parachute cap badge. Which I like because, well, you can see, we all have little hats. Little big hats. Like I said, fashion is very important. Very, very important. And this is also a brand new enemy called a bull rush. Man, I just got ran. It's a hazard. It's a hazard to society that bull rush. That's right. These are bulls. Marorn, all you guys are saying? They're sheep, Nate. They're sheep. Nah, they're bulls, maybe. They're cute little bulls. Oh, my God. Got on that one. Yeah. Wait for me. Buffalo. Whoa. There's a lot going on. I just want to use these caps all the time. Oh, yeah. There's an invisible character block. Yeah. All right. We're all on here. We're going. Wee. Going all up. You've made it. You've made it. Oh, yeah. This is a big day for Luigi. Good job, Luigi. Yay. Team work. Team work. Power team work. Team work makes the dream work. Oh, yeah. I have to collect all the coins. I can't help myself. This is why I like playing with you. Bado. Ooh. All right. Thanks. That bull rush took out the... Yeah. So we've had a couple of these pop up, these invisible character blocks. They'll show up if you're playing as the character that it's correlated to. But you can actually still... They're still present even if you're not that character. So you can find them hidden throughout the courses. But just above us here is a very conspicuous-looking sparkling bit of blocks. I'm sure there's nothing. So some of the Wonder Flowers are kind of hidden. We're going to gain access to it right now. Yeah. Yeah. Buffalo! Yes. Oh, dude, they even come in the foreground. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, for there. That's neat. I didn't see that in the preview coverage. They're in the foreground, too. Oh, no! That's cool. Uh-oh. Did we lose you? Yeah. Yeah, I'm gone, man. Oh, no. No, you're still down the way down, man. I think I might... There we go. Oh, I got you. Help. Oh, they got the goalpost. Nice save. Nice save. Oh, my God. Did you get to play through this stage twice to get all the Wonder Flowers? Not other than myself. I was like, where are you going? Oh, the Wonder Seeds. Where am I? I'm not to look at it. Stampede. Oh, my gosh. We made it. We made it. We made it. Shh. Run and jump. We lost someone. It's a very, very, very high goal pull. That goal pull is like... It's a long... Yeah, it's a systematically long pull. Hi. What long journey? That was a long journey, man. That was a long journey, man. That was a long journey, man. That was a long journey, man. That was a long journey, man. That is a long pull. We did it. We made it. That is a long pull. We somehow survived all of us. We made it. We did it. We fought all the off. How wonderful. All right. So that is the end of the segment, or our show. Oh. Once again, I didn't mention... It was short. So, Super Mario Brothers Wonder... Excuse me. Super Mario... Didn't even get a full half hour. October 20th. Didn't even get a full half hour. So, just something for that. But that is all we have to show today. So, thanks everybody again, and we will see you soon. Bye. Bye. Bye. So, next is Smash or something? Yeah, Squad Strike Challenge. Smash Bros. Nintendo vs. Next. We'll chill. We'll watch this a little bit. We'll see what's up with it. We'll watch this a little bit. We'll watch some of the Smash. We'll see if it's any good. Oh, very nice. I'm off. Thanks for the stream. It's minimized. Why'd you minimize? It's a full screen, man. I don't know what's going on with this challenge thing. That's why I'll stick around and I'll see what it is. And if it's lame, we'll just call it there. It's lame. Fighter Pass 3 is not confirmed. Get out of here. Speculated on heavily, but not confirmed. Well, you got to remember J and J LPS. These are the beginning levels. We weren't being shown any of the crazy stuff. It's almost like people expect to know everything about this game right now. It's weird. All right, I just want to see what this is. I have no idea when it starts. It probably starts in five minutes, much as a five-minute thing. Well, while I wait, I'm going to go ahead and check one of my Madden Leagues quick. Coke Zero Twins. Yeah, I don't know. I like Coke Zero. Wow, we'll wait. I get a free win in one of my leagues, so I'm just making sure I didn't get tough grades on my team before they send. That's all. I really don't care. Speculators annoy me. Sometimes Sora was a great send-off. There's nothing wrong if there was a Fighter Pass 3. Well, the speculation around it has to do with a lot of stuff lining up in a very similar way to when they announce Fighter Pass 2. And the only way I... So I talked about this before, how a Fighter Pass 3 could work. And the only way would be because they're bringing Smash Ultimate to the next switch. And they want to continue to make money and convince new people to buy it, so then you have a third Fighter Pass. Did my new mic arrive? Yes. The Sennheiser MKH 416. I've been using it in my last three Prime News videos. Go check today's video. Let me know how it sounds, Natsu. You're the audiophile. I don't know if it sounds good or not. I mean, obviously nothing's gonna sound as good as talking directly into a mic. It's meant to be off of a frame, but let me know how you think it sounds. I dialed it in just right. I have no idea. If I've dialed it in, I don't know if I have it dialed in yet. I've never used this kind of mic, basically is what I'm saying. Literally, I've never used. Never used a boom mic before. So it is very much like a... I have no idea what's going on kind of thing. Which world? Why do you see him please? Where's the new game? They just got done showing it. Now it's time to smash. Boom. Here comes a boom, ready or not. What the hell? I'm not that guy, so I can't be certain. Doo doo doo doo. Well, here we go. 60 seconds. 60 seconds, everyone. The countdown has begun. It's some sort of smash tournament. It is my pleasure to welcome you all into Nintendo Live 2023. Throughout this weekend, we are going to have some awesome competitions. Some of Nintendo's most beloved games, including Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, including Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 3. But as you can see, everybody is seated right now because I am joined by some awesome, awesome co-caps. Because we are going to be kicking off the Super Smash Bros. Squad Strike Challenge. Your boy, E.E., Charles, Kels, how are we feeling? I'm feeling fantastic. It is an honor to be here at Nintendo Live Seattle. Man, just the first Nintendo Live here in N.A. And of course, such a beautiful city to be at as well. Just walking around. There's so much things to do, so much things to listen to. The Live Band was my personal favorite. How are you doing today, Kels? I'm doing so good, Charles. I feel just as hyped as you are. I mean, I tackled that pork herby in the back. I am so lucky to be here first time in Seattle. And to be casting with you guys is such an honor as well. We have such talented players as well that we're going to be casting today. So... Oh, 100 percent. I mean, and obviously these players, I mean, they had to overcome a few of 250 to make it to this top 8. So let's take a look at that. Did the 70s or just since change at all with the mic between yesterday's fine news and today's? No. Today's has the game turned up a little bit. I added a plus 3 dB over the day before. I don't know if it sounded better or not. It might have been too distorted, I'm not sure. It's hard for me right now because I don't have any good headphones. Like these headphones are like literally can only be used at this set and I edit my videos over there. So I'm listening through speakers. So it's really hard for me to dial things in perfectly. Right now I got to get some headphones for over there. I feel she's sorry. She's not even a burp mic from. It's so rude. Come out the champion here today. Of course it's going to be two out of three throughout the entire bracket and it is single elimination. So no losers bracket. No second chances here. Okay. That's how you know. I'll dial back again. If I can do that right now. It's going to be one heck of a ride. You said no second challenges. It's really going to test these. I'll try it with a plus one for Monday. Who really knows this game. I'll get you back then to see if that's good. I just wanted a bit more. Because in post it's really hard to turn the game up. It's not hard to turn it up. It's hard to turn it up without there being other problems. That's why I asked Natu the audio file among us about it because with that new microphone guys. For Prime news we have a brand new microphone and it's very expensive. And I don't know what I'm doing with it. You can go ahead and tell how great that chair is. So I'm trying to get it set up as best as I can do it quite like sitting on stage right here for Nintendo versus man. I'm so excited. As I've said most of the times when you're at how you know we get to to commentate this squad strike is something that we all really enjoy. But we also don't get a chance to kind of get our hands off for this squad strike all the way through. And I think just I have to step out for a moment. I'm being called to make dinner. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to leave this live. You've got to be really good. I'm going to this style in this squad track format because you need to have three different characters. A lot of players they always have that one go to character right that character that you love playing the most. You always put all the time to try to flourish with that one character in this game mode. You're going to have to have three of those characters and you're going to have to have a lot of college with all these different items and these different stuff. I go take care of dinner here. Don't forget Charles. This is also two out of three. Correct. Yes. That means you could technically have no characters if you do decide to change your character. There you go. Let's let's find out. I will be right back. I'm going to just play this on my phone. So I'll probably still be popping in the chat. Enjoy this. And hopefully it's good. I'll be back. Very excited for this. My man Danny sitting there. OK Danny. Big smile. Big smile. That's all for Danny. Hyper Danny. Come on guys. Let's get excited for Danny. It's not possible not to be on this stage and not be excited. Find out Danny's opponent opponent momentarily. Oh switch it switching over real quick. Who we got. Who we got. Love that name right there. Well we love the game play too though. That is the question. They are going to be you know they got a little bit of pressure on their shoulders as they are opening and kickoff match. But I think they're going to be able to rise to the challenge. Yeah and there's a lot of pressure on the line as well. There's not a lot of players that can say they got into that top eight bracket of a tournament right. That is a really big accomplishment any tournament you go to. It really feels like that breakthrough. But once you're in that top eight the pressure is on even more so than earlier in the bracket. So there's a lot on the line here for both these competitors. They really want to show off what they got. Oh yeah. You said it best and here we go. The selection has begun. I see a Kirby so you are all excited. Charles we're just talking about this off camera. The match is starting. Retro star rocking the Kirby Pac-Man inkling while Danny's seeing Yoshi Joker Lake kind of feeling the tears of the kingdom vibe in here from Nintendo Live. No doubt about that. I do like the lineup a little bit more from Danny. I feel like the versatility is a little bit you know more in hand with those three characters. Now of course I'm not sleeping on my man Retro at all Kirby Pac-Man England. We've seen these characters do damage both on and offline. So you never quite know how it's going to shape up. But one thing I can tell you as we kick off this first match they didn't get here by accident. So it's going to be a heck of a showdown. Yeah. And another thing about Squad Shrek is was you can switch up the order in which your characters are being played at. So if you want to try and counter pick and get a really good matchup for your character you're going to want to really try to alter the order and predict how your opponent is going to pick their order as well. So there's a lot of mind games going into this. You absolutely said and here we go again. You said random stages. We're now starting on a mushroom kingdom you. So we're going to have hazards on this level will change in multiple ways. You're going to see constantly flying in the sky. We might show up at Bowser's castle at some point and it's really going to say hey Yoshi's got experience on those stages but this Pac-Man. I'm going to tell you one thing. You look at this stage list and you know it can be quite chaotic. This might be the most chaotic of them all just given all those reasons you alluded to because you never quite know exactly where you're going to go. And again just having to navigate through not only your opponent throwing things at you but the stage itself and of course don't forget the items as the drill makes its first appearance. Pac-Man of course with some built in items and stuff you see that Hydra putting in some work but don't forget those items on low they can still spawn and do some damage. Well it looks like our first transformation is coming through here the Bob-omb on the right side of the stage you got to be really careful but the up tilt coming out from Danny going to be a great combo so we're going to rack up some damage here and there's so much chaos going on the map especially with the hydrant setup. We're entering the sky world as a block of vices here not going to combo off they're going to throw a head up above. Danny going to cancel that out kind of crosses way down with that down special and now they're chasing for that smash ball that's kind of stuck in that little bicycle he's going to get it Pac-Man ready to chomp his way here to get his first stock. I love the fact there was no hesitation unlock the smash ball take the first stock give yourself a very healthy lead 53 is nothing when it comes down to a character like Pac-Man. So this Joker the true first DLC you know disrespect the front of play but the first true DLC in Smash Joker going to have to put in some work right now to make this come back a reality. And already just the first stock of the match going with the final smash that is going to be the most powerful move for each of these characters but you don't get it automatically you're going to have to go ahead and get the smash ball to unlock that power here and Retro Star did exactly that with Pac-Man and still racking up a good amount of damage on Danny's Joker. And we know Charles that it has always been such a strength part of Pac-Man's arsenal to hold the leads right you take that first stock you're you're gonna have a hard time because Danny's got to get in right there's five minutes left on the clock at some point it will go down so he's really got to go in we know Joker's a heavy hitter but Pac-Man is quite the defensive kind of character so he's going to do a good job at defending himself not there though he I mean he flew out of that blast so quite quickly. Yeah being powered up by Arson obviously going to give you an additional boost in that KO ability so really nice to see on that one now what you're looking for can we use this meter this Arson meter to kind of chip into this lead that's pretty healthy from Retro Star not anything that cannot be overcome but he's been playing so efficiently right now and the Inkling of course not going to make things any easier. Setting up all the ink on the ground with that roller shout out to Splatoon 3 another competition we have as well here for Nintendo versus an Inkling showing that of course you're also going to be able to do many things here in Ultimate with this character known to be one of the stronger characters in Ultimate especially in the beginning part of the meta. Absolutely. He gives strong characters we nab it I mean they're kind of making some work for our friends here in Bowser's cast so look at that taking you to go really on the side of Danny here just giving them some items doing the thief work that he's got to do and he's not done he's going go hang grab that item oh no nobody's not Danny said no and Retro is here taking this opportunity to charge up some ink and get right back into the game. I would like to see that that killing edge utilized I mean you could definitely kind of get a stock off there a little quicker than any other time oh no just going down by the wayside still another opportunity here one more hit should do it and there it is and now Joker going to threaten right now taking this time as well like there's no need to rush. Yeah and this final smash will definitely do the trick here is it going to connect barely missing it of course Joker could call in the whole squad there but not going to come through here oh my gosh I was really really close to getting it but unfortunately just right out of it now we're back home here on turf grassland world one and looking like and a retro star you know I mean the comeback right I feel like Pac-Man made such a big lead and now we're here at Alaskan situation that Arsene from Joker Danny's hands making it look so tough for him even trying to save him but Joker ends up taking it Danny now up a stock and Kirby is here visiting from Dreamland to hopefully bring it back yeah I mean at the very least Danny assaults one of his issues he's got the lead back right now so that is definitely something he can hang his handle but you gotta make this count Kirby of course of the three characters on this roster from retro star I would say Kirby is the weakest don't hit me kill I'm sorry but definitely it does kind of allow for a little bit of an opportunity to continue to chop into that but Kirby heard me talking some smack and laid it down himself back here gonna clear out that stock and player three coming in Navi see getting a little beat up here from the boomerangs of course link has quite the arsenal coming in and you're just gonna have so much stuff and Navi gonna get a grab here but not gonna finish the job Navi still hunting around and Navi I mean chose the side of Kirby didn't like ease comments about Kirby at all I chose the side here and giving a you know Danny a hard time Kirby of course with small limbs is gonna make it a lot harder for him to get in on a character with such range like link that master sword is and but he's using that boomerang quite to his advantage I think that's helping retro get to where he needs to but not too fast is Kirby kamek though in the blast zone looking like he's planning something to change the stage once again which could end this fight here in Bowser's castle it could definitely tell both of them very familiar with the boomerang the more you toss it and it comes back to the stronger it gets hold on this link final smash could be the difference maker trying to put some space oh no Kirby jumping into oblivion and that is going to be the first game great stuff and of course ending it with the final smash we wouldn't have it any other way the arrow coming through and these final smash attacks I'm telling you they're extremely powerful so I mean even if you're around that 50 60% where usually it's you feel pretty safe right but these final or these final smashes are just so powerful oh yeah it's gonna usually blast you and if you have smash meter on it's a little bit of a less knockback you take that damage but you're not blasting off that quick but a hard hit like that it's going to catch you especially such a long stage the platforms were changing at that moment and you know Retro found himself saying well where do I land right Kirby not much air mobility ran out of those jumps ran out of air had to land right in front of Danny and it was just like thank you so much a gift to myself that is the first game here yeah in the squad strike challenge usually you look for your final character to be that anchor character right but I feel like in the case of Danny was the Joker that helped lead the comeback and you know honestly given that lead that he really didn't surrender obviously link being able to close things out with the final smash is always a good thing but yeah that Joker was definitely the MVP for Danny in that first exchange we'll see if it ends up being the case yet again as we're gonna start things off on Congo jungle a classic right here baby I've been loving this stage back since melee so you already know I'm excited to see this oh yeah I mean this this stage goes way back and of course looks like the rosters are pretty much the same except for Danny we got a little bit of a swap Rob coming through as the anchor so something to watch out here for Rob another very powerful character in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate absolutely I mean and even the the change in terms of the lead right I feel like it's such a smart idea that Retro decided to stay with Pac-Man as the lead once you have that lead he's gonna hold on to it just kind of how it worked out in the last game but Danny now putting out link I think he wants that kill really take out that that KO before Pac-Man can have that lead opportunity goodness a stage like Congo jungle man a high blast zone it's not gonna say it does it does come into play here huge blast zone so even a strong you know master sword swing is not gonna save uh you know Danny here from taking that early stock yeah I would say for sure definitely got kind of blessed just again given the stage for sure for Retro but at 124 you already know this stock likely on borrowed time Danny put in a lot of work right now the most interesting thing from Danny too is I gave a lot of praise and credit to that Joker he put him on the shelf and brought out Rob but the way he's playing right now I don't even know if we're gonna get a chance to see the Rob Danny is on fire yeah and I would say the MVP for Retro last game was that Pac-Man and Pac-Man not coming into play looks like the final smash just for the damage and it's gonna do a big chunk already around 50 60 percent now onto the inkling and man this link is some trouble right now he is definitely causing up the storm he's not mad I like mappy about his master sword kind of blowing into pieces of tears but he's really putting in the work I feel like this stage specifically works so well for him because he controls the center and because of the slants of the stage you're gonna see that bomb just jump around so much easily it's gonna have some traps it's gonna throw Retro off and it's gonna get a little scary especially as the percent kind of continues to increase and as Retro doesn't get any ink it's gonna make it even harder yeah a hundred percent that's one thing like you when your ink reserves are that low you've got to fill up look I understand I don't like paying for gas either but we need it to be mobile we need it to be effective you got to have that ink online and still these hits just not enough to slay the first stock of this link who just absolutely came here for a fight and bringing it extra hard right now because the more ink that inkling is able to put onto their opponents you're gonna have that increased knockback that increased damage output right the name of the game is always to apply that link ink and you can also apply it onto the stage with the roller here Danny still holding onto all three characters this links doing so much damage to the first character and onto the second absolutely and again right it's this blast zone it's so large link is a heavy boy and we saw that barrel from Donkey Kong right really coming into play here you need link lost the recovery but it saved him multiple times and it could be the case here as well not only taking the stock but looks like no not gonna go ahead and fly the way Kirby is about to to grab that smash ball but there it is though put it in to the ball grab it and use it the smash ball they're gonna come out before you can do it and Kirby's back on the map here retro the start of it was only a matter of time before that stock had to come off right and now of course you do have your Kirby right now and he's just saying you know what I'm letting it rip could this very go be retro thinking like whoa I mean you think the master sword's nice you'll check out my sword with that final smash actually comboing into it from that forward incredible stuff coming out from retro and retro needed that to make this comeback but here comes the final boss here Danny switching to this Rob must have a lot of confidence to switch off that Joker because like you said he that Joker was very polished it really did all the damage and that work in this game I think maybe even the energy right and you saw that up here from Rob Danny was ready but the rock the stone is here but wait what is that no Kirby here showing you that nobody does he have that final cutter right but he's got feet of his own to go through those gears that Danny's Rob here that can't play and now the damage is racking up and we got a sword and Kirby's out of the front smash is not going to be the same in grace it's for Kirby here going to take him out Danny to victory that was actually insane and it seemed like Danny wasn't sure which route he wanted to go to get that final KO for a second I thought like there was going to be like maybe an up air combination off the screw attack the way he was just trying to pressure you know from that platform but Danny takes it to have been no issues as he advances to the next round but of course big shots to retro star as well not an easy task getting to this point so always glad to see when the competitors show up and show out Charles yeah Danny even flexing hey I got a bunch of characters as well taking out the Joker bringing in Rob the robot here to do a ton of damage and like you said very convincing to oh victory and we got to see a variety of maps as well kind of kicking it old school with the Congo jungle of course and you know great stuff to Danny's going to move on to the next round of the bracket Charles that Congo jungle touched my heart I saw that loading and I knew we were going to have quite the show even though it wasn't too well you know Kirby put in that work so very happy about that comeback and showed that you know you don't mess with the star of Dreamland but Danny gonna possibly go home a little you know he has been more of a chance of winning that trophy but you can go home and hold on to that amazing clip no doubt about that let's take a look at the bracket because it is updated just a tad bit here as you can see Danny has advanced to the semi-finals but who is going to be his opponent we will decide that in our next contest Gerudo King and Jay ramen should be coming to the stage if I'm not mistaken we again retro good effort for sure but this is a single elimination top eight bracket so that does end retro's run in this particular event do appreciate him competing but Danny we'll see in just a bit but I'm telling you I look at exactly like I look at these names and remember we got to see some of these qualified matches earlier today we saw a lot of talented individuals it's kind of impossible at this point at least for us to give an accurate prediction on who we think could actually take this whole thing home yeah I remember watching one of the qualifier matches and actually a king k rule got through and I mean king k rule not known as one of the stronger characters in the game so when you're able to get a character like that and get into top eight here at nintendo live seattle I mean that says a lot absolutely Charles and I think that's the beauty about squad strike but it's also the beauty about smash brothers where it's specifically in ultimate the balance is so much higher and there's so much more character diversity hundred percent you put that with squad strike I mean there's really no certainty that even if you click the best character in the game that you're probably not going to still qualify you really have to learn to work with every character that you can possibly know these guys worked hard with those characters like king k rule that may not be so much the best to really surprise you and turn you over here to make it to seattle no doubt about that well let's turn our attention over to our next competitors they are seated on the stage Gerudo king sitting nice all right make some noise for him make a little bit of noise there you go it ain't easy to get on this stage I've never been there I'll tell you right now the mic is my home people I'm letting you know I'm letting you know we've been playing for quite sometimes it's it's pretty difficult to get on up here these talented players give it up for Jay Rahman as well let's go and be here in our next round we'll see how the players have to deal with all this pressure being in the top eight and on top of that there's so much different things to worry about so many different characters on the screen there's a bunch of items and as well as the hazards on with the stages as well right so you don't really control what stage is going to get selected since it's random so a lot of adaptation and a lot of just on the fly decision making yes both are competitors absolutely it's going to take not a lot of overthinking I think it's extremely important that you are learning this game 20 percent but the mindset is 80 percent I like that where you really have to understand as to what is happening in this present moment and what is the counter to what's happening which stage are we on where in the stage on the blast zone can I take a stock the easiest way now the earliest way and what hazards can I use to my benefits just like nab it right so this is all ideas that are going to have to come into play when the moments happen and you need to trust your skills and your mindset in front of a live crowd here to really take the title home oh 100 and you know the thing I like most about this too especially the rule set the fact that is random is so good to me because you could practice so for so many variables and never encounter one of them like it's just something on the complete other side of the coin that you just didn't necessarily expect them as Charles said you have to be able to adapt on the fly that is going to be your means of operation as we take a look at the character line of Ganondorf Sephiroth and Snake Captain Falcon Wolf and Bowser these are some fancy characters we got Charles yes of course I'm really liking Gerudo King's lineup here I'm a huge fan of Sephiroth being in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate and of course you got some hard hitters as well like the Ganondorf like the snake and especially in the squad strike format if Ganondorf can get some of these really big swings that are generally hard to get but if you are able to hit your opponent with some of these really big swings you can get some really early stocks oh yeah especially the stages right if you find those stages with not so much of a high blast zone then you're gonna take that but obviously I think we're gonna be you know Gerudo King's definitely gonna go for the crowd pleasing characters but that's what we got Falcon in Robin's hand as well don't forget guys these are the characters that are really rooted for in brackets right Ganondorf yep you got the king of evil and we got Captain Falcon the knee of justice right this is really what people come to watch at a tournament and on such a great balance stage as well right PS2 is always such a great play as a counter pick but as a balance stage since the beginning of time no doubt about that and I'll tell you one thing you know you just want to talk about balance these two characters for a couple of titles now have been considered they kind of vary each other in a couple different ways obviously Ganon's got the strength Falcon's got the speed but when it comes to hard hitting look no further that forward they're gonna find its mark and gonna give Ganondorf that first stock but we talk about hard hitting can't finish that sense without including my man Bowser in the conversation because he could definitely do some damage there's a lot of characters have come out through DLC but there's one character that remains the heaviest and it's going to be Bowser the king of Koopa's here he's glowing he's got the final smash meter not opting to use it looks like Jay ramen wants to go ahead and save it for the next character here we'll see if that's going to be worth it or not these are the big decisions but getting snatched up with the side be Jay ramen doing a ton of damage or maybe setting up for this forward air KO just going to go opt for it the Giga Bowser is coming out oh and he gets dumped in the face there and Gerudo King did not have that intangibility from grabbing the lead because went ahead and released so great timing coming out from Jay wrong definitely the moment of pause you felt it in the crowd everyone you need to stop and just feel what was happening and it came there that re grab was going to be a but there you go Charles you're a big Sephiroth fan and he's out to play a Gerudo King using these items to his advantage right now going to the ledge to really actually respecting that he was going to get that going to tell you that's the items running interference but you got to be careful too man Bowser is not to be tripled with not to be played with and that weight and that hard hitting combination is what can easily allow him to make any kind of comeback you see that 151 he's got a lot of damage on him but at the same time a lot of rage which can definitely make things spooky if he can recover let's see oh the counter going to port that effort and put him in the dirt and there we go great lead here from Gerudo King yeah Gerudo King really lining up the edge guard Sephiroth is known for as a character just a really strong character that can go offstage really take away your option that ford takes up so much area and of course having that counter one of the most powerful counters in the game and this Sephiroth is really taking it away here absolutely part of the additional DLC characters right I mean you're going to come in as a huge surprise and you still got an early met on your side but Wolf like an explosive character that can really adapt well on any stage in any moment wait oh no okay I thought we're you know we had hope a little bitty but I think it all went lost it was a little whatever we could cut that part out that's a bit of a false finish right I feel like in post we can edit that so it was like kind of the initial KO you know what I'm saying I think that might be a better a better clip for Twitter I'm sure our social team is listening they're probably not gonna listen to me but that's okay baby you've got to listen to the gameplay and appreciate it because that was an outstanding game number one and we kind of predicted that Charles we knew that all the characters on the stage were going to be fast hard hitting and it did not disappoint and I mean the one character that actually was the MVP was the most fragile of them all Sephiroth extremely light and very tall two things you really don't want in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate when it comes to defense but of course you have the distance of that sword right and Sephiroth really utilizing that distance and getting all of these offstage KO's it really just was able to turn the tides and a solid two-stop coming out from Gerudo game right I mean no character is perfect and even though you are really light as you said Charles you got distance you got range you know we we really you know five meters away okay oh get out of there always practice that defense and now look at this Brinstar it's been a long time since I've seen this and you can do some wacky combos thanks to the level design of this stage the way that those bombs on the corner there can fall apart if you end up hitting them separates the stage right same thing with the sticky pew here on the left and the right side will tilt the platforms and you can use that in auto cancels and even just different moments that can really come here into item play oh 100 percent and two you got to know that lava does rise okay and will your percentage as well if it does make contact with you okay with a little bit of a disaster right there definitely does not discriminate on who he takes out but right now the king still very much so delivering the punishment at the moment as Wolf on the receiving end we'll see if we see this come into play with the lava because there's a lot of stages where you just can't make it back and characters with not so great recoveries can actually go into the lava to pop themselves up so we'll go ahead and see if any of the players go ahead and utilize that and there's so many different hazards on the stage we'll see here if Gerudo can get so long enough for the lava and no Brinstar not gonna give it up for the Gerudo king I do respect though the idea right hoping that Brinstar the lava would start to rise in that moment it did do a little rumble a little bit of a bait but said now I'm not coming I'm not ready yet so but there we go the lava is starting to rise we got Sephiroth out here to play and is doing damage again that long rage on such a small stage and it's going to cover that entire landing there it's going to make it hard to be a comeback now when you've got Sephiroth controlling this bowser so in charge first name should be Doug okay that's what I'm seeing right now okay then Roman said we ain't done with this fight just yet finals not some peace but hold on now the snake is armed and dangerous will this shot connect and finish the job oh wait oh and the rockets are gonna connect there's one final one and absolutely gonna do it Gerudo can closing it out to oh with the final smash in style wow that was such a shock too I don't even think he was able to react to that last missile right you saw it he definitely had the moment of I can air dodge but I feel though that Geron was so far out in the blast and there's no way this is gonna hit oh it hit me you know it just kind of went out a little bit of a bait but they're looking clean Gerudo there to use the surprise factor and take his goal here to the next side of the brackets that was insane gotta again one thing we're just appreciating is the gameplay has just been immaculate the the random stages and items have complemented this action so well as you can see right here we're going to go ahead and switch over and take a look at the bracket again because again we guys always keep you guys updated just in case you're now tuning in we have both Danny issues earlier and now Gerudo King both have advanced two semis Jay ramen falling right there another two on the board Charles we're really seeing these uh these players who are winning they're winning with dominance yeah yeah just really understanding the stage really utilizing every single tool available that is what Super Smash Bros Ultimate is all about I mean honestly it's been what Smash Bros has been about since 64 right so just really utilizing every single item utilizing every single static stage hazard and we really see the creativity coming through for these players and I really got a shout out Gerudo King's offstage game phenomenal was able to just have complete dominance over Jay ramen with that 2-0 victory and now we're going to see Danny and Gerudo King face off later on in the semi-finals I'm really excited to see that that's going to be quite the show especially that Danny was using more of those light medium way characters so it's going to be quite explosive here comes our next opponent we got Toko Kiro and William is going to be coming up so excited to see more action here squad strike at Nintendo live it's going to be great as we get into the next half of the top eight bracket yeah no doubt about that I think if those first two matches were any indication of what we're going to see we can expect another you know absolute banger of a match and I could not be more excited about that as you said Toko Kiro and William going to be slugging it out you know the one of the greatest things about this particular squad strike challenge that we have here is again we're not too familiar exactly what lineups everybody's going to come out here with so we're kind of getting treated and surprised all over the place and again as I said it's making some for some very compelling matchups so I expect this not to be any different Charles as we are about to get another game started can't wait to see the stage and I can't wait to see the character lineups so far we've had so much different character diversity and with over 80 characters that's definitely what you're going to get in a Super Smash Brothers ultimate tournament so I'm really excited to see the character lineups and of course the stage we have so many different and fun stages that we're working with combined with all the different items man I've been having such a great time I see Wendy Yoshi and Villager on the right side and of course Mr. Game and Watch Ridley and Violet again six brand new characters we haven't even seen on screen yet I love it we saw a little bit of that Yoshi once but but I mean that was that one game right it wasn't out too long when you had help from that Joker so and then here he is again but Villager is a character we have not seen a lot we saw a lot of Villager in Super Smash Bros Wii U but in this game a lot more of that Isabelle has been coming out as of late so it's nice to get that refresher here as to what makes Villager so strategic not only the Lloyd placements and when you do hit it does get a little bit of end lag and you get that impact from shielding or getting a hit from those Lloyds so it's going to lead to a lot of combos but again William rocking Violet's a lot of range and it's going to go right through that distance right you're talking about a lot of combos how about a lot of chaos because we got the ice version of this stage right now of Pokemon Stadium too and that is definitely going to be a little chaotic just notice how the slides come into effect and how about the combinations you know intentional or not you know at the end of the day Charles it's effective and that's just what you're looking for to get the W got the green show in hand keeping that Wendy at Bay this Violet put in some work right now just narrowly avoid being in those triple digits and of course Pokemon Stadium too going for another transformation back home on home turf here Wendy has already taken quite a bit of damage William really showing off what this Violet is going to go ahead and get the capsule and great item control look at that juggling with the capsule catching it when it bounces off the shield absolutely and I think that's what makes Violet such a challenging character right when he has control of that center stage with that range I feel like he's unbeatable at times right no matter what items you're throwing we were talking about how items should be making this tournament so diverse and so unpredictable but with these two O's right it's been so consistent that these players know what they're doing with these items it is not unconventional it's not random this is all planned on how to use each character's tools to their largest of potential like Ridley yeah you were speaking of tools I saw I had that killing edge and it was going for a minute that could have been a great chance to really get some damage but unfortunately not going to be allowed to hang around long enough to really utilize that as William a commanding lead right here in this Ridley looking to extend that even further and maybe he's going to take another smash ball well time for Toko Kero to get this stock off because right now William is having a ball oh with the banana in hand this is a very strong item Diddy Kong can also spawn that item so you got to watch out for that and when you have that banana when you throw it at your opponent you're going to go ahead and get any kind of follow any kind of smash attack any kind of grab so it's just really really strong here just going back and forth William looking real strong oh man and just a lot of breath coming out from Ridley and it's got a lot of fire on it too and let me tell you we also can't forget when you are kind of holding forward when getting hit by a smash attack usually without items you have a better idea and chance of actually surviving but when there is item into play knockback does change from the effects of the items and these moves already really having one of the most fastest and most powerful annoying smash attacks that are going to bother you and steal those stocks like that I mean it really is going to be quite explosive that even earlier percents in those moments 100% I mean listen that was just a very uh calculated strike and calculated effort on the part of William somebody who as we pointed out you know at the beginning of this event we say you need to be very engaged and just kind of comfortable with a variety of characters to really take care of business in this event I think William definitely hits all those check marks at the moment but toko caro is certainly going to have something to say because this is again best of three understanding a single elimination when your life's on the line like this in bracket you definitely show up with your back to the wall yeah and of course villager going to have a little bit of options here when it comes to items because you have that pocket right so you go ahead and pocket all the different items that your opponent's character can spawn or they just spawn on the stage in general very similar to the rosalina gravitational pull here see if toko caro can go ahead and utilize that with a screw attack into the upper could have gone for maybe another one to get the KO that was such an interesting and such a creative response to from the screw attack combos coming out again really such a large character but with such quick options that could really come out those wings really gonna put you out those blast zones as we talk about small battles having some of the smallest that's gonna hey what's up bro can I use you I ran out of speed there you go thank you so much William here taking a stock for himself and using the items to his advantage you can't catch your opponent my throat yeah I was gonna say that fire bar is typically meant to be swung uh not flung but nonetheless effectiveness is effectiveness and William now going up two whole stocks this Ridley may just carry this whole roster to victory I don't know man yellow Yoshi looking a little black and blue right now because you can see Ridley is unrelenting on this assault yeah and William just really utilizing the offstage potential of really that neutral air kind of starts at the bottom so just position themselves at the ledge and when you hit Wendy or any of those Koopas out of their cart they're not going to get it back for quite some time in the up there will you cleaning house with this Ridley looking unstoppable few thoughts you go ahead and sit on me my wings are gonna deny you don't forget disjointed hit boxes my friend we'll go ahead and overpower you William making Ridley here look like such a threat to that other side of the bracket let me tell you that we got Danny and we got Gerudo king that's gonna be you know looking that Ridley being maybe just a little bit whoa can I can I give you a little insight I knew William was gonna be a problem because he showed up to this event he didn't have a gamer tag he said oh yeah he said William it's William that's the name my mama gave me that's what I'm gonna use and that's how I handle business okay I knew William was gonna be a problem and for the rest of the bracket that just may be the case that was an incredibly just dominant performance as we see yet another 2.0 has been delivered in the quarterfinal so that makes Danny issues Gerudo king and William so far the only three we've fought five percent means but we got one more slot to fill to get to our top four and it's gonna feature empty surge in Valorant's taking it back to gen one Pokemon here the best one so coming in hot of course the 94 on deck as well we'll see how both these competitors go up against each other and we'll see their character lineup as well we saw a little bit more of a tame stage that last one small battlefield one of the newest additions to Super Smash Brothers Ultimate so essentially battlefield but cut that top platform right absolutely and you know it's been so respected and beloved by so many players used as a counter pick and so many other tournaments as well so it's great that we were able to see that come into play here that small blast zone we haven't really had any small blast zone as of yet even Brynstar the small stage still such a large blast zone so it's great that it came out and we were able to see some early stocks I mean that was a gift to Ridley it was Christmas morning looking so good delivering like you said the black and blue bruises I didn't want to say it but I couldn't ignore it okay it was it was definitely it was definitely a rough outing for sure and I'll tell you what so we've seen a couple of different characters right and again in a game that has a roster of over 80 characters you're gonna see a lot of diversity some characters of note that we haven't gotten a chance to see yet Fox I'd really like to see Fox ages has not made an appearance yet either which is a character that I always have my eye on for sure you know I mean how about yourselves any characters that you're kind of anticipating seeing before it's all said and done I would definitely like to see a little bit more Star Fox representation we saw the wolf earlier I'm a huge fan of the series Fox is my personal favorite character of Super Smash Brothers I would love to see that and the pyromanth are another very powerful character Steve also a very popular character very popular IP right so very surprised we have not seen any Steve yet what about you Kels absolutely I mean I'm of course like I gotta be biased and say Sonic right I mean I already got Kirby it's not a bias it's expected so it is expected but also not even to say it in terms of that but Sonic speed being able to utilize each item grab everything especially on those large blast zones he's able to run grab whatever he wants when he wants I'd love to see more Sonic I'd also really like to see ages as well I was waiting for that to come out Isabelle another great character in Squad Strike specifically and can utilize items keep in our pockets use against others so big animal crossing fan I got my Kirby I want some animal crossing listen I can't blame you for that you know and again one thing that we have really seen thus far is the utilization of those items that has definitely played more of a role than maybe some of our competitors were expecting okay but you know anytime you turn on items that is one of the hallmarks of the Super Smash Brothers series and I'm anytime I get to see them I am elated about that but it looks like our competitors are on stage as I said LT surge which again we believe is a little not to Lieutenant Serge in Gen 1 of course and Validans will be competing in the final quarterfile quarterfinal match excuse me and we are going to get our semi-solved after this is done and I'm loving Validans lineup all right let's give it up for both our competitors this is the last round of this first round of the winner's bracket here and man we got two Kings on deck King K rule and King Dedede man I gotta tell you I love both those characters they're so fun to play but they can be a little tough to play against against some of these quick speedy characters so we'll see how Valadin makes some of these bigger characters work out I'm absolutely interesting to see how the p2 does right that explosive quick characters you mentioned especially so small will really come into play into a team like this specifically I think against King Dedede K rule game and watch they're really going to be doing some hard work II now we got a defensive option I mean bowser versus game and watch how do you touch game and watch well I mean you have to be very very gingerly you gotta be you gotta be oh no did that no way that broke the shield oh no now fortunately he's only at um he was only at zero okay so it's very modest not to worry about anything but we already know bowser gets you once he gets game and watch around like the 50s that is absolutely KO percent and do not let him get his hands on this smash ball first if you saw that Mario movie you know he's always after something crazy and right now he is just going to erupt in this punch KO peaches peaches peaches in the black zone like gosh there it is but now the two kings coming in and don't forget we also have Gerudo waiting in the other the three kings in the way but two kings must fight for one to remain here in the bracket we got fire coming out we got crowns coming we got pirate hats it's a clash of the titans a belly flop really comes in hey that's a great breakfast you have let me tell you something that belly bounce does not mess around now here is an interesting little matchup we're gonna have peach you of course with the speed and technique to get the job done but that lightweight can sometimes betray this character and of course k rule does not discriminate on those big meaty hits let's find out though a lot of good movement coming out on the part though of lt surge this of course putting the uh the surge right there with this peach you let's see that's it i expect this peach you to really be the right shoot from lt surge so oh we were talking about and then we said Pikachu is going to come in and win but hey we got a green you know crocodile instead with a bomb in his face we know peach you just inherently how the character is designed tends to harm themselves okay but i don't think that was what the designers had in mind very unfortunate spray that peach you caught right there and now it's going to be all up to corn to try and mount this comeback and take out this king k rule knowing that d d d is also waiting in the wings it's also possible i mean corn has amazing sure defense and really great ko options but if we're really looking at ko's i mean you're you're talking about k rule with max rage and a smash ball so you got a lot to work on but that is the invincibility when you are neutral get-uping from the ledge you do have some moments here and now you have stage control here we go edge guard the crown coming out not going to get hit but we are going to perhaps see the end and going to commit to it so that's a dash attack waiting to happen yeah no doubt about that i mean you know it really came down to the back of the surge just you know just falling behind a few unfortunate circumstances that we did highlight in that match did lead to that destruction but Validant's keeping a cool head recognized hey i have such a powerful lead here i'm not going to do anything extra over the top i'm just going to play my game and it was good enough to get him that first absolutely i mean i just want to talk about that bomb again right i think that really i don't think surge does yeah i don't think he does he's already trying to forget and focus and that's also very important right the mindset when going into this where you are playing with items and this random occurrence could potentially happen at any point even when the items are set to low it can be chaotic at times they spawn in and the camera won't adjust to where that item is at certain items so it's going to surprise you you might not be so ready for it but hey this time the king is out to play to rebuttal and to continue the wrath here all right let's get it so we are going to classic battlefield for this exchange looking forward to a lot of a lot of true neutral stages kind of being shown right now and obviously Validant's winning that first game keeping that lineup very much so intact see if it'll be enough to get the job done a lot of damage being hammered here on ltsurge right out the gate oh no don't let him do that that cannonball is nothing nice that was oh that's okay that's okay oh that's absolutely okay oh yes the full commitment off stage like that with that nair beautiful and then just gonna have the final smash tucked away not gonna get the KO well it is feature but probably not gonna get the KO but some good damage oh man i'll if this chaos i'm walking off stage i'm walking off the stage the camera's ready because it but just might happen honestly just oh it was i don't think all right it was the other way though that was definitely the KO the way that he launched himself but surged still here in the gym battle against king k rule who is dominating not only this sense but just that ledge but as i'm saying that here we go reversed rolls here the landing nair continues to just rack that damage and keep control finding that landing option here that balance is looking for i was able to interrupt that down smash attempt on the top platform that likely would have been a KO again peachy that lightweight just does not do this character any favors especially in a sticky situation like this you have to play almost perfect going to use that ground against k rule and just trying to keep him trapped on this right side party ball over there maybe could be something in there to help even up the score let's find out survey says oh stay right away from that bomb that's all i'm gonna say about that i had a feeling to you i don't know why my gut was saying there's like 50 bombs inside of that party pot so not not my kind of party but uh this has church was actually ready responding kind of retreated a little bit and then was able to grab some arsenals but let me tell you the sword versus boomerang who do you think is gonna win in a fight right i think that's pretty obvious i've been clamoring for somebody to get their hands on that killing edge and really utilize it in that case just chucked it out didn't even utilize the properties of the item but nonetheless a stock is a stock in a lead well this is certainly a lead for valdans one game away from making it into semis here at the squad strike challenge but lt surge still with some signs of life swinging trying to make this bowser do everything in his power to get the dough now we're back at the first match the first stock of this set we got bowser and game watch which is actually quite the advantage and opportunity here for valdans to bring this back now grabbing oh yes don't forget you can control the initial boost no you know what i'm gonna take you out but hey i i also have to kind of leave yeah you know is it worth this yes absolutely that's a tough one i'm just gonna say that's a tough one to have it go out on obviously you know you have your final character you're expecting at the very least you'll get at least a little bit of a slug fest especially since it's bowser to try and mount some sort of comeback but that final smash does not play a round of game and watch just pick you up send you out and there it is sending valdans into semis another two okay is that just the trend of the entire event are we gonna get into semis and just see two after two as well look people came here for business they did they didn't come here to play they came here to win okay they want that trophy i want that trophy so i don't blame it i'm now tells me it really is looking though as we got three kings now right into the finalists so i'm really looking forward to seeing these guys these nintendo representatives go at it we also have sephiroth right kind of in that back too so he's like hey don't forget about me yeah for sure well we can't forget about how we got to this point how about we take a look at that bracket one more time for you guys and you can see it was dany taking it over retro star with a two oh gerudo king advanced over j romp again two oh toko caro fall into william no gamertag just business my man william with the two oh and valdans just taking out lt sir so that's that's some really good matches in this semi finals with dany taking on gerudo king and william and valdans i gotta say the william valdans match might be the one i'm most looking forward to yes because those are kind of like my mvp front runners of this bracket so far i agree with you i was just about to point that out as well i think these guys have had that one specific character where we had k rule right and both of them have had this enormous and explosive kind of performance with that one character and then you couldn't even get those thoughts off even with the help of items so it really went into their favor i don't know if that luck is on their side and that party ball hats but it's that's the surge hope as well but it you know it's going to leave a mark no matter what they do the big heavy boys and the fact that they have to fight early like this in a way i feel like that was really a finals match that we could have potentially seen absolutely and that's not and listen that's not a knock against any of our other competitors we understand everybody who's made it to this top four incredibly skilled and one thing you always have to keep in mind is the stage and the item spawns can really kind of dictate how these things are going to play out that's why again you know whoever's best at not only their characters but utilizing any of the tools that present themselves is going to be probably your front runner for this event we all kind of have our favor all kind of have our favorites right now and you know maybe our friend charles does as well because you're wondering where did he go well i got you covered we're going to throw the charles for our squad strike challenge analysis all right so we're here of course we've seen incredible plays coming out through in this entire tournament and i wanted to break down some of the plays and why they were so good and why they're able to get so many thoughts and some of these players kind of make it look a little seamless so we're going to get into our first clip here we have kirby versus ling of course this is retro star making the comeback and we're going to go ahead and play this clip here now in this position you really really want this smash ball but yoshi is also aggressing on to the smash ball here right so because of that retro star goes ahead and uses that upbeat and creates a lot of pressure here and you're also going to get the smash ball at the same time while trying to hit your opponent so now we're going to go ahead and play the clip here able to get the smash ball and you notice that zero percent able to combo into the final smash with such a powerful attack you want to be able to combo into it and at zero percent retro star was able to go ahead and destroy yoshi with that final smash attack and you really want to utilize that and what better way to utilize than taking out your opponent at zero percent now we can go ahead and go on to the next clip here we got burrito king on the sephiroth and of course j ramen on the bowser and i really just wanted to point out burrito king's efficiency offstage with this character sephiroth very light very frail but offstage can be a menace here so i'm going to go ahead and play the clip and it's all about tracking your opponent's resources so here burrito king is covering the jump in right so just in case j ramen tried to jump in here of course we have this attack with sephiroth that big sweeping up air to really cover all that area so it forces j ramen to not only use the double jump but you want to double jump backwards because you're avoiding sephiroth now because this double jump goes ahead and gets used you don't get another double jump when you're until you hit the ground so now burrito king can really push bowser in this direction and sephiroth has so many strong tools like forward air and like counter that you can go ahead and utilize offstage and when you don't have that double jump you don't really have a mix up so we can go ahead and play the rest of the clip and just seeing burrito king cover that with the forward air setting up the neutral b and then dropping down with the counter to go ahead and finish that stalk of very proficient offstage with that sephiroth so provision offstage that the next clip is also going to be burrito king on the sephiroth here so we're going to go ahead and line up this next clip and it's going to be j ramen on the wolf the space animal characters from starbucks not known for having the best recoveries you can exploit them very well here so burrito king can go ahead and play the clip going to go ahead and get the back air and right here this is a very vital spot j ramen went for the blaster since j ramen went for the blaster there's a lot of n lag so now j ramen is in this bottom area right and because you're so low in this area when you're wolf you have to burn double jump so when you go ahead and burn double jump that is your most valuable resource offstage so now because j ramen is so low to the blast zone here burrito king positions right at the ledge this is a very important spot to go ahead and position yourself whenever you're edge guarding so just watch how guerrero king knows that j ramen has to burn the jump and finishes the edge guard we can go ahead and play this clip burns the double jump gets the spike great di and tech coming out from j ramen but since the upv was not towards the ledge guerrero king was already on stage ready for that option and cleaned up with the dak dak incredible stuff coming out from guerrero king so that's going to be our breakdown for the squad strike tournament here i'm going to throw it back to you all all right charles certainly do appreciate that no better man for the job and a breakdown like that definitely appreciate charles lending him us his knowledge as we are like a little more than halfway through this bracket to crown our squad strike challenge 2023 champion and i'll tell you what cal's just looking ahead knowing that we're about to jump right back into these matches again i know dany's going to be coming back on stage so very eager to see him play he kind of opened he kind of opened things up for us so i would imagine so like he's got to be somebody who's just sitting up there just brimming with a lot of confidence right now oh yeah especially he was the one that brought out the most characters that were seen the yeah on screen right we have the joker we have the raw we have the link and all of them were so fantastic right it wasn't that wasn't the instance of this player had that one character that was explosive it was really all of it link was on stage for i think maybe a total of five minutes and we had joker as well for an entire game and even a raw cleaning up those stocks which i think all of those characters put together is such a great idea charles what match are you looking forward to as we continue i gotta say i'm a big fan of gerudo king of course i selected two of his clips here so dany versus gerudo king is the match that i'm looking forward to the most and coincidentally it's up next so i'm very excited for this upcoming match yeah i don't see how this isn't going to be amazing uh for sure again just you know great kickoff matches that we had earlier today if you're just now tuning in or joining us in the audience you're in for a treat this final four that we have for you is absolutely outstanding gerudo king obviously being one of them and just see that smile that that is a man just poised with confidence okay and when you have confidence charles on a stage you know sometimes that's all it takes well a little bit of skill a little bit of skill a lot of confidence but that confidence is what's going to bring out a lot of these players hidden potential so much skill so much plays that can be made on these different stages with all these items so much things going on right but they're keeping it together it can be an overwhelming feeling right and kills i know you used to compete eight tons so you can go ahead and tell us how overwhelming those things can kind of get like i said in the beginning it's 80 mindset it's 20 percent gameplay so if you know what you're doing and you're feeling as confident as my man looks then this could be really great for him but we haven't seen really that smile that smirk that is currently coming out of danie's looking forward to playing with the diversity in that arsenal look at these characters e we are starting off we got the king of verses yoshi here protecting the mushroom kingdom of his own let's see how it's going to go down i'll tell you what it's not the character lineup so the only thing you have to worry about here you know mushroom kingdom you this one is a little bit tricky to navigate as we've seen uh a couple matches in the past for sure again these stages being on random you never quite know what you're going to get so being able to adapt on the fly going to be big cannon dog of course with all the tools in the world to give you a pretty chunky and powerful lead should he be able to connect a lot of these strong ko enabling blows yoshi of course can be so slippery so tricky not going to be the easiest task gotta watch out for the water as well it's going to create a ton of platforms here on the stage looks like we're going to get a stage switch already grito king setting up an offstage situation and showing off the edgeguard even with get the new chair to cover the directional aerodrome wait can you get back on the stage okay grito king make it back again such a long stage right we were a little worried about the king but he's good he knows what he's doing there's a reason why he's the leader and now we gotta sell the show for you in a mario land that's the beauty of smash bros and nab it here in the background wanting to join too but such confidence and such play here coming in oh my god everybody running back to meet the building eat all the alarms yeah those bob bombs nothing you want to play around oh my goodness and i didn't actually mean it yeah but that link actually just taking his exit stage left let me tell you something that was breathed a while that princess still be locked up that is not the link to get it done no disrespect daddy but definitely having some struggles as an sd from grito king at least gonna make this lead a little less demoralizing i'll say that for sure got a smash ball on the stage right now who's going to be able to get their hands on that first oh separate off just diving right into it and let's see the villainous music is about to hit out of parry by the way that timing immaculate to say the least in a world ender type hit not going to get the stock but definitely sending a message a lot of damage and i mean grito king just kind of walking away that comeback factor right because danny if got the smash ball there could have gone ahead and combed into that final smash and we've seen many players make comebacks with that final smash they're just taking away getting the damage especially off the parry grito king looking really clean setting up with this boomerang as well oh my goodness oh and charging up with the octo slash so much damage grito clean is looking real clean and wow we are charging it up all the way the gigaflare to end it in style did you see the smash ball animation the math the science that went into that animation with the planet blowing that's my friend who is grito king except for all that master's degree man just yeah that's it man but then the combos and the the efficiency of just using your stage like that and just the zero death of no you're actually if i calculate this correctly you're gonna end up right here as i explode you with my most powerful move that was insane play here to take that first game me yeah i you know i definitely expected grito king to show up in a big way did not think he would put those hands on dany like that uh that was definitely a bit of a surprise but with such a powerful line of like that i heard that gas i'm just gonna go ahead and assume sonic has made it into somebody's roster and that is certainly going to be the case dany may be looking for this character to give a little bit of a spark and one of my favorite stages as well green greens there's a lot of chaos that can happen here apples can fall from the tree and of course there are the bomb blocks as well and have to be really careful i also really agree with the sonic pick just because of the ganondorf right this ganondorf has been a menace this entire bracket and sonic uh is a pretty fast character so if he is struggling i like that dany put him in the second line of characters in case the mario doesn't end up working out mario a great character to put in that damage you know mario and sonic they're friends at the olympics man they do quite a bit of teamwork at times even if they've had their history and there it is the edge guard though i mean putting that history to rest mario back here at the coins and is going to go to rest but the damage is done i think that's the play here let's see if the sonic comes in to rescue here the princess that's delton need the link left behind i'm telling you and i'm telling you i feel like that first stock too a little assista wispy as well that wind was blowing towards the right it's kind of enabled the rudel king to get in position to get that first ko and now let's see if the sonic can indeed be a difference maker one thing rudel king not shine away from though is a challenge taking this fight right to sonic is struggling to really kind of get in there and goes a pitfall getting tossed and a dodge that oh my goodness apples oranges swords and everything coming together to give the rudel king an insane lead in game number two yeah and i mean just utilizing that stall whenever you hit a block like that your move actually gets stalled out a little bit mixing up the timing there for danny and just great apple control as well we saw so much damage coming out from rudel king utilizing all the different items but danny got the final smash on deck here maybe star wolf can turn the tide of this battle did you notice how grudel king actually waited stalled on that platform a little bit knowing that right now you are guaranteed to have that smash ball inside of your arsenal it's not going to fall out if you just yet it takes quite a bit of seconds for it to actually be able to be kicked out of you so it was great way there and does land the smash ball we got star wolf here coming into play the boys are back taking that damage and taking out sephron as light as he is on one of the smallest blast zones in the game e green greens not a big place yeah those condensed obviously uh zones are not going to do any kind of favors and again you pointed out to that lightweight so i think that's why danny was so clever in that waiting for the perfect opportunity to make sure that final smash would hit no need to rush anything just let it come to you and this really could be the thing that sends us into a little bit of overtime potentially a game three on the horizon because this wolf right now certainly on the hunt we got the bomb locked but it looks like snake sending up a bunch of bombs of his own of course we got the grenades we got the c4 almost getting the snipe underneath the stage here and it looks like the snake is done quite a bit of damage all stage here gets the downer tries to get the charge on the up smash but looks like snake just going to go get on out of there my gosh these grenades are so threatening especially on such a small stage like this i thought wold was going to lose that stock so easy but these these apples are coming into play okay we've seen of the the kind of hits on these the delay off of these knockbacks and these attacks really be emphasized and kind of delayed a little bit really kicking into play and coming into clutch here for snake to really control that edge here making it so hard up there not going to do it but here it comes the forder is going to take it the reverse three stock comeback danny is here and he is alive he is all smiles as well because i don't think anyone predicted that to be the case but i'll tell you something there's just again i have to give a shout out to his patience with that final smash timing it perfectly exploiting the lightweight of separate as well as the blast zones on green greens being a little bit more condensed and then just straight out out playing them on that final stock because that's all it was he outplayed him on that final stock and let him know i didn't get into semis by accident you're going to have yourself a challenge we are going to game number three now just swiping all those hitboxes right outside of the grenade snakes main defense when snake gets hit is pulling those grenades and as long as you go ahead and swipe the legs and just really stay away from that mid torso where where the grenade gets pulled and go ahead and keep on hitting snake keep on racking on that damage and then eventually with that forder was able to take out snake from the side blast zone there just incredible control of that center stage and even on green greens going to be even more important right absolutely and now we even have a different state a different character excuse me once again Lucas my gosh what a shout out today what what great gifts we're having on christmas morning you know on yoshi's story what again a classic counter here on uh on super smash brothers since melee really moving in here always around and has been such a counter pick such a great favorite fan favorite for so long and don't forget it may look a lot like battlefield but there's quite a bit of hazards to look out here you got the slight edges that will be turning over points especially when platforms and items all red carpet entrance you don't know them and you'll love them that's actually insane looked like an sd was all put unavoidable but no brutal king going to get another chance to really make this and you see how different randall makes and so much of these interactions a character like ganondorf known for not having the greatest recovery randall helping out a ton here and randall always on the right side ready to back up he's a big fan of ganondorf that he really wants to be a part of this malicious plan okay wow and he does come in once again i says thanks man no problem we're gonna go back on looking for you and right back in eating and now we go okay yo blink his back he's feeling oh man he just can't catch a break he just i don't know where zelda is but she's so she's gonna have to wait a while somewhere in the corner crying okay that's the only thing i can survive right now this link continues to not quite get the job done and you're coming with me another hundred year slumber is on the table but only one stock left from danie he's got to make this yoshi count right now this lineup of gerudo king looking a little hard to take down we separate off lead the charge and danie's been switching up these characters every single round trying to throw the curve ball but gerudo king sticking it out with his squad and it's been working wonders here up an entire stalker we'll see what danie can utilize to make this comeback with the yoshi separate the extremely light tries to get the screw attached up into the upper but not gonna quite connect here and the shield break oh man you gotta watch out for that down smash oh and wow the yoshi bomb is just gonna come through and get that early stalk now it's one on one this is my home this is my turf that's my randall let me show you why yoshi coming in here these were made now threatening it is a one stock of peace gerudo danie here one won our first game by the way going to a game three so you will feel the hype in the audience absolutely yoshi and solid snake okay this is the matchup you never thought you'd see that is only possible in smash brothers we got the neres coming in we got the combos up the boomerang the blue boomerang the blue yoshi you know that's a new power he's gotta have it wonder like that on yoshi's story i guess it was canon danie is just somebody who just adapts and learns that's that is what i'm saying i will say this brutal king with the the separate off as that lightweight character in the middle did do a bit two games in a row because definitely we saw you know obviously on green greens how it went down and then there that yoshi bond taking out that stock a little bit earlier than you would expect as well so oh no danie incredible play for sure going to advance into the finals of this event congratulations to both but danie two won victory come on you also got to give it up to gerudo king as well really showing off these characters offensive abilities but of course some of them not having the greatest defense of well that double edge sword strategy can really get you sometimes but a fantastic showing coming out from gerudo king and man danie just on the fly adaptation that boomerang play so tricky and it was such a great way to kind of diffuse some of these snake setups with the grenades right so just fantastic stuff racked up a ton of damage and we know that yoshi is such a crazy combo character well absolutely especially the frame data that comes out of those aerial aerial attacks right we always know that yoshi's more of an aerial based character such mobility you don't have a recovery in terms of an up special but you got a long jump a high jump and you got some armor on that so you're gonna be pretty safe especially when you're back home you got your music playing you're jamming out nothing's really kind of come and stop you and you got a boomerang too yoshi with a boomerang oh boy i would agree it was hard to stop danie and that is why he is in the finals let's take a look at that bracket so you can see exactly how it went down danie and gerudo king putting on a show for us in semi finals giving us our first game three of the entire bracket so that's how you know things are getting real serious real chippy and real gritty so we're gonna see danie momentarily but we got to find his opponent first william and valdans these are the two names that we were saying honestly you could argue could just be your finalist but the way danie's playing clearly gonna have something to say about that so william and valdans who do you think's got it chuck who is going to the finals i really want valdans to come through because i'm just such a huge fan of king ddd and king k rule i mean just seeing both of those characters in the lineup i love both of them so much and really seeing them succeed and i mean just watching more matches and seeing those characters in the finals i'd love to see it i just want to see william for his tag i feel like he came into this live show and said man i'm out of nintendo live this is fun i love it hey a tournament let's sign up and that's all you know the rest is history nah i am so excited to see this guy play he has been phenomenal he was as you said he before kind of the man we were looking at in his terms of his play with one character right we haven't seen so much of the other characters because he didn't need it so it's gonna be quite the show valdans as well right same kind of response with his previous opponent that we've seen those these one characters that has been really overpowerful ridley right yeah oh my goodness and look at that first stage we're actually getting brin star is going to be a really good stage kind of a little bit of a homage to the ridley that william is piloting right now it's all about the game and why these nair and aerial combinations are doing a lot no way oh my goodness i thought for sure that might have easily spelled an almost zero to death but william's still with a sizable lead in control of this stage right now charles what is it going to take for valdans to bring this back you're gonna have to get a couple of solid hits oh maybe go into another screw attack though i'm gonna miss the follow-up and i mean king k-roll yes has that upbeat you can go ahead and combo from the screw attack into the upbeat or up air can do a ton of things you also got to watch out for the armored aerials of course using that belly armor king k-roll can go ahead and tank through a lot of different things and you got to watch out if you're gaming what you have not a lot of weight to back you up some of the best aerials in the game but you're very fragile yeah i actually must say the way that they are kind of prioritizing do i get the ball or do i get the edge guard and then get the ball you know which ones which toy do i want to play with today and they really did come down to hey i got stage control i'm gonna control this stage make sure you don't come back so i can't there no no no hey yo let me tell you about game and watch he might be paper but he hits like a rock baby listen y'all said no no will he was like yes yes the perfect position to let that final smash rip my goodness what a lead bowden's being completely overwhelmed he's got a hammer in hand just chunks the killing edge away he's gonna need a lot right now this king d d d really gonna have to go on the offense to make this even doable okay there's the newturer coming out from the king himself we'll see if valadence can make this comeback probably gonna need some assistance from a final smash perhaps we're charging up william trying to end it in style here the gordo setup here and you see the terrain not exactly straight so these gordos are going to be bouncing around in all kinds of different directions absolutely especially on a small stage like this i mean violet has such range such power right especially the edge of that stick it's gonna be quite the sharp hits especially popping that turning there that we're gonna see from valadence and this looks like it's gonna do it yes it is william putting the emphasis on the w the win the game won here i cannot believe the pitfall is what doomed that poor d d d into destruction just trapped on that right side of the pitfall with nowhere to go and william just casually strolled over there said i got you buddy i got your first class trip to the blast zone and he takes game number one it's hard for a penguin to survive in a lava area you know i'm saying it's rough out here for king d d d but gonna still try to make it work it looks like the game and watch ditto here coming through to start things off once again game watch a very powerful character like i said some of the most powerful aerials in the game paper thin and i mean when william was able to take out valadence game and watch with the final smash that was such a big deal just combing into that sky high it was such an impressive plan i think for william that's when he really took that momentum and just took the lead looking like a true finals right now right on smashville such a counter pick stage we usually see in tournaments and the ditto i think it's really going to come down to who has better defense this is such a defensive character that likes to use out of shield attacks which involves holding your shield and then pressing an option right after which is going into the case of william i feel like he's using that shield and it's really understanding as to when to attack when to grab and when to shield and he is coming back but as i say that valadence didn't like that commentary much yeah william obviously being able to kind of be almost one step ahead and that can take you so far in a ditto type situation which we are seeing right now a lot of control right now from william on the stage let's see if this party ball can lend some items which could maybe be a little bit of a difference maker going to go right for that drill bit i see the home run back online as well as well as that ray gun so a lot of different things can definitely go in the favor of valadence to maybe make this come back a little bit more of a reality oh but just going to chuck out that drill bit and there we go first stock order william and the drill still in hand for william and king carol quite the large target you can go ahead and rack up a ton of damage there still has the drill in hand not the entire one but still you can utilize this item to go ahead and rack up a bunch of damage the nuturer connecting and look at this valadence k rule already the triple digits already gonna go ahead and exit stage left and king ddv gonna go ahead and take the place what seemed impossible has become possible that you know we've seen k rule looking undefeated and really just took them zero to death and now we're given the throne to another king hopefully here can take the stock off of william's game and watch that it's been on a rampage that red color right i think is really promoted the kind of aggression that we're seeing just making it so hard for valadence to even charge up this final smash we got the nine to the luck is here in his favor if you are valadence you're like i the game and watch is so like i do not want to waste my final smash on this game and watch i want to be able to take this stock off without that being the issue and then maybe something could go but i guess you kind of look at the landscape of how things are going he's just like you know what let me just go ahead and get the job done right now caroush as he takes off that first stock much needed but is the damage already done william such a commanding lead right now in the jigglypuff maybe here to see you a lullaby of destruction right king ddv still on deck here and was able to use the final smash like you said e i mean maybe not the best case scenario but at that point you just got to get the game and watch out of this scenario just because game and watch so strong here for william gordo getting stuck underneath the stage getting back on the stage here and jigglypuff extremely like king ddv hits extremely hard maybe we can get a very early stocks from valadence to even this up there it is good night have a great rest of your nights okay get that pokemon sleep you know you just want to track that i want to get those candies and level up here to a wiggly top i i try it out i tried try to william back into it gotta appreciate that but william would not be denied a great effort from valadence he definitely gave us a couple of great matches for sure but william said you know what i kind of like this seat i don't think i'm gonna get up right now because he just booked himself a trip to the finals here at the squad strike challenge 2023 event yeah i gotta say throughout this entire tournament william looks like the strongest player so far i mean william has taken out many opponents with just one character so i mean in terms of just player strength william's looking very poised to go ahead and take this tournament we'll see if you can go ahead and close it out in the finals you got one more match to go i feel this strong suit from william has been that one character right but now he's got to go against someone who has shown multiple characters having that same diversity in skill and adaptation right yeah might lose that three stock by that one character but don't forget we do have that adaptation and that that ability coming in for danny so and he's coming in with a smile too and you already know he's gonna have a good time and winner there is a player that is not afraid to lose that is the strongest and the scariest player to fight on this no doubt about that and we have seen eight great players throughout this bracket let's take a look at it one more times you can see exactly what i'm talking about these are your top two winning their semi matches that is going to be danny issues and william i will say every time we've seen william on this day so far two oh and typically in convincing fashion danny seeing him have to fight through a couple of nail biters for sure but that tells me right there he's a fighter he's a scrapper he's not going to make it easy on you so as good and dominant as william has been this is likely going to be his toughest challenge of this top eight bracket we've seen yet charles two very different styles i mean danny love to throw all these different curveballs loves to switch up his roster in the middle of a set game one game two game three could be completely different rosters every single time william always sticking with that mr game and watch right and of course that really has done many things many good things for william here so we'll see what kind of character matches we get coming in to the finals i'm very excited me too the defense right that defensive play but still such an aggressive opening i feel is the strat from william where he starts us let's see what you got and i'm gonna really counter that option that triangle right of like grab shield attack he's been utilizing that so well so i'm interested to see how danny really answers that triangle and see if he can really adapt to that and of course he does opening with the lucas that really came in to play that last set the yoshi is back as well that has done a lot of damage that was his one character that really annihilated and made that comeback last set oh good night i'm just gonna say it right now i'm a little nervous for danny because i see the link now i see the link a couple times wait a minute hasn't quite been that guy but maybe in the finals this is the chance to really show up but a shield break might just break the spirit of danny william zero to def see you later what a huge lead to start this finals out with for william i think william might have heard me is like you know what you didn't give props to the jiggly pup i'll show you what i got gets a shield break on one of the harder characters to get a shield break on yoshi here and go ahead and you're gonna get that confirmed into the rest usually utilize that up there get that little pop up and then convoy into the rest the very strongest tool here for jiggly pup absolutely and you know we want to see this link come out to play but now is it even you know she's she's sticking a lot of time she's still doing okay but there you go in the sand at the moment oh we're gonna see a lot of ground type that that kind of wall is going to help create some tech situations and really diversity and finally that damage is racking up here on that jiggly pup this sword is not coming and i don't know how he's going to recover against someone like jiggly but but that fair nearly just missing that edge guard danny though you know what i have to speed a sound not going to go ahead and be fast enough though to knock laying almost the top fair i believe that was a missing one yeah that really honestly that that whip on that feral stage really kind of came down to the timing on william just being a little bit off so danny kind of catch it a bit of a break but he doesn't want to let you know get comfortable to those kind of things happening and you already know bringing out the wind transformation of stadium number two going to make an already floaty jiggly pup that much more floaty but of course the absolute effectiveness of this character william has shown that in spades as you're seeing this dominant game number one continue to get out of hand for danny but finally gets a stock and maybe can invigorate this offense a little bit and the luke is really coming to play luke is having some very hard hitting smash attacks here danny utilizing that gonna wipe that jiggly pup off the map here but now the ridley is coming into play and we've seen william on this ridley especially offstage can be really efficient in how you utilize all these different tools the smash ball going to go in the control of danny but switching it right back and william just going back and forth here this smash ball can't find a home really can't i mean it just wants to play in the playground it doesn't want to be anybody's okay you gotta rent that and again here we go another opportunity of william literally almost losing his life taking that risk knowing that you have another character does land that smash bill and you know we're gonna destroy and save every metroid out there by the demon himself ridley absolute destruction i think that final smash was the perfect imagery for exactly what we saw for william's bracket run just destruction through his path in route to trying to capture this championship now just one game away as danny finds himself with another issue to overcome and maybe wow maybe he can make this a contest but it ain't gonna be easy oh and it looks like okay both players opting to go for the entire roster they really want to give us a show and the crowd popping off here we are going to see quite the interactions and whoop i wonder what kind of characters we'll get here this is probably the best finals we could get yes or else okay i mean this is the test of the skill right not only do you have to learn these characters right away and get lucky that you know any of these characters but you also have to know how these characters use tools of different stages and item play so samus dark samus is gonna be starting out chic i i'm so sorry they are not the same both my favorite ladies but not the same we got chic legend of zelda ike from fire emblem going into arms the stadium here really a large blast zone with a wall and a ceiling right so you don't want to forget that either because it may look like a large zone that you can skyrocket into those sky scrapers but uh this is uh you're not gonna actually get hit 100 percent i absolutely love spring stadium as as somebody who's an admin arms fans i'm so glad that this stage was able to make an appearance and what could possibly be the final match of the tournament if william has anything to say about that chic you're a little light right now i don't know if that akazine is gonna help you right now and it is not off the top and to the bottom william dominating in this opening exchange the powerful final smash coming out from ike utilizing that armor and of course you can't block these final smash attacks you saw the shield was up for dany but final smashes they don't care they're gonna go on right through their block and just gonna go ahead and deal a ton of damage and get that stock usually right i'm extremely oh surprised that that fire fire sword did not actually go through the counter from ike there was no interaction there but what is going on williams on the tear he came again you are you should be scared of the players that are not caring about the loss you know they're here to win they want to play even the most random of characters they're a nintendo live they want to have fun they're gonna be thrown wherever whenever and they are here to really do the business and use these tools to their own fun and advantage i have no doubt about it that william is having a lot of fun but dany finally able to utilize that killing edge to get that stock off now let's see uh i see all of our here with the whole run back and there it is listen that's got a couple different properties and you got to know each and every one of them obviously william very akin to how to perform that very well you see a super jump getting them out of a little bit of danger on that left side as the hits keep coming dany down to that final character in this dark sam is looking like some dark days ahead though for this final stock yeah you always got to watch out on these platforms when they're glowing green you go ahead and have access to those super jumps has a hitbox as well so you got to be really careful really watching out for all the different colors on the stage here but looks like dark sam is coming out and this can be pretty difficult for dark sam is because those pigmen can go ahead and block a lot of the projectiles that dark sam's can throw out you know i'd be talking about he's fighting for his friends but really we've got these pigmen behind the back here really controlling the stage and just trying to protect him his friend and it could be an opportunity here for dany to make this comeback but like you said charles it's not easy right you got to get rid of the army before you can get rid of the captain and he's definitely controlling it at the moment it looks like it's gonna do it let's go ahead and give a huge congratulations william a bracket of destruction is the only way i can describe this young man's performance two o's across the board and he didn't break that trend in the finals and you can see it right there he is your squad strike challenge champion of nintendo live came through nothing but confidence nothing but destruction and nothing but victories as he outlasts over 250 other competitors to emerge victorious on the stage do it in style as well ending it with a random battle william really making it look easy and you gotta give it up because we're just so skilled on the stick congratulation williams and really showcasing the love for smash brothers right we didn't even besides that random match he was always putting out something new we saw jigglypuff at a point right we saw all these diverse characters that he was so prominent with hold that trophy up high boy because be proud he came to play to win and he put on quite a show really agreeing fun till the end and no matter what character he showcased those skills hundred percent man that was that was just incredible all around obviously all of our top eight competitors did not disappoint they were outstanding on the stage but at the end of the day there can only be one winner and through this this single elimination top eight bracket with some unexpected stages and some unexpected items william had the character lineup and the versatility to overcome all the odds and take care of business again being your squad strength challenge champion of nintendo live this year so good and really just displaying so many different who's the champion we've seen him use so many different characters who won i missed it all who won you know he's like you know i got so many different characters i want to show off how good i am with all these different characters and even getting some of these three stock victories as a single character man william so strong absolutely i mean and it's quite inspiring to you know where we come from we don't get to play so much items and we don't really get to know so much the casual perspective but the amount of energy and the amount of thought that has to go into the live in the moment presence of what items to use when how which stage be ready for all these moments was quite a mental challenge that you have to overcome and be okay with the fact that you know you might get blown up by a bomb so it's actually inspiring i really hope we get to see more honestly item events because it was really great to cast and just to enjoy it my cheeks hurt i listen i have no doubt that we're gonna see more because nintendo knows how to put on a show william is our big winner but you guys you guys need to win something too right i got you covered right now i gotta remind you real quick of the sweepstates that we are running there you go live 2023 get your phones out nintendo members can enter to win a secret lab tight evo get your phones out addition gaming chair i have one of these at my house so i do encourage you to enter to win that he it's very simple the qr code on your spree go ahead and scan that to enter it happens guys i had to take your dinner and so don't delay enter today dinner takes a while to cook some time you're here in the venue go ahead and scan that as well and if you're in the venue make sure you're enjoying nintendo live seattle the first nintendo live here in north america it's been such an honor to be here and it was just so much fun checking out all the different booths with all the different ips hearing the live band as well i've been having an incredible time i don't need a new chair i'm good i got a spare chair right now in terms of a nintendo live it's one of my three chairs breaks so thank you for loving nintendo as much as we do and thanks for loving nintendo as much as we do you're incredible thank you give yourselves a clap guys please let's go thank you eat let's close that crowd sounds so enthusiastic already know man thank you guys so much for tuning in congratulations again to william for winning the squad strike challenge championship make sure you guys enter the sweepstakes and of course make sure you guys i don't think there's anything else i think this is the end because we got more competitions from mario cart eight deluxe as well as platoon uh three and of course the amoeba tournament that's going down sunday you'll see that beautiful case face of kells on the mic again but for myself ee charles and kells that'll do it from us you guys have a wonderful night we'll catch you next time it's like a crowd of like 15 to 25 people welcome to the nintendo live some highlights good because i missed everything one of the highlights william is ridley do william game and watch oh he really did play a variety he really did play a variety of characters nice pikmin yeah a la mario let's go he does have a tucked in t-shirt what there are people that do that but it is weird to me the tucked in t-shirts kind of a it's a vibe it's definitely a vibe do damn all right well time for me to super chat quick so we keep our streak alive we didn't get any super chats this stream so that means uh nothing really just means i have to super chat quick keep the streak it'll be the first stream all year we have at least one got it um i can't get over fitting all of our windsets after pikmin 4 came out and they basically confirmed they basically confirmed pikmin 5 yesterday i mean they didn't just basically tizuka it literally said you're not gonna have to wait as long for pikmin 5 it's not it's not basically we're getting we're getting we're getting we're getting pikmin 5 um lmao there it is i kept the streak alive the streak it lives it lives we got a super chat the streak lives it's alive um finished with enough time to make pizza for big run nice nice nice nice i hope you guys enjoyed everything kind of a weird stream today they didn't show as much of mario wonder as we had hoped you know it is who it is who's this guy yeah who the hell am i i don't even know who i am anymore i don't even know what i'm doing still streaming i'm gonna be completely honest with you guys i legitimately have no reason to keep streaming right now it's like the most awkward end of a stream uh uh all right i think that i think that means we gotta call her i think that means we gotta call her we got our one super chat we're good all right guys you guys are awesome have a good uh rest of your weekend i have no idea what if any videos are dropping this weekend yet beats me uh but thank you guys for being here if you haven't checked out either one of my videos today be sure you go do that we got a couple special ones for you uh let me tell you there's more mario wonder news in my prime news today than there is in this uh entire live stream uh so go check that out if you want some mario wonder news you want to see the latest on nintendo switch to leaks and rumors uh in the video obviously earlier today if you haven't seen it has all you need to know about the current and updated rumors for the nintendo direct including the possibility of a third fighter pass for smash bros don't know about that one but i mean look the things that add up to think there is one are pretty compelling but also we know they said they're done but then they were also done with mario card 8 and then they you know did what they did so you never know you never say never uh it's also notable the saccharite cut down on his video production over the last uh a couple of months well i don't know if that means anything but uh that's something and then obviously some more zelda rumors popping up again same old rumors we've had forever so i i try to put too much stock in them metric prime four though like i've heard from my own source that game is done so i mean is that going to be at the direct one thing we do know are insiders like necro leap a oh boy he uh he thinks this direct is gonna blow nintendo fans minds so for what that's worth tuck in your t-shirts for today all right guys we'll catch you later thank you for tuning in and it's been a good one peace