The perfect recovery (that beat Melee's #1)

i had actually no idea about the wiggle thing
there have been so many situations where it wouldve been nice to know that instead of turning up an idea to settle for a less optimal solution because it wouldnt work in tumble

I miss my wife

HOLD UP A LINK WON?!!!!

Link discord in shambles lol

Can someone help me understand what the developers were thinking when making mele? I've heard rumors that they were just releasing an unfinished game which happened to be an imperfect masterpiece. Like there's seems to be so much accidental thought into it. Mele seems to be one of the most impactful games ever created, and its a rushed game...?! How did this all come to be?

Great breakdown!

i been saying for so so long llink aint that bad

I love that I knew about this tech and regularly use it many years before this video came out.

Got a sticker and printing was dodgy. Reached out for a replacement but never heard back

最高のオタクコンテンツ！

Amazing. Miss your music man hope you make more

I love Melee

Fantastic play !

Still the best content on the earth!

melee is beautiful and so is this video

Another reason why melee is the most beautiful game

Awesome editing 😊

Man, Melee was coded on toilet paper 😂

I assume the reason they made it so you can't air dodge out of tumble is so that you can't accidentally SD right after a big hit

Which we sometimes still see top players do when they hit slideoffs they were trying to tech, but a lot more might happen to low-level players with delayed reaction times if they let you directly airdodge out of tumble.

He also faded back after the grapple to avoid a hit which was pretty key.

The unsung hero in that interaction is the fade back tether after the airdodge forward, incredible presence of mind from Aklo!

I fell off of Smash a long time ago, but I knew this kind of thing would happen eventually, man. I knew the low tiers would start coming back and being explored. Too many older players and smash gods focusing on what's meta and saying x character sucks and isn't worth playing, yet here we are. I think AMSA really set the ball in motion with his legendary and unheard of Yoshi run, and then recently there's been a huge resurgence of Donkey Kong players too. Now we got a Link taking games off of Zain, one of the best players to ever pick up the controller. Crazy set.

ur my hero of time phraser

You missed one other trick he did. Aklo air dodges in, tethers, then drifts back immediately to dodge the bair while the tether came out. Another subtle decision that saved his life.

This editing made me fail NNN

subbing because that production quality is unreal. its not just the breakdown but the presentation of it. phenomenal work, makes me want to start smash again.

More like the hero of timing, amirite?

Wow, superb editing (and thank you for keeping it short!)

I miss these kind of tethers maaaan

I don't understand at all but I know it's crazy and that's all that matters

Tethers should have stayed the way they were on melee. Brawl edge guard was ridiculous and tethers were short as hell. Sm4sh and Ultimate are predictable and easily punishable.
On melee you can aim high or low on the stage, you can go as far as the bottom of Battlefield and Final, you can mix the speed of the recovery by delayin the retrieving, angle your hop, change the momentum, jump out and even cancel it on the air for mindgames or to mix your recovery. They still weren't god recovery, but versatility was there.
Is funny how this is like basic knowledge for us Link players, but people still get amazed by this kind of techniques 😅 the way he softly drift away from marth after he perfectly aim for the stage is the real top level play

It makes me sad I will never be able to play Melee at this level. I'm 37 and feel it is too late. I should have gone deeper into Melee when I was a teen.

So wait, wall-jumping gives super armor? How many characters can even wall jump? This was good on so many levels. 10/10 fight sequemce, 9.9/10 presentation

my guy used the ocarina to go back in the past and record this video after he saw aklo beat zain this weekend

And there I was, furiously rushing out b-airs to get out of tumble with Young-link, to get my airdodge->hookshot ready. Thanks for telling me I can wiggle way out! ':D

Godlike editing 🔥

Sick video. Love this channel instantly!

Anyone who beats Zain just gets their own mini-doc these days.

Amazing.

Link

He has to work way harder to win.

Thank you for making this video. I love short and concise melee videos showing off cool things you normally don’t see. And well edited!

I love that decades later we're still getting unexpected characters in top level competitive Melee. 20XX never actually came to pass.

Aklo's Link is inspirational sheesh!

And why tf is this not an ability in ultimate

20XX?
Hah!
More like 20KK

aklo is so cracked that he makes link look like a character

god i fucking love melee

I think one day aklo will win a major.

Me learning more about Link from this video✍📝