So a Dedede player named Big D from Canada got 17th at Paragon.

[CaptainVul]

http://www.ssbwiki.com/Paragon_Los_Angeles_2015#Super_Smash_Bros._for_Wii_U_singles

Is that the highest a Dedede player has ranked in a major tournament in the US? If so thats pretty cool, I looked him up and saw some videos of him from a few months ago and he looked pretty solid. Was he ever on stream during Paragon? I didn't watch all of it, I would like to see some more recent videos of his play.

 

[JimmyTheCaterpillar]

@ | Big D | you're famous again.

Yeah he's really good. He got top 60-something at EVO too going all Dedesy.

 

[CO18]

Yeah that's really impressive. Im not sure if he mains ddd though, I heard max ketchum saying at pax that he mains falcon, seconds DDD so don't know how much DDD he used but just as a player overall still very impressive because that was a stacked tourney. He wasn't on stream though so dunno.

Edit:yeah full results are up on eventhubs now and it says (Falcon,ddd)

 

[Roostertone]

I can confirm that Big D used exclusively Dedede at both EVO and Paragon.

 

[CO18]

Word, well good **** to him. As i thought, DDD doesn't suck lol, people just don't really know how to use him in this game.

 

[dreamastermind]

I watched a good amount of the stream, did I just miss every game he was on or did they not record any of him cause he's not a top tier?

 

[Roostertone]

I watched a good amount of the stream, did I just miss every game he was on or did they not record any of him cause he's not a top tier?

None of his matches were streamed, even though he played against other notables such as Esam, SeagullJoe, and 8bitman. Unfortunate, but Paragon was running late on both days, so it's understandable if they didn't want to wait for the stream.

 

[| Big D |]

Ayy that's me

Paragon was pretty fun despite the lack of doubles. Don't worry about lack of stream I don't really have any crazy tech for you all, I just hit people. My friend can seem to land inhale release to uptilt consistently so that's a thing.

I want some technology for the next national I go to though so if anyone has some tech they want to share I'm all ears.

 

[CO18]

Ayy that's me

Paragon was pretty fun despite the lack of doubles. Don't worry about lack of stream I don't really have any crazy tech for you all, I just hit people. My friend can seem to land inhale release to uptilt consistently so that's a thing.

I want some technology for the next national I go to though so if anyone has some tech they want to share I'm all ears.

Inhale release up tilt works in this game like in brawl? Or is it different.

 

[| Big D |]

My friend told me it cannot be mashed but rather you have to react to it. I've gotten it a couple of times while mashing but he surprised me out of no where by doing it consistently.

 

[CO18]

My friend told me it cannot be mashed but rather you have to react to it. I've gotten it a couple of times while mashing but he surprised me out of no where by doing it consistently.

interesting will have to try next time I play, too bad his up tilt doesn't kill until late now so won't be that great but still can be helpful nonetheless

 

[CaptainVul]

Ayy that's me

Paragon was pretty fun despite the lack of doubles. Don't worry about lack of stream I don't really have any crazy tech for you all, I just hit people. My friend can seem to land inhale release to uptilt consistently so that's a thing.

I want some technology for the next national I go to though so if anyone has some tech they want to share I'm all ears.

Pretty cool man, you must have some great fundamentals then. Nice to see some Dedede representation in majors.

And I don't know about any new tech but recently I've been using downward gordos alot more recently instead of normal ones because it more often hits the opponent from behind which knocks them towards Dedede and from that I can get in a Nair or Up Air. And it goes over most projectiles which is a plus as well. Its probably a common thing already but its been working pretty well for me.

 

[KeithTheGeek]

I use down-angle Gordo a lot depending on the distance and area I want to cover. It tends to be good for covering low recoveries close to the stage, and I'll use it as an alternative to the up-angle ones depending on how far away I am from the ledge.

 

[ndayday]

I won't pretend for a second I'm good but oftentimes Ness and Co. don't like using their 2nd jump so you can dthrow > usmash (which as far as I know everyone can jump out of normally).

Good job Big D. shame you're not on stream, I would have loved to see.

 

[dreamastermind]

Congrats on doing so well with dedede Big D. Hopefully next time they'll get you on stream. Did you win anything for 17th place? How many people were in the tournament? Also, any highlights you can tell us about from that day?

 

[Axel311]

I heard you almost beat ESAM's pikachu at paragon and took him to game 3. VERY impressive stuff man to pull that off with Dedede. ESAM talked about big D a bit on his youtube channel here, fast forward to the 2:12 mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DJOQewI4pM

According to ESAM he won games 1 and 3, lost game 2 to Big D but games 1 and 3 were very close.

 

[CO18]

Good stuff, lol you guys will soon realize DDD isn't bad. I don't think pika MU is that bad in this game. I played esam like half the mlg's we were at in brawl/ he's also in my region. Only thing that really made the mu bad in brawl was the 0-60 cg, outside of that I feel DDD can control the match, his range is a big problem for pikachu, dededes recovery is also much better in this game as well which was a problem in that mu in brawl since esam is extremely good at edgeguarding with that dumb char