Conde

English Teacher, Translator, Competitive Pokemon VGC and Smash player.

[Conde @XG_Conde]

@CentroLeaks Got any info on new battle music?

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@psychicceej My farig got ohko’ed by phys zard Y flare blitz + spicy extract… i believe you…

[Conde @XG_Conde]

@ValorantUpdated @valohabercisi I haven’t played ascent in my last 10 games so i cant tell

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@TheKuribandits It’s soo broken, carried me like *300 elo on the ladder already 🤣

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Bruh how do u even bring incineroar to any battle when every team has anti-intimidate milotic or kingambit or both…feels like a dead slot rn…

[Conde @XG_Conde]

This shit had me go “Thragg’s an airbender??!?!”

[𝑵𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆 💫 @NegativeNimble]

Never in all my days have I seen a motherfucker wind up his PUMCH so hard it literally starts to pull you in. https://t.co/UlrB84U5IF

[Conde @XG_Conde]

@Sersun Time to grind for champion tier

[Fushiguro ~ @Fushiguro268]

There's no leaked Avatar movie on the Internet 🛜

[Conde @XG_Conde]

Real, wtf is aang on??

[🔥🌊 | NATLA PAINTEDSPIRIT CANON @azkenjoyer]

I need to know what made the Gaang hit the gym together cause WHY ARE THEY ALL JACKED AF!?

[Conde @XG_Conde]

@jfuentes0619 Floette is pretty funny behind an orthworm sub :D

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Finally hit masters in champions, pretty happy with this team!

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Trying to win with empoleon, challenge level: impossible

[Centro LEAKS @CentroLeaks]

On Pokémon Champions once you complete a Pokémon’s achievements it gets a rainbow border.

[Conde @XG_Conde]

@Sersun All of my opponents just let it set up for free man, they gotta stop sleeping on the worm!

[SaiyaRan 👾 🔜 Dream Con ☁️ @saiya_ran]

Me trying to make it out of Great Ball with the worst team I’ve ever built

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@NerdOutMusic “The greatest clip ever” just for a different reason

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@LimJianLing @Gazungamer Don’t get me wrong, i loved ash yelling “IAGIRI!!!”

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@Mintbitz Can’t understand japanese so it doesn’t affect me 🤣 (sidenote his farfetch’d in JN learned it)

[Brotherhood | Aklo @NotAklo]

Saw a lot of Melee vs Ultimate beef (lol) on my feed recently. I think i'm one of the most "qualified" players to speak on the topic, having won large tournaments in Melee, Project M/+, and Ultimate. Gonna try to give genuine insight, so hear me out before getting defensive.

Ultimate is a pretty fun game casually. But it's one of the least competitive games i've seen be played competitively. That's not to say you can't get good at the game — it's just that getting good at Ultimate often rewards some sort of degen jank or not interacting, whereas getting good at Melee often rewards difficult execution.

From the perspective of someone who has been around the Smash scene for a long time and has been very good at many smash titles, it begins to look silly:

In Smash Ultimate, the devs removed every advanced technique they could possibly THINK of (bar b-reversing and RAR?). It's a laundry list. There are even mechanics that were newly removed in Ultimate that had been in the series since Smash64 (shield dropping, pivoting, running through opponents).

Not only does the game lack competitive mechanics, it actually has anti-competitive mechanics. The input lag is abysmal. There is noticeably more input lag than in Sm4sh, and the game has double the input lag of Melee AT BEST. Using a gamecube controller is the most common way of playing Ult, yet not even the least laggy! I can understand enjoying buffer systems in fighting games, but Ultimate's buffer system is so bad that it's comical. Most people practice Melee on rollback netcode, whereas Ultimate online — yeah...

I realize that a lot of Ultimate players are actually new to Smash/FGC. If you became decent at a different game and came back, you would realize how silly Ult is competitively. EVEN MELEE IS A MICKEY MOUSE GAME HALF THE TIME.

Brawl players: "It's the new game, i'm done with Melee."
Sm4sh players: "This is the best game in the series by far."
Ultimate players: "How were we EVER playing tr4sh?? Can't wait for the new Smash btw."

Can you see how exhausting it might seem to hear Ultimate enthusiasts talk about it being the best competitive game?🐏🐑

People will make fun of Melee for lacking character diversity (which is less true now than ever), but it's way less common for people to have legit examples of bad gameplay in Melee. The next up and coming Ult player will be another 13-year-old "prodigy" who mains Minecraft Steve anyway.

Melee is one of the most technical fighting games with a dedicated fanbase and a captivating history. Competitive platform fighting games at the scale in which know them today would not exist without SSBM.

If Melee is fun to you, play it. If Ultimate is fun to you, play it. But let's not lie to ourselves lol.

[K @iiamkrshn]

Venting to your parents about mental health and they start talking about you having a roof over your head