Omega Tyrant | Smash Ultimate - Ridley: Classic 9.9 (No Stock Loss) @OmegaTyrant | Uploaded 5 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
NOTE: The recording somehow cut out for about two seconds at 0:46 and there's a garbled frame at 0:47, but since nothing really was missed in those two seconds and the rest of the recording went fine, I decided to still upload this run.
I've decided to try beating Classic by reaching 9.9 intensity before the final boss without stock loss (which also means no tickets nor continues) with more characters, possibly every one, and for the second after Ganondorf I went with Ridley, as he is one of my mains and I thought it would be pretty easy yet fun. As for how the run went, even when only taking the runs where I got a perfect in the first round it didn't take long at all to get this, as besides getting pretty simple matches, Ridley can KO opponents very fast so getting the intensity quickly up to 9.9 isn't difficult at all.
You start off with a 1v1 against a lower level Samus and can KO her fairly quickly, then there's a 1v2 against Fox/Falco but they're weaker than usual and you can just up smash as they come down from over the Great Fox's fin, while KOing them in 2-3 smashes. The third round is a 1v1 against Olimar on Distant Planet, where you can camp at the edge of the hill underneath the platform and up smash him as he comes over and then KO him with a charged f-smash if he gets to the side of you or just grab him with side-b and carry him off to the walkoff up the hill. For the fourth round it's a 1v3 vs. Mario, Peach, and Rosalina, but since it's on Mario Galaxy, there's a permanent walkoff on both sides. which means you'll KO them very easily with a side-b, while f-smash also KOs them very early here. Then it's a 1v1 against MK on the fairly standard Halberd, so unless bad item luck happens it'll be simple, and you can even win near-instantly if you get him with a side-b off the main platform before it takes off, but that is hard to do and I never got it as the AI will try to avoid fighting off the main platform and you only have a sub-10 second window to do it. Then the final fight before the Hands is a 1v1 against Zero Suit Samus on Frigate Orpheon, so yet another simple match on a basic stage, but she is at the highest level AI here, so if you get too antsy and are trying to rush things it might be a little rough, but there should be no need to rush it as you should easily be near 9.5 by this point from beating the prior rounds so fast, and since it's just a CPU in a basic fight with items it won't be anything difficult unless you get bad item luck (though I was rushing it a bit still to finish this quickly and was punished quite a bit for it).
Really with Ridley the only hard part is beating the Hands, but with Ridley's fairly high DPS, very large hitboxes, high survivability, ease of going offstage, and having multiple jumps and decent mobility to avoid attacks, beating the Hands isn't that hard either and I beat them the second time I got a satisfactory run up to them. For what attacks to focus on doing, back aerial and up smash work best for damage output and up smash can hit both, while when they're knocked on the ground you can get them with Skewer pretty easily for pretty massive damage, though the other Hand can interfere so you have to be pretty careful about going for that.
For the playlist with all my max difficulty no stock loss Classic runs, go here youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIHpRvXPklmiVcb366P-OtNvuvM7gaQVR
Follow me on Twitter here twitter.com/TheOmegaTyrant
NOTE: The recording somehow cut out for about two seconds at 0:46 and there's a garbled frame at 0:47, but since nothing really was missed in those two seconds and the rest of the recording went fine, I decided to still upload this run.
I've decided to try beating Classic by reaching 9.9 intensity before the final boss without stock loss (which also means no tickets nor continues) with more characters, possibly every one, and for the second after Ganondorf I went with Ridley, as he is one of my mains and I thought it would be pretty easy yet fun. As for how the run went, even when only taking the runs where I got a perfect in the first round it didn't take long at all to get this, as besides getting pretty simple matches, Ridley can KO opponents very fast so getting the intensity quickly up to 9.9 isn't difficult at all.
You start off with a 1v1 against a lower level Samus and can KO her fairly quickly, then there's a 1v2 against Fox/Falco but they're weaker than usual and you can just up smash as they come down from over the Great Fox's fin, while KOing them in 2-3 smashes. The third round is a 1v1 against Olimar on Distant Planet, where you can camp at the edge of the hill underneath the platform and up smash him as he comes over and then KO him with a charged f-smash if he gets to the side of you or just grab him with side-b and carry him off to the walkoff up the hill. For the fourth round it's a 1v3 vs. Mario, Peach, and Rosalina, but since it's on Mario Galaxy, there's a permanent walkoff on both sides. which means you'll KO them very easily with a side-b, while f-smash also KOs them very early here. Then it's a 1v1 against MK on the fairly standard Halberd, so unless bad item luck happens it'll be simple, and you can even win near-instantly if you get him with a side-b off the main platform before it takes off, but that is hard to do and I never got it as the AI will try to avoid fighting off the main platform and you only have a sub-10 second window to do it. Then the final fight before the Hands is a 1v1 against Zero Suit Samus on Frigate Orpheon, so yet another simple match on a basic stage, but she is at the highest level AI here, so if you get too antsy and are trying to rush things it might be a little rough, but there should be no need to rush it as you should easily be near 9.5 by this point from beating the prior rounds so fast, and since it's just a CPU in a basic fight with items it won't be anything difficult unless you get bad item luck (though I was rushing it a bit still to finish this quickly and was punished quite a bit for it).
Really with Ridley the only hard part is beating the Hands, but with Ridley's fairly high DPS, very large hitboxes, high survivability, ease of going offstage, and having multiple jumps and decent mobility to avoid attacks, beating the Hands isn't that hard either and I beat them the second time I got a satisfactory run up to them. For what attacks to focus on doing, back aerial and up smash work best for damage output and up smash can hit both, while when they're knocked on the ground you can get them with Skewer pretty easily for pretty massive damage, though the other Hand can interfere so you have to be pretty careful about going for that.
For the playlist with all my max difficulty no stock loss Classic runs, go here youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIHpRvXPklmiVcb366P-OtNvuvM7gaQVR
Follow me on Twitter here twitter.com/TheOmegaTyrant
