Smasher:Motsunabe

Motsunabe is a smasher from Japan that mains Lucario in SSB4, with Ryu as a secondary, and is considered to be one of the best Lucario players in the world. He was formerly ranked 8th on the Umebura Smash 4 Power Rankings. He is currently ranked 17th on the eSports Runner Japanese Smash 4 Power Rankings and 41st on the JAPAN Power Rankings. He has taken sets off of top Japanese players such as KEN, Kirihara, Kameme, Earth, Nietono, Rain, Tsu-, Raito, and Kie.

Tournament placings[edit]

Tournament	Date	1v1 Placement	2v2 Placement	Partner
Umebura 11	December 23rd, 2014	9th	—	—
Umebura 13	March 15th, 2015	9th	—	—
Umebura 14	April 15th, 2015	49th	—	—
Umebura 18	August 8th, 2015	49th	—	—
Umebura 19	August 29th, 2015	17th	—	—
Umebura Niconico Qualifiers	November 29th, 2015	9th	—	—
Umebura 20	December 27th, 2015	1st	—	—
SHIG Tournament	February 7th, 2016	3rd	9th	Tsu-
TUS Tournament 4	March 20th, 2016	17th	—	—
Umebura 22	April 24th, 2016	33rd	—	—
TUS Tournament 5	June 25th, 2016	7th	—	—
Umebura 24	July 24th, 2016	33rd	—	—
Umebura 26	March 20th, 2017	129th	—	—
Umebura Japan Major 2017	May 6th-7th, 2017	65th	9th	Ryogi
Umebura T.A.T.	December 23rd-24th, 2017	33rd	7th	Ginko