Smasher:Rocket

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Rocket
Character info
Melee main Young Link
Ultimate main Ice Climbers
Project M main Toon Link
Rankings and results info
Most recent ranking Super Smash Bros. Melee SSBMRank Summer 2025: 48th
Best historical ranking Super Smash Bros. Melee SSBMRank 2022: 98th
Best tournament result Super Smash Bros. Melee 17th / 360 at Battle of BC 7
Personal and other info
Real name Mauricio Araneda
Location Chile Chile

Rocket is a Super Smash Bros. Melee Young Link player from Chile who is considered the best Melee Young Link player in the world. He is the first solo-Young Link player to be ranked globally on a Top 100, ranking 98th on the SSBMRank 2022. He has won several American tournaments with solo-Young Link, including the regionals Summer Crusade and SPC: Rehab 2.0, the latter of which he defeated Spark and CPU0 along the way. He has also defeated players such as KoDoRiN, Ben, Eddy Mexico, Suf, Justus, and Luigi Ka-Master. Rocket had ranked as high as 5th on the Chilean Power Rankings. He was also formerly ranked 2nd on the Arizona Power Rankings.

Rankings[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Melee[edit]

SSBMRank/MPGR[edit]

Ranking Time period Rank Character(s) Notes
SSBMRank 2022 March 1st - December 18th, 2022 98th Young Link (SSBM)
SSBMRank Summer 2025 December 16th, 2024 - July 6th, 2025 48th Young Link (SSBM)

Arizona Power Rankings[edit]

Ranking Time period Rank Character(s) Notes
Fall 2021 — 3rd Young Link (SSBM)
Fall 2022 — 2nd Young Link (SSBM)
Winter 2023 — 7th Young Link (SSBM)
2024 Q3 — 7th Young Link (SSBM)
2025 Q1 — 2nd Young Link (SSBM)
2025 Q2 — 6th Young Link (SSBM)

Chilean Power Rankings[edit]

Ranking Time period Rank Character(s) Notes
Winter-Summer 2019 — 21st Young Link (SSBM)
End of 2019 — 19th Young Link (SSBM)
2020 — 5th Young Link (SSBM)
Winter 2021 — 9th Young Link (SSBM)

Tournament placings[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Melee[edit]

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Phantom HitOnline February 5th-7th, 2021 7th / 70 — —
Four Loko Fight NightOnline March 6th-7th, 2021 129th / 549 — —
LG Ginger's Pot O' GoldOnline March 14th, 2021 33rd / 242 — —
Frame Perfect Series 5: ONLINEOnline April 17th, 2021 13th / 220 — —
Jocha's Birthday BashOnline June 10th, 2021 2nd / 30 — —
Raikin's TempleOnline July 31st, 2021 2nd / 34 — —
Shines in the Pines 15 October 30th, 2021 1st / 14 — —
Mainstage 2021 November 12th-14th, 2021 97th / 559 65th / 102 Ari
Shines in the Pines 16 November 20th, 2021 1st / 17 — —
Summer Crusade July 16th, 2022 1st / 69 — —
Wavedash 2022 August 6th-7th, 2022 17th / 350 9th / 56 Raikin
Super Smash Con 2022 August 11th-14th, 2022 49th / 713 — —
SPC: Rehab 2.0 September 25th, 2022 1st / 35 2nd / 8 Cubs
Lumber Smash 2 November 5th, 2022 1st / 16 — —
Mainstage 2022 December 2nd-4th, 2022 65th / 389 — —
Friendly Fire 2 December 17th, 2022 1st / 18 — —
Arizona Melee Championship 2023 February 18th, 2023 9th / 24 — —
GENESIS X2 February 14th-16th, 2025 33rd / 1,074 — —
Altitude Sickness 2 March 8th, 2025 7th / 235 — —
Battle of BC 7 March 28th-30th, 2025 17th / 360 — —
Smash Camp 2025 April 19th-20th, 2025 17th / 204 13th / 39 HuskyBananas
GENESIS X3 February 13th-15th, 2026 65th / 981 33rd / 194 Roche

Project+[edit]

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Shines in the Pines 15 October 30th, 2021 3rd — —
Shines in the Pines 16 November 20th, 2021 5th — —

Gameplay videos[edit]

Trivia[edit]

  • Rocket is the first solo-Young Link main ever to enter a yearly Top 100 SSBMRank, placing 98th on the SSBMRank 2022.

External links[edit]