Smasher:Thunders

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Thunders "KOTO" "サンダース"
Character info
Smash 64 main Kirby
Melee main Fox
Other Melee character Luigi
Personal info
Location Ohio United States

Thunders is a West Japan Fox player who is known for playing technically and possessing extremely fast fingers back in the 04-07 smash era. He is also famous for being able to recover with Luigi's Luigi Cyclone at full height. He is also capable of performing the very difficult double shine. He competed at his prime with Masashi for the title of the best for in Japan. He also invented the Thunder's Combo back in 2005, a useful reset combo. in Smash 64, he was one of the best Kirby players in the very early metagame.

Thunders also goes by the gamer tag "コト" and was ranked 2nd in the first period of the Kansai Ranking Battles, and 14th in the second period.

After seemingly disappearing from the scene he came back to playing under the tag "KOTO" in 2019 debuting at Battle GateWay 24 with a 13th place finish. He was formerly ranked 19th on the Japan SSBM Rank 2019.

For work related reasons, Thunders moved to Ohio for a year from October 2022 to November 2023. He debuted at Rubesday 188 with a 5th place finish. He is currently ranked 5th on the SSBM S1 Cincinnati Power Rankings.

Thunders Combo[edit]

An example of the Thunder's combo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSmoWo5nlYI

Tournament placings[edit]

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Super Smash Bros.[edit]

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Japan United Smash Festa Round-Robin 1 March 26th-28th, 2001 7th

Super Smash Bros. Melee[edit]

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Jack Garden Tournament August 20th, 2005 9th
Tokyo Ranking Battle 1-15-06 January 15th, 2006 5th / 48
Creo Smash May 4th-5th, 2006 1st / 93 7th / 50 Brown Mario
KetubatoDX 2 August 27th, 2006 1st / 60
KetubatoDX 3 September 28th, 2006 7th / 49
KetubatoDX 4 October 29th, 2006 3rd / 39
KetubatoDX 5 November 25th, 2006 1st / 39
KetubatoDX 6 December 24th-25th, 2006 1st / 59 5th Shu
KetubatoDX 0 March 22nd, 2009 5th / 48
Sumabato DX 1 September 22nd, 2009 4th / 46
Sumabato DX 9 August 21st, 2010 4th / 52
Sumabato DX Melee 11 May 4th, 2014 9th
Rubesday 188 November 1, 2022 5th
Homie Round 2 December 4th, 2022 9th
Homie Round 3 February 12th, 2023 17th
Kill Roy: Volume 6 March 4th, 2023 25th
Smash Ball 2023 March 11th, 2023 1st
Cardinal Collision #8: Flower Roy March 18th, 2023 7th
House of Paign 23: The Lab April 8th, 2023 33rd
Homie Round 4 April 30th, 2023 9th
Cincinnati Smash Classic 12 May 6th, 2023 7th
Bluegrass Smash 2: Revival June 3rd, 2023 9th / 33
The Turning Point June 17th, 2023 7th / 34 3rd / 6 M1sf1re
Shield Drop June 18th, 2023 49th / 137
Bodied 3 June 24th, 2023 33rd / 115
Riptide 2023 September 8th - 10th, 2023 129th / 477
Ohio Melee Summit September 23rd - 24th, 2023 25th / 32
Kurobra 40 March 2nd, 2024 5th / 11

Super Smash Bros. Brawl[edit]

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
KetubatoX 2 August 17th-18th, 2008 17th / ≥48
KetubatoX 3 September 27th-28th, 2008 17th / ≥48

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