Smasher:Technicals

Technicals is a YouTuber from Las Vegas, Nevada, who initially was a  player, where he was formerly ranked 8th on the Las Vegas Smash 4 Power Rankings. He would later gain notoriety for his series of YouTube videos covering the misconduct allegations within the competitive Smash community from 2020 and onwards. Technicals began uploading YouTube videos in 2015, with a few of his videos focused on creating guides for in Smash 4, often referring to himself as "XFaZeLiNkX". He would also upload several gameplay videos of Smash 4 on his side channel, which has since gone inactive.

Overview
One of the first videos of his modern content was one where he criticizes 's actions after an incident involving an attempted vehicular homicide towards several people including Technicals,, and in November 2017. This was a follow-up from a Twitlonger that Technicals released, which reported the incident and resulted in JK's ban from locals in the Las Vegas scene. At the time of the video's upload, JK was allowed back into the Las Vegas Smash 4 community, following the community backroom unbanning him, believing that he changed, while Technicals argues that he hasn't, citing his unapologetic nature, self-centered belief of being safe with other players, and lack of communication with the victims.

Technicals would eventually branch out into commentary and rant style videos, with many centered around criticizing other smashers or investigating the cases of smashers embroiled in controversy. Technicals would go on to criticize, , , and several other players. He would also cover topics such as 's accusations of pedophilia in the Smash community. Some of these videos are now unlisted, such as his commentary on. The first video from Technicals to gain significant traction was a video on ESAM in 2020, which was a follow-up from a previous video he did in 2018 that criticized his content and his beliefs within the community. In this video, he accuses ESAM of hypocrisy for calling out other figures within the community for inappropriate behavior such as racism and sexism, despite ESAM's past behavior being very similar. This video prompted to make a response video apologizing for his behavior back then, and would later apologize to  and  for promoting false claims about them as well.

Technicals would gain further notoriety for his series of YouTube videos covering the misconduct allegations within the competitive Smash community in 2020. Several videos involve, due to Jisu repetitively spreading misinformation about the allegations against them, and he would later make a case for ZeRo being innocent of several of these accusations, but later took the video down after Jisu threatened to sue him if didn't comply. He later interviewed players such as regarding the allegations made towards him, and cover controversies surrounding  and. He would also advocate for and 's bans, and make videos criticizing other figureheads in the community, such as VGBootCamp, then for 's ban later, although the latter claimed he retired and will not return in the Smash community. He also collaborates with another Smash YouTuber known as theFranChise as well as appearing in videos from other YouTubers, such as MamaMax during the #PickASideYouTube movement.

Gameplay videos

 * BKO | AC vs Tsugi | Technicals - Pools - Battle for Vegas
 * Rise 2018 Wave 2 Pools - Stroder (Greninja) vs Technicals (Fox)
 * Technicals (Toon Link) vs. Fow (Ness) - Wii U Grand Finals - S4M
 * CaiusRed (Shulk) vs. Technicals (Toon Link) - Wii U Winners Round 2 - S4M
 * 2GGT: ZeRo Saga - AC + Charliedaking (Red) Vs. Brosinex + Technicals (Blue) Doubles Winners