Smasher:Wizzrobe


 * Not to be confused with, a Mario player whose name derives from Wizzrobe

Wizzrobe, often shortened to Wizzy, is a smasher from Apopka, Florida. He is renowned for his prowess across the series, being a prominent player of every Smash game.

He is most well known for playing Super Smash Bros. Melee, where he is a main, and is widely considered the greatest Melee Captain Falcon player of all time and one of the best Melee players in the world prior to his hiatus. He,, and are members of 20GX, a group dedicated to optimizing Captain Falcon. Wizzrobe is currently ranked 17th on the SSBMRank 2022 and was formerly ranked 4th on the Central Florida Melee Power Rankings. Aside from maining Captain Falcon, he also has a strong secondary.

Wizzrobe is also well known for playing in Smash 64 and is considered the best Yoshi player in North America for Smash 64 and one of the best Yoshi players in the world alongside  and, and is currently ranked 15th on the 2021-2022 Smash 64 Power Rankings.

Wizzrobe also plays Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where he is a main. He has taken sets off of top players such as, , , , , and.

Wizzrobe had participated in in the game's early lifespan, maining. He was well known for being one of the best Sheik mains in the United States throughout 2015 and early 2016 and has taken sets off of, , , , , and.

Wizzrobe played in Project M and was the best Sonic main in Project M prior to his retirement from the game.

Multigame Beginnings
Wizzrobe's first major was Apex 2013. While his placings in SSB and SSBM were mediocre, placing 33rd and 97th respectively, in PM, he placed 2nd, defeating and, before falling to. He would carry over this strong performance to Zenith 2013, which he won, dropping only one game to Hungrybox. He is often credited for the subsequent nerfing of in the later versions of PM.

The next year, he attended Apex 2014, having substantially improved outside of PM. In SSB, he placed 5th, defeating and  before being defeated by. He then advanced to Top 8 by defeating. After beating, he lost to. In SSBM he placed 49th.

At CEO 2014, Wizzrobe placed 2nd in PM, defeating and Mew2King, before being double eliminated by. He won PM Doubles with, double eliminating Mew2King and ZeRo. In SSBM he placed 5th, notably defeating. Attending Zenith 2014, in SSBM he repeated his CEO 2014 performance, placing 5th, upsetting before losing to  and. In SSB, he placed 3rd, defeating before losing to SuPeRbOoMfAn and. In PM, he placed a disappointing 9th, falling early to and then to.

One month later at Tipped Off 10, Wizzrobe won PM Singles, defeating Mew2King and, and also won PM Doubles with Plup, defeating Mew2King and Hungrybox and ESAM and. He also placed 4th in SSBM singles, where after losing to Axe, he made a Losers' run, defeating, , and Plup before losing to Colbol.

In July of 2016, at WTFox 2, in SSBM, Wizzrobe placed 4th, solidly defeating Hungrybox in a surprise upset. Wizzrobe went on to fall to. He then defeated before falling to Mew2King in a close set. He placed 1st in SSB at the event.

The next month, Wizzrobe attended Super Smash Con 2016, where he took 2nd in SSB, defeating, , and along the way, being double eliminated by SuPeRbOoMfAn. He placed 9th in SSBM at the event, defeating before losing to Mango and Axe.

In January 2017, at Smash Conference LXIX, Wizzrobe scored 3-0 victories over both Hungrybox and placing 2nd to Mew2king in a 2-set Grand Finals(2-3, 1-3). Also in January, he placed 5th at GENESIS 4 in SSB, defeating SuPeRbOoMfAn for the first time.

In April 2017, he again scored 2nd, this time at the U.S. invitational Smash Rivalries with victories over, and his first ever win over Mew2King (3-0). Wizzrobe, coming from Loser's Bracket, won the first set of Grand Finals over Hungrybox, but lost the second set.

In August 2017, he dropped from Melee at Super Smash Con 2017 to focus on 64, which he placed 5th in, losing to Zero in Winners Round 2 and then making a losers run until meeting SuPeRbOoMfAn in Losers Quarters. At this event, he also participated in the Smash Masters event, defeating ZeRo in finals to take 1st place.

Later that month, he took 1st at Shine 2017 in 64, double eliminating in Grand Finals after losing to him in Winners Finals, winning his first Smash 64 major.

In June 2019, Wizzrobe placed 1st at Smash 'N' Splash 5 in Melee, defeating Leffen, and double eliminating Hungrybox to win his first Melee major. In addition, he placed 7th in singles for SSBU, defeating and, while losing to  in Winners Quarterfinals and  in Losers Top 8.

Finally getting a well-deserved sponsor with all his accomplishments, he was picked up by Team Envy on June 26th, 2019.

In November 2021, Wizzrobe would earn his second Melee major victory at Mainstage 2021, defeating, Axe, , and once again double eliminating Hungrybox.

Trivia

 * Wizzrobe is notorious for his frequent long startups before matches. It usually takes minutes for him to prepare himself before starting the match. People have criticized this as stalling, and accused him of attempting to "ice out" his opponents. Wizzrobe has responded by stating that it helps him mentally due to his ADD.
 * Wizzrobe was trained by fellow SSB player.
 * He is known for his excellent tech-chase game and credits it from practicing with level 9 CPUs.
 * His name is derived from the enemy from ' series, which he also speedruns, specifically '.
 * Wizzrobe humorously stated after losing to at  that he would continue to exist as a human further into infinity.
 * This tweet led to the creation of the Twitter parody account Existential Wizzrobe.
 * Wizzrobe is the first (and so far, only) person to place top 8 for both Ultimate and Melee in the same major tournament, doing so at.
 * Wizzrobe is the first Captain Falcon main to have won a major tournament since at, doing so at.
 * Ironically, despite widely being considered the best Captain Falcon player in the world, he tends to struggle in the ditto match against other top Captain Falcon players, with known examples of this being his loss against at  and  at.
 * Wizzrobe has defeated 5 of the members of the 2018 MPGR top 6 (all but ), defeating Hungrybox at a 2014 Florida local, at Smash Rivalries,  at,  at , and  at.
 * Prior to him getting sponsored by Envy, it was a common joke for crowds to chant for Wizzrobe to be sponsored after he performs well.