Smasher:Kuro

Kuro (クロ) is an SSB4 player from Japan with a strong  secondary, and is considered one of the best Fox and Pit players in Japan. He is currently ranked 29th on the JAPAN Smash 4 Power Rankings and 97th on the Panda Global Rankings 100. He has taken sets off of top players in Smash 4 such as, , , , , , , and.

In Ultimate, Kuro is a player who was considered the best  player in Japan prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. He is ranked 33rd on the Experimental Smash Player Rankings and was formerly ranked 18th on the Fall 2019 PGRU. He was previously the best player in Japan before he decided to stop using him in bracket. He has taken sets off of players such as, , , , , , , and.

Trivia

 * Kuro won on Team Japan (along with, , and ) and got congratulations from Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser and director of the  series, Masahiro Sakurai.
 * Kuro is one of five players to win an Ultimate major while being seeded outside of the top 16 ( as the 37th seed), alongside (won  as the 25th seed),  (won  as the 32nd seed),  (won  as the 57th seed), and  (won  as the 17th seed).