Omega Tyrant

Omega Tyrant
Character info
Melee main	Ganondorf
Other Melee character	Jigglypuff
Brawl mains	Wolf, King Dedede
Other Brawl characters	Snake, Ganondorf
Smash 4 mains	R.O.B., Ganondorf, Charizard
Other Smash 4 characters	Captain Falcon, King Dedede
Project M main	Ganondorf
Other Project M characters	Mewtwo, Bowser
Personal and other info
Real name	Michael Oliver
Birth date	July 21, 1991 (age 32)
Location	New York
Miscellaneous info
Skill	Semi-Professional/Professional (Smash 4, Brawl + mods); Pro-am (Melee) ;
NNID	OmegaTyrant
3DS code	1091 7994 3806

Tyrant: Admin who blocks the most users. -SmashPeter's definition of a Tyrant

OT's Pro Tip: The Pokemon Trainer is a terrible and impractical gimmick character that will actually stunt your development as a player (you will develop much more slowly with him than with any other character). He should be completely avoided by any developing player. There's also a character for each of his pokemon that can do what the pokemon does and more, without forcing you to play two other characters you don't want to play, and without the hindrances of stamina and forced switching.

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I am a dedicated smasher from Schenectady, New York, who has been playing Super Smash Bros. since I received Melee as a Christmas present about ten years ago. It took a couple of years before I really got into it. But once I did, Melee was the game I played the most on the Gamecube by far (more than 50% of my playtime on the Gamecube was on Melee). I was just one of the millions who anticipated Brawl's release. I preordered it and bought it the day it came out, despite not actually owning a Wii yet. I would have to wait 2 months before I could obtain a Wii and finally play Brawl. To keep this from happening again, I got a Wii U on launch despite it not yet having games I was really interested in, just to ensure I would have it the console this time whenever Smash 4 came out. Turns out that the Wii U wouldn't sell anywhere near as well as the Wii did in its early life, so it wasn't necessary to have gotten it at launch, and I also ended up not being able to get Smash U on launch due to some extenuating circumstances. A friend though helped me out and got me one of the bundles within the week, so while it took me a few days before I could play Smash U, I was one of the ones with the GCN adapter that everyone had trouble getting.

I am a highly knowledgeable player on the Smash games, who regularly tests the various things within Smash. Besides playing competitively, I also frequently play the single player modes, often under self-imposed challenges, and I love finding the various ways the Smash AI can be exploited, particularly the always amusing Melee AI. My other gaming passion is the Pokémon series, which are the only other games I had played anywhere near as much as Smash. I have for a rough estimate, spent over 10000 hours on both series. For my smasherbeta image, I have a picture of my favorite pokémon, Tyranitar.

If you ever wondered what the professional level is like in Smash U, you can challenge me to wifi, and I'll pretty much always play you, if I'm not too busy with other things. I really have no interest in playing Smash3DS against other people though, so it's highly unlikely I'll play you in it. And I'm not ever touching Brawl wifi again, so I won't be accepting any requests to play it or PM.

Smash games

I did play Brawl competitively, comaining Wolf and King Dedede,with a Snake that I also used frequently. I've believed I did reach the bottom rungs of the professional level, and was good enough to consistently win money at locals in my region, win sets against lesser professional players, and was able to get ranked 5th in my region's last Brawl PR in 2012, within months of my tournament debut. I didn't get much success when I occasionally travelled out of region to the prestigious NY/NJ area, though even with the much stronger competition, I never attended a tournament where I failed to win at least one set. I didn't get to attend much out-of-region tournaments however, as after Apex 2013 my OoR attendance vanished and my overall tournament attendance plummeted, in large part due to my regions Brawl activity falling a cliff afterward, and my own increasing disillusionment with the competitive Brawl scene. At the end, I only attended nearby local tournaments due to my depleted interest in competitive Brawl, largely in part due to the Brawl's community inability to follow through with a large scale Meta Knight ban (where the neighboring regions are infested with high level Meta Knights), and my inability to burn $50-100 on a single tournament I had no realistic chance of winning money at. And with the completely superior Smash U here now, I have absolutely no interest in ever touching Brawl again outside of getting videos for my channel.

In regards to Melee, I don't play it competitively, due to various issues I have with the game and its competitive community, and the fact I find it way too old and late for me to start putting serious effort into it. Nowadays I only play it for single player stuff and to get videos of its dumb AI. I occasionally entered Melee tournaments though alongside Brawl, depending on my mood and if I had money to burn. I also played friendlies in it against Melee friends and other Brawl players. When I do play Melee with others I pretty much go all Ganon, but may occasionally use Jigglypuff. For how well I do, I'll stomp casuals and beat other Brawl competitives who don't play Melee, and can defeat low level Melee players, while I get stomped by good Melee players.

With Smash U, it's definitely my favorite Smash yet, and despite not getting as much practise in it yet as I should have, I'm already one of the best players in my revived and stronger region in it (even being ranked 1st in my subregion of upstate NY). I'm going to go really hard into its competitive play, and I plan to become one of the best players in the world in it, rather than yet again just being a big fish in a small pond. I currently main a combination of R.O.B., Ganondorf, and Charizard, with R.O.B. being my default pick.

Brawl mods

In regards to Brawl mods, I played both Minus and Project M, with no interest in Balanced Brawl nor Plus. Minus is certainly my favorite mod and the only one I fully like, as while the other mods went to patch or "Meleefy" Brawl, it went for something completely different, and delivered the feeling of an entirely new Smash game. It's really well made overall with many enjoyable characters, doesn't cut out or introduce unnecessary things in a guise to be "more competitive", and I say it has achieved the goal of "balance" the most of any of the mods, not having characters that are clearly trash nor characters that are clearly above everyone else (plus it didn't take the Minus team four years to make half a game). The best thing about Minus though is that it's the only mod with real casual appeal, being fully accessible to casuals while having things they'll actually like (in fact, the casuals I have played Minus with actually preferred it to vBrawl, and some of them wouldn't play Smash with me unless it was Minus). But it's also fully accessible and enjoyable to competitive players, who can enjoy it at a casual or competitive level. It achieves what the ideal Smash strives for best; being an extremely appealling game to casuals while also having competitive depth. If you're going to dabble in Brawl mods, I strongly recommend to try out Minus, regardless of if you're competitive or not, and it's a blast to play with family or other casual friends. With Smash U here, I won't be playing it much anymore, but I would certainly continue to play it occasionally.

In regards to Project M, I don't really like it. I think the game tries too hard to "be competitive", and cut out many good things/reintroduced bad things (such as removing buffering and reintroducing L-cancelling) in the guise of "competitiveness". I additionally really hate what the PM team did to most Brawl characters, and thought it was pretty lazy of them to just revert high tier Melee characters to carbon copies of their Melee selves (e.g. Falco), rather than try to make use of any Brawl changes or their own changes. So pretty much only middle and below tier Melee characters had some actual good and interesting things done to them. Plus the PM team have some really strong biases they won't get over (such as intentionally trying to make Fox/Falco the best characters, and taking out all super armor because they don't like it), and it's pretty clear they didn't actually know Brawl well before modding it (e.g. claiming Dedede's super armor in his vBrawl recovery made it "unreasonable to deal with", even though any half-competent Brawl player can edgeguard Dedede easily and some even say Dedede's recovery is bad). I played it in spite of this though, as I still really enjoyed Ganon in it, as well as Mewtwo. And PM videos did provide some video content for my channel, especially with its "advanced" AI that did a lot of dumb shit. With Smash U here though, like with Brawl, I really have no interest in touching it anymore outside of getting videos.

In regards to Balanced Brawl, I tried it some years back, and it was the first mod I tried. I only played it for a few days, before losing interest and never trying it again. It was a nice concept, but there are some big problems with it. First, it has pretty much no casual appeal whatsoever; the game is barely different from vBrawl and most casuals would certainly not notice the subtle changes of the higher tier characters. For competitive players, this mod would be good....if it was an official patch. The mod can't be the standard, as requiring mods would create significant logistic issues, among other problems. And then the mod isn't appealing as a side event game nor for casual play among competitives, for the aforementioned reasoning why it doesn't appeal to casuals. So competitives won't play it for fun, and have no reason to train in it to just get good at it. Plus the mod was also made back in 2009 and was never updated for the discovered prowess since then of some characters (such as Olimar) and others being realised to not be as good as once thought (such as Snake), so the mod's actual character balancing may be a little questionable (though its balance is definitely a lot better than vBrawl's and probably better than PM's, though Minus' is better).

As for Brawl Plus, I never played it, and I have zero interest in trying "babby's first mod".

In Minus, I comain Wolf and Ganon, while seconding Jigglypuff and Captain Falcon, as well as going a plethora of other characters in friendlies. In PM, I comain Ganon and Mewtwo, and will pretty much just go them, though I may go Bowser and Kirby in friendlies.

Youtube channel

I have become heavily involved on Youtube, managing a Youtube account where I upload near daily. To learn more about it and to see some videos of mine I would recommend watching, go here.

Competency Chart

This is a chart showing my competency with every character in Brawl. When deciding a character's position, I analyze their performance against human players, how comfortable and fluid I feel playing the character, my knowledge of the character beyond statistics, and most importantly, how often I win with them. I included a number of my overall judgment of my competence with the character, as a means to show the difference between characters. King Dedede, being my best, is given 15.00, which every other character is judged upon in comparison. Why 15 instead of 10? Because when I originally tested against CPUs, 15 was the max score, and I kept the 15 scale since. I'll probably fix it at some point in the future though.

vBrawl

vBrawl Competency Tiers
	S/Primary				A/Secondary
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	15.00	14.95	14.60	14.50	14.00	13.95	13.90	13.75	13.50	13.40	13.30	13.15
				B/Tertiary
				13	14	15	16	17	18
				12.00	11.90	11.75	11.20	11.00	10.50
C							D
19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
9.50	9.25	9.20	9.00	8.75	8.70	8.60	8.30	8.20	7.75	7.50	7.25	7.10	6.90
				E
				33	34	35	36	37
				6.40	6.10	6.00	5.95	5.85

Melee

Other characters I do not have sufficient recent experience with to judge at this time, nor am I interested in playing them at all. Also note my Ganondorf is miles above every other character.

Brawl Minus

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Other characters I do not have sufficient experience against human competition to judge effectively. While I of course don't believe my Wolf and Ganondorf are truly tied, I can't clearly judge either to be better at this time.

Project M

All other characters are irrelevant to me, I either can't play them effectively at all or I heavily dislike them (if not both).

Tournament history

You can see my offline tournament history here.

Wiki brawlers matchups chart and ratings

You can see each user's matchups against each other as well as each user's play rating here.

Clone charts

A page containing charts comparing the characters accused of cloneship. It can be read here.

Competitive Q and A

Got any questions for me? Ask me here.

Games

Other games I played and what I think of them can be seen here.

SmashWiki Pokedex

See the Pokedex entries of SmashWiki users here.

Elsewhere

These are other sites on the internet where I'm active.

Youtube - My youtube channel, where I will have videos of Smash (primarily Smash AI exploitation and 1P mode videos), as well as occasionally videos of other games.
Smashboards - Profile on SWF
Brawl vault - My profile on Brawl Vault, as well as my music hacks.