Smasher:Hylian
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| Hylian | |
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| Crew(s) | ARC (Austin Rapes Children) |
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| Real name | Jordan Fruin |
| Location | Austin,Texas 
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| Skill |  Pro-Am  |
Hylian, also known as Hylian88 on GameFAQs, is a Texas smasher who has been playing competitively since 2004. He is one of the most knowledgeable players in the smash community, using many techniques that are not well known. He is known to use a variety of characters in tournament, but considers himself a Fox/Samus main.
Background
Hylian entered the competitive smash scene in 2004, getting last place at 3rd Coast Gaming Invitational where he had to play DSF first round. Since then he played with friends going to a few tournaments but not improving too much, just gaining knowledge on the game. He has been going to the GameFAQs boards since 2003 and is a well known poster there. In late 2006/early 2007 he started playing with other Austin smashers and improved greatly. He played marth from 2003-2006 then dropped him for Fox once he learned how to waveshine. Soon after that he discovered that he possessed and affinity for Samus and decided to pick her up as well, switching from Marth/Fox to Samus/Fox. While he spent time learning specific techniques and honing his tech skill he made his first real tournament impact at H.O.S.T (Houston's Official Smash Tournament) in 2006. He was still relatively unknown at this point but at this tournament he placed 13th out of 70 participants in singles and 9th in teams. After this tournament most people considered him the best Samus player in Texas, though recently other Samus players have surpassed him.
Hylian is known for his ability to control Fox's SHDL. He invented a new way to laser, which is moving in the air while lasering, without dashing. "Weaving" is a technique he popularized which uses this method of lasering to move back and fourth in a flashy display of tech skill. At Melee FC Diamond, he showed players such as DaShizWiz, Mew2King, and Silent Wolf this technique, but none of them could preform it well. Since then he has been dubbed "Best SHDL user in the World" by Silent Wolf.
Hylian is also infamous for inventing useless techniques in this game. A few of the techniques he found are: Weaving, Grapple-Dropping, and FireDashing.
Hylian tends to love money matches. At almost every tournament he attends he usually has a list of at least $100 worth of money matches (many of which he loses). He post frequently on GameFAQs and Smashboards and is often challenged to them.
Despite Hylian's decent performance in singles, he is known to do astoundingly well in doubles. No matter whom he is teaming with he usually places well in any tournament he attends.
