Wi-Fi Warrior
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A Wi-Fi Warrior is a term referring to players who consistently attend and perform well in online tournaments. The term was first coined in Brawl, as a way to mock or joke about players that frequently play on game's notoriously poor online mode, specifically on All is Brawl's ladders. The connotation of the term has since changed into a term that refers to online players in general, especially during the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U online metagame.
Although online metagames exist for Smash 64 and Melee thanks to the use of emulators such as Project64k and Slippi respectively, they often do not refer to themselves as "Wi-Fi Warriors."
Notable usage of the term
On Nintendo Dojo, users would receive the "wifi warrior" badge on their profiles after playing enough Wi-Fi matches in the community chat rooms.[1]
The Wi-Fi Warrior Rank was a power ranking that was published biannually starting in 2018 for both Smash 4 and Ultimate. In a similar vein to the last three iterations of the Panda Global Rankings and the first two iterations of the Panda Global Rankings Ultimate, the rankings utilized a list of online tournaments to algorithmically rank the top 50 online players during that season. The most-recent list, Wi-Fi Warrior Rank v7, was released in July 2021, and the rankings has since gone into a hiatus.
Importance of Wi-Fi Warriors in the Smash scene
While Wi-Fi Warriors are often only associated with the online metagame, and as a result are often dismissed by the larger community, many of them are capable of making notable impacts in the offline scene as well. Notable examples include Sparg0, widely considered the second-best Ultimate player in the world for the first half of 2022, and acola, who had dominated Japan's offline metagame since he started playing offline.
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