Smasher:KoRoBeNiKi: Difference between revisions

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'''KoRoBeNiKi''', much more commonly called and known as '''Koro''' due to ease of pronunciation, is a retired [[smasher]] originally from Fair Lawn, New Jersey who now lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is primarily known for helping to form the most recent [[tier list]] in the original ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'' and for being one of the more active early [[Project64k|Kailera]] ''Smash 64'' players. He was also one of the original [[Back Room]] members on [[SmashBoards]] which created the current community ruleset published by {{Sm|Nintendude}}. He was originally one of the top keyboard players in ''64'' before switching over to Hori, and is known for his contributions to ''64'' on [[Reddit]] where he is still active and SmashWiki, and in the ''64'' community, is known distinctly for his puns (where Koropuns was a used term for said bad jokes in the community.)

In ''Smash 64'', he uses {{SSB|Yoshi}} virtually exclusively in tournament sets as his [[main]]. He used to use a {{SSB|Captain Falcon}} as his pocket character for certain specialty matchups. Otherwise, he used to use {{SSB|Fox}}, {{SSB|Samus}}, and {{SSB|Pikachu}} in certain locals. He switched to Yoshi only offline in early 2019 in bracket to help with his inconsistencies and to force himself to learn certain matchups, and his placings have become more consistent. He was potentially going to be on the low end of 2019 64 League Rankings, but they were never published due to community laziness, and he personally did not attend enough events. He is well-known for his particularly good egg usage and n-air placements for both his main and old main and specializes in the Jigglypuff matchup after years of experience teaming with MattNF along with Mario/Luigi. Subsequently, his best win was {{Sm|Yunque}} at Shine 2018 using Captain Falcon, and he also has a very positive record vs. {{Sm|Czar}} with his first loss in tournament vs. any Mario in the entirety of his ''Smash 64'' career being {{Sm|HAMMERHEART}} at one of the Quarterly Rapports (with his only Luigi loss being {{Sm|KD3}} at a local in New Jersey.) He primarily uses Yoshi, {{SSB|Luigi}}, and {{SSB|Pikachu}} for doubles, and his worst character by far is {{SSB|Link}}. Due to years of experience playing online, he uses the vast majority of the cast on a high level, and this can be seen particularly in low tiers, where he got 25th at the current largest low tier event at [[Let's Go!]] and similar placings at [[Keystoned II]], with losses entirely to low tier mains (such as the_maafia) and top level players (such as {{Sm|clubbadubba}} and {{Sm|Lord Narwhal}}. KoRo plays "claw" using the normal 64 controller, being used to holding it that way for puzzle games such as Pokémon Puzzle League, and had one notable tournament entry at Apex 2012, where he learned to play this way during the tournament after being sent to loser's bracket. He's otherwise entered rarely with a regular controller only when he doesn't have his primary controller or when his hands started to bother him at the now closed locals.

He used to use a keyboard adapter developed by {{Sm|Herbert Von Karajan}} for a while offline, and for a long time, he used a golden Hori with a lodgenet stick installed by {{sm|JimmyJoe}}, but this was recently replaced in mid-2020 due to the stick malfunctioning. On Hori, he doesn't use A for almost all his aerials, but rather uses the shoulder buttons, but this results in occasional bad grabs. He has had very close sets vs. top players, but is known for his inconsistency (which is ironically similar to JimmyJoe, who designed his old main controller.) He is currently ranked 4th on the inactive New York City Power Rankings in both the current and prior power rankings having played weekly prior on Monday nights in Union Square at the now closed Offside Tavern along with occasional events on Wednesday run by Wiseacre/Neil in North Haledon, New Jersey, and the rare regionals/majors he enters. Outside of entering locals, he had helped TO including running pools at the sparse majors he attends, and has helped run events such as helping with seeding rarely or occasionally running DarkHorse's stream at events such as SSC and otherwise. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, his local scene closed and he has been very inactive only appearing in sparse tournaments with his last event being [[Super Smash Con 2022]] after not practicing where he both did poorly in singles and happened to be in a pool where several players upset their seeding as well such as Miniohh. In doubles, he teamed for the first time with Floridian player Griffith with the teams being Yoshi and Luigi or Yoshi and Pikachu and was seeded 33rd outside of top 32 being seeded the 5th seed in pools. In pools, they won an upset vs. MasterHandJob and {{sm|Razz}} making it out of pools also being the only team to take a game vs {{sm|Alvin}} and {{sm|Joshi}} starting in Loser's Top 32 after finishing 3rd with a 4-3 record. They won a minor upset over 32nd seed {{sm|The Protagonist}} and his brother Dad in Loser's Round 1 before losing to 16th seed and 9th place finishers Lord Narwhal and {{sm|Jayden Murphy}} getting 17th place overall. Since then due to work, apathy, and lack of car, he's been essentially retired outside of very rare smash events at a friend's house.

On [[SmashBoards]], he was a long time contributor until the large majority of the community moved over to the SSB64 Community [[Facebook]] page due to a variety of issues with both moderators and active trolls in the scene. KoRo was a member of the 64 backroom, which closed due to spam and overall uselessness outside of the new stage list. After Apex 2015, he kick-started a new tier discussion thread, which resulted in a voting topic ran by him, {{sm|Pidgezero one}}, and several moderators. This eventually resulted in the current tier list seen today though players in more recent years have clamored to see an update. This is in particular to switch Fox and Yoshi's placements and it's common to see this correction done on Twitch streams when people ask about the best characters. He also wrote articles for the ''Smash 64'' scene, but he has been retired from writing since early 2019.

 

In [[Smash Remix]], he used Ganondorf primarily and his old 64 main Yoshi with multiple secondaries and finds the game very fun but is mostly inactive as per every other game in the series.

KoRo got back into ''Melee'' around Apex 2012, but was in a state of rust. He started to attend more events, but until {{Sm|Hectohertz}}'s weeklies in 2014 at [[Nebulous]], he was semi-inactive. At NeoNebulous 23, he traded for {{sm|Lambchops}}'s controller. He mains {{SSBM|Luigi}} in ''Melee'' still and welcomes the [[20XX]] movement. He is mainly known for his unusually high rate of misfires and has taken games off of {{sm|Hax}}, {{sm|VanZ}}, and several other more well-known/better players thanks to them. He prefers doubles and has had some strong placements, particular with B3N, a local Falcon main, as well as several Jigglypuffs/Foxes he has teamed with such as the now-ranked {{Sm|2Saint}}. At his peak in early/mid-2016, he was on the cusp of the unranked players getting top 5 consistently in amateur brackets, but placed too poorly in arcadians due to his inconsistency and struggle in the Marth/Falco matchup. His last ''Melee'' event for a long time was at the last Nebulous, as his controller was lost and/or stolen, though he had a very good time otherwise. His last stock taken was aptly with a misfire vs. a local Ganondorf named Big Daddy Ganon. After several years of inactivity, he attended one of the earlier [[Hax's Nightclub]]/HNCs run by {{Sm|Hax$}} due to convenience and to support the scene, winning one set but losing the remaining two using an old partially broken controller. He has since attended a few events mostly to see old friends in the community usually going 1-2 or 0 and 2 borrowing one of the TO's controller but is essentially retired.

In ''[[Project M]]'', he mained Luigi and Samus with various secondaries such as Yoshi and Ganondorf (primarily for Warioware shenanigans), and he also used to play online occasionally on [[Anther's Ladder]] though on keyboard. He specializes in the Ivysaur and Snake matchups. As with ''Brawl'', he didn't have super strong placements in singles, though his losses were usually to top-level threats outside of consistent losses to people maining sword-wielding characters such as Marth (as in ''Melee'') and Ike. He has also shown strength as with the other games in doubles, where he used to team primarily with KeyChain, an NYC ranked King Dedede/Wario main. They have taken sets from much more well-known doubles teams, most notably one of the most well-known Midwest teams {{sm|Dirtboy}} and {{sm|Ripple}} the day before Supernova, as well as teams featuring players such as {{sm|Malachi}} and {{sm|Phresh}}. He is currently inactive from Project M due to Nebulous closing, but occasionally entered events at Super Smash Con until 2019 and has been inactive since Project Plus.

Similarly with ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', KoRo does not own a Switch. However, he has entered a small local which was at the same time as a ''64'' event. He quickly found Ganondorf to be his best character and won all three sets he played before having to leave, relying on reads and the new parry mechanic. He personally hates Luigi in the game because of his new grab mechanic, as he generally doesn't like characters with tethers, but he likes a game a lot. As with the other newer games, his least favorite aspect by far is the buffer system, and if it was customizable, he would potentially play the game more, but isn't particularly interested.

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