Smasher:Shinku

Shinku
Character info
Melee main	Marth
Other Melee character	Fox
Brawl main	Ice Climbers
Team info
Former crews	Team Dycer
Personal and other info
Real name	Edward E Brooks
Birth date	August 3, 1986
Location	Temple Hills, MD

Shinku was a smasher from Maryland who mained Marth in Melee. He was one of the longest running tournament goers from an old school crew from 2003 called "Team Dycer" or "Dyce".

Shinku originally played Smash just for fun, but when two guys from Dycer known as Young D and Mario&Luigi showed him a few advanced techniques, Shinku got hooked onto the competitive gameplay, joining the crew and beginning his career in competitive Smash. He made his tournament debut at CyberCon Xion back in 2005 at Rockville, watching the top East Coast players battle with amazement.

Shinku was known by other smashers for his friendly personality and fox-clothing appearance. He often placed near the middle in tournaments, but he enjoys the competition and entertainment, and he has occasionally placed among the upper echelon. His most successful result was 2nd place at Katsucon 2007, losing to SS4 Ricky's Link, as many people watched.

His favorite Marth players from Melee are Mew2King, Ken, Azen, Neo, and Kizzu, a Brazilian smasher ranked in the top 5 in Brazil. He plays frequently with other Dycer members and with InfernoOmni. He did his best to mimic Mew2King with his playstyle, at the expense of being derided by others, although he would take the derision as a sign of progress. In doubles, he instead mostly plays Fox.

In Brawl, Shinku competed early on, however he just couldn't quite get the game down. His biggest trouble was simply finding the right character to adjust with, he in particular found Fox to be disappointing with how he turned out. Shinku would end up trying the Ice Climbers, and found himself to enjoy them with their technical desynching and ability to zero-death with chain grabs, becoming his new main for Brawl. Despite this, he would end up dropping Brawl within its first couple years, and go back to playing only Melee. He would continue to play Melee up to the mid-2010s before he retired from competitive Smash.

Tournament placings

This Smasher article or section lacks a complete results table. You can help SmashWiki by adding the missing results. The editor who added this tag elaborates: He has quite a lot of Melee results that stretch from the mid-2000s to the mid-2010s, and he has Brawl results too that should be listed.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Tournament	Date	1v1 placement	2v2 placement	Partner
Apex 2009	May 9th-10th, 2009	17th	—	—