Smasher:Thunders

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Thunders "KOTO"
Character info
Smash 64 main Kirby
Melee main Fox
Other Melee character Luigi
Personal and other info
Location West Japan Japan
Miscellaneous info
Skill Super Smash Bros. Melee Top professional (retired)

Thunders is a West Japan Fox player who is known for playing technically and possessing extremely fast fingers back in the 04-07 smash era. He is also famous for being able to recover with Luigi's Luigi Cyclone at full height. He is also capable of performing the very difficult double shine. He competed at his prime with Masashi for the title of the best for in Japan. He also invented the Thunder's Combo back in 2005, a useful reset combo. in Smash 64, he was one of the best Kirby players in the very early metagame.

Thunders also goes by the gamer tag "コト" and was ranked 2nd in the first period of the Kansai Ranking Battles, and 14th in the second period.

After seemingly disappearing from the scene he came back to playing under the tag "KOTO" in 2019 debuting at Battle GateWay 24 with a 13th place finish. He is currently ranked 19th on the Japan SSBM Rank 2019.

Thunders Combo

An example of the Thunder's combo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSmoWo5nlYI

Tournament placings

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Super Smash Bros.

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Japan United Smash Festa Round-Robin 1 March 26th-28th, 2001 7th

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Jack Garden Tournament August 20th, 2005 9th
Sumabato DX Melee 11 May 4th, 2014 9th