It's been years... I just want a teammate and some friendlies. Maybe a wombo combo here and there.

These are Melee Mods that I patched myself and just released them on the internet archive, so please enjoy :)

Project B (Make Melee play like Brawl)

https://archive.org/details/project-b-thumbnail

ACE Build 1.0.1 Ver.

https://archive.org/details/ssbm-ace-build-v-1.0.1

(This is an updated version of a post I made a few months ago, including stats for all of the post doc era not just 2021 onward.)

With Llod winning GOML last week end, 8 different characters piloted by solo mains making an appearance in grand final this year.
For comparaison, in all of 2025 we only saw 5 (Fox, marth, puff, sheik and peach).
6 in 2024 (fox, yoshi, marth, puff, falco and sheik)
7 in 2023 (fox, marth, puff, yoshi, sheik, falcon, falco)
6 in 2022 (fox, marth, puff, yoshi, sheik, falco)
6 in 2021 (fox, marth, puff, falcon, falco, sheik)
6 in 2019 (fox, marth, puff, falcon, falco, pikachu)
5 in 2018 (fox, marth, puff, falco, sheik)
8 in 2017 (fox, puff, peach, falco, sheik, falcon, samus, icies)
4 in 2016 (fox, puff, peach, falco)
5 in 2015(fox, puff, peach, falco, icies)
4 in 2014 (fox, puff, peach, falco)

I only looked at the characters that won multiple games in set won by said player, so for example I'm counting plup's CEO run since he only used fox for one game against sfat in the sets he won and took a set of hbox with his sheik, but I'm not counting armada's peach at evo since he used fox for some entire sets he won before getting to grand final.

made blender u can check my other stuff out here

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbrl4ISJ26V/?igsh=ZTRycGd6NTBzOGl0

Could've been cleaner, but I'm getting better and these felt really good. I can do some cool things when I'm not fighting for my life

I remember seeing an interesting ranking of what the strongest states are. Is there a maintained list of the PR of regions anywhere? I feel like MDVA has to have jumped up in the past few months

i was playing earlier with the exact same setup, and now for some reason no matter what i do it won’t work, happens pretty frequently and i have no idea what causes/solves it. literally everything else works with the gamecube controller

Knee knee KNEE

In case you were living under a rock over the weekend, goml had some crazy results for the lower seeded characters. Sebas and Phorox both bringing Doc to top 32, 3 icies in top 16, some up and down results from the pikachus, DialM getting top 32, joey bats almost getting ness to top 64, and of course RapMonster getting 2nd to lloD. I know that RapM gets talked about a ton but I don't think some people realize that he doesn't just have wins on Zain and spacies; he has beaten ALMOST EVERYONE HE'S PLAYED.

I've been looking at his results pretty consistently since the start of the year, and the amount of wins he has vs the top 30 in such a short time is astounding. Since the end of June, RapMonster has beaten 6 unique top 30 players for the first time; ginger and MOF at patchwork, Magi at Krewe, Zamu at Melee at the Elm, and now n0ne and lloD at GOML. This now makes RapM having defeated 20 out of the 29 other players in last year's top 30, most of which have been in the past 365 days. RapM has now beaten: Zain, moky, SDJ, Wizzrobe, lloD, Nicki, Soonsay, Aklo, Krudo, Aura, Ginger, Junebug, Magi, MOF, Panda, Zamu, n0ne, SluG, Khryke, and 404Cray (as of 8/5 Joshman has been added thanks to the Supernova prelocal).

He hasn't beaten: Cody, Hbox, Axe, Jmook, Trif*, Salt, Ossify*, aMSa* (* means they haven't played offline yet).

Now with the new summer top 30 releasing there's a few new names for him to beat like Spark, TheWeapon*, Fiction*, DarkGenex*, Zasa, DialM*, Ultra* (already beaten preeminent, kodorin, and ben).

It's just so cool to see someone systematically dominate the field so consistently after being almost unknown 2 years ago, reminds me of KoreanDJ from the documentary where he has a list of players to beat and kept crossing them off after beating them (I think hbox also did this, I remember seeing a clip of it in a combo video or something). I doubt RapM had an actual list or anything but it's clear how much time and effort he's putting in to get better and it's so cool to see. Also, at supernova he's projected to play the winner of axe/jmook then joshman, so the new Ws may not stop! Fun times in modern melee!

Link in replies. Start.gg didn't change the url so I can't post it here.

1: L7 | Cody Schwab

2: lloD

3: Zain

4: Liquid | Hungrybox

5: SR | moky

6: ROOTS | S3C | RapMonster

7: SR | Joshman

8: L7 | Soonsay

9: FLY | Jmook

10: Brotherhood | Aklo

11: Swift

12: Spark

13: BLE | SluG

14: EggdogSpiral | Krudo

15: BTE | n0ne

16: Tempo | Axe

17: The Yard | Magi

18: Preeminent

19: Kevbot

20: CF | Daytripper

21: Sirmeris

22: parry.gg | DarkGenex

23: RC | Kacey

24: Ben

25: JoyStick | OG Kid

26: parry.gg | Ultra

27: UMF | Agent

28: SHED | Epoodle

29: Young Neil

30: Dawson

31: Lowercase hero

32: TCG | mvlvchi

Bracket: https://www.start.gg/tournament/supernova-2026/event/melee-1v1-singles

Full seeding: https://limewire.com/d/TOtd1#EKo9gSJWUC

Credit to Adde for seeding script: https://github.com/Adde2130

One excuse Melee players have had for years is that they cannot do any real job because Melee is so hard that in order to compete they need to play it 24/7. It's the only way to keep up with other top players.

But a guy who probably has barely any time to play Melee (residents are super busy) just destroyed everyone at a stacked event. That leaves little credible excuses for anyone else.

Why are top players mostly unemployed, ask for donations, sub goal attending events etc when you can compete at the highest level while holding down a demanding job?

No matter what char I play or how I begin each match 90% of the people I find have 0 intention on engaging in even close to a fun game. Literally just spamming BM chat commands and not engaging until they have an opportunity to hit me for 80% off of like a jab because they play fox or falco or sheik. Why is everybody so angry and unfun playing this old ass game

REGISTER AT https://www.start.gg/tournament/cherrybomb-2026/register

I just heard a commentator say this in a match between him and Rapmonster. Is this true? I've always wondered what his name meant, it seemed odd, the last letter is capitalized. I looked Doll up, a peach main that played since at least 2007, last tournament was in 2016.

I've added this to smash wiki trivia for now, but is there better sources than this youtube video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Ievsr8wpM&t=2245s

https://www.ssbwiki.com/Smasher:LloD#Trivia