Smasher:Nintendude

Nintendude is a smasher from Westchester County, New York who currently resides in San Francisco, California. He was named the 46th best Melee player of all time by Melee Stats,^[1] and peaked as the world's #17 player.^[2]

Nintendude is considered to be one of the best Melee Ice Climbers players in the world, having defeated top-10 ranked players such as Mango, Mew2King, Plup, Axe, SFAT, Silent Wolf, and Shroomed. He rose to prominence in 2015-2016, achieving a string of top-8s including at Genesis 3, and peaked at 17th on the 2016 SSBMRank. Nintendude was signed by Splyce (then known as FolloweSports.com) along with MacD on August 24th, 2015.^[3] On March 3rd, 2018, Splyce announced their departure from Melee, losing Nintendude and MacD in the process.^[4] In April 2018, Nintendude announced that he would be switching his focus to Marth and he stopped competing in large tournaments as frequently.^[5]

Nintendude is known for his multi-game prowess. He was a notable competitor in Smash 64, peaking at #37 worldwide. He was considered to be one of, if not the best Mario players in North America between before ultimately dropping the character for Fox in 2016. In Project M he notably pioneered Mr. Game & Watch, putting the character on the map in April 2014 after a 2nd place run at Civil War VI and several Xanadu performances including the infamous "Double 9" on ChuDat.^[6] He served as the initial inspiration for other top Game & Watch players to follow such as MrLz and Dakpo. Nintendude further cemented his legacy as a multi-game talent at Super Smash Con 2017, where he placed 3rd in the Smash Masters exhibition event, defeating ChuDat and narrowly losing to ZeRo in a tiebreaker.

Nintendude is also one of the most prominent tournament organizers in the Smash community. In addition to being a staff member of Apex from 2010 until 2015, he administered the Smash @ Clarendon tournament series in Arlington, VA, and has served as Tournament Director for Super Smash Con (2015-present), PAX Prime 2015, Royal Flush, Pound 2016, Pound 2019, and Smash World Tour 2021 Championships. In 2011 he became the first community moderator on the previously abandoned /r/smashbros subreddit, of which he was the community's first advocate,^[7] growing it from several hundred subscribers to tens of thousands.

Rankings[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Melee[edit]

SSBMRank/MPGR[edit]

Tournament placings[edit]

Super Smash Bros.[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Melee[edit]

Project M[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl[edit]

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

Trivia[edit]

• Nintendude’s first top-8 appearance at a National was at The Big House 3, a tournament where wobbling was banned.
• Nintendude has won the Smash @ Xanadu weekly Melee tournament 31 times, which is more times than any other smasher.
• Despite playing Ice Climbers and making liberal use of wobbling he has revealed in his Reddit AMA he actually thinks of it as a terrible gameplay mechanic. He also said he would still main the Ice Climbers even if the mechanic didn't exist.
• At Shine 2016, he became the first Ice Climbers main to defeat Mango since Wobbles at EVO 2013.
• Nintendude notably placed 13th in Smash 64 doubles partnered with a level 9 Luigi CPU at GENESIS 5. His original partner, Isai, had been suffering from hand pain and was unable to play.^[8]
• Nintendude graduated from Cornell with a Master's degree in chemical engineering.^[9]
• Nintendude started working at Twitch in 2016.^[10] He announced he was leaving on January 14th, 2022.^[11]
• Nintendude holds multiple real-time speedrun world records in 10-Man Melee.^[12] He achieved holding all 25 TAS world records simultaneously on July 24th, 2023, achieving Fox's last.^[13]

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External links[edit]

• Twitter account
• Twitch channel
• SmashBoards profile
• YouTube channel
• Medium account