Playing Super Smash Bros. Melee Netplay

David Kimball streams Super Smash Bros. Melee netplay on YouTube Gaming for the first time, testing latency and buffering while playing 1v1 and 2v2 matches with viewers. He discusses technical setup like ping and buffer settings, character choices like Sheik and Captain Falcon, and advanced techniques like wave-dashing.
Chapters
Oh, say I'm streaming. Ooh, the ping is good. How to buffer of 2. Okay, good, it's muted by default. Oh my gosh, it's actually freaking there.
That's amazing.
Okay, let's put the shed over here.
Are you— are you what?
Are you for real though? Oh, I'm on the wrong—
that's fine. Aah! What's up, Terry?
This is my first time on YouTube Gaming. Who do I play as? I'm playing as Sheik. I hate when it stalls like that. Freaking dang it, dude, this is terrible. Ah, so stupid. Ah, why is it so laggy?
Holy crap.
Oh man.
This game's hilarious. Ready, go! Huh? Oh, Buzz, sit back there, huh? This game's winner is— Sheikah Survival! Ready? Go! Wait!
Uh, who am I? Smasher?
Who am I? I don't fully understand.
I'm not a well-known smasher. That's correct.
Too big! 2... up— 2... 2... 2... Tooth! Tear!
Hup!
Come! Tooth! Tear!
Wow, stupid.
There we go.
Wow, whoa, GGs! He gots to go. Holy cow. Okay, I'm gonna close this real fast. And I'm going to open— who's playing in the background? My brother, he's playing Splatoon. Yo. Okay, let's get some melee going on again. Play. Melee friendlies endless. Someone challenge me. There's a way to hide the stream. It's gotta be a way to hide it or only get chat or something. David, I totally found this on my channel recommended. That's awesome, Terry, man. How do I get only the chat? I want only the chat and not this. Whoa. Oh, I guess I can just pause it. It's kind of weird. What? Oh, okay, I'm from— I'm from Washington. I was like, someone from Washington is here. Oh, that's— that's me. Okay, I know you don't like League, but they recently moved their servers from Seattle, I think, to Chicago. Sucks. That's awful. Yeah, so I like doubled my ping. Oh, it doesn't really affect it fortunately still, but yeesh, it's awful. So sad. Probably a smart move for them, but sucks for me. Still, man, that's obviously— I don't want to bet on Smash and Smash 4 friend code and get wrecked. Well, I don't really play that game as much, but I can give you my friend code. Oh, Everett. Let's accept the person from Everett. Oops. I accidentally— then F that. What do you mean?
Technology kids these days.
Good start, Captain Falcon. Come on, my B, my B.
Smells good.
This Falcon is solid. Ah, just trying to down smash, man. I'm just trying to walk up and down smash.
I should try to dash in, see if I can dash in fast. Okay, dog. Tuh! Tuh-tu-ha— tuh? Tu-uha... huh?! [GRUNTING] Uhmm... tuhuah? Ahhh! Tututuuu! Ah! Yes!
Oh wow, that was good. Oh shoot, he's got me, he's got me. Oh man, that was, that was awesome.
This game's winner is Captain Falcon.
That was really awesome.
Survival. Beaten me.
Ready, go! Is that from Europe? No. Oh man, I was so dumb. Went for the hard read.
That was a great tag off the ball.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my God. Ah, yeah. All right. Ready? Go! Hup!
Can we play? Sure, Ben. Do you have a— can you play? Do you have a good connection? Are you near Seattle at all?
Fuck!
Oops, he got me, he got me. Ben, if you live near Seattle, then yes, we can play if you would like.
Sir, wait!
I actually stream on Twitch mainly, so this is the first time I've ever streamed on YouTube Gaming.
So what? Donkey Kong! Donkey Kong! Ready? Go! Impressive.
This is a good DK. He knows all the juggle moves.
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2.
Look at that, that was awesome.
Propstitching.
Well done, awesome DK.
Go! Aww!
He's a great Donkey Kong.
This game's hilarious.
Donkey Kong!
Survival! Captain Falcon! Captain Falcon's so bad. Ready? Go! Show me your moves!
Oh my gosh, he's too good.
Fuck you, Ken! That was so stupid.
Why'd I do that?
This game's winner is— oh, Monkey Kong! Survival Zelda! Ready, go!
This DK is wrecking me.
It's so good. Me?
Seriously, if he Force Chokes me right now.
Mm, mm, mm, mm.
Pro, this DK. Okay, let's try Marth. I'm not very good at Marth.
Boss DK.
Oh my gosh, he's a wrecking ball. Sure, you play Christmas if you want. Are you— where do you live? Are you here? Yeah, we can. Depends on where you live. You're getting us too far. I live in Seattle.
That was awesome. This video's winner is— OMG, car!
That was pretty awesome. All right, let's play Melee friendlies endless. I can do a description now. That's pretty cool. Oh. Yeah, I was Martha last game. I got wrecked by that DK. I don't— you don't play against too many DKs.
Sir Michael! Whoops. All right.
Okay, let's do 3-buffer.
Ready, go! Damn shark! I love fighting thankful-hestia.
As long as I'm not— ready?
3 good fights. Oh my God.
Seattle, it's a buck. You're pretty close there.
Nice.
Okay, yeah. If it disconnects, we can, uh, totally play.
5 minutes.
Well, this guy disconnects.
Oh nice, awesome!
Dude, Adam, you were freaking awesome. Just saying, love doing— I played a few New Donkey Kongs. Yours is arguably the best one that I've played, although I have played some pretty cool ones.
Lost bitterly.
If you watch the replay, you'll see me, uh, saying how much I suck and how good you are. Oh, oh, oh, wrong way.
Nice.
Oh, I see. Like, you— like, what, use your main?
Or like—
I think I know what you're saying. Ah, go to Gameplex. Uh, I go every once in a while. I actually live more in the Tacoma area, so I go to Super Smash games most of all. Well, I haven't been to a local in a while. Have you ever heard of Super Smash Bros. Legacy or Smash Bros. Legacy? That's my thing. If you've ever heard that, I've streamed the Gameplex a few times.
Not sure.
Yeah, Smash Bros Legacy is like— I used to play a lot and now I don't play as much because I work more and stuff, but there goes that TPG.
Nice.
Is that at the AFK Cavern? I love that place.
Yeah, oh, silliness.
That was silliness.
There we go, there's the rest.
Oh my gosh, that would be really good. Yeah, I can't think of the last time I've been to Gameplex. It's been a while. Linwood's like, it's like an hour and a half away from me. It might be more than that. I actually teamed. I went to, um, those majors and I teamed up with Jigglypuff. We didn't do very well on account of me.
Oh my gosh, no!
Oh my gosh. Yeah, I live 20 minutes away and haven't been since like December. Yeah, I know. I don't know what it is. Freaking Mark. Roy. Okay, Mark.
Okay.
Venues in the best. What's the best venue you've been to? Sick afterwards.
Yeah, I know, totally cramped.
I love the over 100 get up attack. It's so good for Edgehog. Depending on who the Marth is, I can almost guarantee when the side smash is gonna go. Watching streams, whatnot, you can tell. Well, that's true, but seriously, in this area, I can't think of a better venue to gameplay. It's probably the best one, at least in this area.
Damn.
Yeah, a little dash dance.
Thank you. Maybe something a little better?
Maybe I'm wrong here. I don't know, man. Again, not—
I have not been probably literally earlier than you since like 8 AM this morning. Probably before I said—
wait, that's not— yes, true, yes, true, but that's not true.
I don't know. There we go.
Oh my God, should have teched.
I'm going for Randall. 2! 2— two-two-two? Whoa?! Ta-tah ta tahh tuuuhhh... Two-Two-One!? Hoo haa! Tuuuuuttttta haht taaa-haaaaat toooohhhh toot-tooot-toooottoo! Too huh?? This game's better. Survival Fox. Ready?
Go! How the heck am I even wearing this freaking thing?
Look at it.
That works, believe it or not.
Huh! Huh!
Zambaki, this guy disconnects, you're next. Definitely get that up smash in there.
Feel like my chat's not going to work cuz I'm on YouTube Gaming.
Ready, go!
Oh no! Huh!
I was gonna say, if you don't mind reading something for me, that'd be great. It'd basically just be trying YouTube Gaming, and then I guess you should have complex YouTube, that's David Simone. I might get the chance to do it too. I just— well, I thought of it. There should be a mode where you can only use get-up attacks. Oh my gosh, scrub. I deserve to lose. This game is hilarious.
Captain Monkey. We— somos— Ready, go!
Oh my God, that was so hilarious but so not worth it. Yeah, oh no, I already used my grapple. That— ah.
Kan!
Yeah, that was, that was not— Roy Fox is so bad, Warning Fox.
Really bad. Yeah, he's a cool guy. Ah, I should not have won my—
because where it was so close, my Fox is so bad. What characters do I even play in this Yeah!
Woo-hoo!
I can't wait to give my Mario a second chance.
Survival Luigi.
Oh no, not Mario Bros.
Anything but Mario Bros. Ready, go!
Yippee!
Yippee! Yippee! Yeehaw! Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Yeah! This game's winner is Mario!
More painless than I thought.
Kirby! Zelda! Donkey Kong! Zelda! Ready? Go! Fighting!
What's up, Judy and Yanbei? Oh, oh, oh.
Sir Ryder! Nothing, man. Is that a new superhero? Ready, go! That was awesome.
Oh my gosh. Ah, one more stock. Oh, and was 4 stock didn't work?
This game is serious.
Oh, whoops. Doggone it. Good game, good game.
This game is so freaking free. Good. Survival Fox. Ready, go! I'm shit. Yes. Wow, this one completely different sort of playing me.
Good angle. Stop approaching with down air. You're right, I just—
Nope.
Oh, I thought you were being— yeah, I know, down airs are unsafe.
This game is going to be so complete.
Thanks to Young Milo, appreciate the tips. Honestly, I have not played Melee in a long time and I've been meaning to play again, so thanks for the tips.
Ready, go!
Wave dash out of shield. Yeah, the problem is I use— I use R to wave dash, I use R to wave dash, and I use L. Like, if I shield with L, then I'll wave dash with R, but if I shield with R, then I really don't wave dash out of shield. Yeah, it's hard. I mean, they know you can't. You know, it's really unsafe, but so— there's something so satisfying about popping them up in the air with the down air.
That play—
wow, that play's I've gotten so much better since I played last.
I'm gonna play the real first.
Nope.
Ah, man.
That's right, his victory.
Ready, go!
This is my Smash Bros username, same as everything else, David McKimble. You're fading, fading back. Ah, hit at the wrong time.
I'm doing it sideways.
Oh, what? Demon v. Kimble.
Oops, sorry. Ah! Oops!
Got my feet! Ah, shut up, Booster, I'll do it. Try to get through that laser!
This game's hilarious! Mission complete! Survive it! Mario! Mario! Settle, settle, settle, settle down, set— Mewtwo!
It's Mewtwo time, boys!
Go! Oh yeah, oh yeah! Um, I don't remember. Stag. Oh yeah! Oh yaahh— oh yooh...
Aah!
Yeah, here we go! Yoshi! Fox! Somos! Ready! Go! Wow! This is hilarious.
We're just messing around. That was a really good move.
This game's winner is Yoshi! Survival Fox! Ready? Go! Dang it. Hiya! Hiya! Hiya! This game's winner is— wahoo! Lucy!
We're just messing around. So fun.
Let's see, I'll throw this around. Ready, go! Yes! Hup! Salamu alaykum. Ready, go! That was pure silliness.
Do you have that, play G?
Oh my God. Yeah, I'm playing online. Playing halfway.
Turn the game volume slowly.
So am I.
Okay, how's that. I turned it down by like 10%.
Ready, go!
Oh yeah, nice! I'm glad, Matt. I actually have not played in like months. I'm trying to get back into it, and I think, hey, maybe YouTube Gaming will do that for me. Plus with awesome people on netplay and almost lagless experience.
Incorporating that moonwalk. Oh my God, are you serious? Good stuff. I'm Sheik.
Nice, Robert. Me too. Oh, we can't see how good I am with her. For the most part, Robert, yeah. Yeah, sometimes I do them because I think sometimes when they spot dodge, if, if they spot dodge a lot, um, the side smash is really good. It depends on the situation because also if they're like in a tumble, the side smash can be good sometimes.
The new Twitch.
No, it's This is YouTube Gaming.
It's a competitor to Twitch.
I'm not sure how much the delay is.
Gaming Google is taking over.
Should I say Alphabet's taking over. Oh, frick. 3 seconds, that's not bad. On Twitch it's a lot worse.
There! Oh.
Oh. Well, I thought it was more than 6 or 7. I thought it was like more than 10 seconds. That shield drop to back air, that was really clean.
Nice.
I was gonna say, it seems— yeah, yeah, man, Twitch is ridiculous. And Hitbox is like really good though. I kind of want to stream on Hitbox, but never got around to it.
Go!
Exactly, Hyrokin, I fully agree. Oh, frick. Yeah, man, I was just, you know, typing on this as he's fighting me. Oh man, Randall there to save his life. [FOREIGN] There's two of us. I've got to be— is just patient. I'm not patient enough, so it costs me most of the time.
Dang it!
Wow, beautiful! That's great where we found them.
Holy cow.
No, allow me to DI, please. Good work, that was really good.
This game's hilarious. It's so complete.
10 for Windows 10 GP Infinity. That's why, because Google loves Microsoft.
Jigglypuff Kirby.
Oh no.
Ready?
What's a DI? No, DI is directional influence. You're kidding, right?
Wow, good, you're kidding.
Who, me? Tournaments that I won? What do you mean by tournaments? At my university, I was the best player, probably, at my university. But I mean, regional tournaments, none. Just like small ones. Oh my gosh, I like locals. I haven't played too many locals, honestly, and of the ones I have played, I have not won any of them. Wanna play? You sure? If this guy quits— whoa, do you see that smash DI? That was insane. Ooh, that back air!
This game's winner is— Tricky Kong! Survivor! Thankful-yanadorf! Go! Good job! Hit! Hit! Hit! Go! This game's ridiculous! Ah! Donkey Kong! Ready? Go! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
Stop playing this buster.
Why?
He's awesome. You're secretly Mango? Then I really don't want to play you. Just kidding, I'd love to play Mango. Yeah, shouldn't mean to do that. Oh, there's a lot of sexual tension right there between Big and Bad. 2v2, that'd be kind of cool. I could ask Yeah, I'll try to beat you.
Do you guys both have netplay?
I'll ask this guy.
You do?
Awesome, awesome. I'm working on my Zelda.
Why don't you—
you guys East Coast? No, actually we're West Coast. You're East Coast, that won't work.
Yeah, throw down smash the garbage. Fuckin' kid!
No, I've got a great connection. I feel like her down smash takes as long as a smash and is as effective as a jab. Hold on, um, let me— Dude, we're gonna try a 2v2. This is the first 2v2 I've ever done on a stream. This is awesome. Oh, what are they gonna host? Oh no, there we go. Dang, that 100 ping. Yeah, hey, who are we missing? Oh, give us 2 controllers. Okay. Oh geez, let's try like 7. How's it going, Sebastian? We'll try 7. Oh geez, 100 ping though. Your connection is so ugly. All right, 7, starting it. Okay, teams could be hecka fun. Oh gosh. This looks so sketchy.
Sir what? Please! Oh gosh. Why are we doing names?
Okay, how about 9? Whoa, what happened to— oh no, they're all here. Let's do 10. Haha, this is so funny. I just left. I didn't want to ruin your stream. No. Oh, what? Okay, we have someone else. Let's go! 100 ping. Oh my God. Columbia. This is gonna be awful. Oh no, this is the menu. We should have turned off Pilot Dreams. Oh my God, delay.
My B. Aah!
Oh frick!
Ah, save me! Oh yes! Yeah, there we go.
This is actually really awesome despite all the wagons though. That was awesome. This delay is real. It's okay, still pretty awesome.
Mark Julie.
Ah, what? Why'd it crash? The heck, not sure what happened. Okay, there's Doosaint. Doosaint. Doosaint. Oh, what? Wait a second. Yeah, 10 members, not too bad. Wait, who's this new guy? Someone else joined in. Wait, what the hell? Why are there so many people? Yeah, I know. Sorry, Zumbatch, you've been waiting to play me. Uh, I don't know what to do. Ah, we'll go by who has the worst ping. Okay, Zoombox has really good ping. All right, let me figure this out. Ugh, I'll figure this out in just a second, guys. Alright, just resetting it. Okay, hopefully we'll be good this time. Let's try it again. Yeah, I don't really know what happened, to be honest. We need to restore the players that were there before. Oh, hey, just pro tip: GB Infinity kappa doesn't work on YouTube Gaming. Yeah. Maybe they'll implement it. OMG, LOL, there's still nobody in the room. What? Why does it say I have a new message? Oh, what? Oh, what? Where the crap did my chats go? Why is Anthur's Ladder so hard? Why is it on Project Damn, the heck? Turn on chat only mode? No. Oh my God, shit, seriously? Log me out? Whoa. Oh frick, where's the guy that I got with initially? Oh my gosh. Mm, okay, we have someone. We're going to go with this, and the buffer's 59— 80 milliseconds. I'll put it down to 8. Okay, we'll go with this. My voice is so stud-like. Oh, thank you. You know what, Deuce Saint, I can't hear your voice, but I bet it's still like 2. I hope you lose now since you dropped me. I didn't mean to, DuSain. Wait, were you the Jigglypuff on my team, DuSain? Because if you were, I really want to team with you. Like, add me on another social network while I remember who you are, and we'll team some more because your Puff is awesome. If you're the Puff— if you're not, this is gonna be really awkward.
Sarvai! Sarvai!
Okay, you're the puff? Yeah, I want you to be on my team.
Yeah, I— oh, okay.
Oh my gosh, Falco, you keep dying like this, man. I'm so sorry, New Saint, I'll get you back on. Um, if this Falco SDs too many times or he kills me But your ping's pretty bad.
Maybe it wasn't, I don't freaking remember.
I'm getting like a little confused. Oh, I almost spared both of them. Are you serious? Already dead? Still alive, bro. We survived this. This will be the biggest comeback ever. Oh, that's not true. It wasn't that.
That was fail.
Too timid to make the first strike. That's how East and West Coast play dubs. Oh my gosh, if you play on lightning melee, you literally won't notice.
Hilarious.
There he is. I never thought about that because it like maxes out the FPS or something, or just the speed, I guess.
Tobyah! Tobyah! Oh my God, what was that? Sir. Oh, frick, I just hit my own Nimae!
Are you serious? Sold 2 of my lives. I need Puff back.
Bing, don't screw this up, Falco. Are you serious? Alright, see ya.
Yeah, you get him. Good game. Feel so bad for what? Wait, were you the Falco? Okay, okay, um, okay, hold on. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Sarvai! Fuck! Oh no!
They just smashed the eye off those Shy Guys. Oh gosh, oh no. Alrighty, okay, it's time for you to join again. Okay, doozy and chat, or do saint, check your— okay. Okay, here we go. Configure paths. Looks good. Okay. Oh frick, 95 ping. Oh, back to 10. But for 10.
Mm! Buzz Lightyear!
Team Lightning!
Swoop! Captain Falcon! Captain Falcon! What's wrong with me? Big Blue? What the hell? What the heck? You totally tell.
This is the worst thing.
So stupid. Oh my gosh, this is hilarious. Thank you. What?
What the heck just happened?
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
That was the derpiest thing ever.
What the heck?
Who's doing that?
Oh, I already did that. What are we doing?
Go to freaking Melee.
What? No, no! Yahoo!
Sorry, Puff.
Should have needled.
That was awesome. Why are we doing all stages?
Stupid. To get some tail. This coconut gun can fire in reverse. If you shoot ya, it's gonna hurt. He's bigger, faster, and stronger too. He's the first member of the DK Crew. DK, don't he call DK, don't he call That was so derpy.
Why are you doing all stages?
Thank you. Go! Aya! Oh! This game's winner is Blue Team! Survival! Roy! Ganondorf! Oh gosh, don't kill yourself. Wah!
Trying to get on that crazy stuff. Oh, they're at the dip.
Nice. Oh my gosh. Huh! Play as Master Man next, please. No, not Follow me on Twitter.
Thanks, appreciate it.
Why not, best you can, dude.
If you lose this, you and I were on Same team, we would destroy, I'm pretty sure, cuz you're definitely the best player. Frick, so sorry, teammate. I'm not gonna play as Master Yi. That would be dumb.
Get there, get there!
I don't want you.
Player 2 defeated.
I'm trying to wobble with it.
Hey!
Sorry.
Just need a little needle.
Ah, this dang box.
Come on!
Oh my gosh, why do I feel like I'm the worst space animal on that play?
Darn it!
Oh my gosh.
Survival! Jigglypuff! Zelda! Peach! Ahh! Jigglypuff! Jigglypuff! Jigglypuff! Jigglypuff! That was awesome! That was incredible!
That was so awesome!
Fox! Fox! Ness! Roy!
So amazing, holy crap!
Ready, go!
14%. What? Dang, it's a fast silver puff. Maybe I should handle Roy.
What are you doing?
Oh my gosh!
Oh yeah, you did it!
Good job, dude! Good job! I know what I don't think so. I think Jigglypuff is awesome. All right guys, I'm pretty much done. GGs all around. I need to go now. Yeah. All right, I'll catch y'all later. Thank you so much for watching. This is officially my first YouTube gaming stream ever. Thank you very much for watching. If you want to see more, please subscribe to my channel, or you can go over to Twitch and subscribe to me there— or follow me, I should say. Say, here's a link to follow me on all the things ever. So thanks very much, guys. Yeah, that was pretty epic. You can money match me, mister. Okay. We'll do it later. I need— my eyes are killing me. Oh, how long has this stream been? Okay, 3 hours and 45 minutes. Okay, that's pretty freaking long. Later, stud. Subscribe for more, as they say. Goodbye and good night. No, good night. No, whatever.










