Some people are fans of Brolynho. But many other people are NOT fans of Brolynho. This article is for those in the latter group. And yes, I did completely steal this idea from Drew Magary. So sue me.
That shit was FUCKING VIOLENT. Here's a round-by-round summary:
Game 1, round 1: Nemo stuns his opponent, wins
Game 1, round 2: Nemo stuns his opponent, wins
Game 2, round 1: Nemo stuns his opponent, wins
Game 2, round 2: Nemo stuns his opponent, wins
Game 3, round 1: no stun, Nemo loses
Game 3, round 2: Nemo gets stunned, loses
Game 4, round 1: Nemo gets stunned, loses
Game 4, round 2: no stun, Nemo loses
Game 5, round 1: no stun, Nemo wins
Game 5, round 2: Nemo gets sunned, loses
Game 5, round 3: Nemo stuns his opponent, wins
That's 8 stuns in 11 rounds. And it doesn't even matter to Nemo that he was the one getting stunned 3 of those times! He just wants to swing. He did the same thing last night to Brian_F, who's normally a very scientific Balrog but who turned into a jittery mess against Nemo's Urien.
Basically, Nemo is the FGC version of the dust cloud that you see in Looney Tunes when two characters get into a fistfight. It seems like a crazy way of going through a stacked tournament, but he makes it work. Just look again at the results from his match with AiAi: he was 5-3 in rounds where someone got stunned, but he was 1-2 in rounds with NO stun. Somehow or other, Nemo has managed to perfect a style of play where HIS unchecked aggression turns YOU into a reckless player.
Obligatory "whine about Urien" section
Blah blah blah Urien is so cheap, Aegis is so cheap, blah blah.
Actually, though, this is not Dogura's Urien that we're talking about. Nemo actually tries to play Street Fighter with this character. He has a neutral game. He plays footsies. During last night's LCQ finals, he even used Aegis to whiff-punish Juri's fireball startup. This is actually the wildest thing about Nemo's Urien: he makes the character look fair. I mean, don't get carried away - Urien's NOT fair. But Nemo makes him LOOK fair, and that's an accomplishment.
Why he's getting bodied at Capcom Cup
Same reason he didn't win Evo 2015: because, sooner or later, he's gonna run into someone he can't rattle. It's one thing to put Brian_F on tilt - no disrespect to Brian_F, but he's a newish player and he doesn't have the experience to go up against a firebreather like Nemo. But we're talking about a bracket with 31 trained killers in it (and also DidimoKOF). Eventually, Nemo is gonna reach a point in the bracket where he says "BOO" and his opponent doesn't flinch, and when that happens he's done for.
"But wait," you say
Did you know that Nemo's twitter handle is @GOOD_NEMO? It's true! So, y'know, at least he's got self-confidence.
Your player
AW | Nemo
Y'know what I just realized? That fish has freckles. Why the FUCK does that fish have freckles? What's WRONG with you, Pixar, you creepy, vaguely racist weirdos? It's a FISH. It's ORANGE. It doesn't need to somehow also be a white person. Honest to fucking goodness.
Signature move (in real life)
Nemo shows up to practically every tournament looking like a model in a cologne ad:
And here I have to do something that I normally hate doing and shout out his sponsor. Everyone knows by now what the standard eSports "jersey" looks like: it looks like a combination between a golf polo and a NASCAR vehicle. Those things are UGLY. Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - looks good in a shiny t-shirt that's covered in corporate logos. So the fact that Alienware allows Nemo to continue dressing like himself is something that I have to respect. Now, does that mean that I'm gonna pay ten grand for a computer? No. Don't be stupid. But shoutouts to them anyway.
Signature move (in Street Fighter)
I don't know how he does it, but Nemo manages to turn every fight into a slugfest. Like, there are a lot of players who prefer offense or who like to press a lot of buttons. Xian's wakeup pressure is nauseating, iDom famously pressed Laura's standing MK three thousand times in a row, Alex Valle's whole schtick is that he likes to #RushThatShitDown, and so on. But only Nemo forces YOU to go just as crazy. Just look at this match from the Evo 2015 top 8:
That shit was FUCKING VIOLENT. Here's a round-by-round summary:
Game 1, round 1: Nemo stuns his opponent, wins
Game 1, round 2: Nemo stuns his opponent, wins
Game 2, round 1: Nemo stuns his opponent, wins
Game 2, round 2: Nemo stuns his opponent, wins
Game 3, round 1: no stun, Nemo loses
Game 3, round 2: Nemo gets stunned, loses
Game 4, round 1: Nemo gets stunned, loses
Game 4, round 2: no stun, Nemo loses
Game 5, round 1: no stun, Nemo wins
Game 5, round 2: Nemo gets sunned, loses
Game 5, round 3: Nemo stuns his opponent, wins
That's 8 stuns in 11 rounds. And it doesn't even matter to Nemo that he was the one getting stunned 3 of those times! He just wants to swing. He did the same thing last night to Brian_F, who's normally a very scientific Balrog but who turned into a jittery mess against Nemo's Urien.
Basically, Nemo is the FGC version of the dust cloud that you see in Looney Tunes when two characters get into a fistfight. It seems like a crazy way of going through a stacked tournament, but he makes it work. Just look again at the results from his match with AiAi: he was 5-3 in rounds where someone got stunned, but he was 1-2 in rounds with NO stun. Somehow or other, Nemo has managed to perfect a style of play where HIS unchecked aggression turns YOU into a reckless player.
Obligatory "whine about Urien" section
Blah blah blah Urien is so cheap, Aegis is so cheap, blah blah.
Actually, though, this is not Dogura's Urien that we're talking about. Nemo actually tries to play Street Fighter with this character. He has a neutral game. He plays footsies. During last night's LCQ finals, he even used Aegis to whiff-punish Juri's fireball startup. This is actually the wildest thing about Nemo's Urien: he makes the character look fair. I mean, don't get carried away - Urien's NOT fair. But Nemo makes him LOOK fair, and that's an accomplishment.
Why he's getting bodied at Capcom Cup
Same reason he didn't win Evo 2015: because, sooner or later, he's gonna run into someone he can't rattle. It's one thing to put Brian_F on tilt - no disrespect to Brian_F, but he's a newish player and he doesn't have the experience to go up against a firebreather like Nemo. But we're talking about a bracket with 31 trained killers in it (and also DidimoKOF). Eventually, Nemo is gonna reach a point in the bracket where he says "BOO" and his opponent doesn't flinch, and when that happens he's done for.
"But wait," you say
Did you know that Nemo's twitter handle is @GOOD_NEMO? It's true! So, y'know, at least he's got self-confidence.
Comments
Post a Comment