The Rise of Competitive Giant Melee

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Published 2024-04-29
Super Smash Bros. Melee has seen over two decades of competitive play, but while the world of Melee singles has been sharpened into something highly optimized and technical, it only represents a percentage of what the game has to offer, even when factoring in competitive play.

In this video, we will explore the oft-misunderstood game mode Giant Melee, the game mode where characters are more big and meet the players who have helped push the mode to new heights in recent years.

This video was a project I started last year that kind of ballooned as they tend to do. Much appreciation to @DarkGenex, @Miffee, Preeminent, Nicki, aMSa, puunk_, ycz and more for their contributions.

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Additional Reading:
Giant Rank 2024: medium.com/@DarkGenex/giantrank-the-giant-melee-to…
Collision 2023 Giant Melee:    • Collision 2023 Giant Melee - Ex-Girlf...  
Giant Melee Whatever:    • Giant Melee Whatever  
GIANT MELEE:    • GIANT MELEE  

Giant Melee Code:
$Giant Melee
C216E750 00000008
7C741B78 3ABF0060
3AC00000 1EF60024
7C75BA14 3D80801B
618C9060 7D8903A6
4E800421 2C160003
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3C808017 00000000

00:00 The Embiggening
02:49 The Rediscovery
05:14 To Be Big
07:53 The Undisputed Top-Tier
10:45 Large Developments
11:56 The Salty Suite
17:26 All Quiet on Giant Front
19:14 Collision 2023
42:30 Small Setbacks
44:18 Invasion by Sea
49:00 Collision 2024
1:21:43 Capacity for Growth

corrections: Avant La Fete was a british tournament! They just wrote it in frencch bc they're wild like that.
All Comments (21)
  • @wusstunes
    Thanks for watching! Music list is in the pastebin in the video description! Also I know that Avant La Fete didn't happen in France.
  • @Oualouidji
    Can't wait for the 2-minute long documentary on Tiny Melee
  • @jepale2
    Amsa looked like he was having the time of his life in every single clip of him in collision 2023
  • @SSBMNicki
    Truly gigantic. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this, if anyone in Europe or on the NA East Coast wants to play Giant Melee with me they should hit me up!
  • @DarkGenexSmash
    This is huge. Ty for having me on again after the Giga Bowser doc this is such a delight to watch. Long live Giant Melee
  • @andrewbank4696
    I love the old-school sentiment here. You can feel it in the character swaps, the gimmicks, and discovery. There's no doubt in my mind that if Nicki was around during the MLG era, they would've been a threat to Ken's #1 spot.
  • @chiliwong6311
    Incredible video, fun fact: nana's AI scales with popo's percent, so she'll make better decisions the higher percent popo is when she enters attack mode
  • @JDLupus
    26:19 the double-jump armor just eating the stitchface made me laugh so hard
  • @GanonAutumn777
    My siblings,ever since melee's release will only play on giant mode only and hyrule temple,with them only playing regular sized smash when my cousins come over to visit
  • @rorbee
    Massive video talking about Giant Melee in the larger picture. What a humongous workload, an absolutely gargantuan task. Big thanks to you wusstunes for knocking it out of the park with these feature lengths every single time.
  • @PattPlays
    I just saw a falco hit a tipper on a reverse up tilt.... i've seen it all now..
  • @jlachman381
    15 minutes in and my brain forgot what normal size characters look like.
  • @SSB_Seal
    Huge video! I've been a Giant Melee appreciator since Justin first got me to play it in his hotel room at Shine 2019, and I'm super glad to see it get more recognition through videos like this and even having multiple majors. It's especially awesome to see many friends like Justin, Preeminent, Ex-Girlfriend, and basically everyone else in this video all get featured for what they have brought to this game mode. Giant Melee is a world where the unbelievable becomes the norm, and it's up to each player to get out there and discover new things. Thanks for making this!
  • @keeislegend
    auto play turned this on, i left it on thinking itd be a short video, an hour later im still watching, and still entertained. Cool vid
  • @electricspirit3600
    I think one compensation buff for ICs is that living to higher percents unlocks better CPU levels for Nana.