This began when I first brought my Wii U with Super Smash Brothers for Wii U or most commonly called Smash 4. I supposed that because I owned the game and had the most experience with it, I would absolutely rekt everybody in that house during that night... I couldn't have been more wrong in my life.

From there on we moved out from Smash 4 to a Brawl mod called Project M and we spent some years there. This phase of our smash addiction was when things finally got serious. We stopped being casuals. The rivalries which had been created on Smash 4 translated almost equally to Project M, BUT something had changed. Each of us started developing their skills more and more and quickly. Suddenly, we started getting better, our matches were closer, and tighter than they had ever been before. We were finally taking a good hold of the game in our grasp and it really was noticeable which one of us really wanted to invest time in the game and who didn't.

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By the time we switched over to Melee, Rivalries were set in place. I had developed these with two of my friends, specifically. This guy who played Captain Falcon. His extremely fast inputs are in your face 24/7 if you don't do something about it. And the other one was with this guy who wasn't that fast nor the best at applying techniques but can read you like a book. But why do I see them as Rivals? Because at some point we had an equal amount of skills and mindgames. We sort of grew together while training with each other and developed our own way of playing characters and the game itself.

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At the end of the day, our rivalries still last to this day and age but it's hard to keep consistent. Our group sort of disintegrated since not everyone likes playing the game at that level of competitiveness. We do still play once in a while and heck we even play some other games too like Skullgirls and Tekken! So i'd say we are still rivals but overall we're still friends.

I'll leave some images and stuff we've done over the years!