![]() ![]() Dude, I distinctly remember Clubbadubba 5-stocking me with Jigglypuff over and over, it’s one of my memories from that tournament. So I go to Apex 2012, I get thrashed by literally everybody. So nobody expected me to turn into this actual player. And nobody thought I would because at that time so many people think they’re the best players in the world, then they show up and they get beat down and they leave. You’re gonna get beat down but if you actually care about the game you might stick with it. But if you are interested there’s this tournament coming up called Apex 2012. When I called out Isai, people said, dude, you’re probably, no, you’re definitely garbage. And it obviously didn’t happen like that.ī: So that was when you discovered a larger Smash world. Did you start going to tournaments? Were there tournaments to go to? Let me just call him out and we will expose this fraud and we will be the best. I looked up Isai’s YouTube videos, I found Smashboards, and I thought, “This guy Isai doesn’t look that good.” And I was talking to Skyfire and I was like, we can beat this guy. K: That was the same night, 7 o’clock on a school night. I will never forget…it was, like, 7 PM on a Tuesday night and I was like, “Yo, this is crazy!”ī: When did you write that Smashboards post that called Isai out, saying you could beat him? Was that post and that day the beginning of your competitive career? It was crazy, I will never forget that day. We just googled ‘Smash 64 techniques’ and found Z cancelling, and we were like, “Yo, apparently people actually play this game.” So I googled “Who is the best Smash 64 player” and Isai’s name came up, and I saw the word Smashboards and I was like, “Oh shit let me check out this Smashboards place,” and I found out there were all these players and there were more techniques that weren’t Z cancelling. And we both were trying to one-up each other, but we didn’t know about anything, we didn’t know about Z cancelling or short hopping or anything, we were straight scrubs.Īnd then one day we discovered Z cancel. Then I got the game in tenth grade, and me and Skyfire would just dick around and play because we were friends from school. ![]() K: I mained Yoshi when I was ten, and I would beat one-player mode every day before 4th grade, or whatever grade you’re in when you’re ten. And that’s just something we called ourselves.ī: When did you start playing Smash 64, just in general? Maliki’s my cousin, he lives like 45 minutes away, but we all pretty much live…for all of us to be playing in a room on a weekend, it wasn’t unheard of. K: So that’s me, my brother Stranded, Czar, Maliki and Skyfire. K: Nah, I actually f*** with Japanese wildlife.ī: And where did the “Koroshiyo” clan originate? The thing that I got my tag from very well may have gotten it from that frog - I mean how many fucking things are called Kerokeroppi? So realistically that’s where that came from, but the thing that I got from isn’t specifically from the Japanese frog.ī: So you’re not very into Japanese wildlife? There is this Japanese anime frog that, I guess it’s called Kerokeroppi, so I’m not denying that that exists. I wouldn’t call it a secret, it’s just not something I go around talking about. KeroKeroppi: Yeah, I don’t tell people that. Note: This article has been lightly edited for continuity.īrendan: First things first, where did your tag come from? Kero was gracious enough to sit down with me and discuss the rollercoaster of a year he has had, as well as his journey to that point, his competitive mentality, and his impressive rise to the top echelon of players. Then, in the span of a month, he moved to New York City to work, started coming to locals, and re-entered the competitive Smash 64 scene. It seemed that Kero was truly set on retirement. In that time, KeroKeroppi has posted about Smash 64 on social media and played friendlies with other players, but has not competed in any tournaments (excluding Let’s Go!, where he competed in doubles). He would compete in one last tournament, Genesis 4, before hanging up his Hori for good. ![]() Despite being ranked 10th on the 2016 SSB64 League rankings and earning The 64 Story’s “Best Sportsmanship Award,” he decided to retire, citing his isolation and the game’s meta as the driving forces behind his decision. ![]() In 2016, one of the top Smash 64 players announced via Twitlonger that he was quitting the game and moving on to play its sequel. ![]()
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