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'' | ''See also: [[:Category:Diddy Kong players (SSB4)]]'' | ||
*{{Sm|dyr|USA}} - Placed 9th at both {{Trn|Shine 2016}} and {{Trn|Super Smash Con 2017}}, 13th at {{Trn|Frame Perfect Series 2}}, and 17th at both {{Trn|EVO 2016}} and {{Trn|The Big House 7}} with wins over players such as {{Sm|Salem}}, {{Sm|Abadango}}, and {{Sm|Marss}}. | |||
*{{Sm|Etsuji|Japan}} - The best solo-Diddy Kong player in Japan. Placed 5th at {{Trn|Umebura 33}}, 9th at {{Trn|Umebura Japan Major 2017}}, 13th at {{Trn|2GGC: Greninja Saga}}, 17th at {{Trn|Umebura 34}}, and 25th at {{Trn|EVO 2017}} with wins over players such as {{Sm|KEN}}, {{Sm|Ranai}}, and {{Sm|9B}} | |||
*{{Sm|K9sbruce|USA}} - Co-mained Diddy Kong alongside {{SSB4|Sheik}} and is considered the best Diddy Kong player in SoCal. Placed 9th at both {{Trn|2GGC: GENESIS Saga}} and {{Trn|GENESIS 5}}, 13th at both {{Trn|2GGC: MkLeo Saga}} and {{Trn|The Big House 8}}, and 17th at {{Trn|2GGC: ARMS Saga}}. | |||
*{{Sm|MVD|USA}} - One of the best Diddy Kong players in the world following ZeRo's retirement. Placed 5th at {{Trn|The Big House 7}}, {{Trn|GENESIS 5}}, and {{Trn|EVO 2018}}, 7th at {{Trn|Smash 'N' Splash 3}}, and 9th at {{Trn|Super Smash Con 2016}} with wins over players such as {{Sm|Nairo}}, {{Sm|Salem}}, and {{Sm|Tweek}}. | |||
*{{Sm|Nietono|Japan}} - Co-mained Diddy Kong alongside {{SSB4|Sheik}} and is considered the best Diddy Kong player in Japan. Placed 3rd at both {{Trn|Apex 2016}} and {{Trn|EVO 2018}}, 4th at both {{Trn|Umebura 29}} and {{Trn|EVO Japan 2018}}, and 7th at {{Trn|Umebura Tokaigi Qualifier}}. | |||
*{{Sm|RAIN|Japan}} - One of the best Diddy Kong players in Japan in the early metagame, but later dropped the character for {{SSB4|Sheik}}. Placed 1st at {{Trn|Umebura 11}}, {{Trn|Umebura 13}}, and {{Trn|Umebura 14}}, 3rd at {{Trn|KSB 2015}}, and 4th at {{Trn|Umebura 12}}. | |||
*{{Sm|Shoyo James|USA}} - Co-mained Diddy Kong alongside {{SSB4|Luigi}} and is one of the best Diddy Kong players in United States. Placed 2nd at {{Trn|Midwest Mayhem 6: SoCal Invasion}}, 7th at both {{Trn|Super Smash Con 2017}} and {{Trn|Smash 'N' Splash 4}}, 9th at {{Trn|Smash 'N' Splash 3}}, and 13th at {{Trn|Frostbite 2018}} with wins over players such as {{Sm|CaptainZack}}, {{Sm|Elegant}}, and {{Sm|Mr. E}}. | |||
*{{Sm|ZeRo|Chile}} - The best Diddy Kong player worldwide and of all time. Won 56 tournaments consecutively with Diddy Kong and {{SSB4|Sheik}}. | |||
*{{Sm|Zinoto|USA}} - One of the best Diddy Kong players in the world following ZeRo's retirement. Placed 2nd at {{Trn|CEO 2016}}, 7th at {{Trn|Frostbite 2017}}, 9th at both {{Trn|CEO 2017}} and {{Trn|Get On My Level 2018}}, and 13th at {{Trn|Frostbite 2018}} with wins over players such as {{Sm|MkLeo}}, {{Sm|Nairo}}, and {{Sm|Salem}}. | |||
'' | ===Tier placement and history=== | ||
Since the game's release, professionals noticed that Diddy Kong gained heavy buffs despite already being one of the best characters in ''[[Brawl]]'', and soon, his players became extremely dominant in early competitive play. Diddy's throws perfectly set up his strong aerial game, with his infamous up/down throw to up aerial combo (known as the "Hoo-Hah") being an unavoidable KO confirm at a wide range of percentages, and his Banana Peel offered strong stage control in spite of its nerfs. Aside from this, his up aerial had the speed and range necessary to KO easily without the need of the "Hoo-Hah", as well as many of his moves being both speedy and hard-hitting and with good range (like forward smash). These traits resulted in him being deemed the best character in the game. | |||
As a result of how disproportionately good Diddy Kong was for how easy he was to play, many professionals such as {{Sm|Mew2King}} and {{Sm|ZeRo}} picked him up, resulting in an abnormal number of Diddy dittos at the highest level of play. Even players who did not actively practice the game, such as {{Sm|Leffen}} and {{Sm|Armada}}, were able to gain strong results using him. Likely as a result of this, Diddy was heavily nerfed by updates [[1.0.6]] and [[1.0.8]], and his representation dropped significantly, becoming largely abandoned while {{SSB4|Sheik}} was considered the best character instead. Despite this, the top players who continued playing Diddy, such as {{Sm|Angel Cortes}}, {{Sm|Jtails}}, {{Sm|MVD}}, {{Sm|Nietono}}, and most notably, ZeRo and {{Sm|Zinoto}}, continued to push his metagame, adopting a newer, more creative playstyle that emphasizes Diddy's strong [[neutral game]] (which was not nerfed). | |||
As a result of these factors, Diddy was ranked 9th on the first ''4BR'' [[tier list]], near the bottom of the A tier, but thanks to continued strong results from multiple top players, along with the nerfs to Sheik, {{SSB4|Zero Suit Samus}} and {{SSB4|Bayonetta}}, some matchups that previously caused him trouble in updates [[1.1.5]] and [[1.1.6]], he then took the 1st spot, at the top of the S tier, on the second tier list, despite not being as dominant as he was originally. He has since then seen only a very slight drop to 2nd place in favor of Bayonetta in the third tier list, and then to 2nd/3rd place, tying him with {{SSB4|Cloud}} on the fourth and current tier list; although he remains at the S tier and is still considered to be one of the most viable characters in the game, the larger dominance of the former two characters in other regions has caused views on Diddy to slightly dwindle. | |||
Since ZeRo's retirement, however, Diddy Kong has not won any major tournaments at all and his strong results are still considered to be inconsistent in comparison to other characters like Bayonetta, Sheik, Cloud, {{SSB4|Mewtwo}}, {{SSB4|Fox}}, Zero Suit Samus, and {{SSB4|Rosalina}}, who have managed to obtain overall higher and more consistent results with the character. On top of this, Diddy Kong still has some very troublesome match ups as Fox, {{SSB4|Mario}}, Rosalina, Sheik and even some high and mid tiers such as {{SSB4|Olimar}} and {{SSB4|Mega Man}} do very well against him. Due to this, Diddy's tier placement is debated on as some say that the character has dropped slightly in the meta with some smashers like {{Sm|ANTi}}, {{Sm|Dabuz}}, {{Sm|ESAM}} and even ZeRo himself saying that the character shouldn't be ranked as high as he is. | |||
==[[Trophies]]== | ==[[Trophies]]== | ||