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NinjaLink is a smasher from Brooklyn, New York. He is mostly known in Brawl for being considered one of the best Diddy Kong, R.O.B., and Ice Climbers players in the 2008-2010 era, and was the first player to ever defeat Mew2King's Meta Knight in a tournament, defeating him in winners bracket at XII.E.S.T.I.C.L.E. using Diddy Kong. However, despite being known for using Diddy Kong, NinjaLink has expressed that he does not strictly main a single character in the game, having a wide variety of characters at his disposal that he has used in tournament at a high level.
He was later known for using Greninja in Smash 4, and is widely known by other Greninja players for being a pioneer in the character's playstyle fundamentals, as well as being a "sensei", with top Greninja players such as Elexiao, iStudying and Venia going through him and becoming well known in the Smash 4 community under his knowledge. NinjaLink was also among the Greninja players to be voted in for going to 2GGC: Greninja Saga, and was featured as one of the judges in the event's combo contest. Like in Brawl, he has a wide variety of characters to his disposal that he uses at a high level, namely Mega Man and Bayonetta, the former of which he used to great success at Apex 2015, placing 13th at the tournament, and would later become his most used main. NinjaLink was formerly ranked 13th on the Tristate Smash 4 Power Rankings.
In Project M, NinjaLink mained Diddy Kong for most of his career, but would go on to main Link shortly before his retirement, but like in the other two games, he also uses a variety of other characters at a high level such as Marth. He has taken sets off of players such as ZeRo and Emukiller in tournament.
Tournament placings[edit]
Tournament |
Date |
1v1 placement |
2v2 placement |
Partner
|
Critical Hit 3 |
July 5th, 2008 |
25th |
7th |
Shadow
|
XII.E.S.T.I.C.L.E. |
August 9th, 2008 |
3rd |
|
|
Clash of the Titans IV |
February 7th-8th, 2009 |
5th |
13th |
Malcolm
|
Road To Viridian City 2 |
March 7th, 2009 |
5th |
— |
—
|
Apex 2009 |
May 9th-10th, 2009 |
9th |
7th |
Boss
|
Gauntlet |
August 15th, 2009 |
5th |
3rd |
Malcolm
|
S.N.E.S. |
August 21st-23rd, 2009 |
13th |
7th |
Wes
|
Gauntlet |
September 5th, 2009 |
7th |
3rd |
Malcolm
|
Paradigm Presents: WAIT, AGAIN?! |
January 9th, 2010 |
4th |
4th |
ADHD
|
Pound 4 |
January 16th-18th, 2010 |
9th |
5th |
Malcolm
|
Gauntlet |
February 6th, 2010 |
2nd |
3rd |
ANTi
|
BUM Presents: Gamers Tournament |
February 13th, 2010 |
3rd |
3rd |
ADHD
|
Viridian City #7 |
February 27th, 2010 |
5th |
13th |
lain
|
KTAR 2 |
March 20th, 2010 |
9th |
— |
—
|
Player's Bowl 2010 |
May 15th, 2010 |
4th |
3rd |
Ally
|
MLG Columbus 2010 |
June 4th-6th, 2010 |
25th |
33rd |
Malcolm
|
Apex 2010 |
August 6th-8th, 2010 |
17th |
13th |
Malcolm
|
MLG Raleigh 2010 |
August 27th-29th, 2010 |
12th |
17th |
E-Tigre
|
MLG DC 2010 |
October 15th-17th, 2010 |
25th |
17th |
Captain Fire
|
KTAR 4 |
January 5th, 2011 |
17th |
— |
—
|
Uprise of Long Island #5 |
June 18th, 2011 |
— |
3rd |
Will
|
Concentrate II |
October 30th, 2011 |
13th |
9th |
Pane
|
IMPULSE |
June 30th-July 1st, 2012 |
13th |
— |
—
|
Tournament |
Date |
1v1 placement |
2v2 placement |
Partner
|
Apex 2015 |
January 30th-February 1st, 2015 |
13th |
— |
—
|
Kawaii Kon 2015 |
March 27th-29th, 2015 |
3rd |
1st |
Jtails
|
Nebulous Prime 1 |
August 14th-16th, 2015 |
13th |
— |
—
|
Nebulous Prime Sm4sh #26 |
February 7th, 2016 |
2nd |
9th |
Snakeee
|
Nebulous Prime Sm4sh #27 |
February 14th, 2016 |
1st |
1st |
Freelancer Leo
|
Kawaii Kon 2016 |
April 8th-10th, 2016 |
9th |
1st |
6WX
|
Smash Attack 11 |
August 28th, 2016 |
— |
2nd |
Venia
|
YEG Open 2016 |
September 23rd-24th, 2016 |
7th |
5th |
Dezmu
|
Canada Cup 2016 |
October 28th-30th, 2016 |
17th |
13th |
Dezmu
|
XenoSaga IV |
November 26th, 2016 |
— |
9th |
Venia
|
2GGC: Greninja Saga |
May 20th, 2017 |
65th |
17th |
Venia
|
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