Editing Smasher:Mekos

| skillssbb  = Top professional

| skillssb4  = Top professional

| rankingssbb = [[2014 SSBBRank]]: 69th

| sponsor    = FlySociety

'''Mekos''' is a smasher from Greensboro, North Carolina. He was known as the best Lucas in the world in ''Brawl'', and is currently considered the best Lucas player in the world in ''Smash 4'' after {{Sm|Taiheita}}'s retirement. In ''Brawl'', he was known for his excellent control over Lucas's mobility, and usage of [[PK Fire]], jab and aerials to [[space]] against opponents, as well as using the [[Rope Snake]] to cancel Lucas's [[landing lag]] after aerials or empty jumps. He was known to play a very deadly spacing game, making the most of each of Lucas's moves's range to both [[edgeguard]] and put on [[pressure]].

He was a notoriously vocal proponent of doubles play, considering it superior to singles play. He often preached about the necessity of true team work and team spacing in doubles, while denouncing the "separate 1v1 battles" that often occur when those inexperienced in doubles teaming. Although some saw him as overly vocal about the issue, Mekos was considered to be one of the top doubles players in the States, consistently placing high in doubles while using a low tier and teaming with numerous different players, and is commonly known as "The Doubles God" as a result. Despite preferring and often doing better in doubles, however, Mekos usually placed very well in singles, especially for using a low tiered character. His breakout performance came at {{b|SKTAR|tournament}}, where he defeated top Falco {{Sm|Pelca}}, defeated one of the best {{SSBB|Meta Knight}}s in the world in {{Sm|Tyrant}}, and defeating one of the best European and Wario players in {{Sm|Glutonny}}, before losing to {{Sm|Trela}} in winners quarterfinals, and losing to Tyrant in losers, overall securing a 9th placing (the highest a player placed with a low tier in a national tournament since {{Sm|San}} got 9th with the then low tier {{SSBB|Ike}} at [[Apex 2010]]).

In early 2016, Mekos [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6s28tAfkZE announced he was coming out of retirement] to main {{SSB4|Lucas}} in ''[[Smash 4]]''. He has taken sets off of players such as {{Sm|Nairo}}, {{Sm|ScAtt}}, {{Sm|tyroy}}, and {{Sm|saj}}.

Mekos was ranked 1st on the Carolina Brawl Power Rankings and 69th on the [[2014 SSBBRank]]. He was formerly ranked 8th on the [[North Carolina Power Rankings|North Carolina Smash 4 Power Rankings]]

|[[MLG Columbus 2010]]||June 4th-6th, 2010||65th||17th||{{Sm|Boss}}

|[[Pound V]]||February 19th-21st, 2011||65th||17th||{{Sm|Amethia}}

|[[GENESIS 2]]||July 15th-17th, 2011||65th||13th||{{Sm|GimR}}

|[[KTAR 6]]||August 14th, 2011||33rd||7th||{{Sm|Pat G}}

|[[Apex 2012]]||January 6th-8th, 2012||—||17th||{{Sm|FOW}}

|{{b|SKTAR|tournament}}||July 14th-15th, 2012||9th||5th||ESAM

|[[Apex 2013]]||January 11th-13th, 2013||49th||17th||{{Sm|DEHF}}

|[[WHOBO 5]]||October 19th-20th, 2013||17th||4th||Mew2King

|[[WHOBO 5#Brawl mid+low tier singles|WHOBO 5 M+LT/LT]]||October 19th-20th, 2013||1st||5th||Mew2King

|[[Apex 2014]]||January 17th-19th, 2014||33rd||25th||DEHF

|[[SKTAR 3]]||May 31st-June 1st, 2014||17th||7th||{{Sm|9B}}

|[[Pound 2016]]||April 2nd-3rd, 2016||65th||33rd||{{Sm|Day}}

|[[Fusion 3]]||April 16th, 2016||17th||9th||{{Sm|Xanos}}

|[[Paradigm Shift]]||May 21st-22nd, 2016||7th||3rd||{{Sm|Leaf FC}}

|[[Road to Shine]]||August 6th-10th, 2016||2nd||—||—

|[[Shine 2016]]||August 26th-28th, 2016||25th||3rd||{{Sm|Mr.E}}

|[[Key to The PG House]]||September 8th-18th, 2016||49th||—||—

|[[Glitch 2]]||September 24th-25th, 2016||13th||2nd||Mr.E

|[[UGC Online Open]]||November 1st-10th, 2016||33rd||—||—

|[[Hero to ZeRo]] (online)||November 5th-7th, 2016||17th||—||—

|[[PG Key to GENESIS 4]]||January 1st-5th, 2017||7th||—||—

|[[PG Key to 2GGC: Civil War]]||March 5th-8th, 2017||3rd||—||—

|[[CEO Dreamland]]||April 14th-16th, 2017||33rd||4th||Mr.E

|[[Glitch 3]]||May 6th, 2017||13th||2nd||Mr.E

|[[2GGC: Greninja Saga]]||May 20th, 2017||25th||4th||{{Sm|FOW}}

|[[MomoCon 2017]]||May 26th-28th, 2017||13th||9th||{{Sm|Wrath}}

|[[2GGC: Nairo Saga]]||June 10th-11th, 2017||33rd||17th||FOW

|[[Naifu Wars: World War 2]]||June 23rd, 2017||9th||—||—

|[https://smash.gg/tournament/just-roll-with-it-7/events/wii-u-singles/brackets/138795/387951 Just Roll With It! 7]||June 24th, 2017||7th||4th||Kadaj

|[[EVO 2017]]||July 14th-16th, 2017||97th||—||—

|[[DreamHack Atlanta 2017]]||July 21st-23rd, 2017||25th||13th||{{Sm|falln}}

|[[Low Tier City 5]]||August 5th-6th, 2017||17th||3rd||{{Sm|ESAM}}

|[[Shine 2017]]||August 25th-27th, 2017||65th||13th||Mr.E

|[[Naifu Wars: Civil War 1]]||September 15th, 2017||17th||—||—

|[[The Big House 7]]||October 6th-8th, 2017||49th||13th||{{Sm|Ned}}

|[[Clutch City Clash 2]]||October 28th-29th, 2017||13th||3rd||{{Sm|Elegant}}

|[[Super FamiCon 2017]]||November 17th-19th, 2017||9th||5th||ESAM

|{{Trn|Frostbite 2018}}||February 9th-11th, 2018||65th||25th||{{Sm|Zenyou}}

|[https://smash.gg/tournament/etsu-con-2018/events/smash-for-wii-u-singles/brackets/201037 ETSU-Con 2018]||February 17th, 2018||2nd||1st||{{Sm|ANTi}}

|{{Trn|Glitch 4}}||April 28th, 2018||17th||3rd||{{Sm|Vinnie}}

|{{Trn|MomoCon 2018}}||May 24th-27th, 2018||33rd||9th||{{Sm|Koolaid}}

|{{Trn|Smash 'N' Splash 4}}||June 1st-3rd, 2018||25th||9th||{{Sm|8BitMan}}

|{{Trn|2GG: Hyrule Saga}}||June 23rd-24th, 2018||17th||13th||{{Sm|SDX}}

|{{Trn|CEO 2018}}||June 29th-July 1st, 2018||65th||17th||{{Sm|Waldo}}

|{{Trn|Smash Factor 7}}||July 20th-22nd, 2018||49th||2nd||ANTi

|{{Trn|Super Smash Con 2018}}||August 9th-12th, 2018||65th||—||—

|{{Trn|Glitch 6}}||January 20th, 2019||33rd||25th||{{Sm|DJ Nintendo}}

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