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==In [[competitive play]]== | ==In [[competitive play]]== | ||
===Matchups=== | ===Matchups=== | ||
{{SSBBMatchupTable|lucas=yes}} | {{SSBBMatchupTable|lucas=yes}} | ||
Lucas has a poor matchup spread overall. He counters 1 character ({{SSBB|Ganondorf}}), soft counters 6 characters, has 7 even matchups, gets soft countered by 12 characters, gets countered by 10, and gets hard countered by 4. | Lucas has a poor matchup spread overall. He counters 1 character ({{SSBB|Ganondorf}}), soft counters 6 characters, has 7 even matchups, gets soft countered by 12 characters, gets countered by 10, and gets hard countered by 4. | ||
===Notable players=== | ===Notable players=== | ||
:''See also: [[:Category:Lucas professionals (SSBB)]]'' | :''See also: [[:Category:Lucas professionals (SSBB)]]'' | ||
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*{{Sm|Pink Fresh|USA}} - Considered the second best Lucas in the United States after Mekos. | *{{Sm|Pink Fresh|USA}} - Considered the second best Lucas in the United States after Mekos. | ||
*{{Sm|Taiheita|Japan}} - The best Lucas in Japan. | *{{Sm|Taiheita|Japan}} - The best Lucas in Japan. | ||
===Tier placement and history=== | |||
Lucas' 10 extra frames of lag while being grab released, and the extensive chain grabbing it allowed, was discovered very early on in ''Brawl'' competitive play. As a result, Lucas perpetually floundered between 27th-30th on the tier list in the low tiers, with minimal tournament results and a small playerbase, since the very beginning of ''Brawl''. Lucas had a few dedicated and highly notable players, however, most significantly Mekos, who managed to get unusually high tournament placings with a perceived low tier character; the pinnacle of such being Mekos placing 9th at [[SKTAR (tournament)|SKTAR]], which was only the second time (after {{Sm|San}} at [[Apex 2010]]) that a player would place in the top twelve at a national using a perceived low tier character (and this would be the last time in ''Brawl'' that a low tier player would place that high at a national). | |||
The propensity of the aforementioned Lucas players to place significantly higher than their low tier brethren and the best players of some higher-ranked characters, as well as occasionally taking sets off of big name players using high tier characters, led to many players believing Lucas was underrated and not the low tier he was always ranked as. While the BBR would finally formally move Lucas out of the low tier in their latest tier list after having ranked him a low tier for five years, they didn't actually increase his placing, and he remains only one spot removed out of their low tier at his perpetual 30th ranking. The Japanese, however, rank Lucas a bit higher on their tier list, ranking 24th there in their middle tiers. | |||
==Role in [[The Subspace Emissary]]== | ==Role in [[The Subspace Emissary]]== |