Smasher:Omega Tyrant

Omega Tyrant
Character info
Melee main	Ganondorf
Brawl mains	Wolf, King Dedede
Other Brawl character	Snake
Smash 4 mains	R.O.B., Charizard
Other Smash 4 character	Mewtwo
Project M main	Ganondorf
Team info
Sponsor(s)	Pastime Legends
Rankings and results info
Winnings	~$500 ~$1900
Personal and other info
Real name	Michael Oliver
Birth date	July 21, 1991
Location	Schenectady, New York
Miscellaneous info
Skill	Amateur Semi-professional (Retired) Professional

Omega Tyrant is a upstate New York smasher from the city of Schenectady, who actively participates in tournaments, has contributed extensively to Smash knowledge, and is known for having a fairly popular Smash-based YouTube channel that features notably entertaining AI exploitation videos among others. His current main Smash game is Smash 4, in which he has been mostly using R.O.B. in tournaments during high-stake matches, though he occasionally uses Charizard as well. He additionally used to competitively play Brawl pre-Smash 4, where he comained the unusual combination of King Dedede and Wolf, with an occasional Snake secondary. He does not play Melee seriously, but will occasionally enter local Melee tournaments, where he will only use Ganondorf.

Omega Tyrant is currently ranked second on the New York capital region PR. He was additionally ranked 5th on the final upstate New York PR for Brawl.

Play style

Omega Tyrant plays a space-heavy game, with a heavy emphasis on harsh punishes, and abusing any exploitable patterns he finds in his opponent's game. This was very apparent in his Brawl play, where he fully utilised Wolf's outstanding mobility, focusing on constant moving and frequent spaced back aerials and forward aerials, while trying to open up DACUS opportunities and potential down throw chains and tech chases. With King Dedede, he took a more methodical style reliant on pressuring the opponent, making heavy use of out of shield punishes as well as spaced bairs and full hopped dairs when in close, while attempting to bait an opportunity to land a grab or up tilt when the opponent was at KO percent.

In Smash 4 with R.O.B., he plays a defensive-style, primarily focusing on keeping the Gyro in play as much as possible to limit to the opponent's options, with heavy usage of neutral aerial and forward aerial to control space, while always looking for opportunities to punish opponents with his grab to lead to R.O.B.'s powerful throw combos. He additionally makes heavy usage of the Gyro during edge-guarding to ledgetrap opponents and will rarely opt to go offstage to edgeguard, with his favorite setup being the Gyro knocking opponents into an offstage dair. With Charizard, he focuses on a more aggressive style, staying in enemy range throwing out spaced jabs and aerials, heavily abusing up smash to control the air and punish landings, while abusing Flamethrower to pressure the opponent (especially on the ledge), and always looking for any opportunity to deliver a harsh punish.

Omega Tyrant initially mained King Dedede in Smash 4, and used him with success for his first few Smash 4 tournies. However, while he enjoyed the direction Smash 4 Dedede took in his changes and found him to be a better designed character than his Brawl incarnation, he came to the conclusion Dedede was one of the worst characters in the game, with extremely limited mobility and frame data, while not having anywhere near the punish strength to make up for it. This feeling has only been reinforced with the passing of each balance patch that seemingly ignores Dedede. As such, he dropped the character completely, though still enjoys playing Dedede for fun, and has said he may pick him back up if a future patch seriously buffs him.

He additionally used to main Ganondorf and use Charizard as a full co-main instead of a secondary. With the legality of customs falling out of favor, he ended up dropping Ganondorf and nearly dropped Charizard until the 1.1.5 patch gave him some vital buffs; he finds Charizard too limited without access to Dragon Rush, while finding Ganondorf completely unviable in default, when his recovery is terrible without Dark Fists and Wizard's Dropkick. He additionally found them extraneous, and dropped usage of them to focus his efforts on R.O.B. Omega Tyrant also briefly picked up Zero Suit Samus in late 2015, with the intention of eventually solo maining her. A few months later though he found a renewed enjoyment for playing R.O.B., as well as feeling that Zero Suit Samus was not as good a pick for him as initially thought, leading to him dropping her completely.

Currently he almost solely plays R.O.B. and Charizard even in friendlies, with occasional dabbling with Mewtwo. In tournament matches, he usually uses R.O.B. while mostly playing Charizard for fun against low-threat opponents or when he's ahead in the set account against familiar opponents. However he has come across a few matchups he prefers using Charizard over R.O.B. against, such as Cloud, Villager, and Marios who know the R.O.B. matchup well.

History

Omega Tyrant entered the Brawl competitive scene rather late, only entering his first tournament in November 2011. Around this time, he was making plans to attend Apex 2012, where he found the All is Brawl tournament page for 5th BEST, and saw that it was being held in a neighboring city. After he posted on the tournament page expressing his interest in attending, he was contacted by the tournament director Calm, who would then introduce him to the nearby competitive scene in upstate New York. Shortly afterward, he was able to join the Albany/Troy carpool to ASX3 to enter his first tournament. He was able to do rather decent in his first tournament, defeating Canadian smasher Phiddlesticks and Yoshi player Sharky, before losing to San and later being eliminated by Metal Pat in losers, obtaining an overall 9th placing out of 32 participants. After ASX3, he attended 5th BEST, where in only his second tournament, he was able to place in the money, claiming 4th out of 21 players, defeating Calm and Falco player CAC, while losing to Fatal in winners and being eliminated by Marth player Vibe in losers' semi-finals. Omega Tyrant then attended Apex 2012 with San, Sharky, Pika Pika!, and K.I.D. Goggles. He failed to accomplish much at Apex, being eliminated in first round pools having placed fourth, losing to Zex, Hylian, and Z0MFG, but avoided a last placing by defeating Colorado smasher deathbysuarez.

Since Apex 2012, Omega Tyrant began his strong presence in upstate New York, placing in the money or just outside it in every Brawl tournament in the region he entered since Apex, and having defeated every active and notable upstate player in a tournament set outside San and Cura. Within just six months of his tournament debut, he managed to get ranked on his region's Power Rankings.

He attended a few tournaments in NY/NJ and occasionally in New England with fellow Schenectady smasher No Skillz. While he usually did not perform poorly in them, he was not able to place beyond a mid placing in the much stronger competition. He later attended Apex 2013 with No Skillz, and in his bracket pool, he lost to Gunblade, then defeated Kiwi and another player, before being eliminating by Shadow, finishing 5th in his pool and failing to make bracket again. Apex 2013 was the last out-of-state tournament Omega Tyrant entered in Brawl, and his activity dropped off, only entering a few nearby Brawl tournies since.

Omega Tyrant fully reentered the scene upon the release of Smash 4, and immediately emerged as one of upstate New York's strongest Smash 4 players, winning money at each event he entered, and obtaining 1st on the first New York capital region PR. While he did not attend tournies that frequently throughout the winter and spring of 2015, and rarely attended the local weeklies, he remained one of the strongest players when he did, leading to him getting 2nd in the second Capital Region PR, being only outranked by the recently emerged Dark Wizzy.

During the summer and fall of 2015, Omega Tyrant went into an unexplained hiatus, showing up to absolutely no tournaments between May and November, while barely playing the game on his own; this lead to him completely missing the Capital Eegion's Summer/Fall 2015 PR. He started showing up to tournaments again in November, though with his skills diminished and the competition being significantly stronger, his tournament performance for the first few months were weaker than they were pre-hiatus. In February 2016, he started regularly attending tournaments again and training more frequently on his own, leading to remarkable improvement and a return to form. Omega Tyrant has since been winning nearly every weekly in his region he enters, and his placings at bigger tournaments keep improving, leading to him getting back on the capital region PR for the Winter/Spring 2016 season, now being ranked third under Dark Wizzy and Marcel.

Over the Summer and Fall of 2016, his dominance over non-Wizzy CR players continued to grow, with it being rare for him to drop sets against them and even rarer to be outplaced by any of them at tournaments, despite his frequent attendance giving them many opportunities to. He additionally started attending tournaments outside his region again in the New England and NY/NJ areas, where he has done consistently well, including making it into the top 48 bracket at KTAR XVIII and the even more stacked KTAR XIX, while obtaining wins such as Camalange, belaC, Chaos, and Oatmeal. This performance has lead to Omega Tyrant reclaiming his position as the Capital Region's undisputed #2 player under Wizzy.

Tournament placings

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Tournament	Date	1v1 placement	2v2 placement	Partner	Tournament earnings
Axs3	November 5th, 2011	9th	—	—	—
5th BEST	November 13th, 2011	4th	—	—	$7.35
Apex 2012	January 6th-8th, 2012	257th	—	—	—
8th BEST	February 11th, 2012	1st	4th	No Skillz	$73.25
Utican do it!	March 3rd, 2012	2nd	—	—	$66.00
7th BEST	March 31st, 2012	5th	3rd	No Skillz	$3.00
Upstate Battle series #1	April 21st, 2012	4th	—	—	—
(15/2)th BEST	May 5th, 2012	1st	—	—	$40.20
Clash of the Titans 6	June 2nd, 2012	33rd	—	—	—
Impact III	June 16th, 2012	17th	—	—	—
Smash It Up Too	June 30th, 2012	7th	—	—	—
Mega Mass Madness 2	July 21st, 2012	17th	4th	Metal Pat	—
9th BEST	September 8th, 2012	1st	1st	No Skillz	$70.50
Apex 2013	January 11th-13th, 2013	129th	—	—	—
NFS 1	November 16th, 2013	2nd	1st	K.I.D.Goggles	$180.00
Nipples Spikes	March 15th, 2014	1st	1st	K.I.D.Goggles	$65.00

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Tournament	Date	1v1 placement	2v2 placement	Partner	Tournament earnings
NFS2	November 2nd, 2014	3rd	—	—	$20.70
1 Fish	December 13th, 2014	3rd	2nd	Joe?	$50.00
2 Fish	February 14th, 2015	4th	2nd	Metal Pat	$42.50
Smash Street #3	March 28th, 2015	1st	—	—	$270.00
Blue Fish 1	May 2nd, 2015	3rd	2nd	K.I.D.Goggles	$68.50
Next Level Smash Series 1	May 9th, 2015	3rd	—	—	$5.50
Blue Fish 2	November 8th, 2015	5th	1st	Dark Wizzy	$45.00
Next Level Smash Series 4	January 30th, 2016	9th	1st	Dark Wizzy	$42.00
Cusetown Beatdown 5	February 20th, 2016	13th	—	—	$0.00
UA U Smash 3	April 2nd, 2016	3rd	—	—	$38.25
NEW FISH	May 7th, 2016	25th	—	—	—
Cusetown Beatdown 6	May 28th, 2016	5th	—	—	$28.00
KTAR XVIII	June 11th, 2016	33rd	—	—	—
ESE SvR WiiU #18	June, 15th, 2016	3rd	—	—	$21.50
Invasion 6	July 2nd, 2016	9th	5th	PrimeFighter	—
Cusetown Beatdown 7	August 13th, 2016	4th	—	—	$56.00
Invasion 7	August 20th, 2016	9th	1st	Dark Wizzy	$42.00
RPI Smash Monthly 2	November 4th, 2016	3rd	1st	Dark Wizzy	$36.20
Cusetown Beatdown @ RetroGameCon 2016	November 5th, 2016	17th	—	—	—
KTAR XIX	November 19th, 2016	33rd	—	—	—
Uprising	December 3rd, 2016	9th	—	—	—
RPI Smash Monthly #4	February 3rd, 2017	2nd	2nd	PrimeFighter	$31.00
Habanero Smash	February 11th, 2017	2nd	—	—	$72.50
CGC 2017	May 6th-7th 2017	4th	5th	Draxsel	$33.00
Shine 2017	August 25th-27th, 2017	49th	—	—	—

Youtube channel

Around March 2013, Omega Tyrant started up a YouTube channel, originally with the intention of being a place to upload his and other upstate New York players' tournament matches. However he started utilising his extensive knowledge of the Smash AI to create AI exploitation videos, the most famous of which was a Melee video of beating every level nine CPU with Luigi by doing absolutely nothing, with the video going viral and garnering over 500,000 views. Eventually he replicated the feat in Smash 4 despite the game's more advanced AI, and this video ended up becoming even more popular than the original Melee video, with over two million views.

In addition to the AI exploitation videos, Omega Tyrant uploads montages, videos of single-player feats (such as beating Boss Battles on Intense difficulty without taking damage), interesting matches and highlights, and other miscellaneous Smash videos.

To date, his channel has garnered over 14,000 subscribers and 11 million total views. His Smash AI exploitation series is additionally currently up to over 80 videos and counting.

Trivia

• Omega Tyrant enjoys playing Brawl Minus, vastly preferring it to the other mods of Brawl. The primary reason for this is it being the only Brawl mod that feels like a different Smash game in his view, rather than being a patch or "Meleefied" Brawl.
  • Omega Tyrant is also undefeated in his region for Brawl Minus tournaments, including once winning a Brawl Minus tournament without dropping a single game. He mostly used Wolf, but also used King Dedede and Ganondorf.

External links

• YouTube channel
• Twitter account
• SSBWorld profile
• SmashBoards profile