Smasher:JAVI

Javi
Character info
Melee main	Fox
Other Melee character	Sheik
Project M main	Fox
Team info
Crew(s)	Smash Factor, Smash Studios
Former crews	X-mashers
Rankings and results info
Most recent ranking	2015 SSBMRank: 26th
Personal and other info
Real name	Javier Dantes Ruiz
Birth date	May 7, 1989
Location	Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
Miscellaneous info
Skill	Top professional

Javi is a Mexican smasher who mains Fox. He is the brother of Tuga. He is known for his high level of technical skill, and is considered one of the best Fox players in dittos and against Falco, taking sets off of several famed space animal players in tournament. He however does poorly against Samus similar to Leffen having lost sets to ESAM and Duck. He holds the controller in an unusual way compared to most others, playing "claw" as if he was using a fight stick. He is ranked 26th on the 2015 SSBMRank. Javi is best known for his performance at Apex 2012, which he was able to attend after winning the Ticket To Apex tournament, getting his flight paid for him. At this tournament, he swept through both rounds of pools and made it into the 64 man bracket, where he was knocked into losers' bracket early by Lovage, but managed to defeat Redd, Weon-X, KoreanDJ, VaNz, Lovage in a rematch, Hax, and finally Dr. PeePee before being eliminated by Hungrybox, taking 4th place in singles. He also placed 33rd in doubles with HugS, and participated in the USA vs. The World crew battle as the first player for The World team, though he was taken out by Jman in his first battle.

Javi returned next year to attend Apex 2013, where he placed 13th in singles and 7th in doubles with Aza. In singles, he defeated .jpg, Darkatma, and Leffen in the 128 man bracket before being eliminated by Axe. After a year and a half of no appearances at major tournaments, Javi attended EVO 2014. In the winners' quarters pools, he defeated Swedish Delight 2-0 before losing to S2J 1-2. He made it into the top 32 by eliminating Mr. Brandandorf, but lost to Eddy Mexico 0-2, placing 25th in singles.

Javi, after another 5 or 6 months of no significant appearances, goes to Apex Qualifier Forte 2, along with several other Mexican smashers such as Valdo, Lazh .jpg, Aza and Tuga. While there, he easily swept through his pools, and served as the final man in the Texas vs. Mexico crew battle, taking out Arc's last stock without losing one. He also defeated MT 3-1 in a Money Match using Fox, Sheik and Falcon and won Melee doubles with his brother Tuga, defeating Hungrybox and Arc in Grandfinals without dropping a set the whole time. Afterwards, Javi surged through his bracket, defeating the likes of Tirno 3-0 and MacD 3-1 to get into Top 8 on Winner's Side. He then had a nail-biting 5 game set against Hungrybox that went down to last stock, but eventually was defeated 3-2. He then defeated Arc 3-0 in loser's quarters before losing 3-1 to Axe in loser's semis, taking 4th place overall.

Javi attended EVO 2015 and cruised through pools and make it into top 32 on winners side, but lost to PewPewU and Westballz immediatly to get 17th place. He was able to attend Big House 5 through the smash compendium. He was notably late for teams forcing his partner Bladewise to play with a level 9 Ganondorf. Despite this setback they were able to get 4th place in teams. In top 64 bracket he beat KirbyKaze 2-0 in winners before getting 0-3'ed by both Armada and Duck to get 17th place.

Javi was able to attend Tipped Off 11 through the smash compendium. In top 64 bracket he beat Drephen in winners before getting 0-2'ed by The Moon. He made a good losers run beating S0ft, Wobbles, and Jsalt to make top 8, then beat DJ Nintendo and ESAM before losing to DruggedFox in losers semis to get 4th place. He teamed with .jpg and got 5th in teams. Javi returned to Texas with Aza, Twin, and the rest of Monterry to attend Forte 3. He again took teams with Twin without dropping a set. In singles he made it into the top 8 winners qualifier, but lost to Tai then lost to Westballz in top 8 getting 5th place.

Javi was able to attend GENESIS 3 in 2016, but unfortunately only received 33rd place getting knocked out by Mike Haze. Javi also competed in doubles with Tuga and was part of Axe's team for crew battles.

Tournament History

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Tournament	Date	1v1 Placement	2v2 Placement	Partner
Ticket to Apex	September 17th, 2011	1st	—	—
Apex 2012	January 6th-8th, 2012	4th	33rd	HugS
Apex 2013	January 17th-19th, 2013	13th	7th	Aza
EGC 2013	December 30th, 2013	1st	—	—
EGC 2014	March 15th, 2014	2nd	—	—
EVO 2014	July 11th-13th, 2014	25th	13th	Eddy Mexico
Holy Smash Melee	August 29th, 2014	1st	?
Forte 2	December 20th-21st, 2014	4th	1st	Tuga
EVO 2015	July 17th-19th, 2015	17th	—	—
The Big House 5	October 2nd-4th, 2015	17th	4th	Bladewise
Tipped Off 11	November 7th-8th, 2015	4th	5th	.jpg
Forte 3	December 19th-20th, 2015	5th	1st	Tuga
GENESIS 3	January 15th-17th, 2015	33rd	7th	Tuga

Project M

Tournament	Date	1v1 placement	2v2 placement	Partner
Forte 2	December 20th-21st, 2014	17th	5th	Tuga