Smasher:Toph

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Toph
Toph.jpg
Character info
Melee main Fox
Other Melee characters Sheik, Falco
Team info
Crew(s) Melee It On Me, Twitch
Personal and other info
Real name Kris Aldenderfer
Location San Jose, California United States
Miscellaneous info
Skill Super Smash Bros. Melee Top Professional

Toph is a professional Melee Fox player from Honolulu County, Hawaii who currently resides in Daly City, California and is ranked 8th on the NorCal Melee Power Rankings. He was also invited to participate in the E3 2014-held Super Smash Bros. Invitational tournament to play Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, in which he used Pit. Toph also occasionally speaks Japanese for commentary or for interviews.

Toph and Scar appeared as commentators in Nintendo's Smash 4 event at San Diego Comic Con. The two also commentated together for the Top 8 bracket at EVO 2015.

On September 8th, 2015, Toph was hired by Twitch as another representative of the Smash community, along with Scar, D1, and TheCrimsonBlur.

Notable tournament placings

Tournament Date 1v1 Placement 2v2 Placement Partner
Apex 2012 January 6th-8th, 2012 17th Hyuga
IMPULSE June 30th-July 1st, 2012 17th 5th Mew2King
Apex 2013 January 11th-13th, 2013 25th Tai
LanHammer 2013 August 17th-18th, 2013 17th
The Big House 3 October 12th-13th, 2013 33rd 9th Kalamazhu
Revival of Melee 6 November 16th-17th, 2013 9th 4th Kage
Apex 2014 January 17th-19th, 2014 65th 7th Silent Wolf
Revival of Melee 7 March 8th-9th, 2014 17th 5th Weon-X
Northwest Majors VI May 2nd-4th, 2014 13th 3rd Silent Wolf
Get On My Level 2014 May 10th-11th, 2014 17th 2nd Mango
Super SWEET June 7th-8th, 2014 17th 7th KJH
MLG Anaheim 2014 June 20th-22nd, 2014 269th (DQed) 17th Bladewise
CEO 2014 June 27th-29th, 2014 17th 25th Syphilis
EVO 2014 July 11th-13th, 2014 97th 17th Silent Wolf
Japan Expo 2014 Invitational August 23rd, 2014 3rd
The Big House 4 October 4th-5th, 2014 49th
Do You Fox Wit It? November 15th-16th, 2014 9th Silent Wolf
The Come Up December 6th-7th, 2014 17th 4th n0ne
Apex 2015 January 30th-February 1st, 2015 65th 33rd Silent Wolf
McSmashter 4 February 21st-22nd, 2015 9th 9th Syphilis
Get On My Level 2015 May 30th-31st, 2015 13th 9th EWC
CEO 2015 June 26th-28th, 2015 17th
EVO 2015 July 17th-19th, 2015 65th
The Big House 5 October 2nd-4th, 2015 49th 25th G$

Trivia

  • Toph is fluent in Japanese, and he helped to provide Japanese commentary for the Top 8 of Melee at Apex 2014 alongside Kounotori on CLASH Tournaments's live stream.
  • Toph is a co-host of the Toph and Scar Show (also known as the Scar and Toph Show) where the two discuss the state of the community and other topics, and conclude each episode with a best of 5 set in which Toph gets bodied by Scar or occasionally gets lucky and wins.