Smasher:Poilon

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Poilon
Character info
Melee mains Falco, Fox
Other Melee character Jigglypuff, Captain Falcon, Marth, Sheik, Donkey Kong
Team info
Sponsor(s) Poilon Software
Former crews Dream Team
Personal and other info
Real name Paul-Armand Assus
Birth date (age 38)
Location Châlons-en-Champagne, Grand Est France
Miscellaneous info
Skill Super Smash Bros. Melee Top level

Poilon is a smasher from Paris, currently living in Châlons-en-Champagne, France. He was mainly a Falco main but was famous locally for playing every character in the game at a high level. He usually teamed in doubles with Inf', with both of them playing Jigglypuff. Formerly a top Melee player, he is currently the owner and manager of Poilon Software, an esports team part of his web development startup Poilon. He is also the brother of Charlon.

History

Poilon started playing smash when it was released, but only began playing at an advanced level in 2003. He had high scores in 1-Player mode : over 91,900 feats in HRC, under 3'18" in Target Test. His Event mode scores are good as well, especially for the Event 51, which he beat with every characters. For two years, he played a lot in 1-Player mode, then started playing Versus mode more than he did, for he was only a decent player, even though he was already able to play with every character. His level increased dramatically in late 2005, as he came in Paris to enter a Computer Science School : he was able to play against Joanna Dark quite often, and became one of the best French Falco players, beating Joanna Dark during FFT2 to claim fourth place, two monthes after he began training with Joanna Dark. He remained in the top 5 French smashers since this day, but often changed his main. After Falco, he became the best Captain Falcon player in France. He then mained various characters, each one of them for a few months : Fox, Falco, Captain Falcon. He also trained his Jigglypuff, Marth and Sheik as secondaries. He currently uses Fox, Marth, Sheik, Captain Falcon, DK and Falco in singles tournaments.

Poilon is also the main host of the Epita Smash Arena series, which were 2 of the biggest tournaments in Europe - and the second biggest in the world for Epita Smash Arena 2. While the first tournament was a organization success but lacked many foreign attendants, ESA2 managed to gather 231 smashers from more than 15 different countries, but suffered from organization problems. Poilon wants to achieve both an excellent attendance and organization for ESA3.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Poilon hosted the online Poilon Arena series, which consisted of four qualifying tournaments in October and November 2020 and a championship in May 2021.

Tournament placings

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Royal Treatment November 1st, 2004 17th
FireFox Tournament 2 October 29th, 2005 4th
Royal Destination Tournament June 30th-July 1st, 2006 7th 4th
Epita Smash Arena April 7th-8th, 2007 5th
Dirty South Tournament 8 September 15th, 2007 5th 1st
Epita Smash Arena 2 February 23rd-24th, 2008 7th 4th Iñf
SMASH ATTACK April 3rd-5th, 2009 5th 9th PST
Epita Smash Arena 3 April 11th-12th, 2009 7th 5th Iñf
Super Lion 4 August 7th-9th, 2009 3rd 4th Iñf
Republic of Fighters 3 May 17th-18th, 2014 65th 9th Droopy
HFLAN Melee Edition 2017 April 15th-16th, 2017 25th 25th (DQ) Makenshi
The Upset  February 27th-28th, 2021 13th
Phoenix Blue Online  March 26th-28th, 2021 25th
Regen Online  April 24th-25th, 2021 33rd
Smash Sauna Online  May 21st-23rd, 2021 17th