Smasher:Salem

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Salem
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Character info
Brawl main Zero Suit Samus
Other Brawl characters Snake, Marth
Smash 4 mains Bayonetta, Sheik, Zero Suit Samus
Other Smash 4 characters Villager, Robin, Lucina, Captain Falcon
Project M main Zelda
Other Project M character Zero Suit Samus
Team info
Crew(s) CLASH Tournaments
Rankings and results info
Winnings Super Smash Bros. Brawl ~$3,749.00
Super Smash Bros. 4 ~$1,047.25
Personal and other info
Real name Saleem Akiel Young
Birth date (age 30)
Location Atlantic City, New Jersey United States
Miscellaneous info
Skill Super Smash Bros. Brawl Top professional
Super Smash Bros. 4 Top professional
Project M Top professional

Salem is an American smasher from New Jersey who mains Zero Suit Samus in Brawl and Bayonetta, Sheik and Zero Suit Samus in SSB4, and is considered to be the best Brawl Zero Suit Samus in the world, along with Choco from Japan. In Brawl, he became infamous for his incredible usage of Zero Suit Samus's Power Suit Pieces to rack up damage at the beginning of matches, and his surprising victory at Apex 2013, one of the most prestigious Brawl tournaments in the United States.

Salem is currently ranked 6th on the Tristate Brawl Power Rankings. Due to his aforementioned dominance at Apex 2013, he was signed in CLASH Tournaments as a top professional player.

Brawl History

Before playing in the offline scene, he gained fame on the All is Brawl ladder as an incredible Wi-Fi player, dominating the ladder with Zero Suit Samus. When he finally did enter an offline tournament, he made a large splash in his offline debut and got 5th in his first tournament, Concentrate II, where he defeated Nicole, Jbandrew, Will, and Kingtoon. He made more news a few months later at Apex 2012; while he did not advance very far in bracket, placing only 33rd, he managed to take a set off of Nick Riddle, who was then considered to be the best Zero Suit Samus player in the USA.

Throughout 2012, Salem continued to enter tournaments and place well, but never actually won or gathered much public attention until a dominating performance at Apex 2013, where he came out of nowhere to take first place. In his march to victory, he defeated top players such as mikeHAZE, Mr. R, Otori (the Apex 2012 champion), Dojo, Mikeneko, and Mew2King in both winners' and grand finals, the latter of which has been considered to be one of the most intense sets witnessed in Brawl tournament play. In the grand finals set, both players took the other down to the last stock and last match, before Salem eventually won after a long, drawn-out war of attrition. This shocked the world, as he had not only won one of the most prestigious Brawl tournaments ever with a character who wasn't considered top tier, but had done so without winning any local tournaments in his region prior to the event.

At Apex 2014, Salem placed 1st in his pool by defeating Mekos, and defeated fellow Zero Suit Samus main V115 before losing to ESAM in winners'. He proceeded to defeat Pwii and Koolaid before losing to ADHD 1-2 in a close set, placing 9th overall and outplacing Nick Riddle once again.

Tournament placings

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Concentrate II October 22nd, 2011 5th 2nd Anti
Apex 2012 January 6th-8th, 2012 33rd 65th Meekspeedy
SKTAR July 14th-15th, 2012 17th
Impact IV August 25th, 2012 5th 2nd Chibo
Collision V September 1st, 2012 5th 3rd Chibo
Apex 2013 January 11th-13th, 2013 1st
SKTAR 2 August 3rd-4th, 2013 33rd 7th Vex Kasrani
Thanks for Playing 4 December 21st, 2013 2nd
KTAR 8 December 28th, 2013 17th 3rd ZeRo
Collision 8 January 11th, 2014 3rd 2nd Vex Kasrani
Apex 2014 January 17th-19th, 2014 9th 9th Vex Kasrani
SKTAR 3 May 31st-June 1st, 2014 17th
Apex 2015 January 30th-February 1st, 2015 4th 2nd Mew2King

Project M

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Thanks for Playing 4 December 21st, 2013 3rd 1st ZeRo
KTAR 8 December 28th, 2013 5th
Collision 8 January 11th, 2014 1st
Apex 2014 January 17th-19th, 2014 33rd
SKTAR 3 May 31st-June 1st, 2014 13th 13th Xzax

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Sky's Smash 4 Invitational November 20th-22nd, 2014 9th 5th K9
Collision X November 29th, 2014 5th 5th Chibo
Collision XI January 3rd, 2015 9th 7th Chibo
Apex 2015 January 30th-February 1st, 2015 129th
Tri-Smash #3 March 7th, 2015 1st
KTAR XII March 21st, 2015 9th 9th Chibo
Smash Forward 03 April 18th, 2015 2nd 1st Chibo
EVO 2015 July 17th-19th, 2015 25th 33rd Chibo
The MollyWhop #17 August 12th, 2015 1st
SKTAR 4 August 22nd-23rd, 2015 7th
Smash & Clash 02 February 12th, 2016 1st 1st Chibo
KTAR XVII February 13th, 2016 2nd 3rd Chibo

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