Smasher:Mekos
Mekos | |
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Character info | |
Brawl main | Lucas |
Other Brawl character | Ness |
Smash 4 main | Lucas |
Personal and other info | |
Real name | Chukwuemeka Anazia |
Birth date | |
Location | Greensboro, North Carolina |
Miscellaneous info | |
Skill | Top professional |
Mekos is a Lucas main from North Carolina, considered the best Lucas player in the world. Mekos is known for his excellent control over Lucas's mobility, and usage of PK Fire, jab and aerials to space against opponents, as well as using the Rope Snake to cancel Lucas's landing lag after aerials or empty jumps. He is known to play a very deadly spacing game, making the most of each of Lucas's moves's range to both edgeguard and put on pressure.
Mekos is a notoriously vocal proponent of doubles play, considering it superior to singles play. He often preaches about the necessity of true team work and team spacing in doubles, while denouncing the "separate 1v1 battles" that often occur when those inexperienced in doubles team up. Despite some seeing him as overly vocal about the issue, Mekos is considered to be one of the top doubles players in the States, and is commonly known as "The Doubles God" as a result.
Despite preferring and often doing better in doubles, Mekos usually places well in singles, especially for using a low tier character. His breakout performance came at SKTAR, where he defeated top Falco Pelca, defeated one of the best Meta Knights in the world in Tyrant, and defeating one of the best European and Wario players in Glutonny, before losing to Trela in winners quarterfinals, and losing to Tyrant in losers, overall securing a 9th placing (the highest a player placed with a low tier in a national tournament since San got 9th with the then low tier Ike at Apex 2010).
Mekos was formerly ranked 1st on the Carolina Brawl Power Rankings, ESAM being ranked at the 0 position right above him at the time.
In early 2016, Mekos announced he was coming out of retirement to main Lucas in Smash 4.
Notable tournament placings
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Tournament | Date | 1v1 placement | 2v2 placement | Partner |
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Pound V | February 19th-21st, 2011 | 65th | 17th | Amethia |
GENESIS 2 | July 15th-17th, 2011 | 65th | 13th | GimR |
Xanadu:X-Games | December 3rd, 2011 | 9th | 1st | ESAM |
HOBO 34 | December 17th, 2011 | 7th | 4th | Fino |
Apex 2012 | January 6th-8th, 2012 | — | 17th | FOW |
SKTAR | July 14th-15th, 2012 | 9th | 5th | ESAM |
Apex 2013 | January 11th-13th, 2013 | 49th | 17th | DEHF |
Apex 2014 | January 17th-19th, 2014 | 33rd | 25th | DEHF |
SKTAR 3 | May 31st-June 1st, 2014 | 17th | 7th | 9B |