Followers of the Ice Climbers are leaping for pleasure proper now within the aggressive Tremendous Smash Bros. Melee scene. Hugh “SluG” Hegarty, the No. 9 ranked participant on the earth on the 2022 rankings, is returning to the highlight by attending a stacked occasion after a year-long hiatus.
After Ludwig’s Smash Invitational in late October 2022 the place SluG went on a monstrous run and positioned fourth, the Ice Climbers participant had nearly utterly disappeared from the aggressive scene. On Jan. 1, he posted this cryptic gif on Twitter, hinting to everybody that he was stepping away from the aggressive scene. Except simply two match appearances for the reason that Invitational, SluG eliminated himself from the highlight.
That’s, till he introduced on Oct. 2 that he will be attending The Function 3 @ BrookLan, a Brooklyn match on Nov. 11 that options a number of high 10 gamers on the earth, together with Cody Schwab and Jmook. It’s unclear whether or not that is the beginning of a comeback or if it’s again to the shadows after the occasion, however the return of this legendary Ice Climber is superb, nonetheless.
After the wobbling bans that began in 2019, Ice Climbers considerably dropped within the rankings, with some gamers switching off the character or stepping away from competing completely. That’s, till SluG rose to prominence in 2022, taking units off of many top-level Melee gamers and reaching the primary high 10 rating for an Ice Climbers participant in 5 years.
SluG’s play demonstrated not solely how a lot of a power the mountain-climbing duo may nonetheless be beneath the present meta, but additionally how cool they may look doing it. He will definitely have many gamers in his nook rooting for his success. Hopefully this evokes one other wave of Ice Climbers mastery to point out off simply how a lot this weird character can do.
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