Doesn't surprise me. In the five picoseconds that he was in Elite Smash, he held his status above all of his viewers and donators, even insisting that he won't allow anybody not in Elite Smash to join his lobby. How he planned to both enforce the rule and prove the users joining him were in Elite Smash is beyond me.
I think I've said this before, but Elite Smash is basically the game's way of checking you're not holding your controller upsidedown and if you can breathe and blink at the same time. If you invest any time or motivation into Smash beyond playing it at parties with your buddies, you're going to get into Elite Smash unless you're particularly hopeless. Now, I don't know much about Street Fighter in general, but I remember hearing that his rank, which wiggles around Diamond, is an exceedingly middling rank. Probably similar to how I described Elite Smash: reserved only for people who vaguely know how to read a guide online with a sixth-grade reading level, but not those who actually took to improving their competency at the game and learn from their mistakes.
He's still stuck at Diamond, but needless to say, LTG is no longer in Elite Smash. The moment he lost it, he banned the people who insisted he keep playing online after earning it in the first place. I think he lasted exactly one game. It's disappointing, too--he's ran into a few Street Fighter pros screwing around online, but his ranking in Smash is so abysmally low that most pros start off with a higher rank by default, only dipping into LTG's range when they're intentionally tanking it to smurf for maybe a single game. It's a shame. Despite seemingly playing Smash more than any other game as of right now, he may never run into a top player, especially not when he hides in his little lobbies to filter out players better than him.
Ironically enough, there
are top Smash players who know of LTG and his ragequitting habits (some jokingly referencing LTG whenever they get angry or leave a game), but it seems that none of them are actually aware that he
plays Smash, only that he exists. While we're on this topic, LTG conversely seems to only know three top Smash players: MVD (a Snake player, but not one I personally see in tourneys too often), Ally (a Snake player who no longer plays Smash), and Anti (who dumpstered him in Street Fighter when LTG said he couldn't possibly beat him in it, and who now supposedly is a subscriber to LTG himself). Still, he constantly brings up that he has "clout" in the FGC, but he's nothing more than a laughingstock in actual fighting games and a literal nobody in Smash's community.
Regardless, he acts like he's a part of the Smash community...for some reason. He's been to exactly
one tourney, being EVO, and lost his only two pools matches instantly. The videos are online right now, showing him against a Wario and a Wario/Captain Falcon player who...well, in my opinion, were both clearly toying with him. Yet he insisted that he regularly beats players better than the ones he lost to at EVO online, which is both a bold-faced lie (especially since he's essentially blind to anything involving high level play in Smash) and disrespectful to his opponents who still treated him politely even in victory. Hilariously, one of his old go-to excuses pre-EVO for losing in Smash was "I don't see any of you going to tourneys!" When somebody pointed out that a few of his donators went to tourneys (a few even taking them) while he had gone to none at that point, he moved onto saying "I don't see you placing at any majors," which is both exceptionally disrespectful and woefully hypocritical of him. But
still, a few players
had placed at majors, so in his infinite wisdom, LTG accelerated his hypocrisy and arrogance to a new peak by stating, "I don't see you
placing first at any majors!" I remember even his chat being dumbfounded by this statement, and I believe he never used that as an insult again. When fighting an opponent that
had placed at a major, he instead fell back on his "if this was Street Fighter, you'd be losing" excuse instead.
Anyway, to cap off this Smash discussion as it relates to LTG, I wanted to shoehorn in this. I absolutely adore the compilations of LTG failing at Smash, and as a game with my fellow viewers, I kept track of every character LTG will ban you for or ragequit against if you play as them. I have no doubt that this is incomplete--I've only crossed out the characters I've explicitly seen him block people for using or that he's stated he hates. I have zero reason to believe he hasn't or won't eventually complain about the characters I've circled, I just haven't seen it yet. Also, Banjo is missing from this screen, but just imagine another red "X" since LTG said he thinks Banjo is annoying, too.
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Needless to say, the characters I once circled that are now crossed out were the ones I thought he wouldn't complain about, but I unsurprisingly underestimated the power of LTG's whinging. Anyway, here are some choice (and real) quotes explaining these "bans" and one of the (many) characters he's used said quote on.
- "You're trying to get an easy win picking these BIG BODY characters." (Ridley)
- "How can you have a pair of balls and play that character?" (Kirby)
- "WHY ARE YOU MIRROR MATCHING ME!?" (Snake)
- "I don't care I'm not playing that character, DON'T FIGHT ME WITH ONE OF MY MAINS!" (Megaman)
- "I'm not gonna respect ANYONE playing no Pokemon." (Mewtwo)
- "What's with this gumdrops and lollipops kiddy character?" (Ness)
- "I gotta deal with shotos in THIS GAME too!?" (Ryu)
- "It's like the shoto of Smash, why would you want to play as this character?" (Dr. Mario)
- "This character even sounds annoying, I can't focus while hearing that all the time." (Luigi)
- "Everyone who picks this character PLAYS THE EXACT SAME." (Samus)
- "This character is just corny, I'm not taking that seriously." (Captain Falcon)
- "Yeah, just keep swinging that sword around, hoping for a hit." (Marth)
- "You did HOW MUCH damage!? And for what!?" (Donkey Kong)
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