Who am I?

Hi guys, my name is Ronan and my tag is Bionis. This blog is here to archive my thoughts, guides, and experiences tied to smash. To preface myself a bit, I live in a semi active region in the US and I play Melee, PM, and Smash 4. I'm most notably good at PM, where I have the different belief that once you have the basics of the game down, you can play multiple characters at once. I don't believe in solo maining in PM, but that will come in a later post. I myself do play many characters in PM, I'm a cloud main in Smash 4 and I'm looking at picking up Lucario as a secondary, and in Melee I am in a sort of character crisis. I play a couple of my PM characters in Melee and it translates extremely well, but I'm not sure how it will work in the long run. Either way, I have been playing for a year now, since October 2015 I've truly played competitive. That was when I went to my first tournament. Before that, smash has always been a part of my life and I've wanted to go competitive for a long time before that, but I was unable to. I have an old Wii that can't read brawl, my Melee disc didn't work in my Wii and my GameCube died years ago. I didn't have 64 and this was well before smash 4. But, while my Brawl still worked I was a Wifi warrior and I always tried to get better. But I never really took to Brawl like I did to PM. It all looked so fast and clean and I watched some of the same tournament sets over and over until the next tournament was streamed. I armed myself with tons of game knowledge, and watched it all the time. When I wasn't watching I was playing other games. Overall, I'm really good at video games in general. I did ok at speedrunning, but I didn't practice enough to be amazing at it. One day I hope to get better at speedrunning battletoads. But back to smash. I would watch PM sets all the time, and my favorite player to watch was and still is M2K. This is because when he played PM more often, he sort of fulfilled what I have thought all along. You can play multiple characters at top level and win major events. He played Mario, Fox, Falco, Marth, Mewtwo, Peach, Falcon, and more. It was insane to me that he was the only one doing it. All of the other good players seemed to be character specialists. In most games, I believe this is a good course of action for most players, but PM is different to me, and so I watched every M2K set I could find, and broke down punishes, since that was all I could really understand at 12/13 years old. Neutral was harder for me to comprehend. I've now at 16 also broken down his neutral and mind games, and expanded to other players as well. As you may have gathered from this, I'm a lab monster. I'm working on learning frame data and hitboxes, as I believe that will be beneficial to my growth as a player.

That's just a bit about me and my smash history. This post was a bit of a rant style, which some of my posts will be, but if you're not a fan of that, I will have organized guides coming in the future as well.

Thanks to everyone who read!

-Ronan/Bionis