Lew’s most-used set is the 2311, which modifies the neutral special and the side special.

Professional Super Smash Bros. player who is widely considered to be one of the best Pikachu players in the world. ProGuides isn’t endorsed by Riot Games and doesn’t reflect the views or opinions of Riot Games or anyone officially involved in producing or managing League of Legends. Diddy Kong, who he excelled with countless times at Apex and other events, has been nerfed over the last few patch cycles.

PG|ESAM is widely regarded as the best Pikachu player in the world in Super Smash Bros. You must have a PRO membership to unlock this course. Riot previews all 22 Mythic items debuting in League's 2021 preseason, Upcoming jungle changes for League's 2021 preseason should make the role more beginner-friendly, Riot shakes up TFT Set 4 with tentative 10.20 patch balance changes, Operator to receive a slew of nerfs in upcoming VALORANT Patch 1.09, Here are the updates and notes for VALORANT Patch 1.09. But thanks to custom movesets, Pikachu has the advantage over Sheik, which Lew believes could be “an important factor” in a rematch. “With customs on it’s another story, as opportunities to KO at 40 percent present themselves.”. Popular Smash commentator D’Ron “D1” Maingrette sees Lew and his Pikachu as a major threat to Barrios “with custom moves being legal,” and especially thanks to that faster kill potential. Eric Lew, mostly known as ESAM, is a professional SSB4 player, a twitch streamer, a Youtuber, and is considered the best Pikachu player in the world.. We’ve embedded the grand final match below but you can also visit the VGBootCamp Glitch 7 playlist to see the entire tournament run of games. Pikachu “snowballs way harder in customs due to his ridiculous killing potential and the ability to YOLO Heavy Skull Bash and potentially ruin someone’s stock [life], game, and set,” Lew said.

He says Pikachu goes even with Pichu but his match against Void looked entirely in Void's favor, so I'm not so sure about that.

ESAM’s journey wasn’t easy, however.

For Lew, the biggest difference between the current Smash and its predecessors is that he’s now a relative veteran of the game.

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I am significantly sloppier than he is and the reason is practice.”, Lew says he’s “considerably more determined to win” at the upcoming Evolution Championship Series (EVO), the biggest fighting tournament in the world. If you liked the article, you’ll love our video.

“She is my favorite video game character ever,” Lew told the Daily Dot. #KeepItPG pic.twitter.com/ObY1KVpC1E. At EVO, Lew has a chance to shine on the fighting game world’s biggest stage. Pikachu is one of the most impactful and stronger characters in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, and no one has gotten as many top results with the electric Pokemon as Eric ‘ESAM’ Lew.

While he is a skilled Melee and Project M player, he is best known for his top level play in Brawl, Wii U, and Ultimate. Pikachu players depend highly on their feel of the game. So + a number means advantage for Pikachu - number means disadvantage for Pikachu. that’s ESAM for ya, one of the things that makes him loveable, I still feel like people barely ever fairly rate their characters, most people hella underrate their characters but ESAM always overrates Pikachu. Pikachu player Eric “ESAM” Lew won Glitch 7, a Super Smash Bros.

He had one chance to turn things around.

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Ultimate, and he recently used those powers to style on his fiancée — … A rule change coming to EVO this year—legalizing custom movesets—gives Lew and his Pikachu what some would consider an unfair advantage. But Barrios’ main champions have taken quite the hit recently. Pikachu is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. 4.

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That said, I believe he should be in +1 considering the fact that ESAM lost against Mr R and Shoyo James and most games weren't entirely on Pikachu's favour.

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With a 3-1 win, ESAM made it to the grand finals of Glitch where he’d end up facing Light for a second time. Waiting for him in the semifinals at CEO last weekend was Barrios himself. After defeating Nairo and Tweek, The Grand Final saw him face Team Rogue’s Light in a Pikachu vs Fox showdown.

Read more about our cookie policy. Ranked 1st on the Oklahoma Ultimate Power Rankings. “I have zero doubt in my mind I am going to top eight at EVO,” he says, “I know I am one of the best players in the world and I will prove it—especially now that I have the completely unfair customs at my disposal.”, Images via Serebii and Robert Paul | Remix by Jacob Wolf. There was a single moment at Community Effort Orlando (CEO) on June 27 that demonstrated why everyone is scared of Eric "ESAM… And he proved his superiority at CEO, dropping Lew with three wins in four matches. With his trusty Pikachu throwing out an insane amount of Thunder Jolts, ESAM beat some of his bracket demons and finally claimed a Major after nearly five years of being a top player.

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Of course, his good buddy Pikachu was with him in celebration, but his eyes were set on a far more tangible, and unarguably smashing prize as well. Pikachu players depend highly on their feel of the game; momentum is a key part of most victories. Eric "ESAM" Lew has won Smash Ultimate at Glitch 7, securing a double whammy of Pikachu celebrations for the weekend. He has placed first at tournaments like WHOBO 4, Smash Carolina 3, and TGC7.

Eric "ESAM" Lew is an Ultimate Pikachu main, and formerly a Wii U Pikachu main, from Florida and South Carolina currently playing for Panda Global.

Although I think pichu is better. Pikachu more or less has the same combo game and killing moves besides the f-tilt. “To be fair, I experiment a lot in casual matches to determine what works and doesn’t work,” he explains. At EVO, Lew has a chance to shine on the fighting game world’s biggest stage. Of course, his good buddy Pikachu was with him in celebration, but his eyes were set on a far more tangible, and unarguably smashing prize as well.

AxeAshESAM2019: Year of the Pikachu pic.twitter.com/MNSy0dAcxo. She just has a really good keep-away game which excels against Luigi,” he said. This site uses cookies to provide enhanced features and functionality. Lew is confident he has a shot thanks to the custom movesets. This was another close fight, but the bear and bird eventually fell to ESAM.

I applaud him for it tbh.

ESAM's tag is derived from his first initial 'E', and the first three letters from his Melee and PM main Samus 'SAM'. #KeepItPG pic.twitter.com/0v75mfheuY.

@PG_ESAM went DEEP for that 2 stock finish! Want to see the full match play out?

Want to learn how to play Pikachu? But this isn’t enough to beat the best of opponents like Gonzalo “ZeRo” Barrios, widely regarded as the best Super Smash Bros. 4 player in the world. Ash finally won a leagueI finally won an A-tierThank you so much for everyone's support. Find out what makes Pikachu such an amazing character and learn the ins and outs straight from the best Pikachu around, the Glitch 7 champion, ESAM! He is also a SSBB Pikachu and Ice climbers co-main, and one of the best SSBM Samus players.

Its return to the series was announced during the E3 Nintendo Direct on June 11th, 2013. He did it. 3-2 on Nairo is definitely something to pop off about.