Amiibo is essentially Nintendo’s answer to the likes of Skylanders and Disney Infinity, allowing fans to not only purchase awesome collectibles, but also make use of them across various titles (to a certain extent). Arguably the best use of Amiibo is in Super Smash Bros, where the figurine imparts a digital avatar to the game to brawl, all with it’s own unique stats and such. How good could that AI be though? Pretty damn good apparently, because somebody entered an Amiibo figurine into a tournament, and it placed third.
The Amiibo in question was Fox, the blisteringly fast character from the Star Fox series of games. Over on twitter, @_daze posted up a series of pics depicting the rise of the plastic character through the tournament (via Kotaku)
LMAOO someone entered this fox amiibo in a smash4 bracket for lols and it just knocked someone out of tourney pic.twitter.com/jvjv76xa26
— dazee (@_daze) November 24, 2014
Update: he just took game 1 off his losers round 2 match ROFLLL pic.twitter.com/rSpbInCLVe
— dazee (@_daze) November 24, 2014
Update: Fox amiibo is in losers finals against one of our best brawl/ pm players in our region, FireFly LOOL pic.twitter.com/kbC0PSnszs
— dazee (@_daze) November 24, 2014
Waveshine the fox amiibo gets knocked out in losers finals. The smash4 players congratulate him on 3rd place. rofl pic.twitter.com/komZGjpEyC
— dazee (@_daze) November 24, 2014
It is worth nothing that the Amiibo figures can be levelled up, and they receive stronger-than-average statistics the higher their level is. Still, I thought it was hilarious. Can you imagine being one of the best Super Smash Bros players in a big tournament, and you sit down to face… a piece of plastic? Sure you can call foul, saying that it’s unfair, but what fan would support somebody who isn’t brave enough to face a toy?
I have to agree with Kotaku though, how cool would it be to have Amiibo only tournaments where trainers set up and tweaked their virtual brawlers? It would really feel like something out of Pokémon!
Last Updated: November 25, 2014
Mark Vincer
November 25, 2014 at 22:03
I refuse to let this article go by without a comment! I actually thought it was a pretty entertaining little story. Those Amiibos are evil. For those of us who grew up in the Nintendo generation of “there’s a crack in that wall, better blow it up” those bloody collectables are going to seriously throttle our wallets!
Sir Rants A Lot is a DADDY
November 25, 2014 at 22:45
hahahaha wow. Troll level: Amiibo.
Kensei Seraph No DA:I spoilers
November 26, 2014 at 07:40
Dam, that’s impressive.
J_Joestar
November 28, 2014 at 00:00
*dresses up as Ash and goes to a tournament*
I choose you Pikachu!
*whips Pikachu Amiibo at opponent*