I mained Yoshi in every Super Smash Bros game at #Supernova this year! Yoshi is one of the weirdest characters in Smash Bros history and was simultaneously the most difficult and easiest challenge I've done so far. So how did I do with Yoshi in every game?

To commemorate the event I got people to sign my hat and had @bluerosetori take pictures! If you want amazing high quality pictures taken by a professional Tori is your girl! And if you had the chance to sign my hat last weekend retweet and @ someone if you recognize their name!

To understand Yoshi in Smash it's important to go to the beginning. Yoshi in Smash 64 is an odd character. His Up-B does not give him a extra height. Instead his double jump goes really high and he has armor during it, something that he keeps for the entire series.

Funnily enough, even though 64 is the game I've played the least Yoshi made a lot of sense to me. I already know how to double jump cancel (more on this later) and moving with him felt surprisingly natural. The last tierlist put Yoshi at 5th but he's arguably top 3 now.

Yoshi has taken a while to rise in the meta given that he's a weird character. Double Jump Canceling (DJC) lets you interrupt your double jump with an aerial, stopping all upward momentum. This gives you crazy combos but if you're off-stage without a double jump you just die.

But how did I do competing in 64? The answer is pretty bad. I was given a very generous 66th seed but only managed to win 1 set out of 7 opponents placing 179th out of 214. I'm only 1 year older than Smash 64 and some people have been playing it my entire life.

That's ok though because the game I practiced for the most was Melee. By far. Yoshi in Melee has a long history starting off as one of the worst characters in the game until eventually @aMSaRedYoshi was finally able to win a Supermajor with the red dinosaur.

But Yoshi was considered a terrible character for such a long time for a good reason. Yoshi is incredibly difficult to learn in Melee. Unlike in 64 Yoshi is much more precise in Melee and most of the top tiers can delete your stock for a single mistake.

I've mained a lot of Smash characters over the years and none of them have challenged me like Melee Yoshi has. But the tantalizing thing about him in this game is that when things go right he feels really good. His defensive counterplay is weird but very powerful when done right.

But how did I do in the tournament? After a month of practicing primarily Melee Yoshi, bashing my head into the wall that is learning this character, I managed to get 289th out of 814 players! A round 1 DQ helped me do better than I should have but I did beat a Marth in losers.

Now for Brawl Yoshi. Oh dear. This character is truly awful. Brawl in an effort to make the game more simple took away Yoshi's greatest strength, that being his double jump cancel. Without it, Yoshi's offense was heavily neutered and Brawl would keep many of Yoshi's weaknesses.

That being said he's still not the worst character in Brawl. I got the chance to talk with @Brawlternative and he helped me understand that in the early meta Yoshi was a counterpick vs Meta Knight because he had a chain grab infinite. But that alone wasn't enough to save him.

I was nervous to compete as Yoshi in Brawl because of his flaws, but I could work with it. Out of 152 players and as the 126th seed I surprised myself and got 65th! A DQ admittedly did help me but I still won a set in losers. I never want to fight Brawl Olimar again.