SoCal thrower, professional Lethal League Blaze tourney attendee and player



What names do you go by?

Scooter, a nickname my friends gave me in highschool. My friend Looked at me one day and started calling me Scooter, I wish there was a better story like I used to ride Scooters and did cool tricks but no they just started calling me Scooter. I like it though, it’s short and to the point. It’s funny too, when I go to fighting game tournaments and hear TO’s call out names like CaptainXAwsome, 5mi, shake n bake, and Ur-naked grandma.

I like the simplicity of it. I’ve been called the SoCal-thrower by a lot of people, I like this name as well.

It’s really strange to think that I’ve somehow defined a region or shaken a meta game as that was never my intention. I first played this game with my friends who had also enjoyed the first game although we played at what would probably be considered a casual level. One of those friends was Taternater who went by “PoonWrangler420”, and because of our matches together we came to learn the game and it’s nuances in a very unorthodox atmosphere. Most of the time we would just try things out for the sake of trying new things and seeing what we could get away with. I think that the fact that I had so much success and notoriety gained from my grab-orientated play-style encouraged other players to be more experimental and take more risks with not only grabs but other aspects of their game play.

If that’s true then I don’t mind being the SoCal-thrower.



How did you get into Lethal League?



My friend AEM was the biggest influence, him and I really like watching jerma985’s youtube videos and when we saw Lethal League it stood out to me. I never played in any tournaments but really enjoyed the core premise and was really exited for Blaze. I remember Playing it the day it came out and beating the entire story mode in one night and then playing ranked. I only wanted to play for a bit because it was quite late (I think the game was released late at night on Steam), but I ended up getting really into it and became really attached to my rank. When I went to my job the next day my rank was #198 or #199 and I was really proud of myself (in season 1 there were no divisions, just numbers), until I went on my break and saw my rank go down to #420 and when I got off work and got home it was somewhere in the #700s. I was really discouraged by that because to me it meant that I was even farther from the #1 rank player and I really wanted to see the high ranked players of this game because I think it’s a cool game. I now know that’s not really how the matchmaking system works but Hindsight is 20/20. But that’s the main reason why I wasn’t very active in season 1.



What’s your current Lethal League experience?

Pretty good.

I’ve played a lot of people and a lot of hours of Lethal League Blaze.

I’ve been called a lot of names and been given a lot of compliments.

I think I’ve played someone from every continent which sounds cooler than it feels.

I like playing in tournaments and playing good players.



Who are your main/side/counter character picks?



Jet is the character I got into the game with but I think she is out shined by other characters. She’s still a very good character in her own respect and doesn’t get a lot of respect

Raptor is this game’s Ryu.

Switch is this game’s Ken.



What are your favourite character outfits?



I like the skins Shadowm_ made for his vocaloid videos on niconico video. Still waiting on gentle to release the texture mod so I can use them…

What are your stage preferences?



I prefer smaller stages because I don’t like how some games can devolve to overly complicated keep-away. But Im comfortable on most stages except stadium and elevator. Fuck elevator



What input method do you use?



Logitech underachiever™, now available at your local Walmart retail store! That was my first controller… now I rotate between an Xbox one controller and a fight stick to embrace my inner FGC tryhard! Shoutouts to Mecazawa for showing me that fight stick is a viable input method

I believe people can use whatever controller they are best with. There are techniques that are easier to do with keyboard and others that feel smoother to execute on controller.



Michigan Masters is going to be played on PS4. Are you prepared for that?

Sure, I already play on controller and fight stick so I’m not so worried about the console. I hope the keyboard players will be able to keep themselves from complaining too loudly :^)



Who do you hope to meet at Michigan Masters?



I’m really excited to see the LLB community again, we don’t get to see each other because we’re so far away from one another but Tournaments like these are great excuses to hangout and see one another face to face. It’s a very different experience from talking on the internet. Specifically though I’m really excited to see Mylo & Boog, very different people and very good players.



What other games do you play?



Hmm if you can think of it, I’ve played it



Is there anything else you’d like to say to the community?



Don’t parry too often or it’ll be grabbed :)



Follow Scooter @radcommentator on twitter.