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ZeRo

ZeRo at GENESIS 4

Player Information

Name:

Gonzalo Barrios

Nationality:

Chile

United States

Born:

April 17, 1995 (age 28)

Years Active:

2012 - 2017,
2019 - 2020

Approx. Total Winnings:

$158,589

Super Smash Bros.

Current Mains:

Fox

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Current Mains:

Fox

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Current Mains:

Meta Knight

Former Mains:

Ice Climbers

Project M

Current Mains:

Pit

Fox

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Current Mains:

Diddy Kong

Former Mains:

Fox

Secondaries:

Cloud

Captain Falcon

Lucina

Sheik

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Current Mains:

Diddy Kong

Pyra and Mythra

Former Mains:

Lucina

Ike

Cloud

Secondaries:

Wolf

Mario

Links

Achievements

PM:

Wii U:

History

2014-06-05 — 2014-11-02

CLASH Tournaments

2015-08-01 — 2018-11-07

Team SoloMid

2018-11-07 — 2020-07-04

Tempo Storm

Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios is a Wii U Diddy Kong main from Los Angeles, California and originally from Chillán, Chile who plays for Tempo Storm. In Melee, he plays Fox, and in Brawl, he plays Meta Knight. While ranked 35th and 3rd in the world on SSBMRank and SSBBRank 2014, respectively, he dropped Melee and Brawl in favour of Wii U when the latter was released. He is known as the best Smash 4 player of all time and is currently ranked as the best Wii U player of all time on the PGR100.

Biography[edit]

Gonzalo Barrios is originally from Chillán, Chile and frequently traveled to the United States to compete in tournaments. Originally competing and becoming one of the best at Melee in his home country of Chile, he switched to mainly competing in Brawl when traveling for US tournaments. He returned to competitive Melee after Brawl's community died down during the summer of Melee and has been frequently attending tournaments since then. He is famous for wearing a short white scarf at tournaments. He wears it as a tribute to his mother, who gave him the scarf when he left Chile.^{[citation needed]}

ZeRo decided to focus on Super Smash Bros. for Wii U upon its release. He experienced immediate success in the game, having a 56 tournament win streak. This streak started from the game's release in November 2014 and lasted until he was defeated by Nairo at MLG World Finals 2015. This achievement was recognized in the Guinness World Records 2017 Gamer's Edition.^[1] ^[2] Because of this, he is considered the undisputed best Smash 4 player in the world. While his dominance is no longer as absolute, ZeRo has continued to win numerous Major and Premier tournaments.

On February 19, 2015, ZeRo announced on Twitter that if he won the Wii U event at EVO 2015, he would focus on Melee exclusively for at least one year, citing Leffen as his inspiration.^[3] However, despite winning EVO, ZeRo stated his intention to continue focusing on Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, as he felt that his motivation for playing Melee would not be for his fans as opposed to himself.^[4]

On January 12, 2018, after being ranked 1st for the fourth time in his career, ZeRo announced that he won't be competing in Smash 4 tournaments for the near future.^[5]

ZeRo was one of the players invited to the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Invitational, which he won once again, using Mario, Sheik, and Ike.

On November 8, 2018, ZeRo announced that he would be returning to competitive Smash and will compete in future Smash Ultimate tournaments. On the same day; he also announced he would be leaving Team SoloMid and will be joining Tempo Storm.^[6]

Shortly after Smash Ultimate Summit he stopped attending Smash Ultimate tournaments, as he now mainly focuses on being a Facebook Gaming streamer and uploading content to his YouTube channel.

Controversy[edit]

On July 2, 2020, Jisu accused ZeRo of showing her pornography and harassing her when she was 15.^[7] Later that day, he apologized to Jisu and said that he did not remember ever showing her pornography.^[8]

On July 3, 2020, another accusation was issued by an anonymous source under the name of "Katie". In her statement, she covered incidents of ZeRo manipulating her, and described that he had also asked her to send him explicit pictures of herself.^[9] The conversations that they had were documented in Skype logs from September 2014 to January 2015, when she was 14 and ZeRo was 19.

ZeRo responded to the accusation made by Katie later that day, acknowledging that he did talk to her on Skype during that time.^[10] He said that he did not know that she was underage until she came forward and said she was 14, which he claimed was the last time that he talked to her. ZeRo did not comment on the accusations of him asking for explicit pictures until July 4, 2020, when he admitted that everything Katie had said in her statement was true.^[11]

Tempo Storm severed ties with ZeRo shortly after his confession.^[12]

Results[edit]

Ultimate[edit]

Wii U[edit]

Recent Notable Wins

Wins over players ranked in PGR v3:

Rank 2 - MKLeo

2017-07-23 | 3 : 0 at DreamHack Atlanta 2017
2017-08-13 | | 3 : 1 at Super Smash Con 2017
2017-08-20 | | 3 : 0 at 2GGC: SCR Saga
2017-08-20 | | 3 : 2 at 2GGC: SCR Saga
2017-08-27 | | 3 : 1 at Shine 2017
2017-12-03 | | 3 : 2 at 2GG Championship

Rank 3 - Nairo

2017-07-01 | | 3 : 0 at Midwest Mayhem 9: Old vs New
2017-08-27 | | 3 : 1 at Shine 2017
2017-09-04 | 3 : 0 at PAX Arena at PAX West 2017
2017-09-04 | 3 : 0 at PAX Arena at PAX West 2017
2017-10-08 | | 3 : 2 at The Big House 7

Rank 4 - Dabuz

2017-07-09 | | 3 : 2 at 2GGC: ARMS Saga
2017-12-03 | | 3 : 0 at 2GG Championship
2017-12-03 | | 3 : 0 at 2GG Championship

Rank 5 - Ally

2017-07-23 | 3 : 1 at DreamHack Atlanta 2017
2017-09-04 | 2 : 1 at PAX Arena at PAX West 2017

Rank 6 - Larry Lurr

2017-07-16 | | 3 : 2 at EVO 2017
2017-08-20 | | 3 : 0 at 2GGC: SCR Saga
2017-09-04 | 2 : 0 at PAX Arena at PAX West 2017
2017-10-01 | | 3 : 0 at GameTyrant Expo 2017
2017-10-08 | | 3 : 1 at The Big House 7
2017-10-22 | | 3 : 0 at DreamHack Denver 2017
2017-12-03 | | 3 : 2 at 2GG Championship

Rank 7 - CaptainZack

2017-10-01 | 3 : 0 at GameTyrant Expo 2017

Rank 8 - komorikiri

2017-08-20 | 3 : 1 at 2GGC: SCR Saga

Rank 9 - Mr.R

2017-08-13 | | 3 : 2 at Super Smash Con 2017
2017-11-25 | | 3 : 1 at Midwest Mayhem 10

Rank 10 - Abadango

2017-08-06 | | 3 : 1 at Low Tier City 5

Rank 11 - Salem

2017-09-04 | 3 : 2 at PAX Arena at PAX West 2017
2017-10-01 | | 3 : 1 at GameTyrant Expo 2017
2017-10-08 | 3 : 1 at The Big House 7
2017-10-22 | | 3 : 1 at DreamHack Denver 2017
2017-11-25 | | 3 : 2 at Midwest Mayhem 10
2017-12-03 | | 3 : 1 at 2GG Championship

Rank 12 - Tweek

2017-07-01 | | 3 : 0 at Midwest Mayhem 9: Old vs New
2017-07-16 | | 2 : 0 at EVO 2017
2017-08-27 | | 3 : 1 at Shine 2017
2017-09-04 | 2 : 0 at PAX Arena at PAX West 2017
2017-09-09 | | 3 : 1 at 2GGC: West Side Saga
2017-09-09 | | 3 : 0 at 2GGC: West Side Saga
2017-10-01 | 3 : 1 at GameTyrant Expo 2017
2017-11-25 | | 3 : 2 at Midwest Mayhem 10
2017-12-10 | | 3 : 0 at Smash 4 Boot Camp

Rank 13 - VoiD

2017-07-09 | | 3 : 0 at 2GGC: ARMS Saga
2017-08-13 | | 3 : 2 at Super Smash Con 2017
2017-09-04 | 2 : 0 at PAX Arena at PAX West 2017
2017-12-10 | | 2 : 1 at Smash 4 Boot Camp

Rank 15 - Fatality

2017-12-03 | | 3 : 0 at 2GG Championship

Rank 16 - KEN

2017-07-09 | | 3 : 2 at 2GGC: ARMS Saga
2017-07-16 | | 2 : 0 at EVO 2017
2017-09-09 | | 3 : 0 at 2GGC: West Side Saga
2017-12-03 | | 3 : 0 at 2GG Championship

Rank 17 - Ranai

2017-07-16 | | 2 : 1 at EVO 2017

Rank 18 - ESAM

2017-08-06 | | 3 : 1 at Low Tier City 5
2017-10-22 | | 3 : 1 at DreamHack Denver 2017

Rank 19 - Kirihara

2017-09-09 | | 3 : 0 at 2GGC: West Side Saga

Rank 20 - Zinoto

2017-07-01 | | 3 : 1 at Midwest Mayhem 9: Old vs New
2017-09-09 | 3 : 1 at 2GGC: West Side Saga
2017-10-08 | | 3 : 0 at The Big House 7

Rank 21 - ANTi

2017-10-01 | | 3 : 1 at GameTyrant Expo 2017

Rank 24 - Samsora

2017-08-20 | 3 : 0 at 2GGC: SCR Saga

Rank 25 - Elegant

2017-10-29 | | 3 : 0 at Clutch City Clash 2
2017-12-03 | | 3 : 1 at 2GG Championship
2017-12-10 | | 3 : 0 at Smash 4 Boot Camp

Rank 26 - Tsu

2017-09-09 | | 3 : 2 at 2GGC: West Side Saga

Rank 27 - Kameme

2017-11-04 | 2 : 0 at 2GGC: MKLeo Saga

Rank 29 - MVD

2017-08-27 | 3 : 0 at Shine 2017
2017-12-10 | | 2 : 1 at Smash 4 Boot Camp

Rank 30 - Mr.E

2017-07-16 | 2 : 0 at EVO 2017

Rank 33 - Shuton

2017-09-09 | | 3 : 1 at 2GGC: West Side Saga

Rank 34 - Raito

2017-07-09 | | 3 : 1 at 2GGC: ARMS Saga
2017-10-01 | | 3 : 0 at GameTyrant Expo 2017

Rank 36 - HIKARU

2017-11-04 | 3 : 1 at 2GGC: MKLeo Saga

Rank 37 - Ned

2017-11-25 | | 3 : 1 at Midwest Mayhem 10

Rank 44 - Javi

2017-09-09 | | 3 : 0 at 2GGC: West Side Saga
2017-10-08 | 3 : 0 at The Big House 7
2017-10-22 | | 3 : 1 at DreamHack Denver 2017
2017-10-29 | | 2 : 1 at Clutch City Clash 2

Rank 48 - JK

2017-10-29 | | 3 : 0 at Clutch City Clash 2
2017-10-29 | | 3 : 2 at Clutch City Clash 2

Melee[edit]

Recent Notable Wins

Wins over players ranked in SSBMRank 2013:

Rank 10 - SFAT

2014-07-13 | | 2 : 1 at EVO 2014

Rank 31 - Fiction

2014-07-13 | | 2 : 0 at EVO 2014

Rank 45 - Darc

2014-06-01 | W : L at SKTAR 3

Rank 46 - Darkatma

2014-07-13 | W : L at EVO 2014

Rank 47 - HugS

2014-06-01 | W : L at SKTAR 3

Rank 77 - aMSa

2014-06-22 | | 3 : 2 at MLG Anaheim 2014

Rank 79 - Swift

2014-06-01 | W : L at SKTAR 3
2014-08-03 | 2 : 1 at Zenith 2014

Brawl[edit]

Project M[edit]