This topic comes up every now and then but my favorites change a little every year with new players coming up and old players improving so I’m interested in hearing who everyone’s current favorites are.
In no particular order my top 5 are:
Ryuichi Nakamura, love his playstyle and charisma.
Yuki Nishisako, one of my favorites to watch and he was my favorite player BEFORE he got 3rd at worlds as an underdog
Takeshi Matsuura, he’s actually a god. enough said
Colin Beckford, very balanced and knowledgable player
Shion Araya, lots of skill, underappreciated imo despite being the most successful 1a player in recent years
Honorable mention to Rei Iwakura, my favorite X-division player for years now. Love Alex Hattori as well.
My all time list would probably include Mickey and Iori but they haven’t been very active in a while. I listed my current favorites from the past year or two.
Mark Montgomery- I can watch him just flow for hours.
Jensen Kimmit- doesn’t seem to put out a lot of videos lately but everything is really impressive, kind of like he’s just saying “hey did you know you could do this?”
Tony Sec- incredibly versatile and has some just mind blowing tricks.
Colin Beckford- very smooth and clean combos and very strong competition player.
Doc Pop- do I really need to explain?
Alann Herrera… Forgot about him, haven’t heard that name in a while. I remember he taught me the basic green triangle when I was still a noob starting out. He used to be pretty active on these forums like 6+ years ago.
