Nairoby Quezada, better known as Nairo, is an American streamer and retired professional Super Smash Bros. competitive player.
He primarily played Meta Knight in Brawl, Zero Suit Samus in Wii U, and Palutena in Super Smash Bros.
[3] Nairo gained national recognition for his skill in Super Smash Bros. Brawl at Apex 2012, defeating top players such as Yuta "Nietono" Uejima, before losing to Kenta "Otori" Ishikawa in Winners' Finals and Nietono in Losers' Finals, finishing 3rd out of 400 entrants.
He won his first national-level Brawl tournament at SKTAR, defeating Eric "ESAM" Lew in winners' and grand finals.
Nairo signed to play for Team Liquid in August 2015 and later ended ZeRo's 56-tournament winning streak at the 2015 MLG World Finals.
[7][8][9] Nairo has won many national-level tournaments in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, including Paragon Los Angeles 2015, Umebura FAT, and MLG 2015.
[10][11] Nairo was one of the eight players competing in the Pokkén Tournament Early Access Competition Invitational by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo.
[16] Hours later, Nairo reactivated his Twitter account and issued an apology, claiming that his behavior was wrong, and that he "messed up tremendously".
On October 28, 2020, Nairo reactivated his Twitter account and released a statement, claiming CaptainZack's allegations to be "completely false" as well as explaining the story from his perspective.
[23][24] On February 19, 2021, Nairo uploaded a video to his YouTube channel announcing that a legal agreement had been reached between both parties and he intended to return to streaming.