falco know how

[AnarchistMarth]

umm i was just wondering if anyone here could help with my newly acquired falco, ive played a marth for a long time and need somone to pick up. Im heading for a local tournament soon, and would like help as in perhaps a moves list or something that i can practice to improve my game.

Thanks in advance

[Mune]

I'm not a long time Falco player myself, but I can give you several pointers.

For one, Short Hop Blaster is your friend. Use it often (when needed) and repeatedly. If your opponent is dumb enough to sit there and take the abuse, so be it.

Short Hop aerials is also going to be a good friend of yours. You shouldn't have much trouble with his SH, but if you do, try practicing on 2x Speed in Training.

I haven't read much about Falco's shine being used as a spike technique, but I find it somewhat useful for juggles. (I'm sure I'm wrong on this, but I don't get much practice on human players, so I'm going by what tactics I use on the CPU)

Wavedash is extremely useful for Falco, and easy to do with his SH being so easy to pull off. (also, from my own experience)

Short hopping into your down aerial is a great edge guard, it's a great spike technique. (making up for the crappy shine spike)

I'm sure there's a lot I left out, but I hope this helped a little in improving your game with Falco. ^^

[jrta]

Read the boards first.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41711

[Cubed64]

1) SHL: This stands for Short Hop Laser. This is an essential for falco players. It is simply what the name says, a short hopped laser. This can be chained into pretty much anything. It can also be spammed rather aggressively. You must learn this
2) The Spike: This is falco’s best aerial attack. Great for edge guarding. This is very effective when Short Hopped.
3) Reflector: A great move for combo’s. This is Falco’s fastest move, it comes out in 1 frame. You can jump out of this with no lag what-so-ever and this leads to good combo’s such as Reflector- dair- reflector-repeat, reflector into pretty much any aerial attack works well. When you have learnt to jump straight out of Reflector, you can do such combo’s as the triple shine, shine-shine-dair and shine-shine-uair. These hardly ever work on human players but it is good to have them learnt anyway.
4) Shuffling: This stands for Short Hopped-Fast Falled-L’ Cancelled. This is a very good tactic for falco because some of his best attacks are aerial moves. You can shuffle nair -shuffle dair. Combo’s are easy to do with shuffling, such as shuffled dair- reflector- dair.
5) Wave Dashing: While this isnt a major factor in falco’s game, you can always use it to your own style of play. Some good uses are run forward, just before you get close to your opponent, Wavedash backwards into a forward smash. Wave dashing is just a good technique to know how to do, use it however you see fit.

Thats the basics, any problems just quote me and ill clarify them.

[Dapenda]

I heard that the shffled reflector-dair combo only works on certain chars. So the other chars can escape it if they DI or all chars can escape if they DI?

Also, which characters does this combo work better on? I'm guessing Luigi and Samus are probably out of the question.

[M3D]

Try using the search option. There's lots of help already posted on just the first page here. Good luck at your tournament.