Recent content by krosswerks

Main a Fire Emblem character! I suggest Lucina to get a hang of the playstyle, then go for one of the more specialized characters. As a Fire Emblem fan, I think you will love playing the FE characters when you start to think of the Smash stage as the "battle" phase of a Fire Emblem map (even...

When you have center stage, you have more leeway to move back and forth than your opponent. You can pressure them to move back, or alleviate pressure from yourself by moving back when they advance. When you're pushed to the edges of the stage, you can't retreat backwards (unless you're doing it...

Great resource, thanks for all your work OP

I have very rarely been ditto'd as Lucina, but people LOVE going Marth against me game 2 hehe

Go to local tournaments! You'll never be able to compete against tourney-caliber players if you aren't exposing yourself to their tactics. By yourself, I also suggest taking a look at tournament footage for your characters, and try to replicate cool plays that you see in training mode. This...

So much Undertale love in this thread... Battle Against a True Hero is what gets me pumped~

Really happy about the Dancing Blade change, it never seemed as effective as it was supposed to be... I'm also relieved that she's getting the same stuff as Marth, I was pretty distraught when the patch notes were coming out and showing differences between the two... I was worried that she was...

Honestly I'm pretty grateful that Lucina is the way she is, if she was as adequately designed as ZSS or Rosa or something then more people would play her and she wouldn't have the ultimate Smash Hipster Waifu status B)

As amazing as it would have been to see Lucina get fully fleshed out as a character (at the very least, Luci as a Great Lord with a Javelin projectile special... be still, my heart), in my mind, we've already received some pretty good reasons from Sakurai himself why Lucina exists the way she...

my 2cents, my opinion overlaps with most of the above posters but it's important enough advice that I think it bears repeating. First of all, damn dude if you need money then don't hold out for sm4sh. Even for the top 1% of players, the payouts for this game are barely a living. You want to...

Marth in general has a wider variety of "combos" and has an easier time pulling them off, because of the difference in stun/knockback between tippered/non-tippered hits. However, I've come to appreciate this as one of Lucina's strengths: since you can rely on Lucina's moves for consistent damage...

Jumping off this. It may seem intuitive to want to be engaged in constant thought while you're playing, but that is not the case. Think of walking/driving/breathing/any sort of semi-automatic activity you do. You breathe naturally and the process works, but you don't ever consider yourself as...

I'd suggest throwing on some music to calm yourself down. It doesn't really have to be music, but anything that works personally for you that improves your focus. Getting excessively salty is a symptom that you're playing with too much pride/ego involved (I should know, I do this all the time...

You can camp back and force your opponent to approach, Link kind of gets around this with his arrows but most projectiles don't travel the entire stage. If you get good with PK Thunder you can really mess with your opponent at range, especially if they insist on just sitting in one spot. A Ness...

Does anyone feel like non-retreating FAir has any utility at all in the neutral? I know that's it's punishable on shield (as has happened to me many times lol), but I've also had a lot of success with it as one of my staples in all stages of the game; retreating short-hop FAirs are great as has...