Recent content by Psyflame

Hey, a few friendly smashers and I live in the same house and we're always looking for new blood to play with. I'm sure you know how it is - play with the same few people, learn their style, start getting worse. Anyone in or around Berkeley want to play, well, a lot?

i've played atoin he sux

hey dudes, i tied for 3rd (4th?) at PAX, my tag is Psy, i play as MK

Ultimatum is right on the money. For example, my secondary is Pikachu, whose ability to punish aggression nicely covers the characters my Olimar doesn't.

I was under the impression that trolling was against the rules.

Though I'm sure this doesn't qualify as empirical evidence, I'd contend that Olimar isn't broken because the majority of players rely on pattern recognition and logic to answer to attacks rather than raw reaction speed.

Ftilt punishes anyone who wants to run at you, and shieldgrab is the ultimate chaingrab setup. You don't even need to bait a chaingrab - you can practically force it if you play with smart and effective spacing.

Great thread, this is, as others have said, an excellent way for Oli players to keep up to date. Kudos for your efforts; they've helped me, certainly. In addition: What you want to do is find a stage with the floor clearly marked (FD is sort of like this, but there are better stages) perhaps...

Well, don't take it that badly; I was really just calling out what I would have thought first in your situation. Just saying that if your opponent knows Olimar well it would pay to mix your game up.

Play his range game, and get underneath him - the previous two posts in this topic have said it better than I ever could, so I'm just agreeing.

Hmm. A couple things, after watching the Lucas match. First of all, you need to be aware of each character's capabilities - know that you need to dodge the PK Thunder boost, the upsmash, et cetera. Also, vary up your play style some more and keep him guessing - I amused myself for a little while...

Use it when you please. If they're ever in range for a forward tilt, you have many other, more powerful options, so it's rather obsolete.

If you'd like to bring this to an ad hominem discussion, then I suggest you leave... In addition, if your idea of a strategy is to camp against an Olimar then the issue is not with his moveset, it's with what's being used to counter it; Olimar does very poorly against characters who don't...

...? I don't follow. Please, let me know if I'm missing something...

Then you don't use the platforms to get invincibility frames...