Recent content by salaboB

I've got good news and bad news for you. First, the good news: You can improve enough to compete. Second, the bad news: It's gonna be a lot of work. Yep, I said "work", it's not all going to be fun -- it will probably even feel a bit like a job, for a while. The people at tournaments that...

Wii U version, using the official ethernet adapter for internet. My connection is normally good, it's just being on the west coast is not good for online gaming without regional matchmaking.

The lag in For Glory gets to me. When c-stick smashes come out as jabs, or my control stick smashes come out as tilts. Nothing my opponent does can piss me off as much as my own controls not working properly because of crappy netcode.

Pros have good pattern recognition skills (So they can exploit opponents who don't adapt effectively). That allows them to figure out what beats level 9 cpus and exploit that. It's not amazing timing on their part, it's just paying attention and learning what the ai won't react properly to...

In my experience, it's due to packet loss. Once it happens once if you just start using control stick + A it stops happening (It only seems to happen with the c-stick, and something about the terrible netcode this game has)

Is that when you're online, or does it happen to you offline?

Good call on the projectiles, I forgot those options. Samus has a great down-B in this situation too. As you say, side-B that moves a bit will also work (Including Yoshi's)

If they're charging for any length of time, they're stuck in position and you can just move far enough to avoid them. If not, try air dodging through their range to the ground -- move away from them at the same time to give yourself as much room as possible. Remember that in FG you have to air...

Yoshi also used to have a grab release into some combos that were patched out at some point -- nobody really noticed the exact patch because the techs hadn't gotten a lot of attention at that point. (I didn't find them, just read about it) If Marth also lost it, then the number of frames before...

Not actually true, there's better netcode than what this game is using. I believe even Mario Kart's netcode is better.

That explains it, thanks for the followup!

SD'ing against spammers would also be lowering it. The thing I find is that I face very few spammers in FG these days -- but whenever I did face one, I played my best to make sure I won. My suspicion is there's a hidden rating in FG, not based on win rate, and if you SD to spammers it keeps...

I love fighting opposing Yoshi's -- they're super rare for me, though. I'm probably the one playing a Yoshi that everyone sees :P

Just curious -- what's your win % range? (Like are you relatively high in the 60's or in the 50-60ish?) You don't have to share if you're not comfortable doing so, I'm just working on a theory I have and need more info...

I'm sure that's punishable, there's no way the timing works fast enough for it to not be. Edit: It's good to know about though because it will probably work quite frequently online, latency makes it so much harder to punish close range Down B's.