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To be very honest, most of Earth's matches that were streamed at EVO are completely one-sided. This was because of the gap between the players he fought: either they were way below his level or way above his level. The only one I suggest to check out is Earth vs. Kamemushi because of the back...

DI is Directional Influence. Whenever you get hit by a move, DI dictates the direction in which you go and is usually used to keep you alive longer or get out of combos. How you DI is the same with every character but where you should DI changes depending on the trajectory of every move in the...

An interesting thing to note is that Abadango, arguably the best Mewtwo right now, believes Pit along with Cloud and possibly Diddy Kong, are Mewtwo's worst matchups. I'm not sure why he thinks that way especially since I believe he's never faced Earth in bracket... however, this is another...

No problem. I just hope I helped! I see, that's good that the matchup experience is helping you. It seems like we Pit players always lean towards one or the other despite them being largely the same. But it's good that you're working with Pit in addition to Dark Pit as certain matchups can be...

So here's some tips after taking a quick look: - When you get a grab, you usually do a forward throw. I don't suggest using Pit's forward throw as your primary throw because 1) it stales your forward throw if you need a kill and 2) Pit's down throw is a much better combo starter. Down throw to...

Nairo is one of the international players. As for the other one, I'm sure it'll be a nice surprise when the time comes.

In my opinion, the Pit/Villager match-up is even. Villager shuts down aerial approaches very well with his zoning tools. However, Pit does not need to approach with aerials because his ground game is amazing. Shield is very strong for Pit since Villager needs to commit quite a bit in order to...

Are you talking about Friday? If the pools don't change much in the upcoming days, Earth won't play until wave C pools for singles. As for doubles, he's in wave D. He might be in the crew battle depending on whether Japan subs him in. Looking at the schedule, if he is in the crew battle, he will...

Genesis is this weekend: January 15-17. A schedule can be found here for the events: http://www.genesisgaming.gg/schedule/

I was looking forward to seeing Earth in the crew battle too... but unfortunately Japan's crew only has him as a sub. But Doubles will be interesting because Earth is teaming with 9B. However, I think the two of them need to work on their synergy a bit from what I've seen of their doubles play.

Well Nairo also went Dark Pit against Dabuz at Ktar a while ago. He's been using Dark Pit and his other secondaries more at smaller tournaments lately. Here's the video in case you want to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFnBTZrUOz8 Guardian Orbitars can gimp Cloud. Nairo has done it a...

あーす is Earth. Earth simply did better against KEN because KEN is ranked 36th in Japan and plays a less reactive Sonic than Komorikiri does. Nonetheless the practice matches that he did with Komorikiri on Ranai's stream probably helped him a lot with the match-up as recently Earth has been doing...

They played for about an hour. It should give people a good idea of the match-up. Regardless of how fast the matches went, I think it can be said that Pit has ways to deal with Sonic in the neutral. That is because even if Earth gets hit by a lot of combos at the start, he goes pretty even until...

I think you are underestimating Earth's opponent Komorikiri. Komorikiri is very good at getting the 2-frame snapback on the ledge with Sonic's f-smash. Earth can snapping back with Pit's up-b instead of hovering near the ledge, but in both cases, Komorikiri will get the f-smash very often...

Just letting you guys know that Earth was at 9B's house over last weekend and got to play a ton of matches on stream there. It's very rare to find such long footage of Earth playing Pit so I thought I should share. Here's the VOD. http://www.twitch.tv/hysranai/v/23127304?t=16h44m18s He started...