Recent content by zero sum

i owned the game as a kid and played it from the time of its release to the time when brawl came out i started playing semi-competitively in late 2014, but i didn't really enter tournaments until late 2015. i also never played at all during summers. i'm waiting to move again before i actually...

in no order: – go through everything in the melee library, which is pretty easy to find if you just google it – get basic tech down (know the limits of your dash dance, get wavedashing and l-canceling down near 100% of the time and try to gain a rudimentary understanding of how/when you should...

breaks are good since they give you time to clear your head of any disappointment or work out some troubles you've been having either inside or outside of the game. taking breaks of 3+ days is hard for me sometimes even though i'm not particularly technical and i usually need to grind...

i pretty much exclusively play melee so i'm only going to link melee sets since i know very little about smash 4, lol mango vs armada mlg winners finals, grand finals – surprised no one mentioned these. even a year later i think this is still the highest aggregate display of skill we've ever...

i mean, this is hard. my initiation to the scene was with someone who's taken sets off of several top 100 players and who would probably be top 5 on my region's if he bothered going to more tournaments, along with another player vastly better than me. learning how to play melee is really...

measuring hype is kind of hard. for example jigglypuff creates a lot of tense moments especially when she isn't using an aerial; for example, sometimes you'll see hungrybox run and it's terrifying because you know he has a read on something but you have no idea what. however i wouldn't...

i'm not a marth main but i've spent a decent amount of my smash career playing marth dittos to help my friend practice the mu dtilt is really, really good. you don't necessarily have to use it as only an approach, either; sometimes you can stuff approaches with wd back/down dtilt. it is a...

he's definitely dropped sets to wizzrobe at locals. i typed in ‘hungrybox vs wizzrobe’ and one of the first results showed wizzrobe 3-0ing hbox in the first set. i don't play CF or puff but intuitively it doesn't seem like it's really that bad of a matchup for either character. it's just that no...

intuition mostly at my level people have patterns that are generally difficult to explain but not terribly hard to notice. i think most people would categorize me as like a low/mid-level player but anyways: it's almost like a sort of rhythm, and since it's often uncomplicated it's pretty easy...

purely hypothetical but here's what i think rn in today's meta: can win supermajors (think apex/evo/stacked six-god tournaments): fox, marth, falco, sheik borderline viable/would probably need bracket luck to win but could probably get top 3 semi-consistently: puff, peach, falcon could make top...

over the course of about a year: samus -> peach -> falco -> fox switched from samus because i realized that i didn't know how to move well enough to be successful with her and i thought movement would best be learned with another character switched from peach because i got tired of playing the...

don't change anything if you have to change two things probably remove jab -> usmash from fox and fix battlefield's ledges

if i ever had the time and/or desire to pick up a second game i'd probably want to play street fighter but mostly because that's the only other relevant fighting game i know of aside from marvel

play falco and grind out tech skill? no point in playing a character you don't find fun i don't like the idea of dual-maining until you've learned how to play the game with one character. you could do it but i've never seen it turn out well. that being said you could try experimenting with the...

falcon/sheik/puff are the least developed relevant characters imo. i think there's still a lot to be done with every character except maybe peach and even then there's probably still some stuff you seldom, if ever, see armada do. every character can be fleshed out more but other than yoshi i...