Can Luigi's uair be used to combo?

[Winston]

Up till now my luigi game has been all wavedashed smashes/grabs/tilts/dairs finishing with chops or dairs, but after playing falcon a bit, I started thinking about using short-hopped uairs to juggle two or three times in a combo, finishing in a chop.

I'm not very good at it, but does uair have combo potential?

 

[nublet06]

not really. luigi has terrible horizontal movement in the air. so you will be knocking your opponent much farther than luigi travels. People usually DI out of range after one.

you can do uair to chop sometimes tho. but only 1 uair. nothing like falcon, doc, mario.

 

[Gea]

And only at lowish %s at that. Nair is a much better aerial comboing tool.

 

[TheZeroFaReal]

Comboing with an Up-Air usually doesn't work but I guess it depends how your opponent DI's. Whenever I play someone with really bad DI Up-Air Fair can land. I throw it in sometimes and it's surprising.

 

[Micheloxx]

man i dont know, i preffer to use karate chop or bair.

 

[-PM-]

the only use if seen for this is if your hanging on the edge and you are stuck jump off and uair to push your enemy back

 

[Winston]

But the wavelanding!... Too good... sigh...

Not even on ganon?

 

[-PM-]

maybe bowser

but just because hes fat lol

well plump lol

 

[Oskurito]

I did this against my friend yesterday he was playing with G&W at 10%-15% (I dont remember)

Up throw> full jumped dair>uair>(jump)uair>fair

He was at a very low percentage so the dair didn't knock out him to much distance thats why I was able to connect with uair

But you wont be able to combo like falcon or mario with luigi because as everyone else had said... he can't

 

[Endless Nightmares]

I naturally find myself trying to uair combo with Luigi, it comes from playing Mario so much

Uair doesn't combo very well, but it's easier if you're uair comboing them through platforms. Like jump, uair, uair, land on above platform, continue combo. Or short hop uair, fall down to next platform, uair, continue combo.

I'm still experimenting with this. Oh, a couple others I just remembered. They're all very similar but they work well.

At low percentages:

SH uair -> nair -> utilt(s) ->continue combo

SHFFL uair -> utilt(s) -> continue combo

Ledgehopped uair -> nair -> utilt(s) -> continue combo

 

[Endless Nightmares]

EDIT:

I naturally find myself trying to uair combo with Luigi, it comes from playing Mario so much

Uair doesn't combo very well, but it's easier if you're uair comboing them through platforms. Like jump, uair, uair, land on above platform, continue combo. Or short hop uair, fall down to next platform, uair, continue combo.

Uair works best at very low percentages, like 0-20. Might vary depending on who you're fighting against.

I'm still experimenting with this. Oh, a couple others I just remembered. They're all very similar but they work well. I'm going by memory here, let me know if some aren't right.

At low percentages:

SH uair -> nair -> utilt(s) ->continue combo

SH fair (helps if you have forward momentum) -> uair -> utilt(s) ->continue combo

SHFFL uair -> utilt(s) -> continue combo

Ledgehopped uair -> nair -> utilt(s) -> continue combo

Ledgehopped fair -> uair -> utilt(s) -> continue combo

Meh, can't edit posts, Smashboards has been screwy lately.

 

[Speedsk8er]

If you're trying to juggle people with Uairs like Mario, it won't work well unless you SH, Uair, Fastfall and then waveland. But I'd suggest using a different move anyways. Fair/dair/nair are much better.

 

[RedYoshi92]

to this thread:Well if you watch ppa0's uair video,I'm pretty sure the opponents DI'ed incorrectly though

 

[Endless Nightmares]

Cool

*looks for that video*

 

[Smash G 0 D]

Uair is very underrated. It comes out very quickly and has a nice upward range. It can be used to stop an opponents aerial if you time it during their startup lag. And yes, it does have comboing potential. Just don't overuse if you use it at all. IMO it's best for out-aerialing your opponent's slow aerials (Ganon's Dair, anyone?).

 

[Winston]

So, how come wavelanding doesn't work? Does it just take too long? cause luigi goes quite far.

 

[Endless Nightmares]

There's nothing wrong with wavelanding. Who said it doesn't work? >.>

Wavelanding's very important for Luigi. If you're looking for more combo potential, wavelands help you continue the assault when your opponent flies out of reach, which will happen a lot because Luigi's a pretty strong character.

 

[knightpal]

I agree... luigi's Uair is useful ranging from continual combos and critical hits, I think that it has a rather bad delay in midair though but overall it's useful like his spinny move to stop people from killing him in midair.

 

[knightpal]

you probably didn't do the wave dash right Gustav =þ

 

[ppa0]

i thought i posted this while back, but it might have been a diff thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGe5luZVkX0

 

[MorbTheLuigi]

haha too good with the up air combo