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Smash Lord
Meta Knight
Matchup: 35:65 (-2)
Basic Info:
Meta Knight is an aggressive character who excels in both the air and on the ground. His transcendent priority gives him a large advantage in the air as well as on the ground. His moves are extremely fast and he has many effective kill moves. That being said, he is floaty and a lightweight. On top of that, he has very slow air acceleration, not that it matters due to his surprisingly long range and his ridiculous speed. This allows him to be juggled fairly easily and killed earlier as well. He has six jumps, two glides, and all of his specials can be used for recovery, effectively giving him the best recovery in the game. Meta Knight lacks a projectile, but due to his ludicrous speed, he does not need one either.
Videos:
Alphicans vs Rain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXW3v10vcFs
UTDZac vs Dphat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=altdmczCZbw
Vinnie vs Anti: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mY_g-vVYLU
Vinnie vs Mew2King: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmGoa-ts1s#t=09m28s
Vinnie vs Otori: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y88cd_a7PA0
Strategy:
Matchup: 35:65 (-2)
Basic Info:
Meta Knight is an aggressive character who excels in both the air and on the ground. His transcendent priority gives him a large advantage in the air as well as on the ground. His moves are extremely fast and he has many effective kill moves. That being said, he is floaty and a lightweight. On top of that, he has very slow air acceleration, not that it matters due to his surprisingly long range and his ridiculous speed. This allows him to be juggled fairly easily and killed earlier as well. He has six jumps, two glides, and all of his specials can be used for recovery, effectively giving him the best recovery in the game. Meta Knight lacks a projectile, but due to his ludicrous speed, he does not need one either.
Videos:
Alphicans vs Rain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXW3v10vcFs
UTDZac vs Dphat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=altdmczCZbw
Vinnie vs Anti: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mY_g-vVYLU
Vinnie vs Mew2King: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmGoa-ts1s#t=09m28s
Vinnie vs Otori: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y88cd_a7PA0
Strategy:
- Meta Knight's slow falling speed and air acceleration allow him to be juggled by us. Nair combo's can give lots of damage, but due to the speed of his moves, it might be difficult to have long chains. Use Uair to annoy (always good) and keep him stuck in the air, if he tries to glide, hit him with a nair, otherwise keep juggling him as much as possible.
- We can follow him aggressively offstage, which a lot of Meta Knights are not used to, allowing early kills or at least, some extra damage, so be sure to use that when you can.
- UpB can launch MK's nado into the air and leave him in a freefall state. If you get caught inside the nado, Mash UpB to try and launch him, or at least get out of it early. You cannot SDI anything except for the first and last hit of the nado.
- Approaching MK is difficult due to his superior ftilt, dtilt, and his GSL. One commonly used strategy with some success is dashing up and shielding. This allows us to get closer to him a bit more safely.
- MK's utilt beats our dair. We can mix up the fastfalled dair with slowfall dair into a fastfalled on closer to MK, this way he has to be playing the guessing game and not us.
- We shut down his approaches with our dtilt, but he shuts down ours as well with his ftilt. This match seems to be based largely off momentum and keeping the lead. If we can force approach we can shut him down (well, he IS still Meta Knight) quite well with our dtilt
- We can kill him very quickly if we can tech chase him well. A good tech chase off the dthrow can net us a kill as early as 75%.
Stages:
Assuming the stagelist from Unity 2.1
Strikes
1. Final Destination
2. Smashville
3. Yoshi's Island: Brawl
Runner-Up - Castle Siege
Counter Pick
1. Rainbow Cruise
2. Lylat Cruise / Battlefield
Runner-Up - Frigate Orpheon
Ban
1. Final Destination
Runner-Up - Brinstar
Meta Knight board's matchup page: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=306382Assuming the stagelist from Unity 2.1
Strikes
1. Final Destination
2. Smashville
3. Yoshi's Island: Brawl
Runner-Up - Castle Siege
Counter Pick
1. Rainbow Cruise
2. Lylat Cruise / Battlefield
Runner-Up - Frigate Orpheon
Ban
1. Final Destination
Runner-Up - Brinstar
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