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I have only seen one tourney video of falco it was a Vegas tournament and he used him only in the last set against a Diddy kong. Shofu on YouTube just did a 30 minute video of him playing as falco and he's not bad with him he's above average. He keeps trying to dair instead of fair. Falco's forward air in this game is freaking amazing it gimps at early percents and has good knock back also priority over more characters moves.
really impressive spacing with Bair. I read you saying on another post you dont really use fair alot cuz of how bad it was in brawl i was in the same boat as well. With time im sure if you implement fair into your game more often off stage especially youll get early KOs and gimps. My friends hate me off stage and online i try to be consistent with the lag and whatnot.
that falco played that falcon matchup badly. Everytime falco recovers low we can almost always get an early gimp kill with fair off stage saving the second jump.
I swear Im the only falco who still fairs off the stage lol. I don't know why more falco mains don't use it. Yeah you cant fast fall it anymore but the knock back is crazy it can kill around 90 and gimp early around 30-60. I'm going to upload a few videos of me doing it on for glory and locally later today. It's still a really good option
Well, the last video I linked was from October, so people just didn't know. The other ones are fairly recent and from what I'm thinking, JJ's probably a Melee/Brawl Falco player along with the guys in the Lucina fights. That means one thing: muscle memory. They're still doing Dair instead of Fair out of habit and trying to SHDL out of habit.
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already posted the Pikachu fight.
Awesome stuff dude im gonna implement this to my game!
The player was either really nervous or confused since there were times where he just stood there and took hits. He was barely able to kill with Falco and barely did anything as Fox aside from racking up damage. There were also some openings he missed along with basically running away during the last minutes.
That explains everything.
while its good to see someone professional use the bird (finally some love), I have to wonder why he uses up throw or forward throw at times. I've watched his other videos in that tournament and him using up throw at high percents (but not kill percents), as well as not using d-tilt to kill as a mix up (like in that tazio match). He has way more smash experience than I do, so maybe I shouldn't be the one to talk, but I'm still rather curious.
It doesn't necessarily help with the actual recovery, it just protects against some ledgeguarding options Fox might have utilized. He was basically covering his recovery. I do this against players that chase off the ledge a lot when I'm trying to get back on.
It just might be his playstyle from using other characters. I'm pretty sure he doesn't main Falco in Smash 4 so he probably isn't aware of some of his setups or true combos. He might also be upthrowing to set up aerials or fthrowing to set up some spacing or zoning. I honestly don't remember specific moments and can't watch it at the moment but Keitaro always utilizes good options.
I don't think he did it to help get back to ledge. I think he was anticipating the Fox to shoot some lasers and he threw out the shine because he didn't want the damage, or he could have done that to try and scare off the Fox from trying to stop him from getting back to ledge.
Thanks, the other videos of Keitaro's Falco are cool too, especially the one against NAKAT which is just pure fun between the two.
im really liking his walljump > Bair. need to implement this into my game as well
OMG... The commentators are hilarious... These were posted a week ago...
Anyway, I think GimR might be someone to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8JFRGsj1Pc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UERJkNBqRW8
I might just be my phone, but that video with keitaro was taken down.
Yeah, the one with Keitaro was taken down. I think it has to do with the "commentator"... It's like an idiot trying to get his 5 minutes of fame which is a shame since he basically destroys the match by being annoying and distracting.
