bts.mongoose
Smash Cadet
The Smash scene nearest to me is too far for me to go out to on a regular basis. Regardless, I still love the game and want to be good at it. Does anyone have any tips as far as practicing on your own?
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Thank you so much! This is super helpful. I'm gonna look up a guide for installing 20XX on the Wii first thing tomorrow.I posted very briefly yesterday because I didn't have much time, but I'll post more today.
If you have a wii, get the 20XX mod on there. It's not hard, and only requires a cheap SD card and a bit of time. Trust me, you will be saving yourself A LOT of time in general, as you can practice things more efficiently and in ways that are just impossible to train by yourself otherwise.
As a general guide for training by yourself, you need to focus on technique and not so much on other aspects of the game. Single player is for execution, not learning game theory, as the computers will play the same way every time and lead to lots of bad habits.
If you are new starting out, there is a TON of stuff to learn. I'll stress that in the beginning you should focus on controlling your character. This means learning how to perform tilts in every direction as quickly as possible on both the ground and platforms, learning how to short hop, learning how to fall through platforms instead of land on them, and other basics like that. Once you master these things, then move on to L-canceling and wave dashing/wave landing. Learn about your OoS options (out of shield options) and learn to not rely on rolls. Learn your characters's bread and butters (the basic setups & combos that the character is known for). Learn how to DI, and practice DI'ing (I make it a big thing in my practice to always input DI whenever I can without interrupting my movements/attacks, it's a very good habit to be in). Learn character specific tech, stuff like double jump cancelling with Characters like Yoshi, Peach, M2, Ness, etc, Shine stuff with the spacies, and other stuff related to your character of choice.
All of this and more can be trained in single player, and all are required for high level play. I would actually say that in a lot of cases this stuff is more easily learned in 20XX/Training mode as you can concentrate on one thing at a time instead of focussing on trying to learn new techniques during matches.
My last piece of advice is to train smarter, not harder. Actually spend time trying to learn the mechanics of the game and how you can create a method of single player practice in order to learn complex things. Try to find ways to automate things that most would assume is based on reaction, so it actually frees your mind to be able to react to even more things (the DI trick I mentioned earlier is a good example of this).