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Yes, I think most people use Y.
Keep in mind it is based on how fast you let go of the button, not how hard you press it. A lot of people try to press the button super lightly, but it's often easier to press it hard and and release it quickly like a sort of quick jab. For me personally, I use Y and A, so I have 3 different positions I angle my thumb at. I either have it angled forward (the end of my thumb pressing Y and my first joint resting on A), angled backward (the end of my thumb resting on Y and my first joint pressing A), or it's parallel to the controller not angled at all (the end of my thumb and first joint are both resting on the buttons without pressing them). When I play, this creates a simple sort of seesaw movement that allows me to quickly switch between jumping and attacking, and because I keep these 3 positions distinctly in my mind, it's easy to release Y quickly and then time my A press however I want. Most importantly, you just need to practice. Some people play for a long time before they can consistently shorthop with Fox and other 3-frame jumpers, so don't get discouraged. If you practice just short hoppping for 10 minutes or so every day and you'll get it down in no time.
https://www.apex-series.com/rules/melee/
It varies depending on the size of the tournament and what you plan on running. If you are only doing a double elim bracket for singles with 12 people, then you can finish with just 3 setups pretty easily. If you have 120 people and plan on doing pools, teams, and other games, obviously 30 setups isn't going to scale with the players to allow you to finish in the same amount of time. You have to have a more specific idea in mind of what kind of tournament you want to host, and I would ask in the Tournament Discussion forum since a lot of TOs hang out in there to answer questions like these. There might already be a guide that gives you general time frames for different numbers of entrants/setups.
but I still don't know much about these terms other than what I can infer from what people say.
omg i might be able to double laser now
Yes, neutral game just means when neither player has frame advantage. Since fighting games are in real time, the term "state" is not used very often. it's either neutral, or one player is under pressure. Feel free to ask more specific things because I'm not really sure what you need.What does the neutral game mean? I am assuming this has to do with when the two players are not attacking each other, thus neither player has an advantage (both are on the stage standing at a distance from each other).
My followup question for this would be what are the other states of the game? Some of the terms I hear thrown around would have to do with punishing, out of shield, off the stage (ledgeguarding/recovery?), maybe platforms or air, etc.
There seem to be a lot of terms that I can't find explanations for, unless I'm blind, then you help a brotha out
Okay found the videos I was blind
It’s more than that. For example, if Marth is in the air and Fox is on the ground, it’s not neutral, but in Fox’s favor even though there is no frame advantage. Marth’s airborne options are just worse than what Fox can do from ground and quick ground-air transitions.
You probably just need more experience. When I play, I watch my opponent almost all the time. Sometimes I will have my character and there's in view and focus at the same time.
Only one way to fix that. It will get better with time. Remember, you don't need to be perfect, just better than your opponent.
It doesn’t depend on the move, but the internal calculation of angles depending on the values sent by the analog stick’s potentiometers is not continuous.
During stickbox wear, two things happen. The plastic rails (see the first link in my sig for details) decrease in thickness due to friction and a little gap forms that accounts for a loose zone, and the metal springs simply wear down and are easier to push back.
Behold - the cause of the untimely death of all of my controllers :D
When I wrote “it’s definitely a seven frame window” that was meant to imply that I did test it and confirmed that there are exactly seven frames that precede the landing on which a L∨R∨Z button press will cause an L-cancel.
It still depends on how you define the relationship between inputs and frames whether pushing L∨R∨Z as soon as you touch the floor causes an L-cancel or not. As I understand it, it only does on the frame you would land, so inputting as soon as the character is flagged as grounded by the game will be one frame too late for an L-cancel.
I've only lost 1 controller to melee
My first one. The R button kind of just caved in and died. It kind of worked, but it would often just light shield randomly and it felt really awkward to use. Most likely the spring just died.
The springs don't really die. You probably broke the small plastic piece on the back shell that holds up the buttons and springs. My friend did that to his and it also felt like it just "caved in".I've only lost 1 controller to melee
My current controller is getting a little old now though. I find that the joy stick is very loose - not to the point where it does stuff on its own, but sometimes I find it hard to dash dance or I let go and press A for a neutral-air and then do a forward or down air or something.
On that note, any idea where I can get a new controller?
