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It's not that important unless you want to do perfect pivot tilts.
Also, some official tournaments only allow certain controllers. EVO for example is only allow gamecube controller and wii u classic pro controller..
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For example, say you're up against a character like Megaman, R.O.B., or Olimar, who primarily rely on horizontal projectiles to control space. You can't approach from the ground at all (unless you really want to walk forward and perfect guard those triple lemons or variable-speed Pikmin), and as a general rule, they can respond to a SH Fair or Dair by hopping a little before tossing their lemons, or just backing away before tossing more stuff. This is where QA comes in: you can use the speed and unpredictable approach angle of QA to instantaneously move around their projectiles, and the hit stun of the attack to start your juggling shenanigans, since these characters are relatively helpless when you're under them, especially the large stun of QA[2] (the second hit of Quick Attack). I tend to go with a 30-330 angled approach, or a SH 0-315 angled approach, with the goal of landing inside of my opponent for the juggle. Once they start looking for this approach, you can start intentionally landing away from them and then running in to punish their counter-attack decision. Remember that you don't have to commit to landing anywhere until the second direction of Quick Attack, making the move generally frustrating to try and respond to.
The usual culprit is trying to QA cancel too deep. You want to space the QA so that it ends just past the ledge--any further and you go free fall. 1.0.8 recently made the QAC a little stricter, so that might play a part, as well.
agree'ed his combo shenanigans are stupidly good
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Disjoints are hitboxes that extend outside a character's body like Marth's sword attacks or Ness' sparkles on his fair.
Running behind Tjolt is a basic mixup, I guess, since the opponent has to guess if you're going to attack on the ground (if the opponent does nothing), attack in the air (if the opponent jumps the jolt) or go for a grab (if the opponent sits in shield).
Pika has next to no options that are truely safe on shield, but d-tilt, jab, and crossing up with SHAC Dair are safe on some of the case. Really we have no valid pokes, just try and get a grab.
A mixup is literally just doing something other than what is considered "standard" - as an example, Nairo will fsmash after dsmash as ZSS [standard], but he'll also do Boost Kick, jump to where they pop up and boost kick, go out for a uair, go for a bair, or even go for a down+B spike. These are ALL mixups because some of them require different vectoring/DI from what's usual.
From what I've seen, uair and well-space fair can beat his nair, so you have to have very tight spacing to effectively combo him. Dair from above should beat his nair as well [I was told by a Sheik main that our dair beats her uair...], although that's impractical for combos.
up-tilt into up-tilt the number of times you can do this depends on the character.
I think Nair is optimal in the ledge scenario. Nair is active from frame 3-20, where as bair hits frame 4 and has non active frame and doesn't auto-cancel from a SH. But who knows, could a FH rising bair lift the opponent then send them offstange? It'd be more % than a weak hit of Nair, but not sure if possible.
Dtilt and nair. Dtilt forces jump nair beats its. Nair with thubder jolt can also catch rolls. D-air is good too
