Vectorman was playing really awkwardly at Apex. I don't know if it was a reflection of him trying to play Yoshi like Melee Yoshi but with Jump OoS, or what, but he was fishing for fair meteors like he just finished a trip to the bait and tackle shop.
Allrite finally home to say what I wanna say, haha. First off apex was a blast, so thanks everyone who I played, and sorry to those of you I didn't get to play that I wanted to play.... Unsure if anyone knows, but I did make it out of R1 pools at apex (p.m and melee) and it's fun. p.m is fun.. Sadly aMSa, didn't make it out of P.M. Pools. I lost a close set to fuzzyness (he actually 4 stocked me game 1) xD but i lost (2-1)... I proceeded to round 2 pools only to lose to salem and his zelda..
also (2-1) <--very close set actually.. ^^ My thoughts are the same as they always were.. I don't think Yoshi has a "hard" time with Zelda, I do feel I just lost.. haha plain and simple. Salem is good
Allrite now to address, P.M. Yoshi, and I will speak on aMSa's behalf also.. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the way P.M. Yoshi is right now.. what the team has done with Yoshi, is fair, and adaptable and outright AMAZING....and with the proper practice, is transitionable to P.M. The problem is very simple, and unique to us... It's just not Melee Yoshi.. It's 3 or 4 basic problems, but it's big enough to where the difference is TOO great for us to properly adapt... I know there are more than these, but I will say these for now, and will address more if I feel it's necessary but..(note: I very well understand these might NOT even be fixable) but it's also why we haven't adapted
1. The most important one. The Parry mechanics, just aren't there and it's still wrong/incorrect, I'm glad you can parry grabs, but that isn't the main thing the parry is essentially useful for. Sure it's good, but we need the melee parry... quite simple, Not a major flaw, but enough to where it majors a difference.. Parrying moves is really good/useful, and is needed
2. The shielding mechanics: Two Major flaws here, but please note (him and I are greatful yoshi has a jump oos) however, you've changed two things also... the First being, Yoshi now suffers shieldstun, well which sucks.. lol I understand why it had to be done, but it's definetely not the same, and it's different... on top of that that, depending on a moves power Yoshi's shield will actually move a bit.. which is incorrect. If Yoshi is full shielding, regardless of the moves strength Yoshi goes nowhere... Im sure he'd like that back also.. the second one and MORE important, is that Yoshi's "lightshield mechanic" is obviously MIA, and again, I understand why it couldn't be fixed.. but for certain situations the lightshield was vital.. Fox Drills, Pikachu fairs, metaknight, Ivy Ftilt, we lost that ability to completely just slide away... and adapting to that is different
3. (I'm actually indifferent on this matter, but I do understand where aMSa is coming from) but the Egg trajectory is different... the way the egg moves and travels, with aMSa's style of play, it likely just messes with his combos, but I'll have to get more detail from him... (We talk frequently, so it shouldn't be a problem to find out)
4. the Ledge eggs. The timing is different, (again I also know/believe this is being worked on) but ECE's that would cause you to SD in melee, are nearly perfect ECE's in P.M. this is only a small problem, but switching back to melee, would cause errors.. Also, if you throw the eggs further towards the middle of the stage, The Eggs get caught underneath the stage, and hit the stage rather than thrown towards the stage, which very much "limits" where the egg toss is thrown... Just a slight loss in coverage, but again, something that's just very different.....
Lastly, this is for the thing I quoted from Kink-Link about my gameplay:
Sadly, you noticed, and many others too actually, but during day 1 pools, (in general) it was brought to my attention, that my control stick is/was very loose (It would stay stuck right/left/up/down depending on which input I'd press)... I tried to have people look at it and fix it, it was opened probably 6 or 7 times by different people, but all of them told me the same thing.. "Something about the control stick is unable to fix" due to the circuits inside or something... Me, it's not that I don't trust people... it's just that i'm VERY attached to my controller, and I've heard this before, and was able to fix (if even temporarily but fix nonetheless.) I'm so attached to my controller I feel i'd play better with a "defective controller" rather than use one i've never handled before...No shots fired intended here, but I also didn't intend to walk around the venue, and go "controller farming" I just don't do that, and I don't feel comfortable doing that. I don't think people understand Yoshi tech enough to fully understand what my needs might be for a controller... It's not as simple as "Here use my controller, and all will be good" not quite, Yoshi has tech skill that rivals like Fox...
Basically as stated above, the stick would stay stuck in a direction, in which i first input... So if I run to the right, the control stick would have a slight priority to always going right..<--- basically this, except with all directions, (but most noticably left, and right) I'll let you guys imagine the possibilities with this... What I would do is reset my controller, either in between stocks, or while I was being comboed, or just any chance i could, that way I get a neutral stick if even for a moment, because in P.M. a moment is all you need with Yoshi to turn a game around..
I did this for both melee and for P.M, and it was working fine for me.. Regardless I don't regret my decision, and I don't think, no I KNOW, I wouldn't have played any better/worse with a different controller... Even now, i'm doing everything I can to fix my controller, and I'm hoping I can do something about it...
If I can't, I'll start controller hunting, and/or just start doing this, because I honestly don't feel it affected me THAT much... just a teeny tiny bit.
Thanks again everyone for your support! <3 you guys oh and I hope the Yoshi stuff helped.. >,<
EDIT: I wasn't THAT bad Kink-Link, you're so mean!! (I admit, though after years of playing melee Yoshi, I think I will ALWAYS forget that in P.M. I can jump OoS, it's so difficult for me to train myself to remember that)
<3 Bait and tackle shop xD
