spike dosent work all the time.

[deviljin545]

i need someone to tell me what this is. ok when i play normally i spike people and they die most of the time, but there is that 1 chance where they recover from it can someone explain it. is it because they are to low in percentage or im hitting it wrong?

 

[Pauer]

Depends. Which character and move are you using?

 

[Dolla Pills]

I'm guessing one of these things are happening:

1- you are hitting them with a meteor and not a spike, and your opponent can meteor cancel it and recover but you don't play against very good people so they don't do it most of the time.
2- you are hitting them with a spike but they are at low percent so they get out of stun with enough time to recover.
3- you are hitting them with a move like Fox down air which doesn't leave the opponent in much stun, so they can recover but you aren't used to them reacting fast enough.

 

[GenNyan]

4- You are trying to spike with Marth's down air and you're using the wrong hitbox (Spacing it wrong).

 

[tauKhan]

3- you are hitting them with a move like Fox down air which is a semi spike but doesn't leave the opponent in much stun, so they can recover but you aren't used to them reacting fast enough.

Out of curiosity, what is a "semi spike"? Foxes dair has the exact same angle as falcos, so calling that semi spike doesn't make sense to me.

 

[Dolla Pills]

Out of curiosity, what is a "semi spike"? Foxes dair has the exact same angle as falcos, so calling that semi spike doesn't make sense to me.

Oh I was going to say something about semi spikes but then realized I don't know what that means either but I forgot to delete that part. I fixed it though

 

[GenNyan]

http://www.ssbwiki.com/Semi-spike

You're welcome. And Fox Dair isn't a semispike.

 

[-ACE-]

Never seen that list before. To me the only real semi spikes are Ganon and pikachu's uairs, with fox's shine being an honorable mention.

 

[tauKhan]

http://www.ssbwiki.com/Semi-spike

LMAO reading that "definition" and also the list which both lacks like a million hitboxes that would fit the criteria there, and also contains many moves that shouldn't be in there. My point was that I dislike using the term since it's so subjective and it seems to be used very ambiguosly.

-ACE-

I would agree with those being semi spikes. However it seems weird to specify just a few moves, since there are a ton of other hitboxes which send at the exact same angle (0°).

 

[-ACE-]

Is the stun of said moves also similar to the semi spikes I mentioned? Or are we only going by angle?

 

[tauKhan]

Varies a lot, most are weak, but some are strong.

 

[Spak]

Never seen that list before. To me the only real semi spikes are Ganon and pikachu's uairs, with fox's shine being an honorable mention.

What about Marth's Toothpick?