A different question. I play Ness against most of my friends and I tend to do pretty well against them on neutral stages, winning or losing by a stock or two. But every time, once I start to lose, I switch to some random other character that I play and get destroyed. Even though I am capable of accomplishing risky things such as chasing my opponent off-stage and getting an awesome dair spike, or djc nair OoS, or dair tech chase followups, or even using PSI magnet. Any suggestions on how I can ease these things into my gameplay, or ways in which I can change my mindset so that I can be more daring and risky. Ness is by far my best character, but I don't ever have much faith when playing him. This might just be a lifestyle change that I need to make
I think the key with ness (as is true with almost every character) is focusing on one thing, committing to doing it no matter how well or badly it serves you until you are comfortable with it. SO for example, I once saw Eli play Ness in a video that was hyper aggressive close to the ground, one DJCFFL attack into another. After seeing it, I told myself I want to learn how to DJC that fast, that close to the ground. So for the next three hours of playtime, I stopped using magnet, and became more sparing with pkfire/flash, and I exclusively used DJC fast falled aerials.
Now, I didn't win every game with that style but focusing on it made my DJC's faster naturally. So that would be my advice.
Envision your training as a pyramid: the foundation is closer to the ground/more accessible but it also makes up a bigger part of the pyramid, which is his skillset. Psimagnet tricks are higher up on the pyramid: they are less accessible/harder to do, but thankfully they make up a much smaller part of the pyramid.
Instead of looking at Ness players doing amazing things and trying to replicate it, envision their skillset as a pyramid of harder to do and easier to do things (and often in this game, the easier to do is more fundamental to your success). Master it from bottom to top. I'd start with DJC, and cut all the other crap out of your play until you get that down.