It's not like Mewsquared is the best Mewtwo or anything like that... Trela doesn't count for obvious reasons.
How many of his matches have you watched
Browny
? He is a largely tilts/aerial based mewtwo with a dabbling in specials, he uses SB but not nearly as much as Raynoire or others. I also think that he got rattled by that read into a spike. After that he started playing hyper defensively and that might have cost him the set.
It is interesting seeing the many playstyles being developed in Mewtwo's metagame!
It bothers me because its playstyles like that that make people lose faith in the character, after all, he did switch to pikachu later on in the tournament apparently. Some people see, and even he himself, Mewtwo get bopped like that by ZSS and start to just give up and lament Mewtwos weaknesses. On the other hand, if d4kpo banned himself from using flipjump and boost kick for no reason, hed probably place poorly, lose faith in ZSS and put effort into someone else.
I would never at any time describe his playstyle as defensive. Its anything but defensive. If you want to see a defensive mewtwo watch abadangos or richbrowns.
I would not say that the reason Mew^2 lost to d4kpo like that was being outplayed at all. Normally thats the only honourable way to admit to defeat, but not in that set. He handed dakpo a free win. So many times he went for dash attack when grab would have done way more damage, so many times he threw shadowball with exactly 0% chance of hitting, so many times he didnt react properly to reflect paralyser. If he fixed those problems I am confident he would have done somewhere around 40% extra damage for each stock which is EASILY enough to win 2-0. I'm not saying that if he did that he would have won, he probably would have still lost. But the point is he gave himself a chance to win instead of giving it to d4kpo for free.
If people want to get better in tournaments, they need to accept criticism. You cant just write off every loss as 'oh well they played better then me, they deserve the win'.
No.
You lost because of glaring flaws in your playstyle vs zss. Fix those, and beat them next time.
It's all about respecting yourself. Sure give the opponent credit for the win, but not accepting and fixing your own shortcomings in anything competitive is how you lose. He knows hes better than that, hes proven it before. Now adapt again, and win next time.
Mew^2 is obviously a very good player but that doesnt mean he doesnt have room for improvement. This thread is called the 'critique' thread, so lets do what it was designed to do and make sure next time Mew^2 wins.