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Captain Falcon: A Gentleman's Guide to Serving Justice (NEW UPDATE 6/7/15: FRAME ADVANTAGE DATA)

Captain Falcon: A Gentleman's Guide to Serving Justice (NEW UPDATE 6/7/15: FRAME ADVANTAGE DATA)

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F
One question though what is frame cancelling?
K
Phenomenal guide. I learned a lot of things/got confirmation on some observations.
Peru
Pretty awesome guide! Learned some more things that I didn't know and now I'm gonna try to apply some of them later. HYES!
Career
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful and informative!
Buckybomb
A new captain falcon can really use this guide to help.
Scourge The Hedgehog
A fantastic read for players who are both beginners, experienced, or just want to pick up a pocket Falcon!
B4ttleCat
Thanks for the guide. I'll never be any good at the Capt but I've got somewhere to start at least!
Farrac
Everything you need to know about Falcon is here.
Dinotard
Awesome guide, This makes me want to Pick up and Master the man of Justice
O
Great coverage. Love your youtube videos too.
HFlash
GREAT GUIDE! Really breaks down what you need to know to play Falcon well. Something you can add is that Falcon's back throw can actually kill at high percentages.
Jebus244
This guide has helped me a good bit. One thing I have issue with is you say some of the combos you've listed are true combos, however in training I've yet to land a Dthrow->Uair->knee and have it register a 3 on the counter. Is that not the criteria for what you call a true combo, or am I just not doing it fast enough? Or perhaps I'm doing it against characters who are too fast and they recover before it would actually register. I also wanted to throw my 2 cents in on some combos.

COMBOS
Dair->Knee can be hit as low as 60% depending on your opponent.
Dair->Utilt->Dash->Uair Is a good way to mix it up as well.

Dair in general is a good combo starter, but the opponent doesn't really start to get launched until around 60%.
Gawain
Gawain
Dthrow into uair into knee is a true combo, and you are correct in that I use the combo counter as criteria. You are also correct in that it doesn't work on everyone all the time. Floaties like jiggs abd kirby give Cap a really hard time in general because of this. Its also possible to DI away from dthrow setups for lots of characters, but not everyone and even the pros flub DI.

As for dair, I have been experimenting more with this move but my main concern is that it's incredibly easy to tech, and if they tech in place the move has so much landing lag that they basically get a free punish. Against characters like Diddy, youre gonna eat a free 30-40 percent or even a stock if you're high in percent. Its just not worth it.

All that being said though, you get sick style points for landing uair -> stomp -> utilt -> knee. It requires two failed techs but you look freaking awesome
Lionman
Pretty Good Guide for Beginners who aim become a competitive Falcon
Scruffy_Scoundrel
This was an excellent guide, I picked up the captain recently and have been having some trouble with adjusting to this iteration of him but this helped alot thank you.
TheDylantula
Very useful, love the combos
BigLord
You can't get more complete than this, pretty much. If you're a Falcon main, READ THIS
Mrwhatzitooya
A very useful guide, especially for learning good combos. Thanks man :)
Dead Man's Gun
ten outta ten good guide good guide
Tesla machine
thanks this really helped a lot.
NoviceSmasher
excellent having trouble with down throw knee though
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