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King of Swing (DK guide)

King of Swing (DK guide)

https://youtu.be/tj-4hPAcM8s Whoever is reading this guide, please check out this video to see the different combos and optimizations you can do with Donkey Kong!
Dude, your guides rock! Keep making 'em!
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
Thanks for the feedback! I'm pretty busy at the moment and I am trying to get better at Melee at the moment, but I probably look to get back into Smash 4 sometime.
Nicely done my friend! A banana slamtastic guide to Donkey Kong, and may I add it's well organized one to. Donkey Kong is one of my mains, and one of my favorite Nintendo characters/series (though for me nothing can truly beat the EarthBound/MOTHER series of course). I can tell you that you have pretty much covered Big Donkey in and out, mentioning his pros, cons, and some solutions to his cons, with the addition of teaching me some new tricks that I am now at this very moment eager to try out for myself (Example: short hop + down special = potential easy down smash). I personally don't use down & side special that much (normally just as a joke with friends). However, I'm proud to see that you're at least suggesting some handy tricks toward those moves, and that they're available if you ever wish to use them (like I said before, down special is looking much more appealing to me now thanks to you). To add, I liked how you let people take into consideration that DK isn't the greatest character to play, and is best played when chilled out and/or defensively. All in all I would definitely recommend this guide to anyone debating on playing as Donkey Kong.

P.S Gotta say I that love the title, and I feel happy whenever I see good Donkey Kong players, it just proves that you don't need a lot of bells and whistles to win. Finally I just wanted to add that there's a combo I normally do with DK when my opponent's damage is at low % (Grab, pummel a few times, up throw, jump and up air once, land and up tilt twice, then after I just consistently continue to juggle them with aerials and tilts reading their every move.)
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
Thanks for the review! I personally like the idea of picking characters based on simply style than how good/not good they are. If I play as a good character so be it but I like picking characters if they seem cool to me (like playing as Roy in Melee). With the combo the problem I experience is on some characters it is a great combo (Ike, Bowser. Jr for example) but on others is doesn't work too well (Link or Mr. Game and Watch). Depends on options they have for armoured spikes or butt slams. I really appreciate the review! Thanks again.
Pretty good except for this "Lots of meteors (4 of them, each useful)"
He may have 4 meteors but they are not all useful. (I'm looking at you special moves)
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
Thanks for the Review! I'll agree the side special isn't my favourite (I rarely use it, I just wanted to say it existed), but his down special is actually quite decent. The spike Isn't as powerful as the aerial meteors so you can set-up smashes at higher percents. That's my opinion though so take it for what it is. Have a good day.
i love this, but have you tried out his b reversals. his reverse up special is great against people who like to roll behind you especially Samus players. also, if you get someone off stage with your back throw , you can dodge roll to the edge of the stage while your back facing it, then back flip off the stage to apply multitude of pressure. it give you the option to Bair,Uair or Dair your opponent which are all kill moves.also i just recently discovered that at specific point , if you reverse your down special when you jump it can reverse your momentum. i havent figured the timing on it but it has a lot of potential.
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
Glad you enjoyed it. I haven't tried reversals to great lengths, but somewhat. DK actually has decent ledge-guarding abilities. In my opinion he is actually very good. So that stuff I do use.
This guide finally helped me find my main! It was very useful and I learned quite a bit, I'm excited to keep playing DK :D
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
Awesome, I'm glad you found it helpful. Personally I'm actually not that good with D.K., so I'm glad it helps others.
The first time I read it I didn't have enough time to read it all, but i skimmed through it and with that I already learned a bunch new thing. Good job!!
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
Glad it helped! I tried to include as much important info as I could.
Finally,Seriously,Thanks For The Guide!!! :D
you are amazing!
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
Thanks for the review. Glad it helped.
Very informative. I knew most of the information but i found the meteor combos very interesting. Dk is my main and im glad the info is getting across to other people
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
The meteor combos are kind of quirky, but they can work pretty well. Thanks for the review.
I like the guide. This is my main guy. Nice to Adele him represented.
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
I appreciate the review.
Not too technical good overview
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
Thanks for the review. How would you suggest I make the guide better? I'm not going to include frame data and stuff like that but if there's something else I would appreciate the feedback.
Finally! A DK guide! DK is so underrated lol
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
I agree, that's why I made it.
Awesome guide man. It helped me a lot.
MurphyPrime
MurphyPrime
Glad it helped.
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