Recent content by Alaya

Charged smash attack > spotdodge if you are willing to commit to the hard read.

Air dodge the first aerial hit and immediately counter attack midair. If you do it a few times they will start waiting on their attack to try and bait your air dodge and it becomes a mindgame, if you think hes gonna bait the air dodge do a down air or something else.

Very nice. Would be pretty cool to have this data in an excel file or something so that it could be easily sorted whenever you want to see who has the fastest/slowest of certain moves.

A few obvious Lucina ones: Neutral B unknown substate 0x21a Frame 8- 9: 8.075%(+30) 45b/95g (1147g*) 361° Pierce Up B's unknown substate 0x27a Frame 5- 6: 11% 70b/68g (1020g*) 74° 0.5-Hitlag Slash Frame 5- 6: 11% 70b/68g (1020g*) 361° 0.5-Hitlag Slash Frame 6-11: 7% 20b/90g...

I personally find that while my first instinct against a spammy roller is to try and quickly hit them before they can roll, actually if I stop and do nothing for a moment, the enemy will roll again and it becomes super easy to land a dash attack on them if they rolled backwards or a...

Honestly, all you really need to do to make an immediate large improvement is to start using mixups with the specific purpose in mind of crossing up the enemies defensive strategy. I get a lot of mileage out of foxtrotting into and immediately out of range of an enemy, it seems downright silly...

Sounds like you need to work on your approaches and mindgames. I had this same problem and when I realized what I was doing wrong it was like a lightbulb went off over my head. There are some concepts, techniques, and tactics that, alongside raw talent and experience, simply put a player on a...

Right, attacks that are safe on shield (like retreating fairs) are also effective at pressuring because shielding doesn't protect Luma and she has to drop the shield to give luma any commands.

The way counter works is that it makes you immune to the specific instance of damage (so basically it leaves you wide open if you try to counter multi hit attacks if you don't land the counter hit) that triggers it and also makes a sword swipe in the general direction of the enemy who used the...

Wow, that's a lot to take in, but it sounds like that technique would really separate the level of Lucina players.

Thanks! Always appreciate interest in my work, I spent a year on and off working on Tower of London so it makes me happy when even one more person gives it a look. I'm tempted to look into (F)Robin just because she also reps awakening and will allow me to spam right back at those annoying types.

Any character that has a spammable projectile or infinite movespeed just seems the edge of lame to me. Lil' Mac goes without saying.

Hello there, my name is Alaya and while I've been a Smash player since the N64, Sm4sh is the first game in the series that I've moved away from casual button mashing with the idea of actually trying to know what I'm doing. My username is from the Nasuverse where 'Alaya' refers the the...

I mostly love her palette swaps, the Fire Emblem Awakening representation, and that she's not the kind of smash character that has any real 'cheap' feeling moments (not projectile spam, not shiek speed or air combo ability, doesn't have crazy damage or knockback, no super armor, no reflector, no...

Could you elaborate on the use of dtilt in common situations, and what makes it valuable? The OP seems interested in 'why' it's important rather than 'if' it is, and I don't use it much myself so I'm probably missing something here too.