Recent content by AlphaYak

As was touched on in a couple other threads, camping is a very effective way of dealing with Dong. The best way to get around the walls of projectiles and lemons is to be patient and wait for a metal blade or crash bomb to come out to try to find your way in there for a counter attack. You’re...

Wonder if this is intentional tech in the games code, or if it’s a glitch that they’ll patch out if Cloud wins a tournament.

For managing emotions, I think the movie 'Inside Out' is very helpful. Anger, fear, joy, sadness, or disgust are real emotions and functional parts of our psychology; embrace them and use them productively and you'll find that takes some of the edge off of the stressors in life (i.e the stress...

In my experience, DK struggles with opponents who can: A) Outrange him and keep him out of range while still remaining effective at mitigating his approach/speed. Characters like the infamous Fire Emblem swordsmen can keep him honest, while walling him out with their disjoints. For a good...

According to the DK frame data thread which you can find a couple layers higher in the thread list, burial calcs work as follows. " " So if the opponent is at 50%, they would be buried for: 130 frames + ([damage from side b: let's say a fresh 13.8 / 2 so 6.9] + 50 - a floor of 14.4 frames...

As a DK main, I find myself Johns’ing a lot about people camping, but crying inside because I know my losses are due to my lack of understanding of playing against zoners (especially speedy ones like the FE squad) and control players (especially ones with a lot of options to control mid range...

I agree. Bigger toons like DK (the only big body that you get to start off with) are better for new comers because they allow them to continue to play the game longer after making a mistake. The big rewards from landing hits, and the forgiveness for getting hit makes the fatties a great starting...