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Falco's laser is a great tool against very slow characters, but it falls flat outside that situation. It's too slow and punishable for general use, especially against characters who have good mobility in the air. Falco's best strength, IMO, is that his aerial moves (except dair) come out fairly...

I guess it'd make more sense to say "Kirby isn't actually all that different from most of the rest of the cast when it comes to Cloud." The matchup just kinda underplays both Kirby's weaknesses (slow and bad range, but you're fighting the guy with the biggest disjoints in the game) and Cloud's...

Now before you call me crazy and point out "but Cloud is just going to zone out all of Kirby's moves ever with his giant flyswatter of a sword," hear me out here. Yes, Cloud pretty much dominates Kirby in the neutral. I'm not going to try to argue against that. However, Cloud's neutral is...

Diddy and Rosalina actually have some of the most exploitable recoveries in the game: Diddy has tremendous hitstun if he's hit out of using his rocketbarrel pack, plus it's usually pretty predictable and he's vulnerable while charging it. If you force him to recover with it, you're actually very...

Good morning, my tag is CanisInfernus and I'm a college Smasher in Illinois. I play a lot of Melee and Sm4sh, and some 64 when I can get somebody to play with. I fancy myself sort of an analyst, so I'm hoping to spend a good bit of time swapping strategies and understanding matchups here.

My biggest problem with the 3DS is the lack of notches around the control stick (pad... thing). Which is also my main problem with the Wii U Gamepad or Pro Controller, anyway; it sucks when you accidentally do the wrong special while recovering, or things of that nature. Aside from that, I...