Recent content by ChopperDave

I think the consensus is that Mega Man is tournament viable but most people think he needs secondaries against some of his tougher matchups--namely, Sheik and Mario. I can't speak to your playstyle question because you haven't really described it. I will say that Mega Man plays very differently...

It can be fun to jump at someone and fake a bair, bait their airdodge, and hit them with a nair instead. I've gotten a few stage spikes that way

B reversing can be a useful way of switching up Mega Man's direction and momentum, regardless of which B move you use. It's a good way to juke people when they're trying to juggle you or in footsies. I'm not sure why b reversing offstage would be all that useful however... I tend to find Leaf...

:4megaman: boards are in pretty broad agreement, I think, that the :4mario: MU strongly favors :4mario:. It's arguably our worst matchup in the game, and definitely in our top 3. I'd give it 60:40. Could even be worse than that. :4mario: has everything we Mega Mains hate: very good mobility...

I tend to alternate between lemons and leaf shield in neutral. Metal Blade is just too risky, particularly against characters with good dash attacks and/or air games. A metal blade can be caught or swatted out of the air fairly easily; a barrage of lemons or a thrown leaf shield can't. I...

Homing attack can go through LS, but not always. If you're shielding or dodging with LS up you're pretty safe against anything Sonic can dish out. @ 3:42 he hit you out of your LS activation frames with his tilt, which cancelled it. Even though you saw the leaves come out the hitboxes were not...

Sonic's approach options are fairly linear--either dash in or spindash in. Both get beaten by pellets. Sonic's speed actually works against him in some ways, because like any character he can't shield out of his dash animation, and by the time the dash animation is done he's already halfway...

I do the opposite of what you do. Map A attacks to L shoulder and jump to a face button. (Well, I also have A attacks on a face button too, of course). It's easier this way because modulating between short hop and full hop using a shoulder button is hard, whereas you don't need to be nearly as...

Yeah, Leaf Shield is a good move. Helps you approach safely, great off stage uses, good for stalling when you need it, helps you recover from above more safely, can set up footstools, has good synergy with item Metal Blade and Hyper Bomb, good juke when B reversed / wave bounced, etc. It's one...

I'm a little confused. You're saying that the hitstun of Leaf Shield (once it's up) gives you an opening to footstool, guaranteed?

I'm starting to think that Mega Man should rarely, if ever, approach by running. Being able to ftilt, utilt, or ftilt at any time is just so useful, especially when you buffer them out of powershield. Mega Man's run isn't even that much faster than his walk so why deny yourself the options your...

Against a Zelda who spams Naryu, you can just walk up to her, shield, and punish with grab or usmash. I think you can also power shield into a buffered utilt. Punish them enough times and you'll condition them to knock it off.

Hah! It's not one for the guide, which is competitively oriented, but that's a pretty funny little parlor trick.

Heh, I just learned from an overzealous Yoshi on For Glory that you can footstool to escape shield break stun if you're midair. So, if you ever get your shield broken, mash that jump button and hope that your opponent runs in for a usmash a little too quickly :)