Recent content by CommanderVimes

Cancel specials with zair? That's really neat. I was doing that type of thing a whole lot with my characters in the 3DS days but didn't know it could be cool or viable. I'll have to give Samus another go.

Sorry for the lameness, but S.H.A.D? I'm new to this forum. Is that just a short hop air dodge with zero landing lag? Can Samus input an attack after one before landing like Villager and some others can?

A nice little kill setup found by Cyro, I'll leave it up to you better players to decide whether or not it is feasible in a real match (have to be really close to the edge). Either way it is easy to perform, even for me (against standing dummy at least). You don't have to do any additional...

Dumb question I know, but what constitutes Falco's ground game and what makes it so good? I keep hearing about his strong ground game, but given his slow running speed I have real trouble working it to my favor. Compared to say, Fox who is much faster and seems to have a much better punish...

What makes him feel faster? The faster startup of Nair and its increase in safety allowing Falco to put himself in situations he could not have been in previously?

And that's just doing a shff nair at the right time? I can add that. I don't really know when to be jumping in and such even with safish attempts, but that comes with time. What about shff uair?

Your discoveries are getting me quite optimistic about giving Falco a real shot again. I was a little worried that the changes only affected excellent or competitive Falcos because of the cool combos (I'm not at the execution level for those yet), but the OOS and edgeguarding improvements are...

Maybe I'm so far removed from the metagame lately, but those are actual counters on the counter. I forget if that means they are guaranteed on that character or if DI and such is still a thing. I still have some problems moving around with Falco compared to my other characters, but if I can...

I bemoan the Diddy nerf as much as the next main, but I finally get the opportunity to use this scene from the critic. ...Now if only someone could cut the length and photoshop Diddy's head onto Pacino's...

What exactly is reverse USmash? Making sure to hit with the back (starting active frames) of the move? I imagine pivots are my friend here.

If you can force your opponent into grabbing the ledge twice, a dtilt will combo into usmash at certain percentages.

I would have figured that Mario is better able to take advantage of reads and punish better on account of having greater mobility and combo options, whereas Dr. Mario needs to rely more on reads but does not necessarily do it better. Now of course Dr.'s upB is a neat punish unique to him, and...

I've heard that Doctor's projectiles are a little stronger than Mario's. Are they strong enough in that I would prefer to use him over Mario as I love my little projectiles, or does Mario's speed make him better at the spacing game despite the weaker fireball?

Thanks for the detailed answers you two. I can definitely see the differences in that respect now. I do like hearing that he doesn't have a lot of polarizing match ups (currently a Mac main so...yeah) but unfortunately being one of those newbies that never touched melee competitively I may not...

Forgive me if this seems a leading question but I'm currently comparing Meta Knight to Captain Falcon as part of my decision to try out the former. From what I've gathered, Meta Knight's primary style of dash attacking and down throwing into combos is very similar to Falcon's (and Diddy for...