Recent content by Ezlo

Start by stopping. This is something that you absolutely have to do. Don't try to play less, try to stop altogether. We'll get to how you can play this game without obsessing later, but start by quitting. Get your gamecube out of your living space entirely, leave it with a friend. Put your...

I might write PracticalTAS about this one, but here's my best guess -- and, if I'm right, it IS a drop cancel, just not done in the conventional manner. In melee, landing happens when a character's ECB moves downwards onto a platform. Whenever you drop through a platform, your ECB stays the...

Warning: Huge Post Hey @Dr Peepee! Been a while since I messaged here. I've been following your advice on playing alone, and I can say it's helped a lot :) I have a problem where I find it difficult to process everything a character on screen is doing. I know that sounds vague, but I'll try...

Alright, so I'm no expert, but maybe my thoughts can help you out. It seems to me like you're trying to play a campy strategy against an aggro strategy, and since our character is the slower one, that just doesn't work. Lasers are great to slow down your opponent, and they're great to help...

Hey, @Dr Peepee! I have a problem that's more or less unique to me, but has some similarities to other issues, too. So I live in Kuwait, a small(ish) country in the Middle East, and I've been playing Melee for around a year and a half, now. I've seen steady technical improvement in the game, but...

When you look at this, you can see pretty clearly that the disjoint is best both directly below and directly in front of Peach. To land the dair without trading, you have to practice getting the right spacing and the right timing. The timing just comes with repeated practice, and familiarity...

This book is godsend. I highly recommend it, not only for focus, but also for a good number of other things, like practicing and mindset. Focus is always going to be difficult. It's a skill, just like everything else seems to be -- the more you practice it, the better you get. It sounds to me...

WARNING: Long post This definitely has to do with mindset. However, there's a million different suggestions on how to deal with mindset, and only a few of them will help you, so I'm going to try and explain what your mindset does to your playing. Then you can recognize what's happening in your...

No matter who you choose, the most important thing is to choose a character -- it doesn't matter who. Just make sure it's a character you enjoy somewhat, and preferably a high/top tier if your goal is to win. The issue here is that you're switching characters when you find something that...

Hey! I'd like to join the Discord, too :)

Here's what's probably at the heart of this issue: PM has a buffer. So, in case you're not aware of what that means -- In Melee, if you input an action, but you're in lag from something else, nothing will happen. No matter what. Every action ONLY counts on the frame it is pressed. For instance...

I personally like Silen better as a tag to go by in tournament (assuming that's what you want it for), mostly just because of the sound. Also, you probably won't have to include numbers in the smash tag. Just my opinion, though. I'd recommend not going by whether you'd have to include numbers or...

yup, probably! 259 years

257 colors in MY rainbow >=( take that, computers

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