Gadiel_VaStar

Yeah, i actually played him the other day, and after not playing for so long he STILL went even with me. Rediculous. Sadly, it's not something I can just type up, since half the stuff he manages to do even I don't fully understand.

Really! How so? I'm quite curious as to how I helped you out become a leader of sorts! ;D

kk, just checked I wouldnt be able to give you the thread; what you will need to do is quote what he has in the OP, make a new thread with that as the OP, take out the quote tags, and ill close the old thread for ya.

Sure, I just gota find a post of yours on the Pit boards that is older then the OP of the thread.

Ask corrupt if you can have it, I don't think I can give it to you directly though. Wehn you do edit it though can you say it was originally created by me though :D.

Friday could be tricky. Maybe around 5pm will work. I'll have to check my schedule.

Ok, this is the last linking I'll do, and I'm 100% sure you'll love reading these! They're immensely informative, and will definitely help you out breaking through your limit as a player!

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=9768159#post9768159

I tried linking you to a topic, but our puertorrican Smash site got "closed until further notice" due to people being idiots, including Excel_Zero.

So, hold on, once I get the last useful topics I want to link you to, I'll do so through your VMs. I'm very sure they'll change the way you look at Brawl if you take them to heart! Meanwhile, hang on and try to better yourself as a player by applying what you learn in SF4 to Brawl.

Some advice on how to get better: Instead of trying to master Pit's moveset or looking for ways to mix up your attacks... Concentrate on punishing your opponent's mistakes. Force him into positions you want him to be in! A great way to do this as Pit is by camping, since they're forced to approach... Or simply weave in and out of their maximum range and force them to dish out an attack in the hopes that it'll hit you, where then you punish them for that (playing 'footsies').

You'll slowly get better at punishing the faster you react to things. And the faster you think on what to react with, the more fun Brawl will become for you! Learning about your character is essential, but on a larger scale, the fundamentals of what makes a 'great' player better than a 'good' player are still the same: reaction time, pattern recognition, thought processing or more specifically Analysis, finger dexterity, eye-hand coordination and experience. To get better at these things, all it takes is time... Personally, I would suggest using a fast character with lots of options (for me, it was ZSS), preferably of a very good tier level. If you can use that character at a good level of play, once you go back to your previous main you should notice a huge difference in how you handle situations (after I went back to Kirby, I was reacting to everything faster than ever due to how fast ZSS's movement and attacks are).

As long as you concentrate on those 6 aspects, I assure you that you'll become a WAY better player! I don't mean to sound egotistical, but before Pound4 I was considered a top player in PR. I haven't gone to a single tourament yet since then, but this saturday I will and am gonna win me some money! I've had a friend I've been helping become a good player (Lucario mainer), but no matter what I taught him about Lucario he just wouldn't get better, which gave me the idea that it wasn't his character dominance that was hindering him, but other individual traits.

I gave you a couple of links so you can read a small bit of what I mean. Hopefully it helps and changes the way you try to improve. Don't play to win if you want to learn, play to learn if you want to win! Hope that makes sense. :/

Hey.

Mmmk, I'll try and update it in the next 24 hours. If I don't then I'll give the thread to you.

Thanks for the support! And I'll keep an eye out for those Pit results too. I'm open to persuasion, so in due time I'll probably agree with you if it's all too obvious to me.

Yeah, I'm gonna try and apply. Maybe i can make it, maybe not, who knows? I lose nothing by trying, and i'm quite curious as to what goes on in there... And there's only so much I can learn out here. : /

Ah, I find it very cool, you writing up a huge vm trying to persuade me! It shows determination. :D

I agree that the tier placements count more than the character placements. There's a couple of things I disagree with character placements every time a tier list is released, but just knowing what each tier means eases the whole situation down for me. I have a couple of things I'd like to change to the current tierlist, but I can't blame a specific person for it since it's all a bunch of votes averaged out into a single placement... Turns out the weighing of Pit's votes was enough to average out a 'top of C tier' status. Each tier is a draft, none perfect, so I'm not angry at all... Just a bit confused as to how Pit, who was a constantly agreed-upon 'average character' suddenly jumped to the top of his tier with a whopping 4 spots total, when no community-wide breaking news about that character had been known beforehand to affect the placement or views of the public on that character.

I have a question... Do you guys have a tourney results thread that has been updated since september? The one I see in you guys' page (this one) is very outdated, and i'd like to have a look-see at recent tourney results, what with Brawl's metagame having the ability to change within a 6-month period.

And, nope, I'm probably not going to Apex 2... I live in PR, and my trip to Pound4 was very exhausting for me mentally, and for my pocket. I'm waiting until Winter '10 before i consider going to any other USA tourneys. Don't worry, when I announce I'm going to a tourney the whole SWF will know, cuz I'll be spamming it everywhere to get MMs and friendlies and stuff.

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Lol you have to keep in mind I'm someone who goes to tourneys with the intention of winning/doing well. "Repping characters" is importantt to me to a certain degree, but Im a logical and realistic person and I won't pretend I can win against a good MK with a character if they dont. I can't say who's entirely viable, but I know which characters I have trouble against as MK. Imo Snake/Diddy/Wario/Falco/ZSS/ICs/Lucario are all viable to some extent, but pretty much nobody else has a realistic chance...

Both characters aren't worth using against MK imo....

It was great I hope you can come to the next one. My Peach is getting a lot better!

sorry dude I'm already teaming with yoshQ
But yeah I'll be there
gl

Nupe no vids yet. I'll try to remember to let you know when I do. Yeah, I think Peach may be viable enough, but I'm not 100% on this yet. I hope so

Well I'm not the one who asks the questions, the community is. I definitely agree with you though. For the next one, you could ask questions like that and I'd be sure to include them. I'm glad you enjoy reading the interviews. The new thread will be up soon, probably within a few minutes.

Why, thank you.

I'm not .

Well the tournament experience wasn't all that good, since I wanted to do better, but I still had a lot of fun with my pals from Puerto Rico. In melee I got to second round of pools but got 4th so I didn't make it out. And the only match I did was against a wolf and I won.

Pit can out-camp people and be played really safe. Rapid jabs, usmash from block, arrows, all the cool stuff. You can land an arrow after an unsuccessful KO move to finish the opponent off, which is pretty amazing. I think there's some stuff like >B being really good against Diddy or Peach when they're holding something. As long as you recover well and realize how to play as safe as possible, I don't see how Pit can be...not amazing =D

I wish I played with that person frequently. He doesn't have competition in his area, which isn't cool.

Add my aim. Its maniaclyrasist. It's a lot easier to talk there

I've been in the SBR for months. I just never had the purple name up but thx lol. Anything you wanna know about Pit just ask though

Thats cool that our birthdays are so close, and thanks I hope to do well at pound as well!

You must be looking at the old pools, the new pools are different

I can add them to the 2009 section but they would still be hidden. Ask a moderator if you can start a thread on them, or post them somewhere where it'll get more attention.

My goals, well... what Excel-Zero said :-) we are preparing to do our best out there. :-D

My goals are winning the tournament. =]

I got cut from the SBR because they thought atmosphere (which I ruined sorta, lol) was more important than contribution.

You can get into the SBR by posting well and stuff, mostly posts. SBR is nothing big though. It's a social thread with stuff like matchups, tier lists and big tourneys you don't know about yet. Some stuff is noticed by SBR people first, but usually everyone gets to know.

Only R$5,00. Around U$2,75.
And I didn't go to this tournament. :/

I already posted it in the pound 4 thread at D3 boards and a short vid, anyway it consist on double jump as fast as you can to autocancel your dair a uair.

Well, I try to notice the way people try to attack or punish me, so i can avoid being punished unecessarily. I did practice a lot against MK's here, that's why i know how to beat them properly 8D and most of the other characters.

It's difficult to go to Pound 4, it's too expensive for us, and unfortunately i'm not that rich 8D

ive asked a round a little bit; everyone's saying no. its kinda expensive, and most of them either dont work or are busy students without cash. smash in japan has very little to do with money, too. ill pressure them some more though

Pit is better than most people give credit for. He has the "tools" persay, but they aren't as powerful. He can be A choice, but not a good choice. You can't hope to land bairs and stutter step f-smashes all day.

Diddy is my main character but I plan on practicing with other characters as well. Excel_Zero is teaming with Ling Ling, his teammate at genesis where we also attended. They placed 6th place at Brawl's team tournament.

You can also watch some of my and other players matches at this youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/maxwell1789

Happy Smashing

Well according to my opponents, I have a mixed-up style. I dont play like usual snakes. I dont think I have improved in terms of skill, what caused me problems was the pressure and nervousness of facing someone that I know was good. I think I am beginning to actually calm down and focus like I should during a match, and therefore my placings have improved

Howdy. Got Aim?

Thanks for the grats

hopefully I'm teaming with Virgman a fox main from the area. He is easily my skill level but doesn't attend many tourneys do to school and other thing in his life.


I didn't get to play red hal or chaz in tourney. I played chaz in friendlies and I think I lost twice? manybe lost two won one... can't remember I beat him in tourney 2-1 before a while back though. he's definitely gotten better in the match up since.
Played seibrik in winners semi's lost 1-2. First game I lost pretty soundly a two stock or a low percent 1stock. second game was a close win versus his snake on Halbred. thrid game he took me to frigate I missed a few good kill ops and payed for it with the match. um... lost that with him high percent on his last stock.

Seibrick does pretty much everything right... very hard to make him mess up and as sheik thats kind of how I feel you lead into your combos and kills. Seibrick reads your mistakes a lot so you can mess up or have too many easy to exploit habits suchs as rolling when you get pressured; my biggest fault.

Chaz is similar he has good spacing but can be semi straight forward as far as his approach. if you make mistakes against him you'll take big damage and end up in bad situations. something as simple as mis predicting an upB can cost you a grab chain into spikes. stuff like that....

Um... yeah sheik is good but she requires a lot of effort to be good with I think. "the basics"; good spacing and understand how to bait openings are so~ important. after that its about the cool looking stuff. dacus etc. sheik, I think doesn't have many bad match ups. but thats if you are playing spart and safe, spacing correctly.

http://xat.com/chat/room/79379177/
Some one just put up a sheik chat if you are interested in that.