Recent content by HolePuncher

I think all Samus players can agree that FoD is good and FD is bad. Beyond that, there's a lot of room for personal preference. Conventional wisdom says Yoshi's is bad because Samus can die early. However some Samus players like going here. The stage size and layout is perfect for follow-ups...

L-cancel timing for this can vary depending on many factors (hitting shield or not, fast fall or not, etc.). You really just have to watch closely and not rely on muscle memory "Light press L/R to l-cancel is only useful because it prevents you from getting locked out of your tech window" This...

Of course above all you should pick a character that makes sense to you. I wonder if fox as a secondary is more viable when you consider that you are only using fox for a couple specific matchups. This would allow you to focus your practice. M2K's fox doesn't do any crazy technical stuff...

I do generally the same thing. Use a mix up of bombs and ff timing before coming down with a nair. I tend to use nair instead of dair because the hitbox comes out faster. I've seen some of the top samus players just DI off stage and then tether to the ledge rather than try to challenge on...

Samus does generally well against spacies but not so good against the other viable non-spacies (Marth, Shiek, Puff, Peach, Falcon). So you should be looking for someone to cover the non-spacie matchups. Also, since your secondary is going to get less practice time than your main, you probably...

What should I do vs. Falco double-laser from ledge? Sometimes I can get a jab-jab in between the lasers, but I think this requires the falco to mess up the laser timing. I know a missile wins, but the missile has to be on it's way well before the falco jumps. What the best option?

Each of those tactics works, but also each can be easily countered if sheik expects it. So I think you have to do some of everything and not focus entirely on one tactic. I will say that sheik does seem to be more susceptible to CC counterattacks than spacies or falcon.

I'm gonna give this a try and see how much success I get with it. More options and mixups can't hurt as long as you are smart about it. My guess is that the effectiveness of this option is similar to samus's run-off nair edgeguard: 1) Really good if you can take your opponent by surprise...

Yea I see this a lot. It's not unbeatable, but makes games slow and annoying.

Any tips on how to handle projectile spam? Lately the characters giving me the most trouble are the ones that just sit back on the other side of the stage and spam projectiles. Obviously DHD, but also yoshi, mario... really anyone that wants to sit back and spam. I can't use gordos because...

I actually like D3's down tilt. It functions almost like a dash attack and comes out quick. (Faster than f-tilt?) At low percents I can usually go fast-fall nair to dtilt.

I'm not an authority on this, but here is what I know: There are two clubs at UCI that play smash: "Fighting Gamers @ UCI" , and "Super Smash Brothers Club at UCI". These are the facebook group names, so you can look them up there. Fighting Gamers @ UCI meets every Tuesday night like...

Tuesday nights at UCI are getting busy: