Recent content by J_the_Man

Unpopular Opinion: Would like to see the comeback of Delphino Plaza if we're talking about bringing back broken stages for whatever reason.. Has a little bit of everything for everyone.

What I'm learning so far: Having a frame 4 OoS option is kinda amazing. Anyways, you list Diddy Kong's Fair as punishable by Frame 16 grab; I'm assuming that's falling Fair, correct?

Blacktwins went Cloud when he beat Zinoto at Breakout.

Zinoto hardly has any top ZSS experience. None of Michigan's ZSSs are relevant and he's dropped sets to V115 and Ned. Understandably, that was before the patch, but that kind of is telling of his matchup knowledge. Nairo has loads of Diddy experience on the flip side and demonstrated huge...

Even though it was made before patch 1.1.5, Take 5's guide hands down IMO is still the best guide for learning ZSS. Much of it is still relevant. Most of what's changed is what percentages things work since rage now affects your down throw.

Abadango won Pound, a major international tournament featuring 500+ entrants, and has failed to finish outside top 8 only once in any North American tournament he's entered. That should be the end of the discussion, and I fail to grasp why it isn't.

Ranai was seeded over Abadango because there was an abundance of evidence beyond Japanese results to suggest his ranking, including actual interaction with top north american players. So far in this thread, I've seen no evidence on the level of that which we had with Ranai presented here...

Will compile a list myself later when I have time, but for now would like to say I've heard murmurs here and there in Michigan that Rayquaza might be breaking trend and travel outside Michigan for once to EVO. If that's the case, I don't know where in top 32 but his skill level warrants...

When does Flip Jump auto snap and not auto snap if you have your back to the ledge?

@5:50, I pulled Nair -> Bair off. Pretty certain he DI'd that badly and/or shifted his hurtbox into the blastzone, but that's how it's done.

From my testing, none. All that has changed has been percentages moving up before everything starts working.The feel oft the character has definitely changed, though, which has been infuriating to me. Plasma whip now has utility as a move. Probably more emphasis on hitting falling Uairs to combo...

I've still managed to get it to true combo. I think you might have to manually alter the flip's trajectory though more often than not. Obviously, percentages are altered. I was still getting it starting around 50%. Also, I'm feeling like the spike was nerfed. I had a training mode 0->death that...

So confirmed we have a character that now is not safe on shield AND has a harder time killing. OK. That makes ALL THE SENSE IN THE WORLD.

For a character built around a High Risk/High Reward playstyle, increasing the risk whilst decreasing the reward seems like utter nonsense from a balance perspective. I really hate this patch right now. EDIT: Has anyone else's spacing with Nair been thrown off? Maybe I'm working with a...

Slumping really hard lately. Why am I bad? Can someone provide more insight than the ones I've gotten out of this?