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Duke Smash Presents: Tournament #2 Results! Join our Facebook group for more updates! (link) Thank you to everyone for making this event such an incredible success. It was a pleasure to work with you all. Melee Singles (88 entrants) 8516 The Melee Games -- Carolinas Region (5 teams) The...

Duke Smash Presents: Tournament #1 Results! Join our Facebook group! (link) Thank you to Duke Smash and those who attended for making our first official event a great one. Be sure to claim your results! :) Melee Singles (22 entrants): 5699 Melee Singles Bracket: WiiU Singles (15 entrants)...

I would be careful with advice such as this. Using my wrist fatigues my hand, I keep my wrist steady. Do what works best for you.

I found the most important part of this input to be the timing moving from Y to B. Even if you are late to timing the next shine, you'll be grounded (if you are perfect) and can shine again (EDIT: or grab, or aerial.. or anything). Shine is most broken if it's grounded. :)

The first hit of fair has solid disjoint and enough knockback to setup mid-high percent range combos on fast fallers like Fox, Falco, and Falcon. DJ Nintendo frequently combos fairs into upsmash against other members of the cast as well, so it most certainly has its uses. Nair is pretty dope...

Yeah I was, just a bit lazy with the quoting. :P Good to hear JC grab is treating you well.

You can start dash grabbing left/right DI on upthrow chaingrabs around mid percents (45ish?). It's easier to get sloppy using the dash grabs, so be careful. JC grab is required until then.

Fox has such a good recovery. Sad to see y'all place him so low.

The options your opponent has in this situation are dependent on the spacing of the nair, which probably determined by the intention of the nair, given the player has good execution and knows his spacing. Really, there are matchup specific conditions (i.e. Marth grab range, fox nair threat)...

It's not bad

Samus isn't liable to get punished for simply being off the ground -- platforms can help her out, which can be inferred from FD being considered her weakest stage in the matchup. Perhaps on FD certain weaknesses are amplified, but if given the space (especially if you laser camp), Samus can use...

Dash dance on the top platform, and wait for him to come up. Have a good punish for his ascent, or shai drop through or run off, whichever is safest. The only big tech requirement there is shai dropping, but if you're willing to learn powershielding I promise you that tool has crazy good...

As an aside, I do think that Fox's lasers are ultimately the better projectile. I just don't think it's enough to ignore the possible mixups that can arise from missiles.

Samus can be pretty effective at making you approach as well, though. She can have creative missile setups and may effectively be baiting you into shining, or even powershielding if they're good enough. Nair, bair, and even jab can all be really safe ways to neutralize those missile setups...

At certain percents, upthrow-->upair may only connect if the Fox makes the correct DI read. In some matchups, upair may never work at all. But in a lot of matchups Fox gets super free upair followups or, if not, great mixup potential. Regardless of the matchup, this position is absolutely...