Recent content by Keeseman

I'm mostly thinking of Sakurai. He seems to hate the idea of Smash becoming a competitive game.

An asian esports tournament with no Brood War or CS? What is this madness? Also, with Nintendo's weird attitude towards competitive smash, we're probably not going to see either Melee or Sm4sh in this big of a capacity for a while.

Quoting Nietzche was a bit of an eyeroller, but otherwise this was a great read. I appreciate op-eds like this, so keep 'em coming.

I feel like this is quite similar to rising nair, which probably covers more options. I'll test this out later, though, and see if it's fast enough to be a viable tactic. Also, you don't need to use tap jump, right? For example, I occasionally use R to jump, and I feel that this would work as...

They're slowly talking over, infiltrating the system...

Villager mains represent!

For sure. I don't doubt that this is real, it's just nice to keep any experiment as valid as possible. It's also likely that I've taken one too many philosophy of science courses this semester and I'm unconsciously analysing every little methodological detail.

While this is definitely useful knowledge to have, there are a couple problems with the scientific process. If a few more people run a similar experiment - preferably other high level players - that might help get rid of the confirmation bias and help prove the theory.

You literally can't have eight mains, dude. At that point, they cease to be mains. If your priority is Mewtwo, and then Diddy, then focus on Mewtwo and Diddy. Those are good characters who, if you put more time and effort into just those two, you'll see vast improvement. Sheik may feel easy to...

Also, looks like you already have a lot of mains on your roster... If you're serious about playing Sm4sh competitively, maybe considering dropping a few of those. I honestly think even three mains is too many; you should have one or two mains, and a pocket or two. It's impossible to main eight...

Sm4sh has this bug where, if your C-stick is set to smash, you lose momentum when you use it. So, if I'm using my aerials, and want to move around freely while doing so, I need to set my C-stick to Attack. This is critical for Villager, who thrives on walling with bair and fair. Any serious...

This is a pretty awesome mixup option! I'll be labbing this over the rest of the weekend for sure.

I need to develop skills that are required in any fighting game, like making good reads, baiting attacks, stage control, etc. Who knows if I will play smash 4 after Melee; but I think the Melee scene where I live is stronger than the smash 4 scene, and I can get more support that way.

Stuff like this makes it a challenge to play Sm4sh sometimes. We have so few stages with so little MU difference. Omegas are also a super weird problem to tackle, simply because there are so many. Maybe I should just play Melee... Disclaimer: I'm not saying Sm4sh is a bad game, or that Melee is...

Interesting... When playing Captain Falcon, I tend to use shield as an offensive as well as defensive tool, such as pressuring and baiting with run up to shield. However, this challenge could teach me to look for new ways to put on that kind of pressure/bait.