Recent content by Kung Fu Treachery

I'm intrigued to see how Falcon performs in the future. Before his buffs, I thought he couldn't be too far past the middle of the pack at best. This is going to sound silly, but one thing about him that I kept coming back to was this: no one seems to hate playing against this character, so how...

Seems like Ven had particularly rough bracket luck at Frostbite. Not only did he have to fight two top players (Tweek and Glutonny), but both of them play Wario, which seems like a really rough matchup for Zelda. Her low airspeed and lack of reliable air-to-air spacing tools mean Wario can...

I've got a few ideas about the lack of Mewtwo players, though obviously they're mostly guesswork. First: As I recall, he wasn't a tremendously popular character in Smash 4, even though he was undeniably a powerful tournament threat. I don't pretend to know why that is. As far as I can tell...

Bolding in the above quote is mine, because this is sort of a hobby horse for me. (Note that I'm just using your post as a jumping off point, Myollnir; from this point on, I'm using the term "you" as a general reference to the reader.) If the devs find a design for your favorite character that...

Hm, I can't think of much besides attack cancel for Ultimate thus far, which Fatality has said is essential for Falcon and is also effective for Roy and Chrom. I think Void and Leffen put a fair amount of time into Pichu's lightning loops at some point, but I don't know how big that was for the...

The importance of mobility in doubles stood out for me whenever I watched Abadango play Metaknight in Smash 4, often teaming with Kameme's Sheik. MK was great at edge-guarding, a fairly small target, could essentially always recover if not killed outright (especially with a partner covering for...

No Mewtwo stuff, but the buffs he got before didn't really change his issues, so I'm alright with not continuing down that road. Even if he gets heavier, he'll never actually be heavy, and even if they adjust the tail hurtbox, he's still easy to hit. His disadvantage state can't really be...

The only change I really need in 3.0.0 is the ability to set one of the post-match text messages to the ASCII middle finger. Then we'd be cooking with gas. Though I'd definitely like multihits to be more reliable. Zelda's n-air needs it. On the topic of Zelda, can she have her Smash 4 d-tilt back?

Mewtwo's the topic du jour, so I guess I'll de-lurk for the first time in a while. I sort of agree with those of you who say it's good that he got his overtuned options exchanged for a more varied approach, but I think that losing his suffocating neutral tools, combined with the airdodge...

Mewtwo's combo game still has a long way to go, I think. It's not in the realm of "touch of death" type stuff, but he should be able to convert openings into more damage than you typically see. (Though he does have that Nair-footstool infinite.) The funny thing about the infinite is that it...

Come back home sauced to the gills with some take out, find out Aba went off, let's gooooooooo.

Depending on the stage, M2 can try Teleport edge cancels, but yeah, it's tough to get down. Hail Mary Nair/Dair and Confusions/Shadow Ball charge to stagger your movement are usually your best bets. One thing that's notable about WaDi is that he frequently retreats to the ledge and goes from...

That D-air to Shoryu to take the first stock game 3 was cleeean.

I'm no Samus expert, but here are what I'd say are advantages M2 has over Samus against Bayo: He's faster. Does more damage off of stray hits, which you need to keep up with Bayo (Thank you F-air and your dumb 13% damage) One of the best grounded pokes in the game in D-Tilt. F-air is Frame 6...

The trouble with only going for true combos against Bayo is that most characters don't have true combos that reliably do a large amount of damage. By contrast, if Bayo ladders you but doesn't kill you, she probably still did about 40%. So if you spend all your time only going for safe things...