Recent content by Mahie

Hey @PPMD, I've had a bit of a problem in my career that I think you have touched upon. Recently, I came back to Melee while being super rusty, so I took my time and played the game carefully, weighing each option before picking it, in order to relearn it. It works great in a lot of ways, made...

The context for this question is this netplay session between me and Leffen : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/424967530 I had so much trouble breaking his crouching at the ledge. I'm not sure what to do. @PPMD if you have any tips for that, or just in general even, I'd be very grateful.

I had no idea this topic was still as active as it is, but I'm glad I decide to check it on the day @Beat! makes such a meaningful post. Interesting read and well formulated, I'm going to share it around.

So apparently I'm on the picture but it's got nothing to do with me either way haha. Good news though!

It's a real tier list, based on what it would look like if people didn't make as many mistakes. I really do think Fox > Pika, Fox has everything you need to beat every character, it's just that he doesn't have leeway for errors. Yoshi > Kirby that one is hard to justify and I can see it being...

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Sup guys! I've been playing some smash 4, and so far I can confidently say that I will be maining Shulk. Really interesting character, the fastest and the slowest in the game, lightest and heaviest, weakest and strongest. How can that not make you want to play him? Either way, I got 3rd at a...

Thanks for imput, @Kadano. I'm not sure what AAB is, but I was actually watching your video just now so I can deduce PWJ is PassiveWallJump. AAB has got to be related to using Bair? I've never thought you could just upB and press tech+jump pretty much right afterwards and still get the tech...

Hi fellow Marths. I'm in desperate need for advice in the Marth ditto match-up. Here are videos from Smashdown#1, a tournament that took place last Sunday @meltdown Paris. The more you can extract out of those the better, honestly. There's also a Marth v Falco in there, if you care about...

Thanks for the Falcon case, it's mostly vs him/fox/sheik that I use it anyway. I guess not connecting with DB is even worse than I thought. It's good knowing that they can't roll behind, though.

I agree with that post, but I already had all of this in mind and I would have wanted more accurate, backed-with-numbers answers. The goal is not to poke, sideB can be used to punish techchases / jumps (empty or not), and if you misstime it you could end up hitting a shield. What next then...

There has to be a way I can at least make grabbing harder for you. I was wondering about how to shield stab. I usually go DB3U, DB4D, hoping I'll somehow poke through, but maybe some other steps have more funky penetration angles.

Utilt is a much easier option to use, though, so at times where it's useful, go ahead and use it, you don't have to go for uair every time.

Let's assume that I'm using DB1 and my opponent shields it. What are my options from there? I guess I can go for something à la Falcon's Gentleman, delaying the rest of the dance, but assuming they shield everything, can I shield stab in a way? Basically, I want to know about the interactions...

Uair is better because they can't DI away, yes. Not only is it harder to get the whole string done with too many utilts, you can also deal more damage with uairs, and you don't give the opponent a chance to get back to middlestage by just DIing in. If their DI on utilt leads them to the edge...