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If you're using Z for aerials, you should probably use Z to L-cancel too. It's much, much easier.

Capacitors aren't necessary for analog stick to proc as fully pressed. Button mods for the C-stick or analog stick simply require you to connect one lead to the center and one to the outer terminal. The smashbox hitbox (in it's current incarnation) takes advantage of this and carefully tuned...

You may already know some of this, but I'll type it up anyway. I spotted some bad habits in there and they're reasonably easy to fix, so here they are: Sitting in shield and wait for an approach. This is one of the most common bad habits. You are giving up control of the match in the effort to...

Quarter circle DI is useful for hitting multiple DI inputs during hitstun. If you're SDIing to the top-left, for example, you can't SDI straight up the next frame as the change between positions is not large enough, but you can SDI to the top-right, which ends up making a quarter circle on the...

Regardless of how old you are, arguably the largest factor in getting better at smash is the need to travel to tournaments. Even if you won the lottery by happening to live in a good smash region, the need to travel out of region is still there. Playing varied players outside of your local meta...

With as good as Falco is, you won't need your other character selections as counters. The problem with maining so many characters in melee is that eventually there will start to be an inequality with skill between them. You will start using one character over others because you are doing better...

This is not new, it's just a sing ledgegrab application. Fsmash isn't usually used here because aerials usually work better in most instances.

Wobbling is the dumbest thing in melee, it rewards a low risk behavior (grab) with a guaranteed stock if performed correctly, and has a very low skill requirement to preform reliably. I used to actively support banning it (as did most old-school players) until I reconsidered my viewpoint...

Tap jump is my recommendation. It's also what Hbox uses.

As a new puff main, you should practice: keeping airborne as long as possible, as close to the ground as possible wavedash out of shield (especially right after shieldstun) using aerials as soon as possible after a jump ledge invincibility aerials ledgehogs following your opponent off the stage...

If you have been playing at a competitive level (tournaments, not just with your friends) since 2003, even off-and-on, you are not a beginner. If you were not a beginner, you would know. You wouldn't be asking smashboards for validation.

The average skill level of everyone keeps increasing. There will soon come a point where the title of god is no longer effective because the difference between them and the next best players will be too small to be important.

There are people who have been playing this game since 2001. From our perspective, you are definitely a beginner. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Everybody's got to start somewhere, and you will get a lot better, faster if you don't let your ego get in the way.

Breaks usually serve to loosen the connections you have formed during your playtime, starting with the most recent/infrequently used. Assuming your technical practice is not something you only started recently, you probably won't lose it. What you will see starting to happen is your more recent...

Since this thread got bumped anyway (ugh), here's a small update. I have made 3 hybrid gate controllers since I decided to see why a few people were so up in arms about this being "cheating". I ended up going back to my regular old gate because there was so little benefit to me. It turns I...