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Can't wait for everyone to start wondering if ZSS is better than sheik now. At the very least, everyone is going to start saying she's the obvious number 2. Anyways, Nairo's grab setups we're unreal. The most impressive part was that Nairo wasn't even getting many early kills. He was just...

Damn dude, your RAR game is on point.

The last video got a lot of good feedback on the subreddit (MVD even requested I do the whole set!) so I made another one. This time Nairo Dabuz. Analyzing Rosa on BF is a lot more difficult because so much of the match takes place in the neutral, and more guesswork is involved in breaking...

I made this match breakdown from the Nairo MVD set at paragon. Maybe I'll do more if this is helpful to anyone else.

Reading these comments has made me think that maybe I just view Luma differently than most. I feel like too much of the matchup discussion focuses on what we can do to Luma. ZSS has great tools for getting rid of luma, but pressuring Luma doesn't win the match for you. Yes, yes, it's easier...

Rosa's strength is walling people out and playing defensively. As we all know, that's where ZSS struggles. Rosa in the neutral is really good at forcing ZSS to have perfect spacing and take more risks. Luma can break up grab combos and kill setups before they start. Luma eats paralyzer shots...

Since the conversation has lulled in here... do we still think ZSS beats Rosa? The consensus now seems to be that ZSS destroys Rosa because Nairo consistently beats Dabuz. I feel like people are putting too much stock into those two players though and not actually evaluating the matchup. Nairo...

This feedback is gold. Huge shout outs to the people who took time to comment. This gave me a lot of things to work on and new ideas for practicing. Really appreciate it!

It's not a bad mixup for offstage edgeguards. It's hard to hit with it but if you connect they are pretty much dead unless villager.

I feel like pacmans camping game is one of the easier ones for ZSS to get around. He can't hide behind the hydrant because tether, and his projectiles are, for the most part, slow and easy to get around. Just don't approach with short hops if he has a hydrant down and use your shield well. His...

"Get off my lawn" -Tobi_whatever

Yeah I think Side special is a very matchup dependent tool. It does give you instant stage control though, which isn't nothing. I'm also wondering about the no damage hits.

So then 1-4 perfect shield and then 5-11 shield lock? or 5-12 shield lock? I don't have data for hitlag and shield stun but maybe I can get a rough estimate on which moves are best. Looks like dsmash is probably the best bet, but the 3 frame window you have to hit it in to get a frame advantage...

Maybe I missed something in the link you posed but what I read was about shielding right after the PS window and not the PS itself? Even then, would kirby still lose the frame advantage? Dsmash would hit at frame 20, and ZSS first active frame is 42. So that means Kirby would have to be locked...

You can have more options but if they aren't good ones it doesn't matter and if your response to all of them is essentially the same there is little to no guesswork involved for you. It's simple really, Kirby ducks, he gets a frame advantage. He at least partially alleviates his most glaring...