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Yeah that was very helpful, thanks! Its nice that I can practice these interactions with 20xx. I was going to check out games of you two playing on FoD and FD to see how low/no side platforms changes the interaction. I was assuming that you'd be more proactive in handling the descent or in...

Hi PP, I played a lot of Peach Falco today and realized that I understand less about the interaction between Peach and Falco's tools than I thought I did. Sorry if this winds up being a wall of text. Sometimes I was dash dancing to space out Peach coming down with FC fair, and I was trying to...

I'm very glad that you brought this up. I recently transitioned from Marth (not sure if I'll stick to the bird though), and this aspect of Falco's game was the first thing that stuck out to me. As you can imagine, winning neutral with a grab while playing Marth tends to lead to much more...

As it is, many players are able to react to the lack of aerial and escape the grab if they're looking out for it. I think doing an air dodge would just make it even easier to react. I feel confident that if someone tried to do this against me I'd just grab them during the landing lag of the...

You'll reach the ground faster this way, but still have 10 frames of landing lag so its pretty pointless to air-dodge in this situation. They'll definitely just punish you when you land. The reason that fast falling works is because they hold their shield while you are in the air to avoid...

You aren't getting the guaranteed stuff of off up-throw consistently which is costing you %, juggle opportunities, and ultimately edge guard/stock taking chances. I'd check Kadano's thread for it, but I start up-tilting at 22% and stop at 35%. Above that, you can still hit the different DIs a...

Yeah I actually was watching the set at 1/4th speed and pausing a lot to try to break down what was a read or not. I'm pretty sure tech in place is distinct enough that I could nair it on reaction. I'm starting to think that maybe if they tech away, Marth would have a lot of trouble covering...

If anyone can explain this to me, I'd be grateful. So I've been enjoying studying all of these M2K Armada Marth/Peach sets but I'm sort of confused by this scenario I keep seeing happen. A good example of this is at the 4:55 second mark (start of game 2) of this set here...

I'm really trying to think of better ways to handle certain little situations in the Puff matchup. I try to avoid letting puff land in front of my shield while able to crouch, but I'm not always able to avoid getting caught in that situation. Obviously if Puff isn't in lag, grabbing is a huge...

@Dr Peepee I've been trying to improve how I deal with turnips against Peach, but it's been difficult to find decent discussion on the specifics of each situation in the neutral that Peach might have a turnip, and how to deal with it. A lot of people have different opinions on how to get in on...

I mean the spacies are pretty great for what you're describing, the problem with the spacies is that if you get them to the same level as your main, you'll wind up in a dilemma where you feel like you should drop your main for the spacies. I'm not sure what level you play at, but you might as...

I spent 12+ years in public education and started college all while having learned by taking and reviewing notes. Still surprised that it initially took me over a year of playing to consider that writing things down might help me in Smash lol. Simple but valuable advice.

What about at around the 10min mark? https://youtu.be/00kWf6lvDhU?t=9m57s

IIRC, PP winds up getting hit in a similar situation later in the set too.

You keep standing still and throwing out moves hoping that Falcon will run into them, that's not going to happen against a decent Falcon, and they will DD grab you into a hard punish every time. You also are approaching in very unsafe ways. Burning your double jump and coming down on someone's...