Recent content by shinyskarmory

I was playing around in friendlies yesterday and noticed a little trick that might come in handy. Basically, if you side-B right as you're landing on a platform or the stage, the slight stall plus Phantasm's aerial startup animation make it look very, very similar to landing on the platform...

I wonder how Toon Link does in the Sheik MU? He has pretty okay frame data, can deal with needles using either his Hylian Shield or his own projectile spam, and he has kill options in the form of Bthrow and Uair. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to play the MU against a skilled Sheik since...

You also have to consider that our ability to grow the meta is greater in Smash 4 than it has ever been in the rest of the series. When melee was released, IIRC Youtube did not exist and the internet was still a rather raw, inconsistent source of information. As a result, when new techs or...

As I understand it, FLSS doesn't strike from the entire list of stages in the game, it strikes from the whole list of stages that would normally be allowed games 2/3 of the Starter/Counterpick system. FLSS therefore still allows us to ban out stages we dislike as a community. By the simple...

While there are some relevant points in this post, it comes off as unnecessarily condescending to me. Sure, there are some Smash 4 players who are guilty of ALL of these things and could benefit from this post. Then there are Smash 4 players who DO know how to practice, who will come here and...

Nobody is forcing you to use a stage you hate. If you hate Castle Siege or Halberd, just strike them in FLSS and you're good to go. The reality is that in certain matchups, some starter stages can be MORE polarizing (within that particular matchup) then the counterpick stages. If that's the...

If the Counterpick stages are really significantly more unbalanced than the regular starters, they'll all be struck out game 1 and we'll end up playing on a "normal" starting stage anyways. If the counter picks are not considered to be centralizing or unbalanced, then it makes no sense to lock...

1. Squirtman has absolutely no reach on most of his moves, so he gets eaten alive by disjoints 2. Squirtman has no reliable camping methods or projectiles, so he has to be on the offense all the time. 3. Squirtman has terrible, terrible tech rolls, which can make it much easier to combo him...

I think we're actually in agreement here and we're just using different terminology #justsquirtlethings Seriously though, cleaning up our tech terminology would be nice.

Just so we're clear, hydroplane grab and reverse hydroplane up smash both describe the same jump cancel out of shellshift, right? That's completely different from hydropivot or hydrocrawl, neither of which involve jumping. Shellsling jump cancel Usmash/grab and hydropivot/hydrocrawl are...

As a Squirtle main this drives me crazy lol I still don't understand what the difference between any of the "hydro-" names is, I just say "that thing where squirtle slides a mile and pivot grabs" or "that frame-perfect thing where squirtle turns around and slides but can do anything". I would...

I don't really understand what's "cheap" about his playstyle either. Sure, he's playing very defensively, but there's nothing inherently bad or "cheap" about defensive play. Think of his ledge camping as attempting to cover the maximum number of your approach options, instead of trying to...

Why are we throwing out kiddyhate at all? The primary purpose of the tournament is a bunch of people getting together and playing to win. Sure, there's streaming and spectating too, but the player experience and competitiveness of the event is more important than the value of the tourney as a...

I think this ruleset, while an interesting idea, has major problems with clarity of ruleset and entry barriers. Sure, all up special mods are banned, that's simple enough...but then you have bans on other stuff like HSB, Trip Sapling, etc. And that's not even the endgame for this plan, we're...

In order to restrict Sheik to Paralyzing Needles only, you'd have to make a few different arguments: -firstly, that Sheik is brokenly strong when using either of her other two needle options -secondly, that Sheik is not also broken when using Paralyzing Needles -finally, that the benefit...