Recent content by StrayDog

@Yort It sounds like you need to play around grab enough for him to not be looking for it as an option. Here are some options I use that are immune to grab (as far as I know.) -Spaced laser ftilt. If he tries to grab or do a take laser/shield laser option, he'll just get kicked off the stage...

It doesn't seem like you're being unnecessarily difficult, I understand what you're doing. Trust me, I wouldn't be asking about it if I hadn't already tried to find the solution myself. If you notice, I actually did post a number of solutions that I had tried (up tilt, dash dancing, shielding...

Do you have any suggestions? I've been watching sets from Squid, Westballz and Mang0 against top falcons but it seems like Falcons don't really use that strategy much, probably because there's already some well developed counter to it in the meta. During times when S2J had to come down against...

what do I do when falcon is above me? I keep fighting falcons that just full hop and double jump constantly and get directly above me and just come down with stomp, knee, bair or falling up air. dash dancing doesn't seem to work because falco's dash is too short and stomp is ten feet wide or I...

I hate it when people don't respond to your conditioning and keep using options that you have been playing around, such as overusing fsmash or dair with marth or coming down with nair with Samus and Luigi. I have recently come to realize that this mentality is actually ****ty because it makes me...

As a disclaimer, I don't have the most experience in the Puff matchup but I have had pretty reasonable success with the general praxis of trying to stay in one of three areas. In order of preference: 1) above Puff 2) below Puff 3) too far away for her to hit me at all Typically I start out by...

Falco mostly does two kinds of lasers, low lasers to prevent you from dashing and high lasers to prevent you from jumping. If you are jumping and getting hit in the head by lasers repeatedly it's probably because you're trying to jump too much and Falco wants to keep you on the ground since on...

Always waveshine when the shine is guaranteed to hit. Like if you got a clean opening (dair punish on marth's fsmash for example) then you should almost always waveshine. When you are approaching on someone's shield, use your judgment. If they have been shield grabbing or attempting an oos...

Same actually. I find Sheik's approaches much easier to deal with than her defensive options which seem very tight. I'd like to hear PP's thought process on this as well.

I was where you are relatively recently. I started playing like a year ago and only just started getting good, valuable results from analysis like 3-4 months ago. It took a number of realizations before I really started seeing the game in a way that made sense, and I gained a lot of...

Take anything I say with a grain of salt 'cause I'm really not that good but I find going to platforms against Peach to be hilariously good. Peach's up air seems pretty bad in neutral and her fair is too slow to use reliably for trades. You can laser her from the side platform, jump off the side...

metagame moreso consists of popular strategies for winning and developing strategies to counter those. when the counterstrategies become more popular than the strategies they counter then a new meta strategy emerges to counter that. simply put, it will most likely never end, unless a "master...

yeah if you do a really early nair and hit their shield high they will be able to shield grab you. the more frame perfect you get (especially with your fast fall timing and how early you do shine after your landing lag happens) the more allowance you will have to avoid getting shield grabbed...

yes there is, turnaround in shine takes a certain amount of time (I think it's 6 frames.) If you are waveshining forwards by doing [down B > moving the grey stick to wavedash position > jump > R] then that will fail if you try to do the same motion for waveshining backwards because you will get...

You have to play a push/pull style against Marth in my experience. I find that short hop dair handily beats dtilt and dash attack. This is your push. To get Marth to pick these options, you have to "pull." This involves shooting lasers and feinting approaches with ambiguous movement until Marth...