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New utilt is a step down. The old one launched the hydrant at a perfect angle for ledge trapping and the new one is very situational. One thing that hasn't really been talked about a lot is how the nerf to air dodges is a "silent" pseudo-buff to characters who have landing options other than...

This doesn't address the significant/bayo-level nerfs he got, which I'll probably cover in a later post, but it does a really good job of articulating why he might end up seeing better results in Ultimate. tl;dr most of his advance tech got patched out, but he also got significantly easier to...

Mii Swordfighter just got 2nd in a 146 person tournament. Assuming Panda Global doesn't ban them right out the gate I feel like the Mii's are gonna see slightly more results than last game, but from the brief parts I watched a lot of it seemed like people just didn't know the matchup. Mii...

the original footage was in 1.0, it's possible the 1.1 patch fixed it. Either way's clearly not something that changed from 1.1 -> 1.2.

This is a very simplistic intpretation of the situation. If I get grabbed by someone it's because I got outplayed, not because shielding is a bad move. Bayonetta has a really powerful atdvantage state, especially when she's covering Diddy Kong trying to get back on stage. We've seen what...

Mr R. beat Dabuz with his secondary Cloud. He had a really interesting point (he might of actually said it in this thread) about how he had practiced the Cloud vs Rosa matchup extensively with Kirihara in Japan, but since it wasn't streamed everyone assumed it was just a pocket, when in fact he...

Mega Man also does really well against sonic and ok against cloud (not wins) because pellets beat out most of their grounded options.

Kirihara's win record against KEN is something horrific, off the top of my head I want to say 10-1. I'd say that this is the most likely upset in pools. Insofar as I'm aware Kameme is the only player in the world with a positive win record on ZeRo (someone fact check that). It is also worth...

Pacman has a frame 1 up b that beats shield, nair would be safe in significantly more situations than Mewtwo's would. Pacman also has the best footstool combo in the entire game, food for thought. https://twitter.com/Teitoku_Admiral/status/666602543955361794/video/1

Pacman would be more than willing to trade grab and nair w/ M2, if the opportunity ever arose.

if you catch someone rolling on a battlefield platform you can jablock them with rising nair into down smash. I've seen Ally do it on a few occasions.

She also extends her hurtbox to put her foot out. Villager and Pacman probably have the best nairs specifically for combo-breaking because they tuck into a ball with the hitbox protroding all around it.

She doesn't have a good combo breaking move. Imagine if Sheik (or Sonic) had Villager/Luigi's nair.

This is a thing with a lot of players in general. Sometimes incredible tech skill and sdi mixups isn't as applicable as simply knowing when you can fsmash someone for messing up. At the same time, if an opponent air dodges into the groud at 90-100% center stage, where most of the top tiers...

I've also literally see someone SDI up and out of it as Fox. Not that that's easy, but it isn't inescapable.