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One of the reasons I ended up choosing Samus when I first started playing smash at my local weeklies was because I had a semi-decent amount of practice with her and there was literally no one else playing her except to mess around. I actually had a bit of success against less experienced...

I believe Victra suggested something similar above. It really would streamline the process. That way you wouldn't see a page of good top tier discussion interrupted by "Hey guys, let's spend 5 pages talking about Mewtwo's nair in his match up with Ness" In fact, I think it would be cool to have...

Brawl also doesn't have WD out of shield options and many of the moves in that game work differently from similar moves in melee. It's a slower game in general and he can get away with stuff there that doesn't work in melee's engine. Some characters combo Jigglypuff in this game, so I don't...

Probably not. He wouldn't be able to do wavedashes/lands and he couldn't L-Cancel so his ability to pressure shields would be gimped. His options would be pretty limited in comparison to a good chunk of the cast.

This is the problem with these threads too. Only letting high ranked players vote on the match ups is sensible, but it severely limits what characters are represented. I'm sorry, but I also hardly trust even top ranked players to know the ins and outs of every match up with how underrepresented...

Not sure what a "viable" character actually is, but whatever the worst character you consider viable is the hardest to play at a top level. They have less options and are generally less effective, meaning you have to outplay your opponents by a greater margin to be successful with them. Tech...

Honestly Victra, the mention of stages in yours makes it more useful than what was done in the past. At least that gives you an idea of where the match up is better or worse. It can give players an idea of what they can counterpick or what they shouldn't counterpick. The counterplay idea like...

Definitely seemed uncomfortable with the match up. He couldn't break the Samus's zoning or spacing at all. His recovery was also not nearly varied enough which is why the Samus was able to Bair him offstage all the time. All of those were high recoveries with up+b, which is notably one of the...

I personally don't see the value in a match up chart at this point. The only value of one at this point, imo, is for tiering purposes. It's not nearly as important to know HOW WELL one character does against another, it's important to know IF they can and/or HOW they can handle the match up...

The main things it helps with are movement mixups and feinting a dash dance into something offensive and surprise bair approaches. As others have mentioned, characters like Falcon, who have longer moonwalks, get more mileage out of it. You can also chain it into wavedashes pretty effectively on...

You may not need a spacie, but if you have a lower tiered main with an awful match up, having a secondary with a good match up against the character your main has a bad time against can be a good idea. As PP mentioned though, splitting your focus too much could end up hurting more than helping.

This is something to keep in mind. What really gives anyone in this thread the right to criticize Hax's play style? This sort of thread really contributes nothing to the discussion of melee. Tech skill is important in the meta, especially for someone who plays spacies. It's not the only...

Samus isn't higher on the tier list because her close range options are fairly limited. Basically your only good OOS option is Up+B (maybe nair too) and once you do that a couple of times against a decent player, they're going to try to bait it and punish you accordingly. The rest of her game is...

Different techniques for different characters. Some have more options than others. One thing I would recommend though is keeping it simple. Don't try to do overcomplicated ledgegaurds just because they look cool. Don't do things that are unnecessary either like going for unnecessary drop off...

As someone who played mostly Samus during their competitive experience, my response to people getting salty is "So what?" If someone is going to get salty about you abusing one of the only redeeming qualities of your character outside of a good fsmash and downsmash, the ability to live a long...