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If they get up and shield, your combo is over. They are not in hitstun anymore ;) If you predict they'll keep holding shield, landing next to them and grabbing is good (duh)

[...] In fact, he's told me that the only time he beat PP was when PP played Falcon. And he only took 2 games. [...] Even though I'm playing a losing match-up (Falcon vs Falco)... Even though I'm playing a guy who could beat PPMD in this match-up... Something here does not check out. kappa

To expand on that a little: - In melee only one character can grab the ledge at a given moment. While doing a neutral getup / rolling onto the stage / ledge attacking your character is still considered to be occupying the ledge until the animation is finished. You also get about half a second of...

My control-stick started dying on me again, so I took the controller apart yesterday, cleaned it and dropped two drops of maru lube (happen to speedcube so I had that on hand anyways) in the stickbox. It was a definite improvement, but the sticks feels super weird... I'm not sure whether I'd...

If improving is fun to you, why wouldn't you go for it? Maybe if you had very little in the ways of a local scene, but that's not related to the overall "aliveness" of melee ;)

So Fountain is most likely to win a tournament?

*weebs 10chars

I sometimes used to mess up ledge hop double laser in a way that resulted in the illusion stall... (:

Learn to act on the IASA frames of dtilt (it has a longish animation, but you can actually cancel it very early). Learn the tipping point of dash into run (so you know at what point doing a dtilt becomes available). Learn to JC grab (jumping and immediately cancelling the jump animiation with a...

Forcing everybody to compete on the same controller is like forcing every basketball player to use the same shoe size. I don't think that analogy makes a lot of sense for either side ;)

If you really dislike all the top tiers, there's little advice that can be given, right? Play whatever interests you the most, and see how far you can take it. It's kind of hard to imagine that you would dislike all the top tiers though, they're really diverse after all, and they are fun to play...

There is literally a paragraph starting with "TL;DR" in the opening post.

Scizor, because I played way too many Volt-Turn teams in pokemon with him <3

I find it hard to believe that you didn't find it online. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=melee+take+stock+start Googling is a very useful talent toi have! ;)

I for one am intrigued by this, and think this thread is very informative to me!