JesiahTEG
Smash Master
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For all of you that haven't read this post in my thread on improvement, it's just a little story of something that happened to me at a tournament last weekend. Here it is.
So there was this player there at my tourney named GOD. It was his first time there and he played Meta Knight. He was decent. He wasn't bad by any means, but he couldn't adapt really...He just abused really good strategies, like smart Tornadoing, good use of Shuttle Loop, good Fsmash tricks etc. You could tell he knew what he was doing with Meta Knight, but at the same time he never changed his strategies.
First 3 matches we played were Snake vs Meta Knight. I know the matchup like the back of my hand, and 3 stocked him once, then 2 stocked him the next times.
Next 2 matches were my Marth vs his Meta Knight. He 1 stocked me the first match, and then 2 stocked me the next time.
I got a little mad because I was losing, but then I told myself...I'm going to sit here and THINK. I'm going to sit here and look at what he's doing and try and think of ways to beat what he's doing. And so I did.
I lost the first two matches after that, but I watched him so carefully. I watched when he tornado and drilled. Those were basic. I also watched other basic things, like what he does when I was above him. Then I thought of how to beat these. I practiced Up B'ing the Tornado and Drill, and furthermore I learned what he did before he Tornado or Drilled, so I could predict it sort of and position myself so that if he did do them, I would punish him, and if he didn't I was safe, in a neutral state.
All of a sudden I started improving, very very quickly. After I figured out the basic strategies against him and implemented them, I felt surges of improvement. Everytime he did something, and I mean EVERYTIME, all of a sudden my brain registered it. Everytime he Ftilted, I immediately remembered what he did beforehand to get to the Ftilt, I saw how he Ftilted, like how many hits, and saw what he did after. Then, in my mind without even trying to, I just came up with so many ways to stop it. It was basically like this:
Wow, he just walked up to me and did this. Ok, so he spaces it like this and times it like that. He either rolls behind me or shuttle loops right after. Next time he walks towards me I'll Dtilt or run up and grab. If he hits my shield with a Ftilt I'll wait in my shield for a bit and if he rolls behind me I'll Dancing Blade punish, and if he shuttle loops I'll just do my normal shuttle loop strategies.
I don't know why I started thinking like this, maybe it was because for a few matches all I did was read him and it got me into the mindset...But at any rate, literally EVERYTHING he did my brain auto came up with amazing strategies.
We played for about an hour, and after those first few matches where I studied him, I could consistently 2 stock him, once in a while a 1 stock, and I'm confident if we played longer I'd be beating him by even more. He didn't adapt that much, but if he did I'm sure I would have thought of auto strategies.
And, after that I played him with my Pokemon Trainer, and the same things were happening, only not as effective. Every time he Down Smashed me, I punished with Forward Tilt, unlike Dancing Blade which does 17% damage. I was allowed less room for error, but beat him with Squirtle every time he was out. I lost each match by 1 stock due to having to switch Pokemon, but I'm sure if I put in the time vs Meta Knight with Ivysaur and Charizard as I did with Squirtle I'd have won.
My point is, by swallowing my pride and losing a few matches in an effort to improve, my brain went auto mode and I just started to increase in the matchup by a ton. Later on that night I went home and played with my friends, and some things I learned vs GOD I practiced more, like Up B usage.
I'm sure this could help at least a few people.
For all of you that haven't read this post in my thread on improvement, it's just a little story of something that happened to me at a tournament last weekend. Here it is.
So there was this player there at my tourney named GOD. It was his first time there and he played Meta Knight. He was decent. He wasn't bad by any means, but he couldn't adapt really...He just abused really good strategies, like smart Tornadoing, good use of Shuttle Loop, good Fsmash tricks etc. You could tell he knew what he was doing with Meta Knight, but at the same time he never changed his strategies.
First 3 matches we played were Snake vs Meta Knight. I know the matchup like the back of my hand, and 3 stocked him once, then 2 stocked him the next times.
Next 2 matches were my Marth vs his Meta Knight. He 1 stocked me the first match, and then 2 stocked me the next time.
I got a little mad because I was losing, but then I told myself...I'm going to sit here and THINK. I'm going to sit here and look at what he's doing and try and think of ways to beat what he's doing. And so I did.
I lost the first two matches after that, but I watched him so carefully. I watched when he tornado and drilled. Those were basic. I also watched other basic things, like what he does when I was above him. Then I thought of how to beat these. I practiced Up B'ing the Tornado and Drill, and furthermore I learned what he did before he Tornado or Drilled, so I could predict it sort of and position myself so that if he did do them, I would punish him, and if he didn't I was safe, in a neutral state.
All of a sudden I started improving, very very quickly. After I figured out the basic strategies against him and implemented them, I felt surges of improvement. Everytime he did something, and I mean EVERYTIME, all of a sudden my brain registered it. Everytime he Ftilted, I immediately remembered what he did beforehand to get to the Ftilt, I saw how he Ftilted, like how many hits, and saw what he did after. Then, in my mind without even trying to, I just came up with so many ways to stop it. It was basically like this:
Wow, he just walked up to me and did this. Ok, so he spaces it like this and times it like that. He either rolls behind me or shuttle loops right after. Next time he walks towards me I'll Dtilt or run up and grab. If he hits my shield with a Ftilt I'll wait in my shield for a bit and if he rolls behind me I'll Dancing Blade punish, and if he shuttle loops I'll just do my normal shuttle loop strategies.
I don't know why I started thinking like this, maybe it was because for a few matches all I did was read him and it got me into the mindset...But at any rate, literally EVERYTHING he did my brain auto came up with amazing strategies.
We played for about an hour, and after those first few matches where I studied him, I could consistently 2 stock him, once in a while a 1 stock, and I'm confident if we played longer I'd be beating him by even more. He didn't adapt that much, but if he did I'm sure I would have thought of auto strategies.
And, after that I played him with my Pokemon Trainer, and the same things were happening, only not as effective. Every time he Down Smashed me, I punished with Forward Tilt, unlike Dancing Blade which does 17% damage. I was allowed less room for error, but beat him with Squirtle every time he was out. I lost each match by 1 stock due to having to switch Pokemon, but I'm sure if I put in the time vs Meta Knight with Ivysaur and Charizard as I did with Squirtle I'd have won.
My point is, by swallowing my pride and losing a few matches in an effort to improve, my brain went auto mode and I just started to increase in the matchup by a ton. Later on that night I went home and played with my friends, and some things I learned vs GOD I practiced more, like Up B usage.
I'm sure this could help at least a few people.
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