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Nashun said:
Once before the Arcadian tournament S2J came over and we played like 3 hours of friendlies.

I think from the time he entered my house to the time he left, we did not say a single word to each other.
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you have a ****ty memory

and i don't **** connor, unless you think 1 stock left with 100% percent somehow is a **** AND he can just go fox and kick my butt
 
djmirrorr

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brownsheep said:
nah im just broke and have no income. its just about gas money. if i find job im coming over at every opportunity. no joke about that either i ***** LOVE this game.

but i might be able to next weekend if i spend nothing this weekend (im planning on saving). until then im practicing at home everyday, avg 5-6 hours (not consecutive, ive noticed plenty of breaks in between are helpful. its as if my brain defragments or something)

the edit to the op helps thanks.
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That never stop Psychomidget going to tournament. He didn't have a job (well now he does)
and still going to tournaments.

someone come over at cam right now! it's me, kira, cam, and DJ Mirror playing!


-Jkun
 
ConnorTheKid

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Jason, you're missing one thing. His parents give him money for food and gas. I'm pretty sure Cameron is far from broke.
 
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i love how everyone knows that whatever jason says is at most half right, but then we all (irvine) still feel the need to correct him
 
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Oh yeah I forgot about that, Nevermind AJ forget what i just said on DJ Mirror's account


macd said:
i love how everyone knows that whatever jason says is at most half right, but then we all (irvine) still feel the need to correct him
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I keep forgetting small important details =___=
 
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yeah im paying for gas food tuition books and health insurance. ****'s expensive. hopefully ill get hired soon.
 
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***** WoW. everyone gets addicted to that game is it even that good
 
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i overestimated. more like 3-4 max. still a lot, but i hate messing up

esp with doc.

i watch hmw shroomed and djn (three very different, but effective styles. im trying to incorporate parts of each into my own). japanese vids when i randomly come across them (the new japanese video threads help)

i should look into boss vids and i didnt know caveman still plays i thought he quit
 
Adam M!

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caveman doesn't play but he was better than hmw/shroomed/djn ever have been

no knock on them, but he's just amazing

i also saw hornilope's youtube account with caveman in teams!

a good amount of japanese play doc. i believe kentaross, that sounds familiar. they're soooo good with doc though. they like to use doc v sheik.
 
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Well shiz, I just posted my matchup stuff in another thread because I didn't know this one had blessed Pac West Social. I just want good advice for Falcon. I'll do pretty much anything to get that extra push in my gameplay.
 
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Diddyknight please dont be one of those noobs that johns about stupid **** like character matchups

I hate when brawl players do that
 
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kentaross and caveman got it.

also i think s-royal in case ur interested
 
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There are no new people in NorCal who are posting here, probably because we all live within footsteps of each other. Whereas, it seems you HAVE to have a car to get around in SoCal.
 
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hey adam one more thing to add to your bad habits list that I see ALL the time is what they tend to do after they've teched. It's either sit in their shield too long or spot dodge right away or roll right away. Some people will always do a move that somewhat covers a lot of options (i ftilt too much after teching, jkun ALWAYS uptilts after every tech, etc)

i try to get them to jump or dash dance away as those are usually better. but if they roll or spotdodge or shield then i try to get them to do an attack just to get the idea that they can counterattack. but yeah
 
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yeah lol. well, it's easier in the sense that we're USED to it, not that it's actually physically easier. it's not like it's hard to dash away after you've teched in place. just takes a couple games of practicing it against a friend. it's the idea that's hard for us to implement; we're scared that we'll get hit and that's what makes us roll/dodge/shield because we think those things are safer when in fact it gets us into worse trouble immediately after we've done it. it also gets us into long-term trouble when we don't ever try other options and it becomes a bad habit
 
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i've started buffering jumps out of techs from time to time

doesn't work great without platforms though since sheik's full-jump just gets her *****
 
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joeplicate said:
i want to state my opinion on johnny here



don't say "everyone can't be s2j" and then give up on improving like he has
his success should be an example, not something to enable you to go easy on yourself
the first tournament i saw him at, mango juice, johnny was already pretty **** good
he's been around smash for a while (64 forever), he didn't go from "couldn't short hop" to winning arcadian tournaments

in my opinion, the reason why johnny improved so fast is because he went balls deep
no ****ing around, no chitchat at tournaments, no beating around the bush
he enters every event, mms good people, plays friendlies, and travels a LOT for friendlies
one time he drove to my house all the way in the 805 even though i barely knew him at the time, played for hours on end with me and oscar, and stayed for like 2 full days
he just started off with the right idea and hasn't slowed down since

so my advice to noobs is, if you're gonna spend a lot of time on the game anyways, go all out!
being a noob forever sucks, don't do it. just jump in that ****
be as humble as you can and as honest with yourself as possible; think about your game when you can and try to realize where you can improve. if you asked someone what your errors are, and still aren't seeing them, try harder to see them
enter tournaments, get some bad losses to open up your eyes, develop a work ethic towards the game, and play a whole lot of friendlies with everyone you can

go balls deep
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How you know that
 
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i think once noobs realize how to improve the game becomes 10x more fun

melee is like being presented with 300 super mario world puzzles, figuring out the solution, then having the tech skill to pull it off


also if you're a noob you really don't know anything about the game. I really only understand about 50% of the game. If you don't believe me, think about why Mango can 3 stock me consistently with like 8 different characters. Or even why Mango can beat m2k with like 4 different characters, characters he barely even plays (like sheik). he knows that much more that he's able to effortlessly beat me/m2k every time. Someone who understands 40% of the game can still 4 stock someone who understands ~25% of the game

it's hilarious when you see youtube comments and someone points out how mango read someone's roll. They say, "wow that was so smart". No *****, you only see the surface, there are like 3 more things you missed about the roll and how he punished. You missed where Mango tricked him into rolling by pretending like he'd do another move, he didn't just roll on his own accord (pros are smarter than to mindlessly roll). You missed that he only rolled because he felt pressured, and he felt pressured because of how close mango was to him (ie spacing). you missed that last time he jumped and got punished for that, so he was discouraged from trying it again even though it was a viable option and would have gotten him out of his bad situation in this case (and that mango predicted this correctly). You missed the timing with which Mango went to punish; even though mango looked like he was doing another move he made sure he could still move in time to punish the roll. so for those of you who watch videos and think you know something: you don't.

And it's not that I realized this when I was a noob and that's why I'm good. It's just that through experience, every time I get better I realize that I barely knew anything before. Every step that I improve I look back down and think, "wow, how was I even able to play this game without knowing this piece of information." The way I see the game can and does change every time I learn something new. This game really IS that deep; there's that much to understand in order to be pro.




uh i forgot why i even wrote this. oh well too late. I just like talking about smash like lovage.
 
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