can you like indicate which videos are new in the first post so i can like watch the ones you most want advice on?
okay im watching the falcon ones. first vid:
:46 or so: I dont really like the utilt that was supposed to be. utilting falcon is a great option if you're behind him, but he could have shield grabbed you even if you executed correctly, so be wary of that
:51 you got scared and side dodged. you do this a few more times (i wont point them out); try to avoid it. it's okay very rarely, but easily punishable. once someone knows that's your reaction to being pressured, they'll destroy you for it.
:53 the nair to mess up his approach was nice, good prediction and followup
1:07 you're lasering pretty effectively. im not sure about that nair in general, cause i think a lot of CF's would have DD'd away or naired in place or something that would have ***** that, but against this guy the semi-aggressive nair to stop his approach was nice. he does then realize you're somewhat scared and knee you out of another laser, so try to be less predictable with your defensive options.
1:17 you dair right as he gets his invincibility frames. this seems trivial, but let me say something: I noticed you trying to be super fast and technical and getting punished for it throughout this video. timing is more important than speed in most cases, and this is one of them. you could have gotten to him in time to punish him if you had actually been quicker, but after you ha dalready FH'd and wavelanded, it was too late. you had to either predict tech in place and punish it at the right time, or get back to safety. I guess you hit at the right time if you were predicting missed tech, but he had like a full second to tech that, so you shouldn't have predicted that against competent opposition.
i know that you're supposed to get an opening and then **** from there, so anytrime you land a combo move like shine, you want to go get a nice combo off. however, if you land a shine and don't react properly, your opening is gone. trying to force it is likely to get you punished, so you should just look for the next opening instead of hoping your opponent gives you your opening back.
1:20 - 1:27 you put on a lot of pressure here and get some good hits in
1:31 be conscious of platforms; if you had been aware enough to shoot a higher laser here, you would have ***** him hard, but i imagine your thought process went 'missed tech. laser reset. shoot it low.' so you automatically did that. (i would definitely have messed it up too, it's a hard situation to adapt to, just saying.)
nice predict at 1:33. you tried to force it to be more than it was again, though. you didnt get punished, but you might have if he had reacted better. be careful!
1:41 that charge fsmash is beyond my comprehension. i would write it off as a technical error except you charge it. what were you predicting here?
1:48 another nair ****** him. if you play this guy a lot, i would say you should tell him to not get ***** by nair so much. it seems like every time he whiffs an attack, you sh nair him and he jumps into it and gets out prioritized. obviously this is a good read on your opponent, but there are a lot of falcons out there who will pick up on this and throw a retreating nair or something that will beat you, so dont let yourself rely on it working.
anyway my brains are dying so im not going to go through the rest in detail. here's the main things:
my heart weeps for the combos you missed, and most of the time you missed them by FHing out of shine. try to break that habit. against CF you should probably wavedash out of shine most of the time. you missed at least 3 combos by FHing. the thing is, it doesnt look like a tehcnical error, since once you got a combo going you usually got a decent amoutn out of it, it looks like you get scared and FH to avoid punishments.
you also get scared and side dodge way too much. basically, if you got a lot more confident, you'd pick the right option more of the time, since you look like you know it in a lot of these cases. just make sure you dont let CF's speed and **** get to you. especially on your last stock you were looking nervous.
obviously there were a few technical/spacing issues too... that's nothing i can help with though, just comes with practice.
however, when you got your opening and knew you had, you got some good combos in, and you had a bunch of good reads on your opponent, and your edgeguards were accurate and effective. your lasering was also nice; it threw off his options but you didnt rely on it, which is good. i'd say laser a little more than you did, but that might just be a stylistic thing. you only lasered once when it was a really bad idea, and the rest of your lasers had purpose, so that was good. you have a pretty strong game, you just need to clear up a few things that mostly look nerves-related.
