Advice for new tournament user?

[BamBoozzled]

HI everyone ive played competitve smash for 4 months know and i want to go to a tournament soon (pm) i played lucas for 5 months and have alot of games played with him. I know im gonna go there and get stomped but do u have any advice to give me so i can atleast gets some stocks off?

 

[kazrisk]

What tourney you going to? i'm going to my first tournament soon as well and was looking for advice, nervous.

 

[NekuShikazu]

I'm not a big pro, so if you're better than me feel okay to correct me. Playing Lucas, you're going to be moving up and down due to his floaty-ness (Floatness? Floatyness?). I would try and get some pokes every while but at the same time not make your play style look repetitive.

 

[Dagon97]

Just play natural and don't play like against level 9 cpu think about human tactics (on my first tournament this was huge for me) Even though it's your first tournament doesn't mean your going to do badly. If I can place 4th out of 22 people at my first local you can do well to.

 

[kazrisk]

I've been practicing with my brother a lot on Project M wifi in order to get used to human play instead of level 9 CPUs, hoping that helps. Played against someone else online and they destroyed me, I was able to take a stock or two if I got lucky but was relatively awful. Played against a very tech-skilled Marth and was able to beat them. Its just hard to figure out how well I'll do at this tourney. I play Toon Link and sometimes Adult Link depending on the match-up, if I need more range/power or quickness/mobility.

 

[Dagon97]

I've been practicing with my brother a lot on Project M wifi in order to get used to human play instead of level 9 CPUs, hoping that helps. Played against someone else online and they destroyed me, I was able to take a stock or two if I got lucky but was relatively awful. Played against a very tech-skilled Marth and was able to beat them. Its just hard to figure out how well I'll do at this tourney. I play Toon Link and sometimes Adult Link depending on the match-up, if I need more range/power or quickness/mobility.

You should stick with one character and learn that character very well. Toon Link and Link have crazy different play-styles so keep that in mind.

 

[kazrisk]

You should stick with one character and learn that character very well. Toon Link and Link have crazy different play-styles so keep that in mind.

For the most part I've sticked with Toon Link, although I have found it very easy to switch to Adult Link, alter my playstyle to adapt to his range, weight, and power, and do good as him when the match-up needs it, but I've focused a lot on Toon Link.

I have Mario as a back-up sometimes in case I face a character that exposes all weaknesses of Toon Link, but Toon Link is my main man.

 

[Mikkelmann]

You should stick with one character and learn that character very well. Toon Link and Link have crazy different play-styles so keep that in mind.

For the most part I've sticked with Toon Link, although I have found it very easy to switch to Adult Link, alter my playstyle to adapt to his range, weight, and power, and do good as him when the match-up needs it, but I've focused a lot on Toon Link.

I have Mario as a back-up sometimes in case I face a character that exposes all weaknesses of Toon Link, but Toon Link is my main man.

These are really good strategies you can do but make sure it's a character you know you can win with.

 

[Shuckle89]

My advice: Start going to some smash-fests first. Tournaments are a very good way to learn, but, what I did was: get to know people first. Get into the scene. Know which good players are in your neighbourhood and play against them. Not only do you learn who your opponents are, but they also get to know you, so, you don't have to deal with being completely unknown at a tournament. It's nice to have some people you can talk to to blow off some steam.

That aside, if you do want to go to a tourney, do not play to win but to experience. Improvement will come along with it. It helps if you just enjoy playing and just play to get a feel of tourneys, instead of taking some stocks off.

Part of the thing with tourneys is the pressure and not really wanting to win (well, you know, you still want to win, but, not the main focus) helps.

Besides that... well, prepare some strategies. Get to know your chars (like been said). Know which chars are hard for you to face and practise against those. Etc. Good luck ^^