im tired and want to post something for staying up late
the pikmin management of throwing and getting reds and whites out i really only saw brood do vs MKs, vs ally and lee martins luca he didnt do it near as much but probly because the whites can bait luca into nairing pikmin off for a free punish and itl weakn snakes tilts but as of course with MK a white will only really weakn his nair, which while good its not something that the others colors cant pull off since u probly wont get any damage latching a pikmin on MK anyway.
I did notice brood knows the MK and snake MUs really well i even saw him in another vid vs an MK and he really seems to have it down.
He also does a very nice mix up of fsmash to buffer grab, grab to buffer fsmash, pivot grab to buffer grab/fmash mixups as most of u have probly seen.
He did really well at getting the nades out of the way vs snake by power shielding them so they would hit the shield and fly over him, or throw pikmin in the way of the nade, and when ally pulled a nade out he didnt just grab him he piviot grabbed him to get the nade completely out of the way so hed be safe.
He also never whistled to arrange pikmin when he got a kill he only used dsmash and upsmash and he would sometimes use the pikmin toss as well, but to shuffle them while still trying to get a kill hed dmsash and upsmash and pikmin throw along with upair to get to the next purp as i saw many times or to shuffle some more.
i also saw that when he was arranging pikmin after getting a kill he would set them up for different things like putting a blue then a purple so when he gets the double upsmash he gets a blue then purp for max damage or hed set them up for the traditional dthrow > upsmash combo but he seemed to like to set up for the double upsmash instead of setting up for the dthrow combo on MK but on snake he seemed to op for the dthrow combo
i also saw when he was planking the ledge with upairs he would sometimes fall and upair then jump back up and upair then grab the ledge so his opponent couldnt run and attack him while he was falling
also i dont think we should be punishing everything little thing with usmashoos. Now obviously if its in a MU where it changes the whole MU like luigis nair and peaches dair or at low % then yes of course we're gonna use the hell out of it (tho i wouldnt start using it at low %s yet since no one knows about it right now), but in a MU like MK where theres plenty of things we could punish with it i think we should keep it hidden and just either not punish something or punish it some other way so when they do glide or whatever at u at 80%~ and they glide attack ur shield or whatever move we can punish with it and u have a automatic ko and same goes for other MUs that dont necessarily need it to make the MU even or in our favor so we can use it as a nice little "its a trap!" kill move like nair to upsmash used to be, but this is still our best option out of shield by far
i thought id wright a little of what i saw in broods vids that iv been watching just in case it helped at all, tho some of it may seem obvious i do hope this helped at least a little bit <3 (goo)
also imo i think the only time we need to really get rid of whites and reds like brood did vs m2k is in our bad MUs like peach, luigi, MK, and marth, not so much against ROB tho
