JRad
Smash Apprentice
I was trying this out a lot at Apex and had a good amount of success with it against the characters that generally like to aerial out of shield (Ganon, Falcon, Marth mostly) and I just thought I would share. I don't mean to Upb early and then hold toward them, I mean run up to them and up B. You have to put them in a pressure situation first and a lot of times I was able to set this up by Dtilting/Bairing them first and then dashing in and using UpB. IF they jump or grab they should get hit by the forward facing sweetspot and if they shield you can fade away. If they spot dodge then you will hit them anyway but not with the sweetspot. Some of the times my opponent would dash/wavedash into me to try to attack my "approach" and i just reacted with an eariler upb. Unfortunately if you miss you should fade away but they should be able to punish if they space/wait properly. I will just try to get footage of me using this. Thoughts?
Edit: Just also had the thought that maybe jumping right before pressing upb might actually be better at low percent, because if you catch the jump you can catch them in the full up b for massive damage and potentially a follow up. The other benefit to jumping right before the up b is that you can fade back/forward a lot further in the air. I want to say that this is also situational but a good mixup imo
PS - Going to post my match vs. Fiction when its uploaded.
Edit: Just also had the thought that maybe jumping right before pressing upb might actually be better at low percent, because if you catch the jump you can catch them in the full up b for massive damage and potentially a follow up. The other benefit to jumping right before the up b is that you can fade back/forward a lot further in the air. I want to say that this is also situational but a good mixup imo
PS - Going to post my match vs. Fiction when its uploaded.
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