Are we using all our tools !?

[Maziyah]

Hydrants are part of our meta game , as well as the water blasts ... but only the horizontal water blasts ? I think if we can utilize that upward water blast it'll improve our meta greatly.

 

[Pacack]

Hydrants are part of our meta game , as well as the water blasts ... but only the horizontal water blasts ? I think if we can utilize that upward water blast it'll improve our meta greatly.

How, exactly?

 

[WeirdChillFever]

How, exactly?

A new way to redirect all of our fruits.

 

[Firedemon0]

Well for taller characters, you can drop hydrant and grab them. Up-throw and give chase with the boosted speed from the up blast. However, the timing is so tight its ridiculous. It also is hard to be consistent with it, and does not really give much in the way of options. You can jump extra high, but the time it takes to have that occur makes it junk at best.

 

[ToxoT]

The upward one is really just for chasing people trying to recover high, but i have utilized it to get a better throwing angle for fruit. if we're on the topic of using all our tools, the power pellet is really good offstage as an edgeguard and for people trying to escape your aerials. definitely a move that should be used in the air. not to mention if you hydrant dash while preparing it you can stop a low recovering opponent very quickly.

 

[Maziyah]

I was thinking of perhaps z dropping the fruit in the upward blast and kicking the hydrant, and perhaps using that as a trap, since the fruit has to come down you could up throw into the fruit, ima test it.

 

[LanceStern]

A tool I use a lot now is trampoline to punish people in shield.

If they shield grab one of my aerials I'll instead empty hop right in front of them and immediately trampoline. Or run up to them, shield and then trampoline out of shield.

It conditions them to know they aren't safe in shield, and they're not just going to shield-grab me. I've found that very helpful.