Okay, so my first local tournament is coming up soon. I've been practicing furiously. Any tips on how to prepare for the tourney? I still can't SHDL properly. It's been 3 months. I have no clue what I'm doing wrong. What characters should I watch out for? And who should I secondary?
Note: MK isn't banned in this tourney.
Note: I'm also using this to experiment with what I want my post color to be 
Trust me don't practice furiously, just train in small amounts of time.
This will help you alot more, and this is more efficent way to do training.
When you train verse other people not level 9's. That will not help you what so ever for preperation for a tournament.
Characters you should look out for are ice climbers, pikachus, marths, and meta knight. The seconday best for any of these match ups use marth. Don't listen to people that say second mk because marth can just air release to tip fmash or fair and kill mk. Don't use mk for ice climbers because the ice climbers and do a 0 to death cg on mk. Don't use mk on pika because he can get easy punishes on mk, when mk goes to the stage all pika has to do is down b or just b. If mk is at a high percent uair to uair to nair is a daeath on mk. That is a true combo that works on every character. Marth can avoid this and marth is someone that is easy to pick up. I promise this will make the match ups ten times easier.
If you think you are doing everything correct try again, you may find a flaw or you might find somthing to put in. Try every technique you know and try not to mess up on any of them. Don't stress out stay calm and you will get these things down before the tournament. For SHDL practice trying to hit Olimar on the ground, time the laser don't spam the laser. Eventually it will be a habit getting silent laser and you will feel good about your self.
