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I thought about that lolshould have been a 5 second video of "BECAUSE IT'S A GODDAMN TAIL"
I am dissapoint
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I thought about that lolshould have been a 5 second video of "BECAUSE IT'S A GODDAMN TAIL"
I am dissapoint
I definantly will! This is exactly what I neededThanks Palmerfan! Yeah, if you have 3ish hours to spare, I highly suggest you check out that twitch broadcast. Chad and I go over a ton of pika stuff.
You're an angel, thank you ^_^They did! http://www.twitch.tv/pikachad/c/4081228 right here
I often try to shield but he is so aggresive and when he starts Shining and Dairing my shield, I often get hit in the end, mostly cause Pikachu's shield is fairly small and won't cover all his body.Shine is annoying and very hard to deal with, it's a big part of why Falco is so strong. When he shines to shield pressure, the best you can do is roll and reset the situation. Don't try to shield grab it, you'll eat a big punish most of the time, and even if he doesn't punish you for it, a better falco player will.
The main thing you have over him in the matchup is low percent kills. Make sure you convert on every edgeguard situation, it's the only way you will win the matchup. I like playing the matchup by waiting for him to make a mistake, getting him offstage, and not letting him back on. It's a very difficult matchup but definitely winnable if you play well.
I'm also a pikachu newbie, but this is my understanding of the matchup. Any more experienced pika players should feel free to correct me
One of my favorite things to do vs Falco is the chain grab up-throw combo. If you're at the center of the map of like BF or YS and gets a grab on Falco at kill percent, it's a safe kill with an usmash if you read his DI.Hello my fellow Pikachu players, I need help! Recently I've been playing a lot against my brother who 90% of the time plays Falco, and I've struggled much in this matchup, some mostly because of my poor knowledge of my character since I'm fairly new to Pikach also becausehe's been playing Falco for quite a while now. I've read around a bit and heard it's a somewhat difficult matchup, and now I require some tips.
The most problems I've had with this matchup is I always get trapped in his Shine>Dair which he then tech chases me and keeps on punishing me mostly with his Dairs, but I find his Shines the most annoying since I can't do much about it. Is there any good way of escaping this or should I just be more careful of the way I engage him? Often when I try to go approach him with a SHFFL Nair he simply just shields and grab me, and that's what he does so much, he punish med with Shield>Grab from most of my approaches and attacks overall. Also when he gets me high in the air, I have a hard time recovering, I often come down to 2 options, either Quick Attack away or simply DI left or right, but often when I Quick Attack he punish me falling down and if I don't Quick Attack he often hits me with his Up-B, what should I do?
I understand I may just be a poor newbie and need to become a better Pikachu, but a little bit of assistence wouldn't be too bad.
TL;DR What are some good things to know about Pikachu vs Falco matchup?
Thanks for clearing stuff up!@Gale
yeah if the opponent is a fastfaller and at high % you can uthrow > usmash for the ko given that they dont di onto a platform or offstage/offplat
also you dont have to read their DI, you just have to watch and react to where they di
(read = predict something unknown, react = see and act on known information)
lastly the cg on fd wont work at very low% if the opponent di's to the side. 25-35% is a comfortable place for me to start chaingrabs but idk the numbers. and remember to dash jc grab (unless doing a turnaround grab in which case DONT jc)
@ Kim Steinbach-Reif
im about to write an essay
i recommend reading and understanding everything but dont try to incorporate it all at once, take it one step at a time
anyways:
if your brother doesnt do anything other than shinedair as pressure, you can usually find a shieldgrab/uair oos/wd oos opening:
- shine > early dair: act after dair
- shine > late dair: act after shine
most falcos like to do shine > early dair, especially if theyre not used to having their shinedair pressure punished
out of shield options:
- shieldgrab: not recommended but powerful. use if falco isnt spacing his pressure properly and sitting on top of you
- uair oos: if your back is pressured
- wdoos: to buy space to act with
i know @ Palmerfan discouraged shieldgrabs, and he's right to an extent. thats a generally good thing to do at first if you want to unlearn bad habits. but! as a pikachu main you should definitely learn when shieldgrab opportunities open since your grab is such a powerful tool vs most of the cast in terms of punishment - the key is figuring out the openings and not trying to shieldgrab everything that touches your shield
to avoid getting shieldpoked remember to angle the shield properly. this also helps with throwing falcos timing off since it causes them to experience hitlag earlier than they expect
if all else fails its fine to roll away from pressure, especially since most spacies dont know how to punish rolls and rely on pressure cooking their opponent lol. you can buffer roll out of shieldstun with cstick btw (input cstick to the side DURING shieldstun). but of course if he catches on to your rolls youll have to start weighing your options
on getting dair techchased: as @ N64 said, mix up your techrolls. remember that tech in place has extra invuln (but this isn't useful if falco does meaty dair on tech in place) (btw meaty = hitbox active on frame 1 of your vulnerability, usually used in context of long-lasting hitboxes)
avoiding shieldgrabbed nairs: remember you can crossup his shield with your nair so that you land behind him outside of grab range
some falcos will bair you oos after your crossup nair though, but if you delay nair to hit the back of his shield then you can keep them in shieldstun a little longer. rising uair after a crossup nair will also hit most of falco's actions out of shield
if youre very high up and coming down, go offstage and then upb to ledge. this might sound stupid because its like getting setup for an edgeguard, but remember falco is very very very hesitant about going offstage for edgeguards, and on top of that they have trouble edgeguarding sweetspot quick attack. from there you can learn ledge options (i recommend ledgedash) to recover and buy back your stage control. also axe likes to come down with dair sometimes to catch people offguard