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Well first I'd say you should handle the bananas best suited for your strengths. For example, I personally like and tried to use rushing down/offensive game despite Brawl being heavily defensive. After playing against Diddy so long, I got really got at item play and using bananas, so most of the times I'm not afraid to use bananas against Diddy. Note that using this method opens up an entire new style and thinking vs Diddy. You have to keep track if they have a banana in their hand or the relative position of the other banana (assuming you have one in yours). Whenever you throw a banana at their shield, know that it usually pops up in the air which allows Diddy to just jump and z catch it, giving them a set up to use against you. Use baits with the bananas/grenades. Pressure them so they can't just counter, because Diddy has the best shield in the game imo. Work on your spacing and developing a close range game with tilts and jabs. None are ever safe on Diddy unless you frame trap him with some setup. Look to uptilt against side B and work with your grab game. If you feel uncomfortable using bananas, THROW THEM UP. This takes them away from Diddy & doesn't allow him to spawn more bananas. Throw them up -> grenade pressure -> try to convert something. Try to read if they really want them and read their movement towards bananas and punish. Always try to pressure Diddy without putting yourself in a situation to get combo'd. This doesn't mean just lobbing grenades, because that strategy is pointless. Anyone can easily jump over them or avoid them.
Diddy Kong is what’s wrong with everything in the world. He resembles that of a dark king or some sort of evil entity that disguises himself with the innocence of a lamb. Snake is often persecuted because he’s “broken.” But this is just because he’s too manly. If you really want to know pain, all you have to do is know Diddy. He literally has the potential to destroy Snake in every way possible. Jab him and you lose a stock. Pull a grenade and Snake self destructs. This can only be explained by the voodoo magic of Diddy Kong. Each banana contains a dense molecular structure containing strains of Solid Snake’s DNA (he is a clone after all). The binding it puts on Snake is catastrophic. Up tilts begin to automatically stale. Hit boxes decrease slightly by a forty degree angle for moves such as forward tilt. Snake loses weight instantly from a solid rock to a mere crumbling brick. Diddy is not as innocent as Sakurai as portrayed him. His monkey hands burn like a thousand stoves and touching him will prove to be deadly 99% of the time. So just know the code: Know Pain. Know Diddy.
Currently Rosalina is looking cool. She actually reminds me of Snake and looks like she could have deep styles. I want to try Megaman but everyone is going to be using him lol. I'll just wait until the lower skilled Megaman's are weeded out and take it from there. When the game comes out, I'm going to try every character and see which one feels the most comfortable/fun. That's how I got to Snake in Brawl.Any idea who you're gonna play in smash 4 yet?
Yeah, Brawl is a dying breed right now man. It's still up and running in SoCal and EC but pretty down in the South. I know it's completely dead in TX. PM has taken over here. Yeah I love using explosives in my game play. Maybe a couple of times but most were for money. I'd recommend throwing a smashfest instead. A free tournament kind of holds no worth in some degree. I think more people would rather play friendlies/MMs and try to get better instead of waiting to be called to play a tourney match.
I did a couple of times, but just like "remember to counterpick this or ban that". Nothing too extreme. Lol, never really watched those at all. I saw Ally more out of them because he was always in top 8 in most tourneys. I watched a lot of TX videos and generally the videos of top players or high level tournament matches.
Campy pits is a bit tricky. Requires great grenade work and optimal punish game. Always throw them and strip them so they must shield. Most of the time they'll go on the edge and try to shoot arrows. When they do this, time your grenade throws so it hits their bodies and is going to blow up by them. It stops them from planking. Then when they land on stage, OPTIMAL punishes. Get that ftilt if you can. Get those dthrows. It's usually gonna be a long match. And for the most part, don't get juggled by them.
I think it's in Snake's favor tbh. I'm like the only one lol. I've always had a handle on the MU. The goal is for you to try and force your way in. Once you get up close to Olimar, you can destroy him. Use nades and get him in the air. The tough part is breaking through the camp. Jab takes pikmin off of you 80% of the time. Try to lob grenades over his pikmin throws or under. You want to get to him where he stops throwing them. Watch many of my videos vs Olimar to try and see. Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L01FuY1DNiQ
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Nope, never have lost to a Lucas. Mekos is the only one to give me a little trouble in pools before, Lucas relies A LOT on spacing and auto cancelling his nair in your shield. He uses PK fire a lot and just tries to be really slippery. Watch auto cancels dairs, fairs and nairs. They like to try and put pressure when they can. Just use proper grenades (they can't attack your shield if you have one) and proper ftilts which out prioritizes a lot of his moves. Try to read their landings since they jump a lot and do a good dash attack. Use grenades to pressure and try to convert up close with them. Also, check on grab release. I think you can ground grab release to ftilt or maybe uptilt.
I haven't played in a while, but yes I did. Always watched them over and over. I looked for where I made mistakes or why I got beat. Looked for patterns that were making me read/exploitable or patterns that worked. Just study your videos and see while watching them if you could have made different moves in a situation.
Both are definitely in Snake's favor like 60:40. Against TL, you have to learn how to weave under TL and his camping projectiles and punish correctly. Be good at using your shield and intercepting his bombs. Look at videos from me vs TL. I've never lost to one in tournament.
Dthrow tech chasing is vital to using Snake. It involves a mixture of reaction and prediction. It seriously takes a lot of practice. When you're down throwing them, almost try to think what you would do in their situation (if you think you'd roll right, read it and go right). It's also very character dependent. Characters like olimar and toon link have small rolls. You can stay in shield and react off them. Characters like Marth and Lucario have far rolls. It's best to try and read them. If you fail, just reset your situation. Boost grabbing forward for those 2 characters is needed too. Mix it up by having c4 out on the stage to dictate where they will roll etc. Try to incorporate grenades if you can. Lastly, if you're still weak in this area, always try to get a ftilt or some extra damage. That's a good 21+ percent off one grab. If they don't get up, you could try to dair too. All it takes is much practice and reaction timing..
Those are tough match ups. For d3, you want to focus on not getting grabbed. Use MANY grenades and capitalize on down throws. Always have sort of a wall. Work on spacing attacks when you're behind them. It's a tough match up. I like battle field or PS1 because of the platforms and options they give you to set traps. Always have grenades out and watch your landings. Their uptilt has super armor. For Falco, use grenades as well to avoid the chain grab. Try to blow them up in the process. You need to set traps if they side B away from you. You can bait their reflector by picking up a grenade, running toward them, stop and throw it up and try to punish the lag if they use it. Watch their juggle on you and their jab (just SDI away from it). Many falcos roll a lot. Try to read it and ftilt or dash attack. Just keep pressure on them and don't let them eat your shield. Crawl under lasers and bait side B's and use grenade traps and mines and c4s to intercept them.
Thanks, gave me good stuff to think about.
