I got a little dilemma here. It may not seem all that big, but it is to me. My friend who I have known for 11 years, well he was the one who introduced me to Smash in the first place. He was like me though, only played it on and off. Well he has started playing Smash almost every day for the past three months while I have just been playing consistently for one month.
Anyway, his former mains were Yoshi, Young Link and Pichu...yes...Pichu. I finally talked him into trying out some new characters and pick a new main, so he chose Ganondorf. This is the thing, he is the main person I play against. He didn't know ANY advanced techs until about last month when I started using them constantly against him because I used to play for fun, but just recently got into competitive smash. He is a very competitive person and he is usually my biggest challenge in any other game that we play. However, he...for lack of a better word, sucks. I got tired of nearly four-stocking him every match so I decided that I was going to teach him some advanced stuff and pick up his game so that he posed a little bigger threat to me in a 1v1. He has made some progress...I taught him to tech very well...sometimes even better than me, but his ledge-teching is still very sketchy. I've shown him a million times how to wavedash and he can do it well in training mode, he still has a lot of work on his shffl's because he hasn't gotten out of the habit of mashing the buttons and not gently tapping X or Y to short hop. He has learned a few decent combos and stuff. Right now I am trying to get him better with his ledge-teching and edge guarding.
Ok, here is the catch...he can do all of this stuff in training mode which me and him have spent a lot of time in lately, but when we get into an actual 1v1 or I am watching him play against someone else...it's like he completely forgets all of it. He doesn't tech, WD at all, shffl, edge hog or guard, his timing is way off on his attacks and combos and...it's bad. I know it takes awhile for players to get used to using the advanced **** in an actual match, but I don't know what else to do. I don't want to give up on him because he is my best friend and I chill with him almost every day and he always wants to play Smash and is always telling me how he wants to start playing competitively like me, but something isn't working.
Is there any Dorf' users or just any players in general that have any advice on this matter or anything? I've got him watching vids regularly, he is in training mode almost every day and I take over 2nd player to put some pressure on him and stuff and he performs all of the actions very well, but in an actual 1v1 he just like panics and starts mindlessly dash attacking and attempting off-timed blind smash attacks. And he spams Dorf''s upB attack almost as much as a **** CPU.
Anyway, sorry for the long post, but there has to be someone who can help because the sooner I can get him to play better and use advanced techniques in an actual battle...the better I'll get because like I said...I play against him almost every day and he is starting to lose hope. Save the poor dude...
Anyway, his former mains were Yoshi, Young Link and Pichu...yes...Pichu. I finally talked him into trying out some new characters and pick a new main, so he chose Ganondorf. This is the thing, he is the main person I play against. He didn't know ANY advanced techs until about last month when I started using them constantly against him because I used to play for fun, but just recently got into competitive smash. He is a very competitive person and he is usually my biggest challenge in any other game that we play. However, he...for lack of a better word, sucks. I got tired of nearly four-stocking him every match so I decided that I was going to teach him some advanced stuff and pick up his game so that he posed a little bigger threat to me in a 1v1. He has made some progress...I taught him to tech very well...sometimes even better than me, but his ledge-teching is still very sketchy. I've shown him a million times how to wavedash and he can do it well in training mode, he still has a lot of work on his shffl's because he hasn't gotten out of the habit of mashing the buttons and not gently tapping X or Y to short hop. He has learned a few decent combos and stuff. Right now I am trying to get him better with his ledge-teching and edge guarding.
Ok, here is the catch...he can do all of this stuff in training mode which me and him have spent a lot of time in lately, but when we get into an actual 1v1 or I am watching him play against someone else...it's like he completely forgets all of it. He doesn't tech, WD at all, shffl, edge hog or guard, his timing is way off on his attacks and combos and...it's bad. I know it takes awhile for players to get used to using the advanced **** in an actual match, but I don't know what else to do. I don't want to give up on him because he is my best friend and I chill with him almost every day and he always wants to play Smash and is always telling me how he wants to start playing competitively like me, but something isn't working.
Is there any Dorf' users or just any players in general that have any advice on this matter or anything? I've got him watching vids regularly, he is in training mode almost every day and I take over 2nd player to put some pressure on him and stuff and he performs all of the actions very well, but in an actual 1v1 he just like panics and starts mindlessly dash attacking and attempting off-timed blind smash attacks. And he spams Dorf''s upB attack almost as much as a **** CPU.
Anyway, sorry for the long post, but there has to be someone who can help because the sooner I can get him to play better and use advanced techniques in an actual battle...the better I'll get because like I said...I play against him almost every day and he is starting to lose hope. Save the poor dude...
. He ledge-teched...once. He had good timing on his combos. He L-canceled a lot, but not all of his aerials. He shffled a couple of times, but I could tell he was having a hard time with that and he attempted to wavedash a few times, but he ended up triangle jumping. He did manage to meteor spike me though. All in all, he took off two of my stock and it seemed like he made a lot of progress. In the second match, I used my main, Fox. I ditched one of my usual methods of gameplay and that's spamming the blaster...just to see if that would even it out a little. His gameplay was pretty much the same as the previous match, but he was trying to wavedash a little too much and it usually ended up in him triangle jumping. I mean, he started off strong, but he died out halfway through the battle and went back to his old ways of spamming the dash attack and he was even attempting to connect with the Warlock punch. I just think he has a hard time adjusting to my Fox, but I'm not going to get a new main just for him. Well thats my report on him for now. He will be back tommorow and we'll see how it goes.