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It really is just a spacing battle. Get good at spacing SHFFL bairs. You can use a full hop nairs as a mix up if the marth gets used to shielding your bairs, and then you can do other stuff once you are in on his shield. Just make sure you land behind him with the nair. Any time he smashes your shield, you jump out and just rest him. It's a free rest every time. It even works against his up tilt as well. Get good at crouching as well. if he tries to fair you, you can crouch cancel into a punish (grab or fsmash, or rest if he misses the l cancel), and if he tries to grab you while you are crouching thats a free rest as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80QHoWe2xQY is a good set to study for this matchup.
Play whoever you want, especially if they are your best and favorite character. If people are gettin salty over your character, that's their problem. Don't worry about what others think you should do, what matters is what you want to do.
It sounds a little like they're using low tiers because they're better than you, and not necessarily because you're playing puff. Did they actually say that the reason they're sandbagging is puff? I have a feeling that switching mains won't necessarily help your situation. Try framing it to them in terms of helping them learn the puff MU, maybe they'll change their minds.
Yeah well they weren't happy when I chose puff as a main but didn't really express it until they ran out of patience for it I think. I've been playing puff 100% of the time because everyone else I talked to said to focus only on one character and maybe just get a max of one side character after I played a while and got decent. Thing is that some of my friends don't really have mains. A couple just play like 3-5 characters almost equally and even then have some low tiers they use a lot for fun. So I feel like it is the hate of puff combined with frustration that I never change characters unless we do like a drinking game where you are required to random it. The ones with actual mains they use a lot don't seem to really mind it as much.
Its a pretty sucky situation, but at least you have practice partners. Try to learn the mid tier MUs and develop strategies for beating them- you'll probably need to this eventually anyway. Yeah you'll be less experienced in common MUs, but you can definitely apply the things that you learn from fighting a mid tier to fighting a top tier. Once you get to the point where you consistently beat their secondaries, they're bound to start using their mains again. In the meantime, try to make the most of tournaments and don't play them in friendlies if there is someone else there willing to take you seriously.
He's tricking you so you won't learn the CC rest shikis
On larger platforms like DL it does kinda have to be a read (A soft read though, since you can cover like half of their options), but on smaller plats you can totally react.
Thanks so much! This puff blog you linked seems like a great resource. Gonna try this out now!
Clicking that gives me this message. This is also the message that shows up when I attempt to access the NC Melee group.
thank you kindly.
I can do it consistently, and no I do not do it. The opponent can literally beat that strategy by getting hit.
oh i should have clarified. i meant from the stage. there's a certain range where you can go straight to ledge. yes, it's beaten quite easily as a recovery.
