Imagine getting hit by a Bob-omb except straight up. That's a fairly good comparison. You can expect to get the KO at around 30-35%.
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Best Buy Demo Discussion - What do you think of Little Mac in Smash 4?
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So, Zelda won't have the worst aerial game in this smash then! ...Right? LOL.
But so yeah, ZeRo slated him as "low tier"?
Do any of you guys think he isn't/won't be good? (Don't focus on the 'tier' part, but the though of him not being good.)
But so yeah, ZeRo slated him as "low tier"?
Do any of you guys think he isn't/won't be good? (Don't focus on the 'tier' part, but the though of him not being good.)
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I think he's gonna be rather good. He looks to have a strong, flexible ground game, which I think will be very important with the engine changes. I expect his punish game and defensive options to have a lot of potential.
N-Air could very well be scarier than it looks at first glance. I have high hopes for him to be a threat all around.
N-Air could very well be scarier than it looks at first glance. I have high hopes for him to be a threat all around.
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Little Mac was a lot of fun to play, I kept wasting the uppercut. I would have it, but be near death, get knocked off stage, then look at my percent and it would be gone. I really do wanna see some good Little Mac play. That would be interesting. People who actually know what they are doing.
I am really liking how Little Mac plays. Yeah his air game sucks but I think he makes up for it with his powerful ground attacks. I don't think any other character is "extreme" in this matter in Smash 4 yet, with one style of fighting being superior to the other.
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Astronut
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I got the chance to play Little Mac on both Wednesday and Saturday and I just wanted to comment on his recovery. His vertical recovery is sub-par, but to make up for it, his horizontal recovery (side-b) is pretty useful. It's kind of like Diddy's side-b (just a tad bit shorter and it doesn't carry momentum as well as Diddy's). With proper DI, and the new ledge mechanics, recovering shouldn't be that bad.
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I got a chance to play him.
Never have I felt so powerful on the ground.
In the air... not so much. Yikes.
Never have I felt so powerful on the ground.
In the air... not so much. Yikes.
tetraforce
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the OHKO is satisfying to land plus the meter builds whether you get attack or hit it will definitely change the way 1vs1 matches are played you could have Little Mac at 200% but if he catches you with a OHKO at 35% or above your Finished
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I didn't read the other posts so I'm sorry if this was already mentioned but it seems that everyone has forgotten about little mac's multiple side smashs as shown in this pic of the day https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAADRUqFx7WO4Dg. I think this is important because not only does little Mac already have an advantage on the ground with his speed and power but with his multiple side smashes he even has more moves than every other character on the ground giving him more versatility with his ground game.
SphericalCrusher
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I used him only in the 3DS version of Smash 4. I really enjoyed him, but he's going to take some getting used to. I did the Smash Run mode and then a 4 player free-for-all with him, in which I won. He has some really good combo attacks, is decently quick, but he's really limited in jumping and air attacks. In Smash Run, you have to do some platforming through the level, and it got to be pretty hard to do with him. I would have to time up-B uppercuts to land on just a short cliff. I think he's going to be a force though - he has some power.
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I cant see him getting any lower then B on the tier list
I am a wario main, so he felt really foreign to me...i was trying to do air moves all the time.
I will still main him tho, he seems really good but people will have to DI up all the time since his up b is ass. Side b is good! I am afraid that characters like toon link will counter him
I will still main him tho, he seems really good but people will have to DI up all the time since his up b is ass. Side b is good! I am afraid that characters like toon link will counter him
Well, they have to land eventually, and with that ground control and the airdodge landing lag being significantly increased from Brawl, I don't think he'll have too much trouble against air-centric opponents.
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Lowest I landed it and got the KO was at 14% actually.
Yeah the up-tilted and down-tilted side smashes are REALLY good. The up-tilted one allows you to combo into up special and the down tilted one just deals more damage. I can't remember how much but it's more than 20%
quotidianmusic
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Honestly, while I didn't win too many games with Mac on the demo, I think he's the most fun character to play as. His OHKO is the most satisfying thing to connect with ever. But we might see, as with Bowser, that some of the heavier, faster characters will be up and coming. It seemed harder to KO (for me personally) so using heavier characters kind of balanced that out I guess.
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I could KO most characters at 100% with an up smash, but Link and Bowser needed to be around 110% in order to get the KO. That doesn't sound like much, but no one just takes damage for free. Little Mac has to be really careful against big characters. On the one hand his super armor lets him punch through slower attacks, but his light weight and poor recovery makes him easy to knock out with only a couple hits.
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Hes really fun to use and hes strong but when it comes down to his recovery he is much better on stages that dont have bottom screen KOs
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Pretty late to this, but when I did the Best Buy demo, I did 3 of my 4 rounds as Mac. Let me tell you, on stages like Coliseum with nowhere to fall off, Mac is an absolute beast. He's so good to a point that, when the match ended, we all knew one of the Little Macs won, and I won by a landslide - +4 to two -2s and a -1. His air game is, as stated, absolute garbage. You also gotta be really careful with the Jolt Haymaker, lest you fling yourself off the side of the stage like I did numerous times on Wily Castle. His OHKO move seems to be broken, at least in the E3 build, because sometimes you'll land it and they either only go flying a small amount (I believe you can see this happening in the Treehouse Day 3 video) or, in my case, absolutely nothing beyond some extra damage being added on to the opponent.
Are you sure you didn't use the KO Punch in mid-air? It's much weaker in the air.
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No, it was on the ground for sure. I'm just wondering if it's got some bugs in the E3 build where it doesn't always work, since Sakurai said it's supposed to be an OHKO if you land it, iirc. I actually didn't know you could use it in the air at all, as I've never seen it used in the air before anyways.
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