Best way to prevent ledge grabs and keep opponent offstage?

[InternetSandman]

I've been playing Cloud since the weekend of Genesis 3, and I've made more progress with him than I have any of my other characters. I've noticed though that when it comes to edgeguarding, I'm incredibly hesitant to go offstage, even with limit as I would rather not waste it, in case I get gimped or punished for attempting an edgeguard. I much prefer to stay in neutral and charge limit, then read their getup and either punish, or get back to neutral and try to win stage control again, which brings me to something I want to figure out as Cloud

During my opponents recovery, what are some good tools that cloud has to catch my opponent (specifically during the two frame ledge grab vulnerability) to keep them offstage? Dash attack and LB Blade Beam seem to be top choices, along with runoff reverse LB cross-slash. I haven't seen d-tilt work to any degree, but I'm wondering if there are any better options or techniques that I should look into and possibly practice?

 

[Jink8]

Nair is definitely a good way to keep the opponent of stage.

 

[DaDavid]

Nair is in my opinion the best, safest one. Well placed Bairs are good too, but a bit trickier to do consistently.

 

[GreenMonkey]

Nair (like Jink mentioned) since it's fast and has range, and Fair can work, too.

If I'm feeling risky enough to go offstage for an edgeguard, I'll usually use Dair can try to catch opponents recovering high. But typically I'll just stay onstage and charge Limit like you said~ >w>

 

[Jink8]

Nair (like Jink mentioned) since it's fast and has range, and Fair can work, too.

If I'm feeling risky enough to go offstage for an edgeguard, I'll usually use Dair can try to catch opponents recovering high. But typically I'll just stay onstage and charge Limit like you said~ >w>

Hai pan

 

[GreenMonkey]

Hai pan

Hai Jink

 

[Jink8]

Hai Jink

How's it going my good Mod?

 

[GreenMonkey]

How's it going my good Mod?

... we should talk on Discord instead of spamming this thread with irrelevant chitchat...

 

[Jink8]

Go blue people btw

 

[No0dle]

A mixup of n-airs, some b-airs, and everyone once in a while a spike fair is good because it catches them off guard if you use it sparingly

 

[ぱみゅ]

Next time please use the Q&A thread

http://smashboards.com/threads/how-does-one-cure-motion-sickness-cloud-q-a-thread.423326/