Best Way To Work On Fundamentals

[victinivcreate1]

So I've gotten to a point where I have nothing really to practice too much. I can do all the tech that my mains have, and I can do reads and mix ups and all that junk.

I've seen PPMD talk about stuff like working on fundamentals and neutral from this point on but how would I work on that?

 

[Raijinken]

If you have people to play with, just play and practice. If not, some people advise against playing against CPUs, but that may be your only option.

Just play. Neutral game and the "fundamentals" should come naturally.

 

[2 C H i L L E D]

To work on fundamentals, pick up a character that is purely fundamentals. Sheik, Marth and Roy are all great examples. If you main Mewtwo he also gains a lot from good fundamentals. Make sure you know the maximum range on all your attacks. Also make sure you know the earliest moment possible to act out of said moves. Simple things like that.

 

[Kankato]

If you're looking for a challenge, try performing all of your techskill while paying attention to something else. Listen to a podcast or radio show. Trying holding a decent conversation not about smash bros. Dissect an argument video someone made on the internet.

 

[Hinichii.ez.™]

Wait
Wrong thread

 

[Paradoxium]

In the neutral stay as close to the enemy as possible without being in their burst range, I asked PPMD how he got good in the neutral and he said he practiced his spacing and all of his movement options against real people and cpus.

So first you need to know all of your options and be able to perform them, then you need to work on your spacing while utilizing these tools.

I hope this helps.

 

[CyberZixx]

Read fighting game theory and truly think about the game and how it works.

 

[1FD]

Or as a great guru of smash says -Don't get hit by the things you don't wanna get hit by and hit people with the things you want to him them with

Kind of what Paradoxium and Cyberzixx just said basically. Figure out what you need to do, and work towards that.

Rajinken just hurt my soul with that terrible post (no offense rajinken but ow my soul)

As a great guru of smash also said -Don't overplay yourself into fluency, become fluent so you can play

Most people do just that, where they play way more than they should in a state of mind where they're not really aiming for anything and just seeing what happens. TRY to do cool things, TRY to get better, TRY to make something out of every single one of your matches. Otherwise, what are you playing for? Boredom? Distraction? Play the game to have fun, and you can get REALLY good at having fun if you play the game with that purpose.
Practice fundamentals/anything without really knowing what your volition behind practice/play/anything is, and you might as well just not play. It's like if you spend a day doing literally purposefully nothing, why even have that day (unless trying to do nothing is the plan, that could actually be kind of fun/interesting/eye-opening lol)
Live each day like you're doing it for fun. Practice each practice session like you're doing it to get better.

With that said
The most basic fundamental you can practice for both punish and neutral game is a little system of going
Dash > Shield > Short Hop > Aerial > Dash
And variations of the dashes/aerials in the process.
Anything you see anyone do between stocks or whatever is a branch off of this. If you're gonna do anything, do this, and branch outward. Whether it's hax doing random aerials and pivots between stocks, or m2k doing dashes into jumping reverse needle cancels. The base of the game.

Practice properly and you won't even have to play much to be good at fundamentals.
Don't need to grind a lot, just need to grind the right stuff, and you'll get all the fun-damentals you could ask for. If you know what I mean.