Hi my school is going to have a tournament next Tuesday...
Just a few general questions I have also like;
::Wii mote or game cube, I've been using game cube but if wiimote could have more potential i will practice on that.
::What characters are best to master; I used to play diddy kong and peach a lot. i seemed to be really good with peach but apparently she is outclassed by other characters.
::any other tips and trick to practice would be really helpful.
The advice you are looking for and the advice I am seeing being handed out I am unsure of.
For a pick of controller, going with what you have learned in the past is usually best. Since you have a short deadline, it doesn't make sense to go and completely relearn a new style of controls which will take time and even by tournament still give you some issues. However, since this is a school tournament I am not certain of the type of wii they might use. For example, Nintendo stopped making the old wii that supports the backwards compatibility. Your school tourney might or might not use the older Wii's which support gamecube controllers. As a back up, it might be useful to familiarize yourself with the wii classic controller. Its the closest feel you will get to the gamecube which you said you are accustom too.
You cannot really expect to pick up a character and feel comfortable with them in a few days. You have a short time span and its probably best to stick with what you already were use too. Also, since this is a school tourney I personally wouldn't expect to see many outstanding players expect maybe one or two. For example, something like falco's chain grab to his Down aerial spike move is rather effective against people who have not really faced it before.
The only tip I could give is try to match the environment you will be playing in. If you know the tourney rules, try to match in your matches against cpus or anyone on wifi if you have it. Other than that, most advice given would come down to your pick of character. Even then, the advice given might not always be the best since it may depend on a number of things. Within a school tourney you will see more people who play the brawl with friends just to play and never put in any extra practice outside of that. Then you will have people like yourself who are specifically trying to improve and are willing to put in the time to improve. When this happens, you do have this competitive and casual mindset when it comes to playing and it affects your decision making.
Against competitive person who is use to teching G&W's dthrow, I will forgo trying to dsmash and instead attempt to get a read on a roll perhaps since I know they know that g&w dsmash doesn't work if you tech. However, in a more casual oriented person this knowledge is rarer to see and I fully expect them to get hit by dthrow -> dsmash. This is the sort of thing I meant by the advice sort of depends. For a school tourney, I would recommend picking up the more gimmicky things that are not suppose to work, but will given the lack of experience in a match. Falco's CG to spike is a prime example of such a character. Spamming tornado and dsmash as meta knight. Inhaling someone next to the ledge as kirby and spitting them out underneath the stage. Stuff like that.
Melee is indeed harder but Brawl is still very hard at high levels of play. In Brawl thinking is important. Don't be predictable, watch the opponent's habits and abuse them. Almost everyone has habits, worse players always have some really bad ones.
lol You make it sound like brawl involves more thinking than melee. Fox drill shine -> usmash, uthrow -> uair -> uair. Meta knight sh fair -> dtilt -> dtilt -> dtilt -> sh fair -> nado. Both involve their moments of dumbness and need to think
although Melee is harder , its still completely different from brawl, to the point where if he focus's on playing melee, and just melee, he'll do very badly in a brawl tournament.
Play both games and in different communities for a couple years and you'll realize the two are much more similar than you might think. Its sort of weird. Playing in one will help you play in the other. However, I would agree that you might not see this helping affect until after you played either game for awhile. Analogy: Each character might have a different set of movements and actions, but many strategies for each character are relatively the same. The only difference is applying those strategies with different tools.
