Buffering a roll after being death-choked?

[FTL Guy]

I remember when the game first came out, one could buffer a roll when death-choked and successfully evade Ganon's down tilt. Now, my cousin and training partner lands death choke to down tilt literally every time and I can never roll out of it. Has Ganon been buffed there? I'm really annoyed I can never roll out of it anymore.

 

[Boartobewild]

I remember when the game first came out, one could buffer a roll when death-choked and successfully evade Ganon's down tilt. Now, my cousin and training partner lands death choke to down tilt literally every time and I can never roll out of it. Has Ganon been buffed there? I'm really annoyed I can never roll out of it anymore.

Well Ganon can act quicker out of Flame choke than in Smash 4, so yes he was buffed by a couple of frames, though believe me when I say this was necessary since he pretty much got next to no reward out of flame choke for most relevant characters prior.
From what I know Flame choke is a lot more consistent across the whole cast and I think you are at least guranteed to land one option, (so Wizkick for backrolls and F-smash or Flamechoke for forward roll, etc...) provided you READ/PREDICT your opponent's tech option.

So I don't want to sound presumptuous, but is it possible that you used a character in Sm4sh, who could consistently roll away from Ganon if you teched correctly, but no longer can? Well aside from trying to guess how good your tech skill might be, but you won't get anywhere with Ganon or any other good player for that matter, if you attempt the same option over and over again, mixup being the keyword/solution here. There is nothing unfair about flame choke, it's basically the same as choosing the right ledge recovery/option.
Every Bury move is way more unforgiving by comparison.

 

[King9999]

I remember when the game first came out, one could buffer a roll when death-choked and successfully evade Ganon's down tilt. Now, my cousin and training partner lands death choke to down tilt literally every time and I can never roll out of it. Has Ganon been buffed there? I'm really annoyed I can never roll out of it anymore.

Which character are you using? Characters have different tech roll speeds, so if yours is slow, Ganon can punish it with d-tilt. Ganon has even more options now out of choke besides d-tilt, so be wary.