C-stick > No C-stick?

[Zeron]

I've been playing Smash without the C-stick for about a year now. Doomed to slow aerials and smashes?

 

[Oskurito]

The C-stick lets you control DI while attacking with an aerial. This also helps with a lot of things not only DI'ng, for ex. the popular shine to bair is easily executed with the c-stick. Pillar with the c-stick is easier than without it IMO and things like reverse drillshine for flatland infinites with fox become less hard with the c-stick and doing shffl uairs with c-stick is a lot easier than without it. Being able to control DI is useful for well spaced bairs(ungrabbale) and for dair'ing to his/her back when pillaring to be less grabbable

 

[technomancer]

Just practice. If you're good with the A-stick, you can still play most characters well. There isn't much difference w/ characters like G-dorf and Link. It's very noticable with Marth, Sheik, Falcon, and characters that rely alot on aerial aim and don't use their nair for everything (bowsertree )

 

[_Phloat_]

Looks like you're pretty new here, so how long have you known advanced techs?

If you are just learning them it might be better to learn them with the c-stick, but if you have known them and done them for a while with the A button it might be really hard to get used to

I would try and change, but if it seems impossible after one month of trying to change the habit than you will be fine without it anyways..

I think isai uses the a button + Control stick anyways, not to be one of his fanboys, but that can be reassuring can't it?

 

[Zeron]

Yeah, I started practicing advanced techniques about a year ago, so I'm pretty used to shffling and aerials and such without the C-stick.

 

[JPOBS]

i used to never use c-stick.

now i use it a lot in certain situations (complicated ariels, doc's dsmash etc)

 

[FalconPunch]

I never used the A button for aerials. Now I am incorporating the Nair into my game. (Now a Fox as well as Falcon main)

 

[RedYoshi92]

I like to use the C stick for double stick DI.

 

[RaynEX]

C-sticking pwns. I never used it, until I found FFed uairs almost impossible without it

 

[Venom NY]

i dont think ur doomed i can play with the c stick and withouht but with the c-stick i have to say u will fast fall dair ur aerials alot better

 

[Eagle]

Ever since I had smash, which was years ago, I never used C-stick. But, now I do and it helps SOOOO much.
So yeah, even if you've been playing without the C-stick for years I still found it easy to pick up.

 

[RaynEX]

so i guess the answer would be.

C-stick > No C-stick.

At least thats what i can see most people that posted in here think. Go with that? Maybe you'll have an easier time now.

 

[4 Aces]

I would think C-stick is better considering what I've heard so much about it. I don't C-stick though and I move pretty fast, which is good, but if I c-sticked, I might be faster. Who knows? I tried c-stick once - didn't dedicate to it or anything, but I found it difficult to convert, so I didn't. The problem was that I couldn't hit the stick within the timespan necessary for a move, and when I did I would not have any control over what I hit, so it was either a random move or an unwanted uair. Also, I suck at l-canceling when I c-stick. Indeed, change is difficult.

 

[RaynEX]

All it takes is practice, practice, practice.

 

[h1roshi]

the cstick is most def the way to go. it lets all of your moves come out as fast as they possibly can. also you wont lose momentum, if you do an aerial attack in the opposite diretion than what your moving in.

ex. you do a bair while moving forward...peace

-hiroshi

 

[abit_rusty]

Just know when to switch it up, because you might want that added DI sometimes with the analog. I only c-stick my uairs with falcon, I can knee without DI using analog just fine.

 

[tsl]

I've just started learning advanced techniques, and I can do shffled aerials pretty consistently now. For now, I only use C-Stick for shffling d-airs because it's pretty easy to just flick your thumb downwards after shorthopping. It makes it amazingly easy to chain-spam shffled d-airs. But I'm much slower with all my other shffled aerials (besides n-air of course, lol,) so I plan to eventually use C-Stick for all my shffled aerials. So I use C-Stick mainly for speed, and not so much DI as others have said. But of course, I'm sure C-Stick-for-DI will get important as I get further into advanced techniques.

So yeah, another vote for C-Stick > No C-Stick.

 

[SpeedAcE]

Contrary to most of you, I find pillaring easier without the C-stick. After the short hop you can aim the control stick diagonally to initiate th Dair and then roll it completely down to start the fast fall. It seems faster for me.

The only things I can imagine using the C-stick for is Shine -> Bair/Dair and faster SHFFL's.

 

[TheKO]

There are times where the A Button is better then using the C-stick. Your attacks come out earlier without C-stick. Simply because A Button is closer to your thumb than your C-stick at the bottom of your controller. (I guess it depends on how you hold your controller though)
This is what I think, but I could be wrong.