Certain Play Styles Destroy Me

[Timbroslice]

I normally lurk here, but I made an account just to get some perspective. I am a FG warrior and play quite a bit. Know decent techniques, all that junk. I feel like I'm a pretty decent player until I run into someone who plays a certain way online. Those would be people who swing and roll.

For the most part if the other person rolls away from me I can punish pretty easily. Just follow the roll and grab, or dash attack. If you roll into me or spot dodge me it's a completely different story. People will throw out dash attacks, smash attacks, and just spot dodge or roll into me immediately after. I dont know how to punish this. I have tried pivot grabbing which really only works on spot dodges sometimes. But even if I KNOW they are going to roll through me there is not much I can do. If I turn around and run into them, I'm most likely going to get hit by a dash attack, jab, or dsmash. If I shield any of those they just spot dodge or roll through me again.

I'm hoping there are some options I'm just not realizing. I would really like to figure out what I'm doing wrong. The amount of rolling in this game is really new to me. I play a lot of Pit if that helps... Also just send me a message if you want to body me and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I just want to get better.

Thanks guys

I only have a 3DS by the way

 

[Locuan]

Welcome to Smashboards! First of all, there are many resources you can utilize to improve your gameplay. First, I recommend going to the Pit Character Sub-Forum:
http://smashboards.com/threads/any-mods-like-project-m-coming-for-ssb4.394338/

There you will find a lot of links and resources you can utilize to improve. Additionally, if you would like to find other people to play against on the 3DS feel free to utilize the 3DS FC Sharing Thread:
http://smashboards.com/threads/the-3ds-friend-code-sharing-thread-find-opponents-here.340319/

From reading your post it seems to me that you are getting hit from attacks because you are dashing/running most of the time and your options to evade your opponent becomes limited. Try walking more instead of running. This gives you the ability to have all of your defensive/offensive options available.