snubbaluba
Smash Rookie
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2015
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So I'm relatively new to PM but have been absolutely loving it and have found Squirtle to be too much fun not to main.
But basically I've been exploring the hell out of him over the past few weeks and have had some frustrations with him. After exploring those frustrations I've found most of them to be pretty justifiable (like originally wondering why bubbles have so much aerial lag after, but seeing how having less could make it an absolute OP move, etc, etc).
But the one thing I still see no reason to be this crappy is his crawl attack. Like it's not a bad move by any means, I've found it to have a tonne of uses, but it's just so damn hard to actually do.
Like it's not hard to do the move just standing there, you simply crouch and then crawl attack, but it seems almost impossible to use properly in combos. For example, I've been exploring some throw follow-ups on mario and fox lately trying out a tonne of ways to follow up. But whenever you try to do the crawl attack immediately after whatever movement/moves you've been doing, he is more likely to forward/down tilt or dash attack.
So am I missing something? or is this move just crappy to use in succession of other moves? I get that forward tilt has its 3 directions, and that this move is supposed to be done while crouching, and that the control stick angle for it has to be stuffed between the two tilts, but it seems like the only way to use it consistently in combos is to give squirtle a sec to fully crouch and then do it. Thoughts? Do I just need a more accurate controller or is this crap?
As a side note: if you could properly fast-fall squirtle's side b, I feel like that would significantly improve his kit.
TL;DR Squirtles crawl attack is hard to do. wtf.
But basically I've been exploring the hell out of him over the past few weeks and have had some frustrations with him. After exploring those frustrations I've found most of them to be pretty justifiable (like originally wondering why bubbles have so much aerial lag after, but seeing how having less could make it an absolute OP move, etc, etc).
But the one thing I still see no reason to be this crappy is his crawl attack. Like it's not a bad move by any means, I've found it to have a tonne of uses, but it's just so damn hard to actually do.
Like it's not hard to do the move just standing there, you simply crouch and then crawl attack, but it seems almost impossible to use properly in combos. For example, I've been exploring some throw follow-ups on mario and fox lately trying out a tonne of ways to follow up. But whenever you try to do the crawl attack immediately after whatever movement/moves you've been doing, he is more likely to forward/down tilt or dash attack.
So am I missing something? or is this move just crappy to use in succession of other moves? I get that forward tilt has its 3 directions, and that this move is supposed to be done while crouching, and that the control stick angle for it has to be stuffed between the two tilts, but it seems like the only way to use it consistently in combos is to give squirtle a sec to fully crouch and then do it. Thoughts? Do I just need a more accurate controller or is this crap?
As a side note: if you could properly fast-fall squirtle's side b, I feel like that would significantly improve his kit.
TL;DR Squirtles crawl attack is hard to do. wtf.
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