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to this day I will not get why Link lost his jab cancelis only above low tier to either
Remember that at release we had a Link with a much faster jab, the ability to cancel landing lag with bomb throws, and the ability to attack with a bomb in hand. I'd put him in the bottom rungs of the cast without a second thought now, but in the early days things were looking good for Link.
Even Kirby has been described as Anti Meta with the tools to beat some top tiers, though not hang with them. It is cool though.
Because Link would have potentially take Top Tier spots. However, this isn't much of a hindrance, and Link is still a solid and viable character.
Even so, Link is still a solid character. He's got the third most powerful dash attack (behind King Dedede and Ganondorf), has great aerial mobility and attacks, very powerful attacks and some good combo and string game. As well, he also provides a very powerful Forward Smash, which is one of the strongest in the game, and his D-Smash is very dangerous to roll into due to its semi-spike properties. He's also got one of the more dangerous U-Airs, mainly due to how it will always hit air dodging opponents (thanks to its lingering hitboxes) and deals high damage and knockback.
That's one thing out of 4 of Falco's; Dash Attack, Falco Phantasm's FUBAR'd hitbox, a slower than Melee grab, and in a way, Dair which could have kept its frame 5 hitbox as just a weird get off me hit, a frame 14 or 16 spike, and the rest as a late hitbox. The rest of Link's kit is still pretty strong and disjointed - stupid Dair horizontal hitbox. Nobody can get a perfect balance and man, Link's jab cancel was pretty stupidly handled in my opinion. Increasing that IASA that much from 19 to 27? Look, it could have increased to 23 instead of making it almost half a second. Does the game still tell you that Link can jab to other things? Yeah, it's true, but it's also a lie since it's like jab to Up Smash with Ganondorf. Fox's IASA for jab is 17? which could have been upped a frame or two if it was that bad, but nope, it's left as is while Link's was increased by 8 frames. Oh, 8 frames, that's not bad. Fox's Up Smash is frame 8 and it's fast, but laggy. It should have been enough frames where Link couldn't "infinite" which you could DI or SDI out of, but it shouldn't have been enough frames where he can't even get decent stuff out it.
You think Link would be top tier if he had his jab cancel? He would not have even been high had he had the luxury of keeping that crutch.
Hey, it worked for Pokémon Trainer... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Falco's blaster is useful for stealing jumps, as well as getting some damage when you throw people off-stage... but that's about it. A shot that deals 3% takes a freaking second to come out isn't good at almost any situations. Sure, it may be useful as a good flinching move, but you can barely get anything about it. Reflector does a better job for most part.
Well, you forget, if you give Link the Meteor Bombs, he becomes far better than one thinks.
doesnt TL still have all of these except the last one?
His jab was untouched, both bomb techs were removed.
Now, Link does have those few holes, but he is still quite versatile in his own right. He might not be as good as people want to believe he's be, but he's an overall versatile character who belongs in middle to low-high tier territory.
, because while generally expected to be mid/low-mid tier, he does pretty damn well against some of the best characters in the game., because despite obvious weaknesses, many of his matchups need an asterisk. He just does so much off of reads that it's impossible to count him out regardless of percentage.
Uhh no. Three BIG differences between Ganondorf and Little Mac:
Yes. DTilt and FTilt are more or less safe on shield. Safer than anything Ganon has, anyway.
Your evaluations are getting slightly better (PK Fire for instance, is very unsafe in this MU, not least because Jiggs can DI out of it like nobody's business and proceed to punish us for even thinking about a followup but also because she can jump right over it or shield and DA even with her poor ground speed), but Jiggs doesn't beat Ness. She's annoying for us, don't get me wrong, but we can challenge her air game really well, and we kill her at 108% with Bthrow from centre stage FD without any rage at all (86% with full rage). Even when we're not killing with Bthrow, we'll be killing at similar percents with Bair or Uair, and if nothing else Nair like 40% later.
Really?
I think you're forgetting Ganon's usmash.
As far as I know they're not absolutely safe but not a lot can challenge them.
True, though it's a little bit harder to go up to someone's shield as Ganon and USmash than to approach as Little Mac and DTilt/FTilt.
Oh by the way, I remember a video someone made where they photoshopped Ness, Luigi and Bowser on to the faces of the guys in the risen to the top video and it was great. :3
Kirby is adorable. It's a response to EL.
Hmm yeah, Mario in Brawl was pretty underrated to indeed.
Yet surprisingly irritating to fight against as Diddy.
