I know wifi vs local has been covered to death so I'll say this quickly, I think GaW gets more from input lag than Peach (or did he use ZSS?). It still shows us some stuff, and keeps with the narrative that he has a real GaW problem. But I would bet he would at least put up a few games in a local match. That said, sometimes those problem MUs get worse as they become more familiar with why exactly they are abusing you.
Is there anyone in the PGR that Maister lost at first but has been beating recently? The reason I wonder how GaW fares as people learn the MU comes down to light a lot, that MU seems explosive but also tough for Fox compared to other top characters. His range and recovery are a problem, and while he does blow GaW really quick that is offset by how hard it is to combo GaW (and tons of fox damage is pressure strings, not combos).
On the other hand, Light is a parry master so as he learns GaW'/ maister's timing it makes sense he will start doing better. But this is what I mean about people learning GaW, everyone has the parry available (though not the same punishes and light is probably the best by a decent margin, rapidly closing as I see more and more parries optimized).
I want someone to bring out Parry Footstool Canceling in a game. That ish looks pretty good, and it seems like something you could do semi-consistently in a real game if people are doing attack canceling consistently.
I think he tried using
the first couple of games, but it didn't work out very well; that said, their session ended in a 27-4, I believe. The thing is, offline looks even more tragic where Maister's currently 4-0 against Samsora, and he hasn't even taken a single game off of him with his
, only able to take 2 games off of him in total with
. Theoretically, if Samsora (and ESAM for that matter) decide to train up their ZSS's, then they honestly shouldn't have too much trouble given that ZSS is a tough match-up for both
and Maister himself. That said, if Samsora chooses to stick it out with Peach, that'll be a tough hurdle he needs to go over, though I have a feeling he'll get there someday.
Outside of Light, Kameme managed to get the runback as well in close game 5 set at Let's Make Big Moves, though he opted to use
instead of
. Gluttony also won against Maister at PSG Classic 2019 after losing to him at Smash Factor 8, though Maister managed to reset the bracket against him. Cosmos did lose to Maister again at a local (The Cholulean Prime), but the games were far closer than their encounter at Nightmare at Smashville, with Cosmos even resetting the bracket against him. ESAM lost to him once more at the pre-Glitch 8 event, and T pretty much got mauled both times he fought Maister (both at the PSG Classic and Kongo Saga). Funny enough, I think the most Maister's ever gone back and forth with is yeti (Area 51 almost counts?), and they have a LOT of sets together. Off the top of my head:
Retro Arena 64 - Yeti
won twice against Maister
, both in Winner's and Grand Finals.
Combo Breaker - Maister
won twice against Yeti
, both in Winner's and Grand Finals, while Yeti reset the Grand Finals bracket.
Ragnarok - Maister
won against Yeti
in Winner's Finals.
Super Smash Con - Maister
won against Yeti
in Top 24 Loser's.
Port Priority 5 - Yeti
won against Maister
in Winner's Semi-Finals.
They have a looooonnnggggg history, and they make for some of the most entertaining sets around because of it.
It'll be interesting to see if parrying does become a bigger thing in the future. Funny enough,
profits quite a bit from parrying as it actually gives him some decent kill options out of shield in the form of FTilt and DTilt (USmash won't be hitting anything out of shield, and Fire sure won't be killing anyone at a reasonable percent).
