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Criticize Melee Players' Play

Nohbl

Smash Journeyman
Joined
Jul 20, 2017
Messages
357
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Here's a thread to talk mess about how players play.
Say what you think they are doing wrong (and how they can improve or what you would do differently, if you care to).
Make sure that it's not a generic "They suck".
 

R3D3MON

Smash Journeyman
Joined
Jan 1, 2016
Messages
436
NNID
KeeHwang2010
Mang0 needs to use waaaay more lasers with Falco.
 

Prefecture

Smash Rookie
Joined
Dec 18, 2012
Messages
13
Leffen needs to stop letting Fox carry him.
Multi-Shine chase downs and more Shield drops.
 

CkBk

Smash Rookie
Joined
Apr 19, 2016
Messages
11
Chudat needs to learn modern icies tech like sliphogs. simply giving up ledge every time a fox upb's ain't good.
 

Jamisinon

Smash Apprentice
Joined
Feb 9, 2018
Messages
99
Location
Tri-state
Mang0 needs to stop double lasering from the ledge so much. It's not safe.
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But prob needs to laser more In general. Also, Mang0 needs to start giving a crap again. He seems complacent with just streaming. There's no hunger to win. He seems to care more about his sub count than how he places at a tourney and thus we've seen him not be all that active all year BC of it.
Leffen needs to stop complaining about Marth. It's a mental roadblock like how Samus used to be, so now he's already in a position to perform poorly against Marth BC he thinks Marth wins the MU.

Most of the top players need to quit complaining about Puff for similar reasons. It feels like many of the current top players think Puff is better than Falco, Marth and Sheik. This isn't necessarily untrue but it's very very debatable. (If 4 out of the 5 best players in the world say Puff is 2nd, but 80% of people disagree who do you believe?) It's essential a pre-John b4 every set they play vs HBox. They all use Fox, who they all and 95% of people view as the consensus best character in the game. Yet they complain about a character that is at best 2nd and certainly loses to Fox in the MU. A complaining attitude isn't doing any of them any good and it's only going to make it easier for HBox to have a mental advantage over them. Armada has had recent success but HBox essentially almost owns M2K and Plup most days and he's had Leffen on download for a hot minute. There's generally not enough middle ground of giving HBox the credit he honestly deserves and respecting what Puff can do as a character. It is often 2 extremes of either Puff is broken or HBox is so clutch. It's a great player playing a great character.

Some top players need to stop undervaluing the opinions of players less accomplished or of a lower rank than themselves. Certain players seem to dismiss any advice not given to them by a top player. Yes, I'm sure it's annoying for some rando to offer bad advice but tuning out all advice is just ignorant and makes a player less likely to improve.
 
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