Dealing with iceclimbers?

[Fantasies]

Hey everyone, first post on smashboards long time viewer.

One of my main practice partners is an ice climbers main and as a marth main who doesn't know the match-up too well I've been struggling with it.
Generally dealing with:
-not getting grabbed>wobbled/handoff'd to kill percent or death
-how to approach
-what works well to wall them out
-best stages counterpick

 

[AirFair]

I have a friend who mains IC's and I've played him a couple times. What I can say is that grabbing one of them is a desync, then you just have to take it from there. Don't throw out random aerials on approach bc of shieldgrabs. I'm not too sure about stages. This is just off my knowledge alone, so take it with a grain of salt.

 

[Fantasies]

I have a friend who mains IC's and I've played him a couple times. What I can say is that grabbing one of them is a desync, then you just have to take it from there. Don't throw out random aerials on approach bc of shieldgrabs. I'm not too sure about stages. This is just off my knowledge alone, so take it with a grain of salt.

so once you grab them, I'm guessing pummelling is the best thing to do because that keeps the other IC from throwing out a smash attack to break the grab ? thanks dude I'm sure it'll help

 

[Steelo Rivers]

What I can tell you from experience is don't get grabbed, and if you can get either of them (or both) off of the stage then just ken combo whichever one you can get to. Don't spend too much time thinking about killing both, spend time thinking about getting them off stage and/or using whatever you can to desync. The higher the %, the easier it is to get one of them off stage to combo.

 

[Dominus Felis]

Don't throw out random aerials on approach bc of shieldgrabs.

Shield grabs aren't hard to deal with, you just have to space it properly.

 

[Isprayaxe]

I have lots of experience against a very annoying ice climber main so I can give you lots of tips.

I would not go in for grabs much cause if they know how to desync properly you can get punished/grabbed
Don't approach their shield EVER from the front, even if you get away its not worth tht risk
The best approach possible is Dtilt It has good spacing (like fsmash), really low lag, and can shield poke which is really important
Besides that gimp nana as usual and just be very consistent with edgegaurding. Dair and Fsmash should work nicley

 

[Dominus Felis]

Remember, you can dash cancel D-tilt really easy.

 

[Isprayaxe]

Remember, you can dash cancel D-tilt really easy.

Lol You hating? I could trash your samus in a Bo5

 

[Dominus Felis]

No, I'm just reminding everyone, I play every character in the game regularly so I use stuff like dash cancel d-tilt constantly, it's a good approach option.

 

[Isprayaxe]

Yeah its called run up down tilt lol douche. Either way M2K plays all the characters so suck a D