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[Pyra]

So for anyone who has played the demo, approximately how long/how much damage did it take to fill the power meter and get the KO uppercut?

It was a lot quicker than I thought it would take.
In a 3 minute match, I was able to get the meter to fill at least 3 times. That's including the amount of times I died.

 

[STiCKYBULL3TZ]

I had a dream last night that I was playing Smash 4. *Little Mac's aerials aren't THAT bad

*Take my dream with a grain of salt

 

[quotidianmusic]

I couldn't get KO with a fair at like 200% on one of the demos. Mac is my main but oh his aerials. His aerials (((

 

[STiCKYBULL3TZ]

I couldn't get KO with a fair at like 200% on one of the demos. Mac is my main but oh his aerials. His aerials (((

Wow really? So they are as bad as everyone thinks...

 

[solitonmedic]

Wow really? So they are as bad as everyone thinks...

Not necessarily.

Mac's aerial punches may not do enough damage, but has enough flinching power to save you from a possible launch as you land.

 

[NK1046]

I went to that smash fest at Best Buy and I chose Little Mac because i was so hyped to use him, so I played as him and i surprisingly didn't have a problem the air. he has a decent jump and his recovery went surprisingly further than I thought. so what I'm saying is that Little Mac will be my main in the new game.

 

[Spirst]

Does anyone else think that Little Mac will be amazingly fun in crashing those online taunt parties that pop up so often? Think about it. All the other players will be crouching/taunting and having their guard down. You play along for a bit and then wham! KO punch. You then leave of course so they don't spend the next game gimping you and your bad aerial offense.

 

[GDX]

just pre-emptively posting here. I'll probably be here alot when the US game launches

 

[Ralph Cecil]

Ayyy already a social thread. :D I should be getting the game within the next few days and I really plan on developing this character and maybe changing a lot of people's opinions on where he stands in the grand scheme of Smash 4. :D

 

[TrueInfinity]

Great to see so many people excited to play Little Mac. I'll definitely be maining him regardless of his air game.

 

[shinhed-echi]

On one stream with Little Mac vs DK, I saw him execute what seems to be a Fair on DK who was at 150% and at least he managed to knock him away near the blast zone. So maybe when the opponent's at higher perecentages, his air game can be useful.
Granted, still among the worst, but at least its usefulness appears later?

 

[TrueInfinity]

On one stream with Little Mac vs DK, I saw him execute what seems to be a Fair on DK who was at 150% and at least he managed to knock him away near the blast zone. So maybe when the opponent's at higher perecentages, his air game can be useful.
Granted, still among the worst, but at least its usefulness appears later?

To be fair, most attacks will knock you away decently far if your percentage is high. Although it is good to see that his air game will be useful in some cases. It'll be interesting to see how Little Mac evolves as we get a chance to play him more.

 

[shinhed-echi]

To be fair, most attacks will knock you away decently far if your percentage is high. Although it is good to see that his air game will be useful in some cases. It'll be interesting to see how Little Mac evolves as we get a chance to play him more.

Exactly! I mean, we can at least count on them having some sort of knockback / gimping option at higher percenteges.

I just saw ZeRo playing like 6 matches in a row as Little Mac, and my confidence was brought back.

It seems waiting on the edge is a good strategy for people coming back up to the stage, due to Little Mac's super armor going right through the attack of the character crawling back up to the stage.

A LOT of roll-dodging and dashing is a must, apparently. It's just so fast, it's pretty much the closest thing to a wavedash I've seen in this game.

Must land that K.O. move. It's ESSENTIAL.

Little Mac struggles against Marth, Ness, and Jiggs, from what I've seen. The latter two were particularly harder to deal with.

But overall, I've regained my confidence in Mac. As long as we become pros at landing that K.O. punch, we can be pretty confident. :D

+1, Ftilt after Fsmash is a good way to catch people off guard, as it comes out SO fast!

 

[KingsHaki]

Hello gentlemen. Meet me in the ring on Oct 3rd :D

 

[ksizl4life]

Ive put in like 20 hours into this character already. Almost done getting his custom moves. I'm glad I have good reaction time, really helps when using this character, combined with some smarts of course.

F tilt is the best move in the game

 

[Shog]

I just saw on Zero a match DeDeDE vs. Little Mac, and the other player owned Zero lol. He played Little Mac like a really boxer, Patient and Punishing, not Rush Down like other suggest. Give it a try, he is good

 

[Virum]

I just saw on Zero a match DeDeDE vs. Little Mac, and the other player owned Zero lol. He played Little Mac like a really boxer, Patient and Punishing, not Rush Down like other suggest. Give it a try, he is good

Zero wasn't playing. Vex was playing.

 

[Shog]

Did you really need to stress that? I honestly don't care who played, I just liked how Little Mac had his punishing game ugh.

 

[Virum]

Yes because one player is better than the other. People will read your comment thinking ZeRo got bopped by some random Little Mac player when that wasn't the case.

 

[shinhed-echi]

Well regardless, any bit of information on Little Mac's playstyle is good for us.

I had already witnessed Mac being better overall defensively than aggressively. Seems to me that Mac MAY be just as predictable as I thought he'd be when approaching...

Howevver, a lot of the rushdown players, if not all of the ones I saw, went for a dash attack that NEVER landed. It'd be wise to mix that up with a GRAB from now and then.

But it's great to see Mac having a super fast roll dodge.

 

[GDX]

Ive put in like 20 hours into this character already. Almost done getting his custom moves. I'm glad I have good reaction time, really helps when using this character, combined with some smarts of course.

F tilt is the best move in the game

you going to be joining me and Reflex on a misson to duff everyone and everything?

 

[Ralph Cecil]

Yes because one player is better than the other. People will read your comment thinking ZeRo got bopped by some random Little Mac player when that wasn't the case.

Vex is still REALLY good lol. You realize that in just about every Smash game that Vex plays some mid tier/low high tier character while Zero pretty much always plays on of the(if not the actual) best character in the game right? It's kind of unfair to compare their skill as players if you go off of results alone and Vex is already pulling off some impressive things in this game. I'm scared to see how far he will take D3 lol.

Either way I should be getting my Japanese 3DS in a few days. :D Can't wait to try and figure out what this character can do. ^_^

 

[Virum]

Vex is still REALLY good lol. You realize that in just about every Smash game that Vex plays some mid tier/low high tier character while Zero pretty much always plays on of the(if not the actual) best character in the game right? It's kind of unfair to compare their skill as players if you go off of results alone and Vex is already pulling off some impressive things in this game. I'm scared to see how far he will take D3 lol.

Either way I should be getting my Japanese 3DS in a few days. :D Can't wait to try and figure out what this character can do. ^_^

Oh definitely I know Vex is amazing. I've seen his Brawl DDD and his PM Ganon and they're scary.

 

[JAHCruncher]

Hi all, super hyped to play the champ. Maining Mac or Samus and buying a WiiU for SM4SH. On the ClashTournaments stream a Little Mac rushdowned Zelda but suffered against Duck Hunt and a zoning Lucina! Looking forward to learning and developing this games meta!

 

[Ralph Cecil]

Was it Nakat, because if so he got me even more hyped to play Mac. :D I agree with one of the commentators though and can see it being super hard to solo main him though given how much he can lose from his weaknesses. D:

 

[Octillus]

Kinda weird that there's no Punch-Out content outside of the stage and Mac himself.

 

[NAKAT]

Sup dudes!

 

[ksizl4life]

I just played like 6 hours straight at D1s stream with D1 Tenryo and Dark Pch. heres the vod http://www.twitch.tv/d1mx/b/569142898

I never lost a set when I used Mac, stream loved it haha. I play for the first hour and a half of the video. then we went out to eat and i came back later on. Then I played 3 sets with them in the last half hour. Anytime you see the KelVindictive tag, thats me. Hope you guys can find it useful or fun to watch ^^

 

[Dabuz]

Hey guys, dabuz here, gonna be using little mac as one of my mains because he seems like a great character, so yeah, hi and get used to seeing me around here a bit.

 

[ndayday]

sup

I like Little Mac too, he is the most satisfying character to play.

basically my two things of advice are:
-don't be overzealous with your jab, if they fall out you don't get that sweet finisher. if you're starting to miss jabs finish it
-fear Mario's cape

 

[Skeeli]

I'm new around here also so whas hannin' people. I've been wanting to main little mac since he was announced, idk i was at stage in my life where I thought i wanted to be a boxer haha my brother and I even boxed in the backyard a couple times, call it my little mac training. anyways @ksizl4life I watched that whole video on your set kelvin and that **** was so hype! i lost my **** watchin you play, i really liked your style. does little macs side b have a smash version and a regular version? if so what are the differences

 

[Opossum]

So yeah, this is the section I'll be spending most of my time in now. Nice to see a lot of familiar faces here!

 

[ndayday]

I'm new around here also so whas hannin' people. I've been wanting to main little mac since he was announced, idk i was at stage in my life where I thought i wanted to be a boxer haha my brother and I even boxed in the backyard a couple times, call it my little mac training. anyways @ksizl4life I watched that whole video on your set kelvin and that **** was so hype! i lost my **** watchin you play, i really liked your style. does little macs side b have a smash version and a regular version? if so what are the differences

the haymaker only has one version, unless you count using it in the air too (it's considerably shorter)

 

[IsmaR]

Conflicted atm whether I should get Super Punch-Out!!! through Club Nintendo's rewards for this month or not.

On the one hand, I haven't played nor seen classic Punch-Out for nearly 2 decades.

On the other, I hate spending points, could probably get it cheap if something like the Super Smashing Sale happens again, etc.

 

[Ralph Cecil]

I'm going into this game like I did with Brawl. Having not played a single game of my main. I ended up playing all the MGS games afterwards though, so i'll have to see about Punch Out too lol.

 

[shinhed-echi]

Conflicted atm whether I should get Super Punch-Out!!! through Club Nintendo's rewards for this month or not.

On the one hand, I haven't played nor seen classic Punch-Out for nearly 2 decades.

On the other, I hate spending points, could probably get it cheap if something like the Super Smashing Sale happens again, etc.

Super Punch Out is an extremely entertaining and solid game. It improves drastically from it's NES predecessor.
The only flaw I see is, if we can call it a flaw, Little Mac's new appearance (if he even is Little Mac anymore), and the lack of Doc Louis.
Everything else, is pretty much better than the original. But not AS great as the Wiimake. Still, not counting the Wii version's Title Defense, SPO has more opponents. I highly recommend it if you have at least played and liked Punch Out! at some point.

 

[IsmaR]

Oh, I've played it and the remake countless times. Just meant I haven't played/since owned SP since the 90's.

My main reason against is that I've been saving my coins for a rainy day. I don't want the same thing that happened with Super Metroid to happen again (I was reluctant to get it last time because I had it on my old Wii's VC, but later when I tried transferring the memory to my Wii U, some corruption occurred so I lost it forever. By the time I went back to try to get it through Club Nintendo the rewards had changed). So it's more debating whether I should get it now vs getting it later.

 

[shinhed-echi]

Oh, I've played it and the remake countless times. Just meant I haven't played/since owned SP since the 90's.

My main reason against is that I've been saving my coins for a rainy day. I don't want the same thing that happened with Super Metroid to happen again (I was reluctant to get it last time because I had it on my old Wii's VC, but later when I tried transferring the memory to my Wii U, some corruption occurred so I lost it forever. By the time I went back to try to get it through Club Nintendo the rewards had changed). So it's more debating whether I should get it now vs getting it later.

Ah I see...

Wait, question time. You can transfer Wii VC over to the Wii U?

 

[IsmaR]

If you have the memory/SD card, yeah.

I did it with my 2nd Wii that I had sent to Nintendo to be refurbished.

 

[feeojo]

Hi every1, I just signed up! I never played as Mac but Im spending lots of time on the forums these days and wanted to sum up all the tips I've gathered so we may found out which ones are really true or add more to it. Just want to be well prepared!

GOOD MOVES:

-dash + Usmash (quick to punish)
-dash + grab (mind game)
-dash + shield + Fsmash (if opponent is attacking)
-up-tilted Fsmash (combo into up special)
-down tilted Fsmash + Ftilt (deals more damage + safe on block at max range)
-FTilt (rack up damage + safe on block if max range)
-Jab (rack up damage)


COMBOS:
-(from 0%): grab - pummel twice - down throw (sends up) - dash Usmash
-(low %): down tilt (stun) - forward tilt - up tilt or Usmash
-(20% +):down tilt + KO



STRATEGIES:

-opens up with jabs, tilts (armor or push back shield), and throws (Dont approach using smashes)
-use USmash vs short hops + anti air
-short hop KO uppercut (edge guard) / down tilt + KO uppercut
-Counter / dodge when in air/thrown off
-Roll dodging + dashing is a must
-Use super armor when edge guarding
-Side special (best aerial move) can be ended early by repressing
-activate neutral special before full charge
-use Fsmash during opponent attack (risk reward)

Any input is appreciated, thanks! Hope this will help any1 too!