Hi. I'm a melee falco main. I got in a PM tournament, was awsome, and I know I'll come back. PM is amazing.
I got bopped by a few characters I know nothing about, namely ivysaur, lucario, and most of all : charizard. The first two I know I can handle, with my usual falco stuff like annoying lasers, nair-shine / AC bair, fishing for the death combos.
But that charizard main double 3 stocked me like nothing, I barely even could play the game.
He took the lasers for the most part, acting right out of hitstun with huge punishes. He knew what aerials to crouch cancel - grab/punish, and the ones to DI / SDI not to get shined. I just couldn't pop him up in the air, and when I finally did, I struggled way way too hard to follow up with a strong hit to get him offstage. And when I somehow managed that, I didn't have a clue about the way I should try and edgeguard him.
On the other hand he wiped off my stocks blitzkrieg style. Grab-tech chase BS, corner pressure, super strong hits on reaction to send me flying far offstage, perfect coverage on the edgeguard. (plus that one disrespect dunk when he saw I was a joke)
Now I want blood, I want my revenge. I want him to see that I came prepared next time.
So I'd love all and any advice I can get on how to make charizard's life harder. What he can't handle, how to approach and how not to, how to finish him and to edgeguard him. What to watch out for, what is he looking for in neutral typically.
Where should I take him to (I'm a PM rookie so I'm not very familiar with non-melee stages yet). What stages hurt his game (big, small, platforms ?).
Most of this stuff, I probably could find it out by myself eventually, but I figured you PM bros could help me get the charizard MU straight 10.000x faster. So halp plz
I got bopped by a few characters I know nothing about, namely ivysaur, lucario, and most of all : charizard. The first two I know I can handle, with my usual falco stuff like annoying lasers, nair-shine / AC bair, fishing for the death combos.
But that charizard main double 3 stocked me like nothing, I barely even could play the game.
He took the lasers for the most part, acting right out of hitstun with huge punishes. He knew what aerials to crouch cancel - grab/punish, and the ones to DI / SDI not to get shined. I just couldn't pop him up in the air, and when I finally did, I struggled way way too hard to follow up with a strong hit to get him offstage. And when I somehow managed that, I didn't have a clue about the way I should try and edgeguard him.
On the other hand he wiped off my stocks blitzkrieg style. Grab-tech chase BS, corner pressure, super strong hits on reaction to send me flying far offstage, perfect coverage on the edgeguard. (plus that one disrespect dunk when he saw I was a joke)
Now I want blood, I want my revenge. I want him to see that I came prepared next time.
So I'd love all and any advice I can get on how to make charizard's life harder. What he can't handle, how to approach and how not to, how to finish him and to edgeguard him. What to watch out for, what is he looking for in neutral typically.
Where should I take him to (I'm a PM rookie so I'm not very familiar with non-melee stages yet). What stages hurt his game (big, small, platforms ?).
Most of this stuff, I probably could find it out by myself eventually, but I figured you PM bros could help me get the charizard MU straight 10.000x faster. So halp plz