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Falco

Diddyknight

Smash Lord
Joined
May 9, 2008
Messages
1,134
Location
Socal -> FL
i just cant fight them >.> need a general strat on beating them T_T I use double banana and i know my ground game well and my air game but falco CG Diddy from 0-spike sometimes and ledge hogs for kills. Ive tried doing 1 banana for a bit but it didnt help at all so im sticking with 2 banana out on the field. He steals my Bananas and uses them even though i powershield the banana from hitting me, he punished by dash upsmash or CG me again and punish the **** out of me. need help T_T
 

bludhoundz

Smash Ace
Joined
Aug 2, 2007
Messages
525
Location
New York, NY
Dribble and throw your bananas up a lot. This can bait out the laggy reflector and you can punish. Even if you can't punish, the more you do this, the more you are training the Falco to not reflect when you glide toss (meaning you might be able to get in a forward glide toss or two). You can also intentionally let him reflect a banana and then dash attack pick it up while his reflector is headed back in.

For the CG just keep a banana behind you if you can. Do your best not to get shieldgrabbed. Fortunately his CG works on you at low % only, so once you get past that he can't do it any more.

Throws work well on Falco, because they can help you position him where you want him: offstage. If he is offstage, you can edgeguard him or pressure him badly. His phantasm is the preferred method of recovery, so try to see when he's going to use it and interrupt or punish. If he activates his firefox move, you have a good amount of time to run over and interrupt / gimp / edgehog him.

Onstage is where you will have the most trouble with him. Try to get him into the air (above you is best, he can't reflect downward like fox or wolf), you outrange him by a little and you have bananas. Offstage like I said is also good too because despite his "I prefer the air" slogan, against you he won't.

You have to be really careful with the nanas though sometimes. Falco's glide toss is beastly, and his dash attack is fairly good for picking them up. Not to mention the obvious issue of his ability to reflect them fairly far in front of him.
 

ADHD

Smash Hero
Joined
Feb 18, 2008
Messages
7,194
Location
New Jersey
you gotta rely on your naner less skills alot more than with them, dont worry about the chaingrab at all you should still be able to get back up... you can utilt him a few times at zero percent, if you keep getting carefully in his face you'll have forty damage before you're even grabbed

Edit: your tilts are REALLY good in this matchup do not neglect them, also falco seems kinda stiff so dash attack him while he's doing that SH laser **** mindgames
 
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