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i have one, raptor boost. it always works for me.
Try crouching repededly it annoys them
I went with Fox. His playstyle is vaguely similar to the Cap's if you took away his side B, but you have a projectile and a reflector.
1. The Knee is pretty tricky. It's got enough startlag that it doesn't come out too fast, but it's not a lot of starlag, so you keep thinking it's nearly instantaneous. I think it's about 6 frames before it comes out, IIRC. So try to input the fair about a tenth of a second before you need it.
It's fairly easy for me at the very least. I'm not sure about all the characters but on a ditto you can do it on 0%. Dash grab to down throw to nair always work on very low percent. You just need to short hop...
dthrow up air knee is a reliable kill combo if the opponent doesn't DI away.
The only use dashdance has to Falcon that I know of is if you're too close to dash grab, but too far to stand grab. Do a dashdance, but when you come forward, hit grab and you should grab your opponent. Note that you may do a pivot grab by mistake if you're not careful with your inputs. As for not being able to keep up with Falcon's speed, all I can tell you is work on it. There's no point to playing a fast character if you can't keep up, the speed becomes a liability and not an asset.
Falcon has one of the best movesets possible to punish rolling. Dashgrab has a long range, it's great for throw combos. Dash attack often combos into an upair. Your Falcon Knuckle will kill at around 130% and is about the length of most rolls. Your Falcon Kick is longer than most rolls, and will likely stay fresh since that's about the only use it has. Spotdodges are a bit trickier, but you may be able to jab your way out of punishment if you're too close. Of course, if your attack sent you behind you opponent, SH bair might be a good option to discourage retaliation.
Nair does indeed autocancel and can be used for both zoning and approaches. Tip I was glad to get: Be sure, after nairing, to hold forward or back to extend the time you're in the air and both zone better and guarantee the second kick comes out.
Bingo. Battlefield, easily. The platforms are the perfect height for his aerials and Falcon has several great ways to punish landing lag when your opponent tries to drop down to the main area.
For approaching from the air, nair and falling up air seem to be good for me. Plus, up air can string into itself or even combo into something like the knee.
Smog Frog
with Falcon you want to master most movement options, I recommend practicing dash shield, walking, dash dance and pivot dash dance (left left right right left left right etc).
Saturn_
: it's not just you, Dtilt and dash attack help a lot in those matchup in general.
Cypher99
: I'm going to update the op to cover those questions in next week. In the meantime go read the matchup thread it'll give you a good insight of Falcon's good and bad matchups.
While Falcon's dash grab travels quite a distance, it also doesn't start immediately. This is a problem, since his standing grab range is terrible. You'll want to start your grab earlier. If that's not an option, do a dashdance before the grab. You'll have a better chance of not being too close. Be careful with your inputs or you'll run away and pivot grab.
I do this all the time in matches and have some success with it (i only play for glory though..). Just as a fake out really. They think you're dashing towards them but you're just running in place. They commit, i wait for it and punish afterwards. This combined with perfect pivoting is basically my main form of movement/spacing at mid range or closer. The dashdance/dash in place is especially good when you're looking for a grab, because of the straight dash grab going too far in some cases.
I find fox trotting back and forth to be a very convenient way to get around the stage quickly. Not only does it allow you to immediately go for a dash grab or dash attack but it puts a lot of stress on your opponents mind. You can also short hop nairs to close in and space yourself.
I always mess up the spacing on the nair. How do I prevent myself from getting grabbed after a shielded nair?
ALL it takes is practice. Maybe you should look up videos of high level Captain Falcons to see how they do it.
