I wonder why it seems like I screw up wavedashes less often than shorthop aerials. I had a theory:
-SH aerial: press X to jump, press A to do aerial. I do this VERY QUICKLY since my thumb can rest on both buttons at once, so I do it in pretty much one motion, too quickly for it to register properly.
-wavedash: press X to jump, then the directional input plus the L button to airdodge. I do the direction and the L button with my left hand, so no matter what it's going to be SLIGHTLY slower than the SH aerial, which gives it enough time to register.
The reason I realized this theory is wrong is because there's another way that I try doing SH aerials sometimes: up on the control stick, then whatever direction on the C-stick. That also requires two hands and doesn't work as often as my wavedashes do.
So my conclusion is that I'm just weird.
you don't do aerials in the opposite direction of your motion as much as you might if you used the c stick
If you're suggesting that I have a problem with doing aerials in the wrong direction in Brawl, I really don't. The closest thing I can think of is sometimes I try to short hop aerial TOO quickly even for Brawl, and I end up charging an Fsmash instead.
I mean, I press X to jump and A to aerial at almost the same instant. If I do it too quickly I'll just charging or using a smash. X_X
I also noticed a long time ago: with tap jump on (which is how I play) if you're holding Up all the way on the control stick, then try to shorthop Uair (Fox is a great character to do this with since he's so fast at it) with a jump button and the A button, you'll end up doing Upsmash instead of a Shuair. If you tilt the control stick slightly up, instead of all the way, you will do a SHuair instead of Upsmash.
If tap jump is OFF, you won't have this problem (from what I remember..)
I notice this mostly when I try to fullhop fairs/bairs and I instead shorthop nothing towards my opponent and die.
I think I know what you're talking about. We should give it a name.. "unintentional short hop to the left or right" sound good?
Yay talking about random Brawl stuff!
Let's talk about ... um... I dunno?
I played Balanced Brawl once a couple weeks ago. The only thing I know they changed with Fox is that he can jump out of the end of Illusion if he uses his Side B in the air before using his double jump. It was pretty cool.
. Thank you though for checking in, I appreciate the effort at least.
