Fireballs.... Useful?

[BAMN]

I haven't played Brawl yet. Really want to but I have seen quite a few videos and I didn't see any threads about this:

Luigi's fireball, it looks.... faster. Is it useful anymore than it was in melee? just wondering.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Juicy]

yea its more usefull

 

[Smashbros_7]

It's more useful, but be careful while using it in the air. Unlike Mario's the fireballs die down QUICK!

 

[Biosage X]

they really had essentially the same use as in melee, as you can gimp someone of their second jump, or you use them simply for that slight stun purpose on the approach or going in for a kill.

so i wouldn't classify them really as more useful...they are essentially the same, just a tad faster on the coming out.

 

[Mario_ 101]

It looks like they increased its range.

 

[altir]

the lag on the fire ball was really to big to follow up with anything in melee how is it now? also any possibility on a short hop laser lag reducing type thing?

 

[ROFL]

here is a list of all the new fireball attributes. only your play style will determine its usefulness. heck i used down tilt in melee.


faster startup

shorter range

larger hitbox (from what i remember you can hit someone hanging from the ledge)

shorter ending lag

better for stringing combos together

faster rate of fire

 

[BAMN]

Sounds like they'll be pretty useful.
Luigi for top tier in brawl.

 

[Gunsol]

heck i used down tilt in melee.

honestly, to me, luigi's tilts are useful. i use them in the majority of my combos.

 

[supersonicdjs]

Luigi's Meteor Smash is the master of all Combo Moves.

 

[Wtfwasthat]

Luigi's Meteor Smash is the master of all Combo Moves.

what is his meteor?

 

[Smashbros_7]

A move that smashes you downwards. (it can be cancelled)

 

[Magnacor]

what is his meteor?

His dair would meteor smash people in the first frame if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Kips]

His D-Air is a meteor smash if you hit his butt. No seriously, the hitbox around his tush is a meteor smash, but the whole move is pretty darn good if you ask me.

 

[Flyingmonkey]

In melee, I used dair over fair as a KO move in case I accidentally performed a meteor.

 

[BAMN]

His Fair had a metor?...

 

[Biosage X]

His Fair had a metor?...

nah, his Dair did though

 

[BAMN]

That's what I thought, people confusing me >.<

 

[Litrid]

I don't really use em.

 

[L 17]

I only used the fireballs to disrupt charging smashes and just generally be annoying.

 

[BAMN]

In melee or brawl? I am just trying to get some insight on fireball use in brawl.

 

[Vist]

yeah, basically what ROFL said.

The fireballs come out faster and they seem to pack more of a punch. Their range definitely seems to be shorter... like maybe like the length of a couple platforms *shrug*.

As far as usefulness, they feel about as useful as they did in melee except I've kinda been forced to use them more to break the ungodly amount of campiness I've been exposed to in brawl

 

[Jiggy]

Asking if his fireballs are useful is like asking why grass is green.... it just is.

 

[Metrosexualbluehairedlord]

I always used his taunt to meteor smash... I didn't know his dair meteored.

 

[LittleKey]

Of course, fireballs are awesome, they're always useful.

 

[pyro363]

First off you have to get brawl now.

I use the fireballs to knock people off stages

 

[Da Illlest]

Its comes out faster and moves faster. I really really like to use it for fast opponents rushing at me. I have been using this alot. In melee i seen absolutley no use for it. And i also use it for range opponents who like to run and shoot, it seems to cancel out alot of range attacks. But its really only good for a slow defensive luigi.

 

[Darkslash]

Luigi's fire balls or more like Lightning balls faster and have a little but of Electricity running though them.

any ways I use them to annoy CPU's

 

[LouBega]

they're useful in the same ways they were in melee, but more.