I got some new matches up! Really trying to improve for a tournament coming up bunch of **** monsters gonna be there.. their pretty decent matches all advice/critique appreciated, RayneX I'm looking at you >:
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-Put up your shield more. You get hit by alot of randon attacks that Sion didn't even string together properly. After getting hit by an aerial, you'd try to run in and attack immediately after instead of trying to regroup. You ate alot of easily avoidable hits that way. Remember that you have to stay mentally aware of what moves he's throwing out and move around them as safely as possible, without compromising the space advantage you have on Falco. Your objective is to get close and pressure him so he doesn't laser you and stop your flow/movement from a distance. With that being said, you need to weave around his attacks while still keeping that closeness, in order to punish him severely with grabs/shines if he whiffs. This is part of why the match-up is so hard.
-Refrain from illusioning onto the stage after being knocked off, or coming from the edge. This match-up is worse for you in the Fox ditto in the sense that, if your opponent is capable enough, you can die/take HUGE damage from a single hit. Shine, grab, dair, nair. If you leave yourself open even for a second you've basically given your opponent 50% for free. This goes for even mid-level Falcos, so be careful. Try to be more patient when coming back onto the stage, and cycle through your options quickly - instead of choosing the one that gets you back on the fastest.
-First match, 0:41 - THINK. He's coming back with invincibility. Don't run around spamming techskill, or you'll use a stock. If you hadn't died, you could have potentially landed a grab and done quick/heavy damage in a matter of seconds. Treat all your stocks as if they were your last. Play it safe/smart.
-First match, 0:49 - Opposite scenario this time. When YOU have invincibility, use it to your advantage! Showing off your techskill isn't going to kill your opponent. You WD off the platform, DJed, lasered, naired through it and ran in the other direction. All of this was done while your opponent was on the other side of the stage, waiting for your frames to run out.
-First match, 0:52 - The shine combo was completely d.i.able. This happened alot in the matches I watched. I'm pointing out the first instances of these things I feel you should work on though, so I apologize if they seem extremely bunched together. Back on topic: You could have d.i.ed the dairs AND the shine. D.i.ing the dair to escape the stair-step dair is pretty difficult...but on the shine all you had to do was hold away. Don't let him combo you like that man! Make him work for it.
-First match, 1:14 - Don't jab if they block your aerial. You'll get shield-grabbed or punished in another way. In this instance you got shine-baired. Go for the shine and pressure them if they block your aerial.
-Second match, 2:30 - Why did you d.i. into him on that nair? D.i. away from that ****.
-I don't want to point this out again, but it happens over and over and over. When you opponent comes down after you've just killed them. PLAY IT SAFE. You've lost so many stocks by running around shffling and not paying attention to your opponent. Its equivalent to turning your back on your opponent in a boxing ring at the beginning of the second round.
Painful.
-3:24 - Work on making your edge-guarding less random, more pinpoint and fluid. Lucky he suicided that time. But yeah, grab edge and bair or something. Standing there spamming shine would do anything man.
-I take back of what I said earlier. Your d.i. on his nairs and shine gradually improved as the set progressed. Good to see that.
-All in all, pretty solid. Clean up your edge-guarding and make it so that your opponent is afraid to be knocked off at any percent. M2k style, basically. There is always room to improve edge-guard. Reaction speed, move selection, and scenario predicting (i.e. will they go low, high, sweetspot) and covering those options are key factors in edge-guarding at high level. Work on landing those simple combo finishers. Don't over complicate combos if all you need is a bair to edge-guard. Work out your shield more. Incorporate shield WDs to move fluidly through lasers.
I'm honestly probably reiterating alot of information you already know with this light commentary. Hope I helped anyways.
My timing for SDI sucks ***, even though in other things I have really good timing.
I should just go to like a BtT mode that has burners and test that, right?
So I know that you can shine @ around 20% when you're being CG'd by Marth, but what about Fox? If you don't DI he gets a usmash, if you DI he gets another grab?
Are you talking about Fox on Fox? If so, Fox can CG Fox/Falco until 80% in they continue to d.i. left or right. If you neutral d.i. Fox's throws you can escape with a jump or shine at exactly 55% (which is the exact percent good opponents will utilt combo you at). Oh, and Fox can get an usmash or grab regardless of whether you d.i. or not. You should know this, you're a Fox main. Once you get grabbed you are going to eat a hit - no way around it.
Then read back like 7 posts
I'm also having trouble picturing most of that in my head. If I saw it being done, it would make sense and feel less impossible. lol
