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Q&A -Fox Advice/Questions Topic-

EWC

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Pre sure Zelgadis played neutral foxxxxx

also he didn't invent waveshines or shine spikes but he sure did popularize them
 

Sinji

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Could be Merkuri. He came down to jamaica last year and I crushed him. He's been trolling the jamaica thread since then.

Its probably Merkuri impersonating the real erasor from jamaica. Notice the period after the word Erasor.
 

FireFly

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Whats the best way to edge guard peach? any advice?
Peach has tricky recovery. If they are coming from high in the umbrella then you can pressure with bairs but they will probably alternate fast falls and umbrellas. When they get low enough you can fsmash, usmash, ftilt, bair, or uair from ledge because they really have no options. If they are below the stage and have float available then be careful with shines/bairs. If you hit them with bairs then they will eventually be above the stage with their only option to umbrella. That's when you can bair, uair, fsmash, or usmash.

If anyone can get a priority list or discussion on attacks that beat out umbrella/float attacks then that would be great.
 

Sinji

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@ trahh lol. I meant as players not people.

Their skill and transformation to the melee community contributed to future generations to take up and maintain the metagame or even make it better.
 

Fortress | Sveet

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I'm driving behind a car with plates "SW MW" and all I can think is "damn she must have some good tech skill

:phone:
 

Pengie

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Against Peach, I find that the safest thing to do is to force her to grab the edge; once she grabs the edge she doesn't have very many safe options for getting back on because of hep double jump. Mostly focus on spacing bairs on her recovery until you she looks like she's going to take the edge then you stand at a distance where you can react to whatever she decides to do to get back on. You might even be able to sneak in an up air to finish the job as she's falling back to the stage. To my knowledge, Fox can't really beat the umbrella due to how disjointed the hitbox is and I believe that it has some invincibility on start-up, making most attacks lose to it.
 

Walt

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Pre sure Zelgadis played neutral foxxxxx

also he didn't invent waveshines or shine spikes but he sure did popularize them
He did play blue fox. and to some degree he invented moonwalking. not entirely but he figured out how to do the weird ones with a lot of characters.
 

Wenbobular

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Jump behind her to grab to ledge when she up-b's
I've never done it before (but only because I never think about it in time) but Winston does it and it seems like it works for him
 

Winston

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The jump from behind thing is basically is if you are onstage and she is below the stage but hugging the edge. This usually happens if you shined her off but didn't wavedash offstage.

Normally you'd try to wavedash onto the edge and use invincibility to shine her, but if she's already in position she can just umbrella as you try to do it and hit you. But if she's already in that position, you can jump backwards around the umbrella trajectory and grab the edge from behind her to edgehog.

It's just a situational trick, but it does come up fairly often (usually when you shine her offstage while shield pressuring or something), and it does work. Peach's umbrella takes a surprising amount of time during the rising animation if you think about it, so you have time to do it.

Does anyone know how consistently it works vs Doc's wallhug? I feel like it usually does but I'm not confident enough to use it in tournament.
 

KirbyKaze

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Edgeguarding Peach is bleh. She goes so high from your Bair and Nair if they don't kill her (and the latter kills at 165%+ on some levels).

But in general if you can shine her, do it. Grabbing the edge when she's coming in low or just above the edge is good. From there you can ledgehop shine her or drop off shine her appropriately (sometimes you must combine them to make drop double jump shine, which is good for getting her if she floats too low and too close, but be careful as it can be difficult to abort mission in this position and shine doesn't have much range). She doesn't lose her float when she Up+Bs, however, so be aware you may need to shine her more than once. Keep track of how much time she has on her float and use invincibility wisely (refresh if you think it's safe; in this case I personally think it's best to ledgehop to refresh invincibility because it's more innocuous than a firefox stall).

Winston's thing about jumping around her Up+B hitbox (or behind, if that makes more sense) is somewhat applicable here if you run out of invincibility and she makes a gamble for the edge.

You can down smash her Umbrella if they fail the sweetspot or if you super time with the invincible legs. Whichever. Not a great choice, but if you can't make it to the edge for whatever reason it's probably the best option you have onstage (unless they don't go for the sweetspot so you can shine her, but that requires her to be so high she could almost make it onstage with the parasol; this sometimes happens, though so keep that in mind).

Otherwise hit her with Bairs. Ledgehop Bairs, full jump double jump Bairs, etc. Just some kind of Bair.

At about 95%+ (stage dependent, not sure on exact percents) you can use Uair instead of Bair if you think you can hit it. This will kill her and drastically shorten this whole edgeguarding thing, which is dandy. I find most Peaches aren't actually good at SDIing the Uair; I find more often than not they press for a variety of inputs and this produces an action that shifts their character slightly so they only get hit by the first hit; this is why many Peaches question how they lost their jump / float after being thrown by Fox and "SDIing" the Uair.

And as usual, if they're at 80%+ (again, stage dependent) and for whatever reason you can up smash them, do it.
 

Winston

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You can down smash her Umbrella if they fail the sweetspot or if you super time with the invincible legs. Whichever. Not a great choice, but if you can't make it to the edge for whatever reason it's probably the best option you have onstage.
I don't have any experience with the invincible legs, but I think the jump around option is ideal for the situation where you don't have time to get the edge before she gets in position to do a sweetspot up B. As far as I know Peach has to hug the edge to sweetspot, and once she moves close enough to it she's pretty much committed to it since she can't move back fast enough, or move backwards using up B.

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7002/upb.gif

The hitbox is pretty far in front of her, and the rising part of the parasol takes 40 frames, so there's plenty of time. You could also shine her head this way if you need to for some reason.

If she positions herself farther back to avoid this that lets you do something else I think, such as grab the edge or hit her because her head's poking above stage level.
 

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If peach is floating on the ledge level, you can short hop shine spike.

If shes over the ledge level, ledge hop bair and land on the edge of the stage. this way if she backs up and dodges the bair, she will be forced to do a falling fair because her float timing will run out soon. Thats when you jump in place>shine then hold on to the ledge.
 

unknown522

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Yo lovage, I saw your set with Shroomed. You did really well, but the only real piece of advice I can give is that you could probably use u-tilt some more vs him. In the beginning of game 2, he was running around and spamming SH n-air. If you walked back and u-tilted, you could've possibly started a combo. Also, if he's jumping around or standing in his shield, you can pressure with b-air, then space u-tilt on his shield. Also, if you hit with said b-air while he's in the air, you can stalk him from underneath then u-tilt him once or twice (depending on percent of course).

If you don't want to have you back turned, then instead of doing n-air -> shine pressure, then you can try to cross his shield with n-air, and then u-tilt from behind him. You can probably catch an action OoS, or force him to roll.
 

Pi

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As in run, dash cancel, shine, shine cancel, upsmash?
yea that

i can't land it on marth...i feel like i'm doing it pretty quick and it's got to be close to landin....
i shall practice some more

i think dash shineupsmash is pretty op lol

gonna stream it
here

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kniht

halp

got it on marth couple times but think ima just run shinedash upsmash instead
still need it on those it knocks down though
 

trahhSTEEZY

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as in, unless your punishing a really laggy move, it's requires too much commitment to be solid..i agree, to an extent. i heard awhile back that lovage reacts inbetween the shine & the usmash, deciding to continue with the usmash if the shine hits or just techchase/wd after instead

could be wrong idk
 
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