as for preparing for your match (what's his name btw) you should definitely ban FD and you should pick brinstar if you're good at it (fox destroys falco on brinstar imo, that was my old school counterpick in 2010) or yoshi's if that gets banned out.
BUT
if you're really willing to practice weird stages just to win on your opponent's inexperience, you're gonna be really disappointed if you ever travel to a major tournament in the US. not only will all your crutch stages be banned but we will be a lot better at neutrals than you lol.
so, as a long term strategy, i would suggest shifting your stage priority to battlefield, yoshi's and dreamland. those are the 3 most commonly played stages in the game at tournament level. they deserve the most attention by far.
FALCO
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first of all, frame traps barely exist in melee. like they do, but i'm almost 100% sure it isn't what you're thinking of. and please, NEVER have a defeatist attitude about certain gay things in this game (falco combos, marth combos, peach bull****.) there is always an answer to tough techniques as long as you have the execution and experience to pull it off.
good offense > good defense
as for dealing with pressure and that stuff. the way i try to play it is with offense over defense. knock him down and make it really really hard for him to get back up without getting *****. be creative with uair, utilt, weak bair and shine to extend your combos. 5% or 50%, just always go for the best damage possible (unless you can get better stage advantage with a spike or drill or something.)
don't **** up edge guards
make your edge guards vicious, never ever allow him to illusion into you without getting utilt -> baired, never let him recover onto the ledge if he firebirds at an angle below you. hint on dealing with firebirds: depending on what position they're in, there's a good chance they will angle their up+b above you and then fastfall down to the ledge. be patient as hell with your bairs, you need to ledgehop as late as possible and DI the correct way to cover as many of his firebird angles as possible. at medium percent you only have to execute one time and he's dead.
the out of shield game
out of shield game: you want to be really really good at shine oos for when he makes small spacing mistakes, as well as shieldgrabbing when he makes BIG mistakes (it happens from time to time, developing a strong reflex for it is smart cuz everyone makes mistakes.) don't really try to do usmnash oos. the timing is very hard, it only works vs. ******* with no tech skill or when they make a big mistake (grab often better.)
aerials out of your shield work but the spacing is ALWAYS very specific. if he crosses up your shield with an early-ish nair/dair, and he lands behind you out of range for shine, you should be able to freely kick him in the back of his head. being able to aerial out of shield but it takes some experience to see when it's applicable. so overall shine oos is the most versatile/useful as long as you can get good at it.
summary
the overall idea is: execute well (big damage combos, big edgeguarding,) **** him as hard as possible for every mistake he makes, don't rush in dumbly (don't have time to write a paragraph about this right now sry) and don't get frustrated if u **** up and die at 30% or sidestep on accident and take 70% from a combo.
i am so fking bored i just want diablo 3 to come out
This is exactly what I needed, thanks!
I don't plan to enter Melee when I go back to the states. I am just not dedicated enough to the game, I am a Brawler. I also have this problem that whenever I play Melee my Brawl execution drops a bunch. This won't help me at a big national/international which is when I'm coming back, I can't just simply "underestimate" (By playing Melee while preparing for a USA tournament) the other pros. I know it doesn't make sense since Melee is way more technical than Brawl, but that's my case. I wish I could play both games at a high level since I really, really love Melee, I growed up playing it with Fox and his green constume
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But I did played Jason in January, and it was very fun to play him. He 4 stocked me with Marth/Sheik no problem, but I could almost take games off of him in Fox dittos lol. I wonder how he can play both games with no problem at all, when I asked him, he said like "Dunno lol" haha.
What I mean with this is that I simply want to win the Melee tournament this weekend AND beat Zein in particular, since I have this kind of rivalry with him since last year, and I have never beated him in tournament, BUT I always come up very close to do so in Wf's/GF's sets, which is why I am preparing myself in stages he hates, or asking you, the pros, some cool tricks/strats, so that I can beat him this weekend.
Also, thanks for the tips Lovage
. Oh and I would love to play D3 as well, haha. Which my computer could run it, though. I can barely run League of Legends at super low settings, haha!
It's zein right?
You have a decent window to punish falco's pressure. If he comes in with a low aerial, then punish him after he shines. That's the best chance (assuming he doesn't double shine). If he does an early aerial, then punish that. Since shine oos is the fastest, it's your safest option.
If you can hit a d-air then go for it. You can combo stuff out of it
Yes.
So my opportunities to punish Falco'spressure are:
Early aerials, shines and poorly spaced Lasers with a FH/SH depending of the moment he is doing it. For example if I know he's gonna laser I can just FH and hit him from above while he is on his laser animaion and get him off the stage, or if he's gonna do a retreating laser, I can just N-Air him, etc. Correct?
And then I punish depending of how he spaced it, and how much lag he has on his aerial. Correct? Also, thanks again bro =)
Also, what do you guys think of shielding Falco's laser then WD'ing back/forth/in place to not get out-spaced? Is this a decent idea? Or is it better to stay on the offensive and NOT allow Falco to do his thing, or better said, shoot lasers and pressure our loved Fox. Basically, like instead of dealing with Falco's stuff with shields and stuff, you can just simply "Move out of the box" and put him in awkwards positions, where it is more likely that he will make mistakes. And when he does a mistake I need to make sure to capitalize in the hardest way possible, and never miss any oportunity. That's the game plan, vs Falco, correct?
