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There is no real 'standard' when it comes to button presses. I can shdl using y and b basically everytime, but do it in which ever way is easiest and most comfortable for you. If you need to claw to do it more power to ya
Yes it is and there's no need to slide your thumb. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIObkVZ3oA
It can/should be faster. You can input the first laser at frame 4, 5 or 6. The quicker you are, the lower the height of the first shot (best way to practice is on a dummy Link as I think you need to do it as fast as possible to land both lasers). If you're consistently doing the SHDL as fast as possible, it means you can also consistently JC shine since it's the same timing (pressing B at frame 4). Remember that if you input it too quickly, Fox won't do anything though. The timing is the toughest part.
I call it the Fox Bible for a reason. XD
Yes. It's possible. Just gotta be fast. And find a method that works for you, while being able to play regularly in a match (don't use standard holding, then convert to claw midmatch just to pull off lasers. >.> Doesn't seem worth it to me)
For dair it depends on the opposing player. It has 9 cooldown frames upon landing and very low shieldstun, so the timing is really tough for the opponent. Sometimes they'll land half or most of them in time, sometimes they never will. It's definitely worth the try, specially the first couple times as they haven't had the chance to practice it. Stop trying if he's super warmed up and won't miss.
If you hit their shield high then you will probably get shield grabbed. It's usually a good idea to time/space your aerials to be the max distance possible while being as close to the ground as possible.
How to approach is generally a question that can't be answered because it depends on so many factors.
It's really easy to shine sheik when she's off stage.
Waveshine Usmash is guaranteed, you should only go for it at kill % tho because you have more rewarding punishes from grab/uthrow
Haven't finished all the matches yet. But after watching the first one and half the second, I don't really get why you don't pressure the edge/side of the stage they're trying to recover from; you're just sitting there double lasering and letting them have a free ride back. Other than that, looks solid.
Move your control stick downward like you normally would for the shield drop (don't do it too fast though or else you'll spot dodge), then roll your stick to the back air position and hit A. Or just use the C-Stick and get the Bair.
Do I have to pre emptively predict the u tilt or can I do it after it hits my shield?
After it hits your shield because you have to shield the attack first. And it's worth mentioning that shield drops can be buffered in shield stun it's pretty small but it only helps that you can buffer it. So you can input it slightly early and still get it.
You can react.
Control stick buffers for 3 frames. X/Y don't buffer at all.
Fox's combat is, for the most part, neither strictly aggressive nor exclusively defensive. It's a hybrid, because dash dancing inherently moves you towards (aggression) and away (baiting / defense) at certain points during the motion. What makes dash dancing so powerful is the high amount of control you have over how much "towards" or "away" you apply to the motion, and how you can change this to match the situation you're presented with.
High ceiling and the dumb awful platforms can screw up your tech skill if you're not careful. It's definitely better for very grounded characters like sheik or marth.
FoD is one of Sheik's best stages. The lower platforms can also help Marth with his tipper.
I feel like you dash dance and do nice baiting tactics (like that sort of vertical dash dance on the platforms), but then you go in at the wrong time or when you just shouldn't. For example, at about 4:47-4:51, you dash dance a bit and then do a full hop nair (not sure if it was meant to be a short hop or not). Either way, in that position, the falco can get free hits on you. There's not a TON of this happening, but there is a decent amount of it. I think it happens a lot in game 3. Whether or not it works on this opponent, I don't think it's a good idea to approach like this - move around a bit to mess them up, but then go in kind of blind hoping to surprise them. You want to take advantage of their mistakes after they make them than to try to do things that may invoke mistakes from them that aren't actually safe.
One of the big things that I noticed was that your edgeguarding was pretty weak. It looked like you were only trying to predict which recovery option he was going to choose instead of either reacting to it, or covering multiple options at once. Because of this you end up pretty far on stage in situations where he was up bing super close and you should have been able to shine him and get the kill. If you're not particularly comfortable with reacting for whatever reason, some things you could do to cover lots of options at once are things like immediately forward smashing once you knock him off of the stage; this covers an immediate side b and also gives you enough time to catch delayed side bs with something like a sh nair and it lets you cover most of their up b options by grabbing the ledge. Another good way to cover lots of options is to just grab the ledge. I didn't see it that often and it really forces falco into a tough spot where his only "safe" are all still pretty manageable.
There's no such thing as perfect shield pressure. Each timing variation has its own pros and cons. Ultimately, shield pressure isn't very safe for more than a single aerial-shine-aerial sequence. You want to JC shine on the first frame after hitlag. Not sure how many frames of hitlag it has, but you should just be able to tell by the animation if you're doing it quickly. You should barely see the bright hexagon. Go into Training Mode and try doing it asap on slower speeds. When you get the jump the first frame after shine ends (shine hits frame 1 and has 2 frames of cooldown), you'll see that the animation is a lot less noticeable because the hexagons are smaller on frames 2 and 3 of shine than on frames it can reflect (4+).
Dashdance.
i shield drop in real sets, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqavqWDLjdk i do it alot in that set. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V5AAjjixOA i get a shield drop bair to nair to up air in that first game even tho i get bodied regardless.
Johnny
Yes, this is PAL. USmash isn't really a move I use too often, especially not against Falco and such. Its indeed way weaker in PAL. And, in this tournament PS and FD were not legal stages. Holland is the only country in the world doing this, and I think it is a horrible decision to play without these stages.
