Ok so do i tilt or do i press in the direction precisely with out going into a notch?You just have to press in the right direction. It's very precise. Practice doing different angles without falling into the notches on the control stick.
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Ok so do i tilt or do i press in the direction precisely with out going into a notch?You just have to press in the right direction. It's very precise. Practice doing different angles without falling into the notches on the control stick.
For more precise angles, you're not gonna want to go into the notches at all. It takes a bit of practice to get a hold of it, but it's not that hard once you adjust to it.Ok so do i tilt or do i press in the direction precisely with out going into a notch?
I'm gonna write notes as I watch theseJust uploaded some matches me and a friend did last week. Can you guys give me some advice on my neutral game? Mostly looking for how I should approach Falco and Marth and what better options I need to take.
Tbh, I'm so used to always wavedashing out of shine when doing SHFFLs that it's become a major bad habit of mine lol.I'm gonna write notes as I watch these
Video 1:
Dash dance instead of sitting in shield, and wavedash OoS instead of jumping.
You shouldn't approach with dash attack, I saw you do this 3 times in a row.
Try to angle your firefox recoveries more instead of just doing a straight one.
Don't fullhop so much in neutral.
Learn shine OoS.
When chaingrabbing Falco, you should incorporate more utilts, it'll be easier to get the regrab at mid-percents.
It looks like a lot of your movement is directed towards the opponent, try to make your movement more tricky and bait out attacks from Falco that you can punish.
Video 2:
Again, you go aggro too much. When you hit their shield try doing a drill shine grab or nair shine grab. I used to do the same thing.
Don't stand still, you should always be moving unless it's some sort of mind game, which is something that should be rare.
Try to mix up your firefox angles.
I don't have as much for the second video because I don't want to repeat myself too much, and I'm also not as good in the Marth MU as I am the Falco MU.
There's not too much advice I can give without seeing your play, but it sounds to me like you are just getting antsy and anxious while playing. You mention your techskill, but maybe you should focus on application rather than execution. I could be wrong though, again, haven't seen you play.hey guys, i have several problems dealing against almost every top 8 tier character in tournament play, usually when i play in friendlies i do a lot better(nerves problems as always) but the actually think is im having a lot of trouble dealing with falcon and falco, in the falcon MU i can win but not against the top player in my region i cant really play a better neutral 'cause i have trouble dealing with his fast shffls any advice in this case? , and for the falco MU i have a lot of problem dealing with lasers i defeated the top falco here once, but he was playing really bad atm, but in the recent tournament i didnt know what to do exactly he caught me off guard every time i tried to approach and if i go defensive he goes "gay" and start making laser and dair pressure like hell, every time i tried to jump out of lasers hit stun he punished me with dair and started to combo(dropping his comboes as always but racking a lot of damage). any help to deal with it? , im considered the most technical fox around my region but still can't do well in tournaments(highest place was 4th). please help i really want to improve my game. hope you understand my english is really really bad.
Immediately I can see that both of you are almost always approaching. Maybe you would dash dance twice before going in with a nair or shine. You need to play more patiently and bait things out. I also noticed that when preparing for an edgeguard, you were almost always sitting by the ledge, even after they sideB'd onto stage several time, as well as that when recovering yourself you repeated the same options/angles a lot. You need to mix these things up more.this is the only set recorded that we have, this looks like a really low level play, we played really nervous and sloppy i think.
btw not my best neither him.
ps: we are "mexicans" not really so i recommend you to mute the sound
the top player here told me almost the same , the thing is if i dashdance more he start lasering a lot , anyways thanks for he advice ill put more work on those thingsImmediately I can see that both of you are almost always approaching. Maybe you would dash dance twice before going in with a nair or shine. You need to play more patiently and bait things out. I also noticed that when preparing for an edgeguard, you were almost always sitting by the ledge, even after they sideB'd onto stage several time, as well as that when recovering yourself you repeated the same options/angles a lot. You need to mix these things up more.
Okay Lum is gonna kill me for this, I'm not even a fox main, but I can actually answer that.I'm having trouble with recoverys offstage. Every time I'm off stage i double jump side B. What other recoverys are good for when I'm off stage and how should i practice recoverys offstage?
I'm not exactly the authority on the subject, but I can tell you this, you have to worry more about what is effective than what is flashy, if you didn't notice that guy in the video missing a lot of moves and getting punished a lot, it's because he was mostly doing those things without any real effect. Of course you can try for waveshines which works as an attack on some characters, but if you want to have aggressive movement to get good mix-ups. Try dash-dance when you're close into grab or even some other option to mix it up, wavedash forward and back within your opponents range to microspace as much as possible, throw out moves like lasers whenever you can, and if you're good enough, drill into wave-shine is a strong and flashy technique capable of doing great things. Essentially moving the most aggressive while still being effective is done best through mix-ups and advanced technology. There are definitely other things I'm missing, so I'd be interested to hear another fox's input.How do I get fast and aggressive movement? I feel like I get stuck in my movement a lot when I'm trying to be flashy and technical. I know people usually say to focus on fundamentals and stuff but I want to be able to move around and feel like I can control fox before working on improving my play. I like players like Javi, Mang0 and Dark, most other playstyles don't really interest me.
I want to play similar to this fox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aphi_VTw3q4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxLuxiP8lZY
Will respond to this a bit later in the day, don't worry you'll get the help you needHow do I use movement? I can waveland, wavedash, dash dance, and I'm still figuring out moonwalking but in neutral I don't know how to use the movement I watch other people and I still don't get it.
Drill is very disadvantageous on shield and can be shield grabbed lot of the time. It varies from -6 to -8 (dis))advantage on shield when unstaled, and if it's even little bit staled it becomes -7 to -9 on shield. You can vary ff timings with the drill so that the opponent doesn't know how many times the drill will hit before you land, and make it hard for your opponent to time shield grab correctly.I see fox's drill to shine on shield ALL the time, and I've practiced and made sure I had L-canceled and I absolutely always get shield grabbed and I am unsure as to why.
Fox has the shortest jump squat in the game at 4 frames, which means you have 3 frames (1/20th of a second) to hold the jump button if you want to get a short hop. He shares this statistic with Pichu, Pikachu, Sheik, Samus, Kirby and ICs.Is short hopping harder on Fox than on most characters? I am trying to pick up Fox or Falco and I don't really like Falco too much but I actually really enjoy Fox so far. The biggest problem I have is with SHing. Idk why but I just can't get it consistently. I can do with Sheik and Marth just fine but I don't know. Sorry if this has been asked already, I am decently new to melee.
you actually only have 2 frames. i can't explain it but you can recreat it for yourself if you wanna test it.Fox has the shortest jump squat in the game at 4 frames, which means you have 3 frames (1/20th of a second) to hold the jump button if you want to get a short hop. He shares this statistic with Pichu, Pikachu, Sheik, Samus, Kirby and ICs.
Seeing how you have no problem with Sheik's short hop, your mind might just be tricked by fox's overall speed.
afaik you can shine out at 17% but pivot extends that? them having a port lower than yours (closer to 4) also extends the cgIs there a certain % threshold where Fox can shine out of Marth's chain grab? I've seen some Foxes like Leffen do it and I'm not sure if it's Marth messing up the technique or is there a frame or two where Fox can act and shine?
I appreciate the info man!I only watched the Samus one. Here's my thoughts:
You went for a lot of dash attacks out of neutral at low percents. Bad idea, as Fox's dash attack is slow and reaps very little reward at low percents due to the low knockback. Even if you do hit them that will often get you CCd and punished. Perfect example is at 0:26: you see an opening, go for the dash attack, he acknowledges this and CC downsmashes. Had he been a little better and a little faster that would've been the stock. Again, at 1:50, he reads your dash attack approach and dairs you for it.
My suggestion to alter that is to try and integrate SHFFLd down airs and run-up shines into your approach game. Drill cannot be CCd so it's a good mix-up against a crouch-cancel-happy Samus. Plus, it's also just a great move in general. Samus is at that weight where shine will not knock her down, so you can pick her up into a wave shine combo and get good DMG.
That was what was most glaring to me. I'd say in general there were quite a few technical errors: randy forward airs and missed JCd grabs were the most noticeable. You also gave up stage control at a few moments, to the point where Samus had a lot of room to just keep shooting stuff at you. You don't want to always be super close but make sure you hold stage positioning.
There were other things (your edge-guarding needs work, too), but don't try and change it all at once. Work on getting past that dash attack habit and do more practice with Fox-specific tech skill. I'd recommend this video for the latter: https://youtu.be/6UTIiuGAgWQ
Now, a request from me to y'all other Foxes: has anybody else experienced a period in time where shine>SHFFLd dair becomes difficult to do all of a sudden? I've found that I'm snapping my thumb down too hard on the Y button on my way down to the C-stick which results in a full-hop. Can I get some tips on rewiring my brain to not press down with so much force?
Osiaj covered a lot of what I would say. I saw a lot of retreating back to platforms and getting off platforms on the side nearest to the edge. Bob seemed to have read some of your movement like rolling backwards at 0:55. You really kept a lot of distance between you and him which can let him gain a lot of stage control with missiles and what not. One main thing I noticed was the apparent lack of a combo game. You would enter, hit with like a bair then retreat again. I saw you get an up throw at 2:00, then miss the uair. To land this, just quickly double jump into the uair, as Samus at 59% is a sitting duck in this situation. Like Osiaj said, try implementing running shine. Samus' ridiculously heavy weight means she is very susceptible to waveshine grab or upsmash. IMO, weak nair or FH early nair is a floaty slayer as it can lead to grabs or upsmash/uptilt, and Fox's full hop is waay too good.I just uploaded a video I'm the red fox vs a good Samus player any tips on what I should improve on tech skill and the Samus matchup in general. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rl5P03QBj4o I got another video vs good falco player any tips on what to improve on will be appreciated. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0uYQn4xMBT0&itct=CAsQpDAYBiITCImJkqzLuNACFc17qgodwVAFZjIGcmVsbWZ1SIqfhqC3-pOvrgE=
you could try to move faster from y to c stick, short hops happen if you arent holding jump when jump squat ends. if youre holding it you will full hop.I only watched the Samus one. Here's my thoughts:
You went for a lot of dash attacks out of neutral at low percents. Bad idea, as Fox's dash attack is slow and reaps very little reward at low percents due to the low knockback. Even if you do hit them that will often get you CCd and punished. Perfect example is at 0:26: you see an opening, go for the dash attack, he acknowledges this and CC downsmashes. Had he been a little better and a little faster that would've been the stock. Again, at 1:50, he reads your dash attack approach and dairs you for it.
My suggestion to alter that is to try and integrate SHFFLd down airs and run-up shines into your approach game. Drill cannot be CCd so it's a good mix-up against a crouch-cancel-happy Samus. Plus, it's also just a great move in general. Samus is at that weight where shine will not knock her down, so you can pick her up into a wave shine combo and get good DMG.
That was what was most glaring to me. I'd say in general there were quite a few technical errors: randy forward airs and missed JCd grabs were the most noticeable. You also gave up stage control at a few moments, to the point where Samus had a lot of room to just keep shooting stuff at you. You don't want to always be super close but make sure you hold stage positioning.
There were other things (your edge-guarding needs work, too), but don't try and change it all at once. Work on getting past that dash attack habit and do more practice with Fox-specific tech skill. I'd recommend this video for the latter: https://youtu.be/6UTIiuGAgWQ
Now, a request from me to y'all other Foxes: has anybody else experienced a period in time where shine>SHFFLd dair becomes difficult to do all of a sudden? I've found that I'm snapping my thumb down too hard on the Y button on my way down to the C-stick which results in a full-hop. Can I get some tips on rewiring my brain to not press down with so much force?