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Death Arcana
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You missed a lot of punishes after techs. What you often do is just wait for the tech, wait a bit extra and then go in, but you either move too slowly for an instant punish, or wait too short for a read on what they do. Wait longer after they tech, you had the read a few times but kept missing because you covered the initial tech with something which was timed wrong.
You shield too much instead of dodging his attacks. This is most obvious at 6:57. When you saw him use his 2nd jump you could immedeately wavedash OoS and get out of there. Odds are very very big that he will land with an aerial. You can punish this with a grab. Your opponent double jumps a lot in this set and you should look to read that more.
Work on your DI, almost everytime he did an up-throw, you went straight up.
Look at your opponent more. 7:39 should NEVER happen. He charged the F-smash way before you even grabbed the ledge. You can 100% stand up there on reaction. But this was probably tourney nerves. But be aware that this happens and you gotta work on looking at your opponent. 7:48 too, he missed his F-smash, you were too late on the punish. Immediately do a ledgejump N-air to kick him away.
8:37 was good, look at how you got that grab. You just waited for his aerial to land and punish with a grab. You were out of N-air space too, so it would have worked anyway.
Ok let's look at 8:43. You just double jumped and he is grounded, waiting for you. Instinctively he knows you will be desperate to cover yourself with an aerial so he blocks it. Now think about what you could get out of this D-air. He was first up-tilting, so he might look to trade with u-tilt. This would be horrible for you. If he shields... Well it's pretty difficult to get the L-cancel. Good thing you got it, but you could have shined and hit him.
The other option was just empty land -> grab or waveland to escape, if you had the read on his shield.
8:52 You come down with the D-air again. This is where better players would have caught on (2 times in 10 seconds) and dashdance out of the range and grab you out of it.
9:06 You attempted what I'm talking about but it didn't work out. Keep trying and look out for those situations.
9:33 Okay by now you REALLY should have caught on that literally the only thing Staz has been doing is forward smash at the ledge. This knowledge should be getting you free edge every time. A warning for when you start playing better players, you really have to work on your recovery because you're not getting edgeguarded properly and it still works.
9:52 LOL Staz has been doing full hop U-air for 10 seconds straight now. Next time do the waiting thing and grab him for it.
I like how you have the confident read that he will side B to the middle every time now.
10:14 OH **** HE WAS DEAD. I know you saw it and wanted to react to it, but you really didn't have the time to back-air that, so you missed it. Just a full hop N-air would have been the easiest kill. Tournament jitters I think.
Next time, try getting vids vs better players (matches that you lose are much better to critique, because it's hard to tell what you do wrong vs players worse than you).
