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Fox video advice

Dirtydeeds

Smash Rookie
Joined
Mar 5, 2011
Messages
20
Location
Bronx, NY
Recently recorded a few matches and I was hoping people would take a look at them.

Played two here against ganon, any general advice you can give would be appreciated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCApXd3Zg-c&context=C3ec3110ADOEgsToPDskJp1ONOF9ymvOrOmBtT8tLc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kigwxrecz9Y&context=C3ab839eADOEgsToPDskKtMp4TlhXpJi3syZUMeNBi

also recorded this match against my pika friend and I really want some advice on this matchup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BcTa-y_pbw&context=C34165b8ADOEgsToPDskJAx_nuwS7umdd4h2s88qmL

just for general reference here is a video of me from almost six months ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ckfvBRQ6Zg&context=C30874dfADOEgsToPDskLKjUvp2wjVkTIWPgLar1Yp
 

FoxLisk

Smash Lord
Joined
Jun 18, 2007
Messages
1,851
watched the first one. the most obvious thing is that you need a ton of work on your technique. secondly, you played pretty poorly and still won pretty comfortably, so it's hard to give really good advice.

However, because I'm just such a nice guy, I will do this: If you give me a breakdown of what you were thinking throughout a game, I will try to critique that. I say this because I don't understand your neutral game at all so I'm not sure where to begin advising you.
 

sylbot

Smash Rookie
Joined
Mar 27, 2011
Messages
15
Location
Bloomington, IL
Okay major things.
1. You have a semi-campy playstyle, yet use close to 0, if not zero lasers...I think tacking on some damage via lasers would do you good.
2. Increase you control over fox in general. Techskill is a major factor, considering you mess a lot of aerial>shine. But by control I mean, understand the spacing game a bit more, and don't mess up your combos as much which leads in to 3.
3. Combo game -waveshine (especially drillshine) was nonexistant/ slow/ underused which would have been smexy vs gannon so work on that. momentum based nair/bair/fair combos are effective on most characters, followed with shine into wavedash or techchase. stop missing upthrow uair, i know its not THAT easy, but as a fox player you have to work on that extremely important aspect of killing/comboing.
4. Edgeguarding - you need to try to use more consistent off stage edguarding. Ledgehop bar, and shine spikes are my faves, but do what you need to edgeguard more consistantly.

But I definetly agree with the above, in that you need footage against better opponents, because that way we can show you what you are doing wrong, you can see it better, and we can help you fix it.
Examples of such:
Defensive game (OoS, defensive spacing, prediction, reaction)
Offensive pressure vs a good defense (tbh the people against whom you played really gave you quite a few free hits)
Edgebreaking (As fox you will be edge guarded like a *****, and it just didn't happen here)
 
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