Good way to practice Combos?

[Diraga]

I'm at the point where I have the ability to take games off of people better than me, but my weakest area right now is combos. For example, I've read that a punish on Marth should result in death. I am not good enough to do that yet. Computers don't seem very good to practice against, but training mode doesn't have the DI... How should I practice?

 

[kyaputenfarukon07]

Playing people (if you can)

because at tournaments you play people

people di unpredictably , cant follow instructions as well as computers and dont play a set ordered style(unless it seems like it lol), play with emotions(which affect mindset)

experiment in friendlies and play higher level people

Playing alone

Technical

http://smashboards.com/threads/my-t...rs-3-level-1-ice-climbers-teams-v-1-0.325971/

golden gem

getting different timings down is good

Strategy/ Understanding Spacing / Other stuff/ tedious M2K combo strat

http://smashboards.com/threads/falco-discussion-thread.256826/page-439#post-14739329

 

[Oskurito]

Playing people (if you can)

because at tournaments you play people

This^

Also, the 20XX hack pack is good for practicing combos, the cpu DIs, and techs (all options including get up attack or missed tech + roll) randomly and jumps out/air dodges asap to get out of combos if it can, which is much better than regular cpu.

http://smashboards.com/threads/the-...re-alt-stages-costumes-new-debug-menu.351221/

I personally used this tutorial to install the 20XX hack pack:
http://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/26pw3q/tutorial_usb_loading_20xx_melee_hack_pack_on_wii/

You'll need an usb that has more then 2GB (2GB usb drive can't be formatted in the way it needs to be done for 20XX hack pack to work). I also strongly advice to watch all beanwolf's tutorials if you wish to install the 20XX hack pack on your wii (you need to hack your wii first).