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A Dair cancel is when you land within frames 1-19 of Dair( before the hitbox comes out.) This eliminates the end lag of the move. It can be done with all aerials, but since Dair has the most frames before the hitbox comes out it is the most commonly used.
Yup. The hitbox doesn't come out, but you have no lag, helps for when you're tumbling and need to land, or just to pretend to attack, there's a sparkle and people have a slightly higher chance to stay in shield so you can emptyhop into grab more.
1) Nah, PK Flash is trash. If you're lucky you might pull off an edge guard with it for style points but that's it. 5) Just nair when you're trying to land.
Not even uncharged/semi-charged PK Flash has any practical uses?
Nope. It's pretty much just a really cool taunt.
Wait for the animation for fair to stop, then mash the jump button and the c-stick at the same time.
So mash as opposed to trying to time it?
Mashing is more braindead and works better, so yeah
Lab the hitboxes for the weak hits, and when you figure out where the hitbox is, learn how to space yourself to consistently hit your opponent with it.
1)pkflash can be used to punish characters' recoveries sometimes, if they are super linear. You can use it to occupy space to force the opponent to recover a certain way. It also combos into uair if it connects. Experiment with it. It's certainly not the best tool, but you can squeeze it into your play.
The best controls are the ones that allow you personally to perform optimally.
or buttons by using the control stick intending to do my aerials but I end up doing my midair jump. Most people use c-stick for aerials but I haven't gotten used to it yet myself.
Uair is a great follow up and can link to itself until around 50%ish. If they DI towards you you can uair or if they end up going behind you you can bair. Fair can still work you just have to fade backwards a little (asa did it a lot in his recently posted matches if you want visual evidence). They shouldn't be able to AD out of the dthrow -> followup at low percents.
Personal preference. I would say no because his double jump is very important and you want complete control over it. Tilt sticking is good for Ness' aerials as they let you do fade away fairs and SHFF uairs easier, imo.Another thing, is tap jump good or not for Ness? I always tend to mess up double jump fair because I use my second jump after jumping with the
Thanks for the advice! I'll definitely keep this in mind, I don't really use up air much as Ness but I guess I'll fix that. I'm gonna experiment with no tap jump for Ness and go for c-sticked aerials and see if it clicks with me over the next few days.
Uair is great. One of his better aerials (though, let's be honest, they're all good except dair aand it's niche uses lol). It is a good landing option along with nair. And it does an absurd amount of damage lol
Counter? Or compliment as a secondary? The best counter for Ness is Rosalina & Luma. A good secondary would be anyone fast IMO. Sheik, Sonic, ZSS, etc.
Thank you for this information.
, , or as my secondary, so I'm asking some questions on Ness and his matchups. 's worse matchups? Since I never had many problems with any character beside . fairs against ? Would you say Sheik is a good matchup for ? and , or really any projectile heavy character, (for some reason I have trouble with )
The worst IMO are Rosa, Villager, Sheik and Mario. Personally I have a hard time against Lucas too. Link can be rough, but once you get past his projectiles, Ness wins solidly.Well, I'm a former ness main, here to ask some questions about my old main~
I'm mainly debating on
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Please help, and feel free to be extremely mean when it comes to answers!
He's easy combo bait, but watch out for D-air as it is really fast. Edge guarding him is incredibly easy as well as there isn't much he can do, but try not to get forced into PK-thundering offstage while edgeguarding or it could be the stock. Finally, it is incredibly easy to perfect shield Links projectiles compared to others, so just running and shielding in the neutral seems to be your best bet. (and SHAD)
Important tools are:
Honestly the best thing you can do is just be prepared for it. I know that's easier said than done. I personally like to use it onstage in 2 different ways. The first way is use it directly under my opponent. Most people think Ness is going to to use up air when he jumps at them and most people will try to air dodge. If spaced correctly, I can get them with the stun on the pk thunder as it comes out and it usually throws off their air dodge timing and it's usually a free stock. The other way is I try to catch them as they're landing. Most people try to air dodge and when they do it right before landing they get hit with that landing lag and my hit boxes are still active.
I've played Vex a bunch since he's in my region and a close friend of mine mains DK so I know the MU.
I play a very good DK main almost on the daily, and have crafted my own way to play the MU. Ness vs. DK is always an MU that I've thought to be even--DK's range on all his BAir, Ftilt, Dtilt, and even his grab allow him to effectively keep Ness bay and punish his approach optiosn, very easily trumping his meager grab range and, most importantly, allowing for him to challenge Ness's aerials. Your best approach options are BAir and Dash Attack, both are disjointed, have a fair amount of range (moreso the latter), and allow Ness to effectively weave in and out of DK's range. FAir is a fantastic anti-air against DK, as only his BAir is able to beat its range and disjoint, and, as mentioned in the post above, if you manage to get one, you will very easily be able to link more.
