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Help my fox out. Updated 4/6

BluePeachy100

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Work on your punishing, there are times when you ftilted, when a Jab would've sufficed(specifically for a reset) Also, you dtilted, when an up[smash may have killed due to PS's low ceiling. At low damages, when you recover, you should try to make it more confusing for your opponent, like shine stall to jumping to grab the edge or something, rather than up/side B all the time. Work on how to react when you get pressured. You should sheild more(or at least under pressure), you got hit by a lot of things that shouldn't have hit, also, if someone messes up on pressurign the sheild, you have Usmash/shine out of sheild.

Do NOT dashdance/ dashdance>wavedash right in front of a Marth, at leastnot when his sheild isn't up. Then he can only grab, upsmash(poor) up-b, or wavedash OoS(which is extremely noticable in the first place) It's obvious the most common thing that will be used it grab OoS, followed by Up-b, since the other two are bad options. So space your DDs properly, and you should be able to grab> aerial him. A lot of the times, you were DDing, when you should've been attacking. Also, do NOT shine unless you're certain you can hit Marth, that's begging for a free Fsmash/grab. once Marth is on the edge you want to stay away from him, if you're trying to shine spike before hand, it's safer, you obviously see the best time is after he uses side b. Other than that, you should wait for him to get back on. Unless it's not a "sweet spotted" Up B, then you can Bair him.

Against Peach you need to space more, don't be afraid to laser, I noticed you didn't do that much. You have to be very wary of when you go inbecause of her godmode Dsmash obviously. But the main thing you need to worry abotu is getting your laser game up. Also try grabbing more since Peach is to slow to really do anything against Uthrow.

You need to shine comebo more against Sheik, along with better spacing, and SDI. I don't really know much of what to do against Sheik, other than you want to FF less, and retreat most of your aerials.
 

DtJ Jungle

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Hehe, I'm pretty sure most ftilts are ****ed up jab resets. And no johns, but i have a bad habit of trying to powershield everything, so alot of times i dont get a shield up in time and just get hit, a habit im trying hard to break atm.

The rest of that was pretty solid, thanks!
 

DtJ Jungle

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no i just die alot/you kill me alot

my autopilot problem is totally separate from my SD problem :D
 

Teczer0

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For starters Travis, stop sidestepping so much. He's falcon.... they especially catch onto sidestep habits.

Also your attacks are just too easy to see you just run and nair in a way that allows him to react with bair/nair.

Start using DD more to keep him guessing when that aerial is coming at him.
 

JPOBS

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hmm...you play like someone who doesnt know restraint. i dont think you baited a single attack in the entire set with the falcon, and you quite frequently ran willy nilly into his retreating nairs/bairs

fox's approach is great, but even the ebst approachs get beat by simply DD camps or WD backwards or retreating aerials.

i think you could do a lot better if you stop trying to out hit your opponent and instead just played a simple bait and punish style like the falcon was doing to you.

also lasers are free damage, shoot em moar.
 

sauc3

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Canada/anyone else?

Want as many critiques as i can get
JPOBS is half canadian .. just sayin.

his advice is right, also add fake approaches to your game more, like empty hop -> waveland back, or approach with shield, and see what your opponent does, then punish,

also if you don't like camping and baiting a lot, and you find all your approaches just get you grabbed due to baiting, then try running past where your opponent is dding, and then throw out a nair, since they will probably try and run back and bait you, they get hit, and near the ledge they will probably die.
 

unknown522

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dash-cancel shine is the **** for approaching.....so many campy players out there.

Anyways, I'll get on that critique in a sec.


edit: I watched the first match vs tec0 so far. It mostly looks like you're making a lot of technical errors and try to run away a lot when you're under pressure, or as soon as you get hit. Also you get beaten to the punch when you both approach at the same time. Either DD more, or don't n-air every time you approach head-to head. You also missed every shine OoS that I saw, and also dropped tech chases.

I'll give more input.
 
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