Ransora
Smash Rookie
So, I've been playing this game religiously for about a year and have gotten all characters in top 10 to about the same skill level. I've played each of them in tournament multiple times. I don't wanna main anyone outside of top 4 due to way to obvious drawbacks, besides maybe falcon, and even then I HATE waveshiners so i don't really wanna play him. This is why I dropped peach.
I like peach, marth, sheik, and fox. I am best with peach and marth, but even with marth i choke in tournaments because my neutral is worse than peoples that havent even played the game long or just played casually, as with peach i am super calm throughout. So i main her for that reason right now. Since fox is the best and most technical character, when I get better I might play him. Nobody thinks fox is lame or cheap or anything, so instant style points too. I really like doing a lot of fast things and being super overwhelming, but I love strategizing and being very evasive and punishing super hard too.
I quit peach some time ago because I got extremely salty about being waveshined. While I'm best with her, I don't want to play her for that reason and because she gets killed really easy and has horrible mu's against like half of the top 8. Even though I find her a steady level of fun (not fun but not boring), nothing she can do puts her into a high level of excitement for me, unlike marth.
Marth. I love everything about Marth. His elegance with movement, his fluidity, his style, his moveset. I have tons of fun playing marth when I pull off my sick combos and when I try to decipher my opponent. Marth feels very good for me and I honestly put him way up there. There's nothing about him I don't like, besides his difficulty (but I love it too) and his difficulty to not get stringed into up airs by fox. Marth is a character that has my favorite move in the game, a reverse dolphin slash. I love throwing spacies off of ledge, fairing, then reverse up b for the gimp kill. It is my favorite thing to do in the game. I have fun doing ken combos and juggles as well, it makes me feel like a king, but I HATE when I flub and I make unsafe options on marth all the time. I don't feel my playstyle fits marth at all, but I love him so much, and he is who I mained when I quit peach.
Next, Sheik. My second most considered character to main. Sheik is also not fun but not boring for me, she feels very comfortable and graceful. I love the LoZ, and I love sheiks playstyle just as much as marths. I love gimps, grabs, her needle b turnaround thing, her speed, her movement, her elegance and her fluidity. One problem, style. I LOVE styling, to where even in tournament if i can i'll gladly lose a stock to do so. The problem is, nobody thinks sheik is stylish, except for maybe me, because i love how stylish her model is and how she does her attacks and how it looks. I also love tipper upsmash and upsmash oos, but beyond that you can't really style too much, and even then nobody thinks she's stylish. She also doesn't get waveshined as easily as the other waveshineable characters.
Third, fox. I love how fast and overwhelming aggressive foxes are, and I love the shine spike and shine in general. I love the nair, uair, backair, combos, and everything in between. Problem with my fox is that I suck at his tech and my hands aren't fast at all. Sure, I can short hop with him consistently, but I can't sh nair shine or drill infinite or anything like that. Hell, I can't even get 2 drillshines or 3. I love doublshines and tripleshines too. I love his shield pressure and it comes very easily to me. I think fox is pretty boring except in friendlies sometimes.
Falco is next and imo is one the most stylish characters in the game. I am actually probably the worst with falco, but I really like his combos and how you can be aggressive and look super swag with walljump dair or side b ledge cancel dair. I hate lasers and really don't use them, as they feel super cheap. I don't like how slow his wavedash is, and I can't even doubleshine with him because I do it too fast, and with fox I can doubleshine grap or shinegrab consistently. Tons of people in my state main falco, even more than sheik, so I don't wanna play falco for that reason. I dont just wanna be another trash falco. Falco feels jank but looks cool imo, and is definitely fun to do sick combos with.
Falcon is swag and very stylish, and I love playing him and being cool, but I hate how he cannot tech shine and how he can be waveshined. His recovery is easy gimpable, he can be comboed pretty easily, and he gets SHUT DOWN by falco due to lasers, way more than even marth or peach. The only reason I even wanna play falcon is sick moonwalks, knees, and falcon punches. I wouldn't tech chase with grab with him often or at all, and I would definitely not be very defensive and optimal, but instead try to look as cool as possible.
My neutral game is trash but it's been getting way better. I don't have many matches under my belt, but I can definitely fix my neutral problems easily. In a perfect world, I would love to play everyone, but I know that won't work and I need to pick ONE character maybe 2 for certain matchups.
My friends all tell me to pick a main and stick with them, but even a year later I can't do that. I like these characters the same amount. I need help.
I like peach, marth, sheik, and fox. I am best with peach and marth, but even with marth i choke in tournaments because my neutral is worse than peoples that havent even played the game long or just played casually, as with peach i am super calm throughout. So i main her for that reason right now. Since fox is the best and most technical character, when I get better I might play him. Nobody thinks fox is lame or cheap or anything, so instant style points too. I really like doing a lot of fast things and being super overwhelming, but I love strategizing and being very evasive and punishing super hard too.
I quit peach some time ago because I got extremely salty about being waveshined. While I'm best with her, I don't want to play her for that reason and because she gets killed really easy and has horrible mu's against like half of the top 8. Even though I find her a steady level of fun (not fun but not boring), nothing she can do puts her into a high level of excitement for me, unlike marth.
Marth. I love everything about Marth. His elegance with movement, his fluidity, his style, his moveset. I have tons of fun playing marth when I pull off my sick combos and when I try to decipher my opponent. Marth feels very good for me and I honestly put him way up there. There's nothing about him I don't like, besides his difficulty (but I love it too) and his difficulty to not get stringed into up airs by fox. Marth is a character that has my favorite move in the game, a reverse dolphin slash. I love throwing spacies off of ledge, fairing, then reverse up b for the gimp kill. It is my favorite thing to do in the game. I have fun doing ken combos and juggles as well, it makes me feel like a king, but I HATE when I flub and I make unsafe options on marth all the time. I don't feel my playstyle fits marth at all, but I love him so much, and he is who I mained when I quit peach.
Next, Sheik. My second most considered character to main. Sheik is also not fun but not boring for me, she feels very comfortable and graceful. I love the LoZ, and I love sheiks playstyle just as much as marths. I love gimps, grabs, her needle b turnaround thing, her speed, her movement, her elegance and her fluidity. One problem, style. I LOVE styling, to where even in tournament if i can i'll gladly lose a stock to do so. The problem is, nobody thinks sheik is stylish, except for maybe me, because i love how stylish her model is and how she does her attacks and how it looks. I also love tipper upsmash and upsmash oos, but beyond that you can't really style too much, and even then nobody thinks she's stylish. She also doesn't get waveshined as easily as the other waveshineable characters.
Third, fox. I love how fast and overwhelming aggressive foxes are, and I love the shine spike and shine in general. I love the nair, uair, backair, combos, and everything in between. Problem with my fox is that I suck at his tech and my hands aren't fast at all. Sure, I can short hop with him consistently, but I can't sh nair shine or drill infinite or anything like that. Hell, I can't even get 2 drillshines or 3. I love doublshines and tripleshines too. I love his shield pressure and it comes very easily to me. I think fox is pretty boring except in friendlies sometimes.
Falco is next and imo is one the most stylish characters in the game. I am actually probably the worst with falco, but I really like his combos and how you can be aggressive and look super swag with walljump dair or side b ledge cancel dair. I hate lasers and really don't use them, as they feel super cheap. I don't like how slow his wavedash is, and I can't even doubleshine with him because I do it too fast, and with fox I can doubleshine grap or shinegrab consistently. Tons of people in my state main falco, even more than sheik, so I don't wanna play falco for that reason. I dont just wanna be another trash falco. Falco feels jank but looks cool imo, and is definitely fun to do sick combos with.
Falcon is swag and very stylish, and I love playing him and being cool, but I hate how he cannot tech shine and how he can be waveshined. His recovery is easy gimpable, he can be comboed pretty easily, and he gets SHUT DOWN by falco due to lasers, way more than even marth or peach. The only reason I even wanna play falcon is sick moonwalks, knees, and falcon punches. I wouldn't tech chase with grab with him often or at all, and I would definitely not be very defensive and optimal, but instead try to look as cool as possible.
My neutral game is trash but it's been getting way better. I don't have many matches under my belt, but I can definitely fix my neutral problems easily. In a perfect world, I would love to play everyone, but I know that won't work and I need to pick ONE character maybe 2 for certain matchups.
My friends all tell me to pick a main and stick with them, but even a year later I can't do that. I like these characters the same amount. I need help.
