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Well its come time again to rethink what my next plan is to improve myself. I main kirby and i love the character. I mean i would like to think i've come a long way as a kirby main. I am going to give a little history of myself and pose my question towards the bottom of the blog.
I recently placed 25th in EC presents No maps a tournament hosted by i would like to say smash community friend inui. It ran late but otherwise it was very successful i met alot of new people as well hung out once again with the friends i've made at previous tournaments. It was also my 18th birthday on that date. I would say it was a fun birthday its what i like to do on my saturdays and thats all i really wanted.
i was talking to this kid he seemed fairly good i met him at a PA tournament like 3 weeks before so it was nice to see him again. I was talking about current brawl metagame and strats as he himself was trying to improve himself as a player. I was just sharing with him what i have learned from pros and experts back a couple of months ago when i was in that stage of learning. Sadly enough i had to face him round 1 and i beat him. I felt bad but through every game i tried to show him while i was fighting him what i was doing with my character and how he can beat him and such.
After that i faced ksizzle, my crew member and friend. Afterwards that i stand no chance against. For those of you who don't know ksizzle is a top player of NJ widely regarded a top state as far as players goes. First match i knew my kirby stood no chance against his Metaknight and i wasn't ready for his ice climbers as i have not practiced enough in the matchup to be confident in it. I choose snake after practicing snake in sometime to be sadly 2 stocked horribly. I was shaken deeply in my foundation i couldn't think after that it took me 10 minutes to recooperate. I was wondering what do i do next i looked at my selection of stages carefully and i tried to think what would be the most logical stage choice. The crowd behind me encouraged me yelling "Kirby, Kirby, Go Kirby" I knew that if i went kirby though even trying my hardest with kirby's current flaws against a metaknight of his stature it would undoubtable end in 2 stock unless of a chance of a fluke. However he seemed like the best choice so i choose kirby and i took him to battlefield so i can kill him easier with the closer sides and roof.
At first it went well,
I took his first stock after some intense mind games with ease after he made a mistake with his moves. I felt confident at first feeling i could actually win this match. I even combo'd him 2nd stock to about 40+% while me being on my first stock at high 100's%.
Then something happened
Ksizzle adapted to my playstyle he fixed what he was doing wrong and turned the whole game around he may of not noticed what he did different but i did and there was nothing i could do. So i get 2 stocked again making me wonder what i can do to fix that.
So i go through losers bracket a little bit until i meet a falco player named KiD. At first i was a little frightened even as a kirby player i know the fears of falco. Even though everyone says i should be able to **** falcos i find the matchup rather even and apparently the kirby boards have decided to get some brains (no offense) and even put it i think 50:50.
The thing that makes it 50:50 is that even though kirby has amazing combos if a falco camps due to kirby's horrible approach makes falco close to untouchable and i realized this.
So i start the match and hes camping HARD. Hes also very picky with his attacks but once again i get out played simple as that, no johns.
So he 2-0's me
So i'm out of the tournament i'm a little disappointed because i let my partner seph down in teams and we got 9th place because i fail at counterpick banning. I also let myself down as trying to prove myself as a better player.
I didn't let this get to me though i tried to view this as a learning experience and think logically about it. So as i took a break and tried to think i sat down and noticed my good friend Atomsk was fighting KiD next as he himself was in loser's bracket. Atomsk is powerranked 2nd in New Jersey and regarded widely as a national tournament threat. So to cheer my buddy on i sat and i watched and gave him some well deserved support because i knew it would be a hard fight for him. He picked DeDeDe first round and after a really close fight he barely lost due to CG -> Double Spike off the stage. I was absolutely stunned at how insanely skilled KiD was (no meatriding). I truly feared for atomsk winning the set because it seemed the sheenigans that worked against me worked against atomsk as well then he did something unexpected.
He picked kirby, Atomsk picked kirby against him so i've never seen atomsk's kirby and every other kirby i've seen so far seemed like crap except the one time i met Chu Dat in MD/VA. So i watched and atomsk 2 stocked him NO REDEMPTION it was absolutely beautiful how he did it and i was wondering maybe after all this time its because i didn't know the matchup? thats why i had such a hard time with falco.
Either way i used his playstyle to add on to mine and currently i am learning snake matchups and my wario is actually legit even though i quit him. My wario even can bring m2k down to last stock in friendilies :D not using that to base skill or anything but i would like to think i have a pretty legit wario but i must build on that.
Pierce7d even told me that my snake is legit i just need to build off that and learn seperate matchups. I noticed that for every character i pick up i must manually learn the matchups again -_- its quite tiresome but still fun ;D.
So i am going to be maining Kirby, with my secondary being snake and wario for the tougher matchups for kirby. I wonder is that a good idea? I need to improve myself and i figured this would be the best way to get my thoughts in order.
Well its come time again to rethink what my next plan is to improve myself. I main kirby and i love the character. I mean i would like to think i've come a long way as a kirby main. I am going to give a little history of myself and pose my question towards the bottom of the blog.
I recently placed 25th in EC presents No maps a tournament hosted by i would like to say smash community friend inui. It ran late but otherwise it was very successful i met alot of new people as well hung out once again with the friends i've made at previous tournaments. It was also my 18th birthday on that date. I would say it was a fun birthday its what i like to do on my saturdays and thats all i really wanted.
i was talking to this kid he seemed fairly good i met him at a PA tournament like 3 weeks before so it was nice to see him again. I was talking about current brawl metagame and strats as he himself was trying to improve himself as a player. I was just sharing with him what i have learned from pros and experts back a couple of months ago when i was in that stage of learning. Sadly enough i had to face him round 1 and i beat him. I felt bad but through every game i tried to show him while i was fighting him what i was doing with my character and how he can beat him and such.
After that i faced ksizzle, my crew member and friend. Afterwards that i stand no chance against. For those of you who don't know ksizzle is a top player of NJ widely regarded a top state as far as players goes. First match i knew my kirby stood no chance against his Metaknight and i wasn't ready for his ice climbers as i have not practiced enough in the matchup to be confident in it. I choose snake after practicing snake in sometime to be sadly 2 stocked horribly. I was shaken deeply in my foundation i couldn't think after that it took me 10 minutes to recooperate. I was wondering what do i do next i looked at my selection of stages carefully and i tried to think what would be the most logical stage choice. The crowd behind me encouraged me yelling "Kirby, Kirby, Go Kirby" I knew that if i went kirby though even trying my hardest with kirby's current flaws against a metaknight of his stature it would undoubtable end in 2 stock unless of a chance of a fluke. However he seemed like the best choice so i choose kirby and i took him to battlefield so i can kill him easier with the closer sides and roof.
At first it went well,
I took his first stock after some intense mind games with ease after he made a mistake with his moves. I felt confident at first feeling i could actually win this match. I even combo'd him 2nd stock to about 40+% while me being on my first stock at high 100's%.
Then something happened
Ksizzle adapted to my playstyle he fixed what he was doing wrong and turned the whole game around he may of not noticed what he did different but i did and there was nothing i could do. So i get 2 stocked again making me wonder what i can do to fix that.
So i go through losers bracket a little bit until i meet a falco player named KiD. At first i was a little frightened even as a kirby player i know the fears of falco. Even though everyone says i should be able to **** falcos i find the matchup rather even and apparently the kirby boards have decided to get some brains (no offense) and even put it i think 50:50.
The thing that makes it 50:50 is that even though kirby has amazing combos if a falco camps due to kirby's horrible approach makes falco close to untouchable and i realized this.
So i start the match and hes camping HARD. Hes also very picky with his attacks but once again i get out played simple as that, no johns.
So he 2-0's me
So i'm out of the tournament i'm a little disappointed because i let my partner seph down in teams and we got 9th place because i fail at counterpick banning. I also let myself down as trying to prove myself as a better player.
I didn't let this get to me though i tried to view this as a learning experience and think logically about it. So as i took a break and tried to think i sat down and noticed my good friend Atomsk was fighting KiD next as he himself was in loser's bracket. Atomsk is powerranked 2nd in New Jersey and regarded widely as a national tournament threat. So to cheer my buddy on i sat and i watched and gave him some well deserved support because i knew it would be a hard fight for him. He picked DeDeDe first round and after a really close fight he barely lost due to CG -> Double Spike off the stage. I was absolutely stunned at how insanely skilled KiD was (no meatriding). I truly feared for atomsk winning the set because it seemed the sheenigans that worked against me worked against atomsk as well then he did something unexpected.
He picked kirby, Atomsk picked kirby against him so i've never seen atomsk's kirby and every other kirby i've seen so far seemed like crap except the one time i met Chu Dat in MD/VA. So i watched and atomsk 2 stocked him NO REDEMPTION it was absolutely beautiful how he did it and i was wondering maybe after all this time its because i didn't know the matchup? thats why i had such a hard time with falco.
Either way i used his playstyle to add on to mine and currently i am learning snake matchups and my wario is actually legit even though i quit him. My wario even can bring m2k down to last stock in friendilies :D not using that to base skill or anything but i would like to think i have a pretty legit wario but i must build on that.
Pierce7d even told me that my snake is legit i just need to build off that and learn seperate matchups. I noticed that for every character i pick up i must manually learn the matchups again -_- its quite tiresome but still fun ;D.
So i am going to be maining Kirby, with my secondary being snake and wario for the tougher matchups for kirby. I wonder is that a good idea? I need to improve myself and i figured this would be the best way to get my thoughts in order.
