High Voltage! (Pikachu Clan)

[BubbleTea]

Hey guys. The new chatroom background was kinda getting hard on my eyes, so I thought I'd contribute some alternates. Maybe you could rotate them every so often.

Background 1

Background 2

Edit: hopefully they are the right size >_<! Oh well. A little stretchy never hurts.

 

[Electric-Sachiel]

Sachiel, what can I say? Most mods will say "I think you know what your doing"...

Im not that kind of mod. Under pressure, you tend to use the same attacks over and over again. I wanna see more grabs from you! But you seemed to think that fair to Dsmash would always work. You noticed i always grabbed you out of those fairs. Well, if you do a move over and over again, the opponent will easily read you. Two major things i think you should work on are Edgeguarding and QAC'ing. I know its lag, and your afraid of edgeguarding and that QAC'ing may be confusing at first. But you seemed to QAC only for movement and for thunder, no other attacks...Just work on that. Edge-guarding will come with practice, so

here's your +

Thanks. I know i still have a lot to improve upon. Battling you it definitely seemed that i finally got my own tricks that i use over and over again handed back to me in full. Grabbing me while i did my fairs was definitely a shock for me. I also notice yeah that i dont do much QACing outside of Thunders. Its a work in progress.

Grabbing is also a work in progress. I thought i used a lot of grabbing on you already. I usually use shield grabs these days more than anything else and let the opponent come to me. Or the other way around. But i guess punishing the opponent after he uses a lagging attack with a dashing grab is also good.

Your use of down grab and up tilt is very good.. I hope to use it more just like yourself. I also didn't do so well dodging against your thunder. LOL I was too preoccupied with DIing that i totally forgot to dodge from your thunders.

As for edgeguarding....its hard. The only real edgeguard i use is throwing up a thunder wall or thunderjolt. Is there any other efficient technics that one can use to edgeguard? Because frankly i haven't been able to do it too well even after fighting some other members around here.


But yeah thanks for the +. I know i still have a long ways to go to become a good Pika user. But playing against you and the other mods and clan members here have already significantly improved my gameplay style .



EDIT: About f-airs into d-smashes. Even before i had the match with you i knew it doesn't work all the time. In fact these days i usually use F-air to launch into a grab....but somehow i didn't use it as much against you during this evening. Hmm.
Strange.... But yeah i'll be sure to use even more grabs in the future.

Also your dodging technic is spot on. Very nice dodging work you have there.

 

[gallax]

well well guys. if you want to see my arguement i was on pages 64-66(simliar) on whether or not MK should be banned in the tactical discussion section. i made a joke and this guy took me seriously and he pissed me off.

now for more serious matter, GDX, where is this winter haven and i am 19. so 1$ drafts sound freaking awesome and i would love to come join you for sunday night football(even afternoon is awesome). i need a place to go to watch my g-men wreck. give me a pm and we can work somethin out.

ftw for those d*m* infraction points. that guy yuna is an idiot. plus he has his own little posse too.

so other than that whats new guys?

 

[[oni]LoKo]

Can i be part High Voltage? I is located at A&M and have not met ONE smasher, and I has both Brawl and Melee, waited to be played with other ppl ;___;

 

[krehz]

go to the first post and follow the rules, post info n stuff

@electric, try making R a grab button..... i have to say that it improved my Grab game immensly

10oldschoolgrabsFTW!

 

[Van Jones]

Whoa!!! A&M player ?!?!? What is up? Just so you know, we are having our Aggie Brawl meetings every Friday. Tomorrow's meeting will be at 5:30 pm in the Crocker Hall Lounge. Here is a link to our facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16752591222&ref=ts

It is always great to meet a fellow Aggie.

@Electric: You should fiddle around with the controls to see which setup you like. What works for some people may not work for you.

 

[Stealth Raptor]

Hey guys. The new chatroom background was kinda getting hard on my eyes, so I thought I'd contribute some alternates. Maybe you could rotate them every so often.

Background 1

Background 2

Edit: hopefully they are the right size >_<! Oh well. A little stretchy never hurts.

Very cool. I will admit the current background is very weird. we should try it, though i think only rollerking can change it.

 

[gallax]

i agree. change.

10infractionpoints

 

[Electric-Sachiel]

Hmm....'

I fought this Metaknight player just a little while ago. He told me that my gameplay style is way too predictable.

To those mods and other clan members that have battled me. Am i really that predictable in the way i attack? And if so....how can i become more unpredictable in terms of my gameplay style.

 

[Piman34]

change it?

10lols

 

[Roller]

Hmm....'

I fought this Metaknight player just a little while ago. He told me that my gameplay style is way too predictable.

To those mods and other clan members that have battled me. Am i really that predictable in the way i attack? And if so....how can i become more unpredictable in terms of my gameplay style.

From Boom's description of you, you do sound a bit predictable. You said yourself you Fair to Dsmash too much. Basically, use those little tricks every once in a while, but build up a larger arsenal of mini combos and approaches so you have a broader aray of options at your disposal. You mentioned you liked the Dthrow to utilt combo, encorporate it into your play. Definately make sure to grab. Boom said you almost never did. If you hardly ever grab it doesn't matter how unpredictable you might be, your opponent will know they can just sheild and then grab you during your afterlag.

Also make sure to know who you can chaingrab, and which method is better on that character.

In addition, you said you didn't know many edgeguarding techniques, check the pika guide here, it has a couple examples. There are also a few old threads you could look for on mini combos.

And my biggest piece of advice USE THE QuAC! It is your friend. Use it to approach, to move, to cancel out an opponents attack and then use a tilt before they know what happened. Galax once wrote a long report about how important QuAC proved to be for him in one of his tournies, idk where it is, but you should ask him about it.

Hope that helped a little. =)

Wont be able to play today, hopefully will soon.

 

[neji32]

Come on, I need a mod on.

 

[Electric-Sachiel]

From Boom's description of you, you do sound a bit predictable. You said yourself you Fair to Dsmash too much. Basically, use those little tricks every once in a while, but build up a larger arsenal of mini combos and approaches so you have a broader aray of options at your disposal. You mentioned you liked the Dthrow to utilt combo, encorporate it into your play. Definately make sure to grab. Boom said you almost never did. If you hardly ever grab it doesn't matter how unpredictable you might be, your opponent will know they can just sheild and then grab you during your afterlag.

Also make sure to know who you can chaingrab, and which method is better on that character.

In addition, you said you didn't know many edgeguarding techniques, check the pika guide here, it has a couple examples. There are also a few old threads you could look for on mini combos.

And my biggest piece of advice USE THE QuAC! It is your friend. Use it to approach, to move, to cancel out an opponents attack and then use a tilt before they know what happened. Galax once wrote a long report about how important QuAC proved to be for him in one of his tournies, idk where it is, but you should ask him about it.

Hope that helped a little. =)

Wont be able to play today, hopefully will soon.

Thanks for the tips. Actually not sure why I didn't grab that often against !Boom! but i usually grab way more than that. The same goes for f-air into a dsmash. I rarely use that often these days and instead go for f-airs which transition into a grab. But for some odd reason I didn'd do that on !Boom! Guess it must have been the excitement or pressure of battling a mod that made me loose my cool......


Yeah i'[ve read the Pika Guide here many times. But there are some edge guard technics that aren't described very well.


For example......


What is a meant by Double thunder? And even more confusing....what's a triple thunder?
Wouldn't you fall off the stage before being able to pull off all these thunders and recover?

 

[Stealth Raptor]

Im trying to send rollerking your way. give me a few minutes.

 

[neji32]

Electric, lets play in 5 if a mod cant play me

EDIT: Jump off stage and stop momentum, thunder so it hits you then jump back with a thunder that misses you.
Triple thunder, just add a second one to first step, its a bit harder and not worth it imo(too much time

 

[Stealth Raptor]

lol i ledge hop the triple thunder. it can be useful but generally isnt. basically use the triple thunder for those that are really passive about coming back. and pika can recover from like inches from death back to the stage. works on nearly every stage.

 

[neji32]

Yea pretty much, i need a mod >_>

 

[Stealth Raptor]

ggs neji. I think my pika has definitly grown in strength :D. btw your mk......is what i would term a noob spammer. sorry other then that solid as usual.

 

[neji32]

Ggs you definately got better.
Your going to have to learn how to play spammers. But i dont main or 2ndary any of the chars i used besides pika. So all i have to live for is copying what others do to me =D
I wanted more matches =(

 

[Stealth Raptor]

im sorry i have to run. and my thing with spammers is to spam back. still woking on it though. dont have many noob spammers around here (except one G&W back where i live that completely annoys everybody) so i dont face man often. plus mk is just overpowered anyway. and thats why so many people hate brawl- some kid with a month of playing experience playing a spammy MK can win vs people with years of overall smash experience and have been playing since the game came out.

 

[neji32]

I doubt that. people w/no smash experience suck BADLY!! They cant even get the hang of di or up b. But in a month they could beat a decent person. MK is beatable spamny or not. Pikachu is a great canidate for it too. It just takes constant playing them

 

[Stealth Raptor]

thats why i am glad i have 2 very good mks down here. they already call me the devil rat, the devil's pet, and evil ;D anyways gotta go see ya later.

 

[neji32]

Any mods =D

 

[Piman34]

sorry neji i'm an ex-mod

 

[BubbleTea]

anyone feel like battling for fun? or doing teams or something? i have my bf right here so yeah. LETS GOO!

Edit: just come find me on friend finder. I'll here the little noise it makes.

 

[neji32]

Ill play you

 

[Piman34]

sorry i wish i could but me and my g/f aren't really on the best of terms, so I am pretty sure she doesn't want to play brawl, esp. with me atm lol

maybe some other time fasho

 

[momochuu]

...School really really really blows. Today is the first time I've played in a week. @__@

 

[krehz]

k guys i cant say much but i wont B able 2 play tonight....... prob sunday afternoon.............

 

[neji32]

bunny, you need to get on more

 

[Roller]

...School really really really blows. Today is the first time I've played in a week. @__@

Vacations suck even more. I just got off of a 20 day break from playing...

 

[gallax]

school does suck, but i havent been able to get on because my firewall prevents me for now. still working on it.

 

[Stealth Raptor]

Ok guys i wont be on tomorrow cause the internet will be down, soooooooooooooooooooooooo bye.

 

[Piman34]

bye stealf i </3 you! j/k...anyway, sorry to hear youre still having problemas gallax

@bunny, drop out of school, go pro @ brawl, make moneyz that way, i'm tellin ya, güd idea!

 

[Stealth Raptor]

@bunny, drop out of school, go pro @ brawl, make moneyz that way, i'm tellin ya, güd idea!

QFT + QFE + QF......EVERYTHING.

10 listentopimans

 

[Piman34]

10needstoaddthattosigbeforeyoueditit,nooneevergivesmecredits

 

[gallax]

i just found something out about stealth. mwahahah. and im not tellin!!!!!!!!!

 

[Stealth Raptor]

why would i add something to my sig when it is full of far more greatness? sorry that is good but not good enough

EDIT: i will tell- I HAVE AUTISM.

 

[Piman34]

i meant i should add it to mine, before you edit it, and no one knows that it was actually said

wut's autizm? (j/k) i knowz dis b4 joo gallaxz

 

[gallax]

well at least i found out!!!!! b4. lol. i think snake. so close to c4.