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@HomE's Ganon Murder Video

hyperstation

Smash Lord
Joined
Jun 24, 2008
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Nice to see a new face start off by posting a video. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I will at some point.

Technically, the video was really well done. I mean, the capture quality was fantastic, the editing was good, and "Shame on a *****" to start off the video scores instant points. Aesop Rock following that instantly took those points away though.

Anyway, first the good stuff about your play style. The best thing I saw in the video was how you were using the Aerial Wiz Kick on the edge for spiking. You had some really nice spikes, and this was by far the highlight of the video for me, because most ganondorfs don't use the move for that often enough. I score spikes with it in mid air while my opponent is aerial because it sends them upwards for star KOs, but using it on the edge like that was pretty satisfying to see. Granted, the tech isn't that great at competitive levels because if you miss, the landing lag is horrendous. The other thing I liked about your video was that you did some pretty good edge guarding. I mean, a lot of your opponents just freaking jumped into your DAir when they should have known what you were about to unleash on them, hovering inches over their head, but regardless, well done.

Now for the bad stuff. While watching you land murder punches is really f*cking cool, it's not by any means viable at a high level. I think that the murder punch is probably ganon's worst move and is only useful on shield breaks. Even the Axe Kick has a sh*t ton more uses than murder punch. Seeing dozens and dozens of punch KOs doesn't really say a lot about your skills so much as it demeans the skills of the people you were playing against. They just freaking walked right into it time and time again. Next, I didn't see any buffered moves. You're good with thunderstorming, but you never buffer it into something else. Thunderstorming is not only a nasty move, but it's a fantastic spacing technique which baits your opponent so that you can buffer a quick DTilt, iDA, jab, or gerudo follow-up. If you're not totally familiar what I'm describing, Swoops has a thread about buffering and how it should be used...constantly. Also, yes, Ganonciding is way cool, but you didn't really use it strategically at all. A handful of times it looked like an accident...hardly material for a combo video.

Anyway, whatever...I could go on for a while about what was good and what was bad, but it doesn't really matter, ultimately. For all I know, you're actually a great Ganon player and you just wanted to make a murder punch video. If so, bravo, 5 stars. Good to have another Ganon main on board.
 

canswer

Smash Cadet
Joined
Sep 8, 2007
Messages
68
Location
Minnesota
WELL, @HomE is my new accnt, just FYI i figured i would make a accnt that reflected my Tag.

Thanks for the response, but please watch the video all the way through before commenting... i saved the best for the end..

i know how to buffer moves very well... this is a murder video.. its about getting ridiculous kills not doing dmg really. just to defend my Ganon Punching ability, it IS a viable move, MOST of the time i start the GP(ganon punch) in the air and spin it (180 or 360) and catch people during an attack or right after before they can do anything, this video is proof that if used properly the GP can bring people to justice.

Thanks for the comment and im looking forward to what the others have to say
 
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