How do you get a tipper?

[thecardiackidofDCVII]

I'm sorry if this seems like a noobish question, I'm new here. I'm not sure if this is where this question is supposed to go either. I've just started playing Marth. For reference, my main is Ness, my secondaries are Lucas and Ike. I also use Robin, Pit, Dark Pit, and Shulk sometimes.

My problem is, how do I get the tipper? I fought some guy on For Glory right now who was almost constantly getting moves with the tipper. How do you space yourself so properly to always get tippers?

Please help me out here.

(I also asked on r/Marthmains but I haven't gotten many responses yet)

 

[MOI-ARI]

Spacing.

Practice.

There's no 'answer' to this really. You just land it, come practice and time and understanding of Marth's range* Theres No shortcuts. Just more practice?

 

[thecardiackidofDCVII]

Spacing.

Practice.

There's no 'answer' to this really. You just land it, come practice and time and understanding of Marth's range* Theres No shortcuts. Just more practice?

OK. I'll just practice trying to get it a lot more.

 

[ElementUser]

After you play for a while, you'll know the range of your character's attacks (just like how you would when you play any character for an extended period of time).

 

[CURRY]

Yes, practice.
Also, don't play so many characters. Right now, you should probably only be playing ONE, and probably at most TWO LATER ON. Like, REALLY later on. That way, you can start to know your character like the back of your hand.
You're not getting your characters to the potential they SHOULD be at when you're playing so many-- it's not very useful to be a "jack of all trades" in this game, at least in terms of character selection.
So either pick Marth and learn to tipper, or choose someone else and ditch Marth and everyone else.

 

[thecardiackidofDCVII]

Yes, practice.
Also, don't play so many characters. Right now, you should probably only be playing ONE, and probably at most TWO LATER ON. Like, REALLY later on. That way, you can start to know your character like the back of your hand.
You're not getting your characters to the potential they SHOULD be at when you're playing so many-- it's not very useful to be a "jack of all trades" in this game, at least in terms of character selection.
So either pick Marth and learn to tipper, or choose someone else and ditch Marth and everyone else.

Well, I only started playing other characters since I'm extremely familiar with how to play my two mains now. Ness and Lucas.

 

[Solutionme]

I recommend just going into training first and learning how to use the Directional stick better. After that, practice hitting someone with Marth's moves at their max range. Then you get the basics of tippers. To get into harder tippers, you need to experiment in what scenarios and angles you could get the tip in the arcs of moves such as f-smash. i.e. hitting above you with f-smashes' arc tipper or up and behind you. I'll leave it with that for now.

Edit: If you go to smashpedia and type tipper in, there's a comparison picture between Marth and Lucina showing their sword trails. Marth's sword trail shows his tipper range. Forgot to mention that detail.

 

[Langston777]

hit them with the sword tbh

 

[Locuan]

Please use the Question and Answer Thread for questions like these.
http://smashboards.com/threads/the-marth-question-and-answer-thread.383383/