How do you handle newcomers?

[Fregadero]

I'm going to start giving advice to better players between matches without them asking

 

[Morin0]

I'm going to start giving advice to better players between matches without them asking

LOL. I'm gonna play m2k and after I get pwned I'm gonna be like: "hey bro, I noticed you weren't doing so good. Maybe if you did X instead of Y, you'd do better, bro."

 

[Kal]

**** that, provide commentary during matches. "You probably shouldn't have ended that combo in uair. Bair would have been better."

 

[odinNJ]

Don't tell them what to do, just punish their bad habits and they'll learn in their own.

 

[DerfMidWest]

Shake their hand.

Play as you normally would.

Shake their hand again.

Offer advice, and invite them to play friendlies on an open friendlies setup.

this.
although, I'm usually the bad one, I often play people worse than me in bracket.

 

[Bing]

If you're the bad one... and you normally play people who are worse...

How bad are they? :S

 

[FoxLisk]

Mahone you gotta stop killing me like that
I only got so many lives

#yolo*

*you actually live four times in melee

 

[Wizzrobe]

I haven't even been playing competitively for a year. So I'm a bit new, but when I find someone who is more new than I guess I usually play with them and give them tips that I know.

 

[xx1984bigbrothereveryday1984xx]

I'm not bad. I know so mug about every char and I have great techskill. When I lose to some sheik with Roy, they think I'm a scrub, so I go fox and shine combo whatever low tier they start using. My point: I will always want players better than me to play their best, and I will always do so to those under me

I dont follow your arguement. Please explain

 

[Tee ay eye]

if they get salty i like to destroy them and make them HOLD DAT

i see someone has been following their TAJ

 

[Stylez]

As a new player, you're there to learn, but you want to be taken seriously.

I felt welcome at my first tournament because my opponents played their match like any other. If I were good enough to stomp on noobs, it would always be a "good game."

Advice should really be saved for friendlies, in the same way experienced players critique each other. I don't know if I would have advanced as quickly if my friendly matches and tourny matches weren't taken seriously.

 

[Bing]

As a new player, you're there to learn, but you want to be taken seriously.

I felt welcome at my first tournament because my opponents played their match like any other. If I were good enough to stomp on noobs, it would always be a "good game."

Advice should really be saved for friendlies, in the same way experienced players critique each other. I don't know if I would have advanced as quickly if my friendly matches and tourny matches weren't taken seriously.

A lot of people dont take friendlies seriously, so yes, you can give tips during friendlies, like example, When I sit down with KK or Unknown and play and they consistently 3-4 stock me, Im playing seriously and trying to learn from my mistakes. If its two average players, odds arent these friendlies are exactly that, friendlies.

Now with that being said, tournaments matches are actually a great time to give advice, I mean if something happens that can be corrected, correct it right then and there.(Obviously wait until after the match/set). Everyone tries hard in friendlies, so whatever happens is actually them.

 

[Mr.Lemon]

I try to be friendly with them. I mean they technically are the future players of smash.

 

[Grim Tuesday]

I say good luck to everyone I play before the game, and good game afterwards with a handshake.

During the match, I don't go easy but I play on auto-pilot because it isn't worth the thought. I usually go a secondary unless I am rusty with my mains. I also don't play to win, like... standing near the ledge and doing dash-dance > bthrow > shine. I just play like normal.

No advice during the game, only afterwards and I try to phrase it in such a way that promotes discussion instead of me just leaving straight away afterwards.

 

[Stylez]

(Obviously wait until after the match/set). Everyone tries hard in friendlies, so whatever happens is actually them.

Ah, i'm talking in-game critiquing. Though their intentions are (probably) to help you improve, feeding you advice during the match focuses your attention on habits you can't weed out in four minutes. Instead, new players should be using this time to adjust to the pressure of a tournament setting - not to stop rolling, sweet-spot the ledge, etc.

But i'm really just stating the obvious. If you have advice they're willing to take, after the match/set is perfect.

 

[Wolfy!]

In tournament? I usually just play the match the way I would normally play the match. Except it's easy combo food so I can do cool stuff to sort of fuel the fire for my matches against better people. I usually befriend people and shake their hands and if they ask for advice, I give it to them.