In this topic Emblem Lord fails.
Seriously, these are the people that are talking about Pit in the back room. Ridiculous. -.-
Wing dashes are incredibly useful. You have to know how to apply them, something I've made a heck of a lot of progress on recently to very great results. Ask anybody from the Midwest who played me this past weekend, besides maybe Overswarm since, like Emblem Lord and others in the BR, he's more interested in being viewed as right than knowing the truth when it comes to this.
Say you put somebody above you and you want to keep underneath them. You dash to keep up with them and they change up their DI. How do you cancel your dash and double back with no lag, now that dash cancels have been removed and dash dances drastically shortened?
Say you're playing against a G&W who's spamming aerials and smashes. If you shield, he either pushes you away, pokes through, or DI's away on the last hitbox so you can't punish him. You could risk powershielding, or... you could push him back to cause a whiff, move forward slightly, and punish from there.
Say you've got somebody on the edge of a platform above you and you've not had much success with the usual sh'd aerials against them. Maybe they're Marth and insist on up-Bing out of your multi-hits or maybe they're just playing especially defensively. Whatever the case, you have a potential option of pushing them off the platform into a tumble, creating an easy opportunity for a tech chase.
Say you're playing against a Rob, Peach, or Diddy that spams glide-toss approaches. They throw their projectile and approach you. If you shield it or dodge, they punish. If you run away or attack, you get hit. Mirror shield isn't quite quick enough and has punishable lag, same with angel ring. If you try to jump over it, you can't punish them and you might be opening yourself up from below. Wouldn't it be cool if you could, without jumping or lagging, auto-catch their projectile and evade their attack simultaneously?
Well... I know a great solution in all of these situations and more, and for some reason we've got people here telling me I should ignore it entirely... like doing so will have any effect whatsoever on the rest of my game. Honestly... I know the basics. I've beaten some of the better players in the Midwest before-- Kel, Sliq, Lain, Anther, Blood Hawk, and Quivo included-- and my tournament placings are improving all the time. I see no reason why I shouldn't continue to experiment just because some jerks who never tried any of the AT's they're talking about think they know better than I do. -.-
I still remember when the wavedash was discovered in Melee. People were saying the same **** things... that it was useless and a waste of time and that people should just stick to basics... Honestly, why should you just "stick to basics" when you could have both the basics and the "advanced" stuff? It's just silly.
You tell me wingdashing sucks, I'll tell you that you don't know what you're talking about, and I'm willing to take money-matches to prove it. Somebody needs to stand up for the truth here.
