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Coastward
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First match
Sheik fastfalls a bair on you at 1:15 and you could have CC'd it and punished it. Even dtilt is good at first. It can be punished but it's a good mixup to throw in, but it is more useful when sheik is over 50% or so, so you can get that uair in. Sheiks love to ff bairs on you... run off of platforms with bairs, spam them... it's relatively safe in general but here you could have punished it.
1:16 - Sheik wavedashes backwards, creating space. You commit to a jump, which was actually after sheik's jump but it's so close there's no way you could have reacted. Had you not committed to anything right away, seeing her jump is a free uair. This is a key part in tournament to me.... in the beginning of the set your opponents are more likely to fall for the basic "no-no's" of fighting Ganon... then later in the match or set they adapt/learn and start to play more reserved... it's good to be able to take the easy punishes to the maximum level... get ahead and ride the momentum... as you play as carefully as possible, that is, lol (just food for thought).
1:25 - mis-spaced fair gets you shieldgrabbed, self explanatory.
1:28 - you escape the chaingrab, which is great, DI away, and straight up yolo a fair even though sheik is nowhere in sight (she had just finished dash attacking in the other direction)... because you had to L-cancel an aerial instead of just landing, or wavelanding away (or through her, if you're feeling the yolo), she was able to pressure you. she fairs your shield, gets a jab that you don't DI, and luckily she whiffs the dash, and thus, the grab.
After a great fair at 1:32 you got hungy, lol. Just grab the ledge there. recharge your invincibility by regrabbing the ledge at the last second at which sheik could possibly hit you, then a frame before that ends, stand up from the ledge. It's easier when you have over 100% obviously but this is safe and you can still get some edgehogs this way, and you never put yourself immediately into a bad situation this way so you can ledge pressure her with bair afterward.
1:37 you dash and jump at sheik from the other side of the stage while she's on a platform... you're forcing a bad situation on yourself. Better to wd forward and dash toward her (this is one of the few instances where you can wd forward vs sheik... she was on a platform and on the other side of the stage... but anyway that is better than simply running because if she comes off the platform mid wd, or even as you begin to dash forward (this is because you want to close space if she is on that platform, as LEAST find out how long she's going to stay up there... sheik being above you is free uair city.... but realize it could be a good bait so you must be ready to react quickly), you can still dash away (you'll be in dash instead of run since you wd'd forward first, so you'll have the option to dash dance, whereas if you had dashed immediately you'd no longer be in dash, you'd be in run, and be forced to wd back instead or roll or something... better to run away with bair generally imo)
1:48 - nice uair, that bread and butter. can't let opportunities like that go.
2:01 - I hate accidental fsmashes. I saw you what you were trying to do there. happens to me all the time lol
2:07 - you were too close to the edge right there when you got faired, lesson learned... the only part of you that should be that close is the tip of your bair fist when sheik is coming up from the ledge.
2:09 - fair was super readable, you get punished, you have a few tech flubs, he hits you with random attacks, then goofs up and you kill him. good sh** lol
The chaingrab you went for at 2:35 was good, just so you know, you were one throw away from mandatory jc grab territory. ~45% is the limit, after that you can't just pivot grab for DI behind. You definitely want to take the chaingrab to it's higher limits and this is a great stage for it.
2:38 - stick to uair for quick punishes on the top platform
2:40 - free uair when sheik jumps!
2:43: rogue fair gets punished. Don't commit to the aerial so soon. Had you thought "OK I'm going to fair" and halfway through said "well sheiks not even approaching like I originally had thought, screw this forward aerial idea" and just landed, you could have sheilded the dash attack she at already committed to, grabbed her, and wrecked her stock.
2:52 - one good thing to know is that if sheik (or peach for that matter) hits you with the initial frames of her dsmash like she did here, the last frame(s) of hitbox will hit you out of any walltech option. So had you walltech'd here you would have been hit. If they are hitting you with the first hit of the hitbox you have to stick to doing a regular tech and up-B. If it wasn't for this walltech to Bair would be great here, and still is good because not many people are aware of what I just mentioned.
2:58 - not a bad initial dair on that last stock... You almost got the shield poke. That is how you could be aiming the vast majority of your dairs/sh dairs OoS vs sheik. Although it is a slow aerial, there are times when you can throw it out as a mixup, primarily when you have conditioned your opponent into thinking a faster attack is coming (this is how tomahawks work).
3:01 - you could have CC'd that falling bair into something, just be mindful of that stuff.
3:15 - Don't let stylish habits force you into rolling directly in front of sheik lol
3:22 - that chaingrab. commentator says "he doesn't read the DI" lol I hope he knows that the cg is 100% reaction... unless it's fox at low/med% or falco at low%. Gotta be lethal with it since it's the only thing ganon really has on sheik.
3:25 - FREE GRAB OPPORUNITY
The rest of the match you spent too much time in the air, and too much initiating of exchanges. This sheik wasn't laying down heavy pressure, you could have slowed the pace a bit and see what she can come up with while you think of ways to bait her.
Crave the grab like Dracula does blood.
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