So I was messing around with platforms on Battlefield today to practice my movement when it hit me that I can waveland off of a platform and do an aerial while also retreating. So this means I can waveland off the side platform and fair but as soon as I fair I start holding back towards the stage and I end up landing on stage. The fair hitbox hits really low, so this can cover multiple angles if your opponent wants a hasty recovery. You can even do this while facing towards the stage and waveland upair and hold in, your upair will hit the edge, not to mention the upair will cover the side-platform too. Covers a lot of options when you land on stage. You can do this as well with dair and still land on stage. I really want to try this now, because before I would always waveland off the side platform and keep holding the control stick in the direction that I wavelanded. I feel like using the control stick to control your movement in the air will allow for more precise attacks from platforms. I tend to overshoot when I waveland off a side platform with a fair, but if I retreat it, then I'll space it better.
You can also just barely get a dair out if you drop through the side platform on BF where you hit both down on the control stick and A almost at the same time. Similar to a down-smash, but you hit down just a little bit before you hit A. This way, you don't FF the dair, and it just barely comes out for one frame just before you land. This will actually guaranteed poke your opponent's shield if you position yourself correctly.
I've even got a consistent setup for getting the waveland off the platform turn around to grab the ledge. You have to time the moonwalk right as you're about to fall off, so that you only turn around and your momentum isn't lost. I've gotten really consistent with it and I hope to use it in some matches.
The above stuff that I mentioned also works on Dreamland, but not Yoshi's, because Yoshi's platforms hang at the same vertical plane as the stage's ledges, so it's not as practical there (though it's still an excellent stage). I'm almost considering going to Dreamland a lot more often with all this info about platforms and whatnot. Yoshi's is still great, but I feel like there's a lot of shenanigans that can happen on that stage, and it can be very volatile.
I'm thinking that since Ganondorf relies so much on platforms to perform well, that I'm almost even considering to not even play Ganon on Final Destination. I'd like to try out Falcon for those FD counterpicks in a best of 5, and of course in friendlies when it randoms to FD as Ganon, then next game I play I'll pick Falcon and go back to FD. Basically, in my head, anything that you can do with Ganon on FD, you can do so much better with Falcon. But Falcon ain't got nothing on Ganon's platform game.
) and told me to get out of his house XD. He calmed down after but it was hilarious.
