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ok, analyzing that first Marth match.
Right off the bat, you attempted to shield grab a nair... It can be done, but a lot of times, marths like to NOT fast fall it and cross you up. You can only shield grab if they do fast fall it. Anyway, after the cross up, they're going to do one of two things: dash away and grab you (the Ripple special) or fsmash you. Bair / dair will work for the dash away grab, and rolling behind / shielding and then wavedash oos will punish the fsmash. So begins the guessing game. Unfortunately for you, you shield grabbed and lost your stock.
Too much shielding. At 0:25, you weren't in that bad of a position. I know marth can be scary, but you're still at crouch cancel %, and he was waaaay too far to dair. If he fair'd / nair'd, it wouldn't be safe had you crouched. Either way, you stayed in shield and got grabbed.
I like what you're doing with side-b to counter nair. That's pretty good, I gotta implement that into my game lol.
At 0:42, he gave you a HUGE opportunity. He jumped into your up air range while you were shielding. I mean, **** man, when ganon is stuck in his shield, that's, like, the ONLY thing you're not supposed to do... and he did it. But instead of up airing, you chose to roll in. Rolling in is seldom a good option vs. marth- it can be good if you expect the fsmash, but he was aerial, so that's impossible. There are exceptions, but generally, you don't want to roll in vs. marth.
Careful with your off stage edge guards, but you knew this I'm sure. I do respect what you were going for, but it seemed to be a bit of a reach. It was pretty clear he wasn't going to go down and get hit by that, so sometimes it may be better to just bait him to center stage via early jump and then bair him, as seen
here. I will say, though, that you reacted quite well by not fast falling the up air and making it so that the double jump alone could get you to the edge.
....... But he just fsmashed you right back off lmao. This is why I'm so fond of the empty RLD. If you were to instantly RLD, you would have had invincibility frames to get around the fsmash, and since fsmash is sooooo laggy, you could have then just done a regular waveland into grab. EZ$$. It's not like you could have predicted the fsmash, but the point of the empty RLD is to feel them out. Don't just go in there on a whim and a prayer; bait something dumb out of them. Patience.
Nice eikeldrop. I love that move to edge guard marth.
3 words: Combo. Video. FOOTAGE. Nicely done. Again, that side-b seems to be a fantastic counter to nair spam.
Ok, 1:24, you had to have known that this wouldn't hit lol. I can almost guarantee you, though, that if you'd have double jumped off the platform into an up air, you would have A) hit him and B) made it back to stage safely. I liked your air dodge recovery instead of up-b, but he was ready and, well, edge guarding ganon with marth isn't the hardest thing in the world.
Careful with up tilt. It's such an annoying move... the only moves that beat it have to be full hopped. Dumb as hell.
So, when he had his invincibility, you went to the side platform, directly underneath where he was gonna fall lol. There was no reason to be there, you just made it 10x easier for him to punish you. I like to gain center stage or camp the top platform during invincibility.
Overall, I think you played pretty well, but it's a tough life for ganon. Many times, you made just one crucial mistake and lost the stock. I love the marth matchup, but that's the one that (imo) really shows that one mistake can cost you the stock fairly easily.
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