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Challenging Lucario on the ground is very difficult. He moves much faster and landing jab is very difficult. I would just try to focus on outspacing with fair. Whenever I play the Lucario I know I just switch to Marth because he has a mental block against Marth, but I don't think that would solve your problems.
Well, outside of the fact that I would prefer to stand my ground with Ike, how do you handle his pressure and combo game? The one I play against has the dumbest combos I've ever seen
I've played a good toon link and what I can tell you is that you can't give him any room to set up. You have to go in and stay in. His projectiles take awhile to send out so if you stay close he won't feel comfortable sending them out. I tend to pick small platform stages against him like Yoshi's or Battlefield. For edgeguarding try to go out there and interrupt him, not when he's in a position to agt a bomb at you though. I'm not sure how metroid does it but I've seen him ledgehop dair and dunk link's up b recovery.
With his boomerang try to understand that he has a choice of angling it or throwing it forward so if you can predict where you think he will predict you will go you wont get hit. It's a lot of preemptive thinking and yeah I agree it's a bad matchup. What problems are you having off stage?
Fortunately Ike has many ledge options. All his aerials are viable as ledgehop attacks for different situations, he has qd to get onstage too. Now this is only if he's close enough to the ledge to use this options. If he's just center stage throwing projectiles then you have to try to wd on stage or ledge jump and waveland on a platform. I tend to go when his boomerang is retreating.
I got bopped by DLA's Diddy yesterday (2-0 in pools and 2-1 in LR4); we both think it's not a good match-up for Ike, but it's manageable. Diddy's neutral game is really hard to get around, considering that bananas can neutralize QD shenanigans, he's very mobile on the ground, and dash attack is a strong approach, so you need to be in the air a lot and use Ike's momentum from grounded jumps to your advantage; short-hop NAir/FAir can be used to get the occasional poke on Diddy until you get a grab, from which you can use UThrow at low/mid %s to combo into pretty much any aerial except DAir. However, Diddy's punish game is similarly strong and both late UAir and FAir are great at putting Ike in bad positions; Ike has a hard time defending against late UAir in particular if you don't NAir early enough, so be on the lookout for that if you're ever above and behind Diddy. As for edgeguarding, the safest way is to hit Diddy out of side+B instead of challenging his up+B, which can sometimes "Sakurai combo" like Fox's up+B. Much like intercepting Ganon's down+B, you can jump out and FAir where Diddy will side+B if he does it too close to the stage. Edgeguarding up+B is more difficult, but you can try getting invincibility from the edge and then edgehop BAir'ing it or, if he goes low, DAir him from the stage. Again, it's by no means an easy match-up, but it's manageable if you manage to win the neutral and punish him as hard as you can.
I can't give you advice against Wario because I go Charizard in that match-up and haven't played it as Ike for a while, but I can say stuff about Snake after playing Sago for some time. The key is to get in close enough where he can't safely pull out a grenade, but not to telegraph your approach to the point where you get tranquilized and stickied; Snake has a pretty poor approach game except for grenade, claymores (DSmash), C4, and tranquilizer, so getting in hampers his ability to set up. Be especially wary of relying on QD and short-hop FAirs to approach, since tranquilizer (especially B-reversed tranquilizer) will stop you in your tracks. However, tranquilizer can't affect you in the air, so you're safe if they fire too early and you haven't landed yet. Another thing to look out for is Snake's crouch - he can't be grabbed while he's crouching and CC'ing negates Ike's jab, so you'll have to nick him with aerials. In addition, Snake's grenades are also a powerful defensive option both in the air and on the ground; if Snake shields while holding a grenade, it's safer to let it detonate and see how Snake reacts under the shield stun rather than to challenge it and possible get set up into a sticky. You can challenge aerial grenade pulls by hitting Snake's lower body, but I wouldn't recommend NAir'ing his upper body since you can generally wait to see where he throws it or let it blow up on himself. Last but not least, don't let your guard down and keep track of where Snake lays his traps, otherwise bad things will happen to you.I don't remember if Snake was mentioned already, but I face 4 different Snakes consistently at the weekly tourneys I go to. What's a good way to handle that match-up? Also, any tips fighting against Wario would help.
Horizontally, but if you're stickied RIP
Well yeah you don't want to get uaired.
DTilt hits on frame 14, so it's not particularly good as a CC option. I generally DI away, but Snake can follow up anyway; although it's kind of the "no duh" answer, but try to not get grabbed since it leads to stickies and combos. Thankfully, if Snake stickies, you'll typically be out of hitstun before he can act, so you can sometimes punish him for it instead of jumping out of the combo.
Personally, I generally dislike playing against Falcons - although QD and QD attack can be used to force confrontation, his dashdance and shffl NAir are very powerful approach options that make it hard for Ike to get in if he spaces right. You can do nasty stuff to him in terms of juggling (especially if you catch him out of a full-hop DAir with UTilt), but he can combo you back pretty easily. In general, I'd say that both are even in terms of the combo game, but Ike has the edge at edgeguarding and Falcon has the edge in the neutral game.
Heavily in Ike's favor. Outspaces all of his attacks, juggles him, one of the easiest characters to edgeguard.
Wtf there's no way it's in Falcon's favor. If the Falcon is just throwing out hitboxes it's your fault for getting hit any of Ike's attacks will outspace them, nair/utilt juggles him hard, his terrible tech roll and lack of OoS options lets Ike easily follow up on him especially on platforms where you can get qd/DACUS->usmash, and because of Ike's power it's easy to get him off stage. Any time Falcon is off stage he should be dead because there are so many ways to edgeguard. Fsmash/ftilt/fair if he recovers high/misses sweetspot, walk off fair or dair depending on where he is if he recovers low. He literally has no way to come back. Ike can counter Falcon's grab speed with his mobility and has much better approach options than Falcon. You're crazy. If anything it's 60:40 Ike's favor.
I think it's basically 50:50. Marth probably has an upper hand in the neutral game but Marth it's essentially a battle of spacing. Dthrow is pretty effective against Marth and you have to try not to get above him. Make sure you DI his chaingrab at 0% right, down/away and try to tech ASAP. Ike's effective ledge options (drop, up b and get your sword to go as far onto stage as possible, ledgehop aerials, quickdraw onto stage ect) do pretty well against his edgeguards. I find walk off dair very very very effective for edgeguarding Marth so that helps, or just wait on stage if he doesn't sweetspot and fsmash/ftilt/dilt.
Care to elaborate on bad situations? Ike puts Falcon in much worse situations, like any time Falcon is above Ike, or on a platform, or off stage.
How does Ike get punished harder than Marth? He's heavier and has a much better recovery. On a platform you can shield drop nair easily while on the ground true that it's not a good situation but it's not too bad. Basically you either WD OoS, jump to a platform or roll (ike fortunately has a good roll). I don't think it's fair to say a matchup is in Falcon's favor because you "mess up" and get punished. Ike has a lot of safe pressure against Falcon. Falcon gets punished way harder for making mistakes (i.e. off the ledge).
NAir works well too, I was too caught up on comparing range to talk about NAir. NAir's initial hit comes out on frame 7 like Falcon's NAir, but I wouldn't rely on it to beat out his attacks since it takes a few more frames to get in front of Ike. You're right though, it's a good tool to cover the areas below and behind you in neutral and gives something for Falcon to watch out for if he plans on sharking with dashdances.