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Sneether
, have faith, smash-brother! I'm guessing you're pretty new to the game, eh? When I first started i COULD NOT beat my brother, no matter what characater he chose! We played Melee (it was 2003), and he was a fox main, and he could beat my best character (link at the time) with any character in the roster! It was humiliating! But then I practiced, and I practiced, and I practiced! I kept playing him and I kept loosing, and eventually each loss became on of a smaller and smaller stock difference between us. he went from 3 stocking me, to 2 stocking me, to only beating me by a 1 stock lead.
Then I kept practicing some more!
Soon after that, I started to notice all the little flaws in his strategy, and I could read what he was going to do before he did it! If you practice enough in this game, you get to a certain point where you see more, a lot like Neo in the matrix (no, seriously, it's a very similar effect). Soon enough you'll be crushing all those for glory fools!
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Sneether
, my real advice is to pick one or two (two at the absolute most) characters to really get good with, and to keep messing around with all the others. Go onto the character threads for your 1 or 2 mains, watch videos of skilled players using your character, watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CuIesuU84A It's long, but VERY VERY HELPFUL if you are willing to put the time into practicing and listening to this guys advice.