I mean... Having jiggs as my secondary, and not being a very distinguished player as is, I have to say that looking at hungrybox videos, I'm anything but impressed. I mean sure he's good... hell he won ROM2. But seriously, I don't think he's a very outstanding player.
And yeah he has that fancy rest, but aside from that, I stand unimpressed, does anyone else feel this way?
Respectfully,
~P
I ~could~ be wrong, buuuut judging by your join date, I'm guessing you aren't placing top in your area?
The problem with you watching hbox is that you don't know what you're watching. You're looking and seeing him do something like bair "spam", uthrow>rest @ 60+% (Seriously, hbox, how the HELL do you get away with that?), and you probably think, "I can do that."
What you're not seeing is how well he spaces, how he gets into his opponent's head/pressures them, how he tech-chases/reads his opponents, etc.
When AZ first announced that they were coming to CO, I looked up vids of them on DC++. I saw them doing what I could already do from a technical standpoint, and was sure that CO was going to **** Taj/Forward/whoever came over here from AZ. I even thought that they were worse than us because (get this) I suspected that they slightly sped up their videos, to look better. And these matches were a year old.
Needless to say, Summer Struggle came around, and Taj *****. Wobbles ~almost~ lost to BlueMycon, but that's cuz they'd played before and Wobbles still got the jitters like madd.
ChaosTheory lost to LoVo so bad he claimed his thumb was dislocated mid-match, though.
But I got raaaaaaaaaaped by Taj.
Then Forward was stuck here for a week, and ***** the hell out of anyone not named LoVo (he still beat him, but Rafa was gettin' off, too). During that week, I learned about these elusive "mindgames", tech-reads, and shield pressure/covering all options (cuz that's what Forward does).
I went back and started watching videos, and was astounded at everything I missed before then. Getting ***** by Forward opened my eyes, but I was still kinda blind to what was going on. Things like shield-pushing/poking, xup shield pressure, waveland feints, and doing stupid **** like dodging Sheik's ftilt with Peach's dtilt or usmashing FFers approaches with Peach evaded me until OC3.
I'm still learning a lot of ****. The scope of this game is huuuuuuuge. I see people like hbox pressuring in ways I didn't think to, and going for ballsy-as-hell things like uthrow>rest @ high percents cuz they know they have their opponent scared enough to keep from jumping, and it really impresses me sometimes.
Umm... wow, tangent.
But anyway, it may just be that you aren't seeing what he's doing. If you're a vet/great in your region, then my bad, but I suspect that, since you're a Falco player that joined in 2k8, you're still in the technical phase of learning the game. You're watching combo vids, practicing stuff you see in techskill demonstrations, and are of the attitude of "I can do that", when you don't even know what "that" is. No shame in it. I was stuck in that mindset for a pretty long time. Try to play hbox if you can, and after 10 or so matches, him ****** will start to make sense.
Either that, or every state that's not yours sucks, and you should go OoS and win some ****.
