Watch my WF? Also, my friend Jim Jam Flim Flam would appreciate critique on his WS and LF matches against Jace.
uair is real good against samus
kinda seemed like you knew that but didn't really know why
This is a good point, I've gotten significantly better against Jace's shield pressure because I've practiced uair OoS and basically never fall for his dair/bair shield shenanigans anymore. I know I over-extend myself often, it doesn't help that Jace plays a defensive Samus that doesn't punish me for those mistakes very often causing me to further ingrain bad habits.
like the defensive reverses are good as you're coming up off the ground cuz they come out quick, not once you've already jumped. and when you were hitting him with the anterior 'box you were too close--get that big directly horizontal hitbox out in front of you (which means use it earlier than you think you need to) and hit with the tip (that isn't that good against samus cuz she's always throwing out big moves but if you're gonna use it still use the big part). Or for anti above you stuff the straight above head hitbox is good (that's my preferred way of dealing with samus--they usually like to get above you and they don't realize that jumping and uairing is faster than dairing on reaction).
Can you point me an example of one of these? I thought I knew basically what you meant, but then I went back and re-rewatched GFs and didn't really spot what I thought you were talking about exactly.
Don't fair jace is trading with it all day and even if he wasn't he could DI behind or w/e because you're doing it without a fastfall and high off the ground
Yea I know, another bad habit from playing against players who suck at SDI, even though Jace's DI is godlike in Melee. A lot of the time it is a input mistake, going for a forward upair/nair.
fsmash is balls against samus, get out there and uair her if you can do it early or do a ff dair and try to trade with the up B (you did OK sometimes but really fsmash is never that good, they can time their samus parry)
I used it in a few good spots where it was basically guaranteed after I had him with no jump and at full distance where he couldn't really fade away his upb. Other than that, you're right, I can tell I went for the "safer" fsmashes which look like they would basically never hit and could probably get me in trouble if Jace quickly ledgehop daired or something. I guess I was trying to be less of an overly aggressive edgeguarder in order to keep myself from SDing or getting 'counter edgeguarded' or whatever. I don't really like FF dair against samus, the risk/reward isn't really in my favor I think. I used slowfall dair over the ledge when I had forced him to the upb to the ledge which worked really well in my favor. I adapted after realizing how fsmash wasn't really working.
stale-utilting a shield shouldn't work even on samus
God I'm so dumb I never grab when I hit shields. I tried
triple upsmash on Samus's shield...
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