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[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Mash jump is what happens with me 90% of the time.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Woah, so the 23rd, I will have been on Smasboards for 4 years.

 

[army man]

that's a long time, i'll be a member now for like thirty days. hooray

 

[Huggles828]

What's that? Hurricane Irene projected to hit Charleston directly as a major hurricane? I might be evacuating here in a bit if things get too bad, haha. Pretty sure the Huggles-Hurricane MU is 0-100 in the hurricane's favor.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Oh man. Stay safe, Huggles.

 

[Huggles828]

It's still a ways off and may just blow over somewhere else or out to sea. I just think it's kinda interesting since this is the first time there's been any sort of hurricane watch info and I've been down here in a relatively hrricane-friendly area for 3 years, haha.

 

[Rizen]

Better safe than sorry. I hope it doesn't come close.

 

[Scabe]

Best of luck Huggles <3

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Good thing it isn't Hurricane Rita or Hurricane Ike.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

We be pretty dead nowadays.

 

[Huggles828]

Hurricane Meta Knight. >9000 mph winds.

FUUUU-


(Actually, now that I think about it, MK would probably be a tornado that spawned from Hurricane Sakurai).

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Tis true, he made the monster.

 

[Huggles828]

Heh.

The hurricane blew past me. We lost power, but that was it. Honestly, if I didn't know it was part of a raging death machine of nature I'd have figured it was just another storm.


BTW, I'm probably gonna go to a tourney in like 3 weeks.... and I am likely going to be going with ESAM

 

[Rizen]

Heh.

The hurricane blew past me. We lost power, but that was it. Honestly, if I didn't know it was part of a raging death machine of nature I'd have figured it was just another storm.


BTW, I'm probably gonna go to a tourney in like 3 weeks.... and I am likely going to be going with ESAM

I'm glad to hear nothing bad happened.
Good luck at your tourney. I might be attending some soon.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

That's pretty cool, I dunno how ESAM is irl so hope that works out.

Also I'm gonna post in the Link Back Room about something, I want people to check it out for a request.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Glad to hear you're safe, Huggles!

 

[IYM!]

good to know than you are safe huggles, the link boards would be the same without your post

thanks of good here in Chile we dont have to be worry about hurricans or those kinds of things...

but yes for earthquakes (i spelled it right?)

 

[Huggles828]

Man, I'm old.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Man, I'm old.

Wait what?

 

[Rizen]

Man, I'm old.

Happy Birthday! ...?

 

[MegaRobMan]

No, you're not old until you are 26.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

No, you're not old until you are 26.

Reading that quickly, I saw "...until you are 16."

 

[Rizen]

Spoiler

I'm trying to draw more. This is a freehand 3 point perspective I did from memory on a clipboard. I don't recommend using a clipboard for vanishing points that are off the paper.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Looking good, Arizen!

 

[Rizen]

Looking good, Arizen!

Thanks
10char

 

[Huggles828]

NOW BACK TO THE GOOD PART!

Slight language warning

 

[Rizen]

For the newer people here I used to be MES or MES! before changing my name to Rizen and wrote those. Like any player's early guides they were scrubby but I still like some of the information. I started rewriting one but began to wonder is there a point to this? Here's how my new guide's going so far, do you guys think it's worth continuing? If so contributions and suggestions are welcome. This is not a metagame guide, it's a Link stratedgy/improvement guide (excuse the format; I did this on word, some of the imbedded likes didn't transfer.) :
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Link: Play to Your Strengths!
A revised guide for wifi and casual offline Smash using Link
by Rizen aka Arizen

001
Press ‘ctrl f’, type in a section code and click ‘find’ to skip to that section. Easy huh?

001 Contents (You are here)
002 Intro and explanation
003 Acknowledgements
004 Strengths and weaknesses
005 Spacing and Timing

002 Intro
Hey I’m Rizen. Some of you may remember the ‘Inundating’ and ‘No Weak Links-Play Your Strengths’ guides (lol) I made under the name MES or MES! I have wanted to salvage the good points of those and make an accurate guide for some time. Now I have tourney, casual and lots of wifi experience so I can do it right. SSB4 is launching in the future and Brawl is dated, therefore this will be an intermediate guide on expanding your Link’s abilities that focuses mostly on wifi. It assumes you know the basics of Link, wifi and SSBB with tourney rules. There will be a section on how offline play differs from wifi and a bit about offline tourneys. But for the most part this guide focuses on more friendly styles of play.
I will use replays to demonstrate my points; I’m not the best Link and a lot of these are friendly matches. Don’t bother pointing that out. Tourney matches will be more cutthroat, these are purely examples. If other Links want to contribute that would be great.

003 Acknowledgements
The Link players! Keep doing work!
The CO smash scene, it’s been too long

...
The wifi community, lots of fun

xX Crow Xx for the frame and hitbubble pics and data
And all the people who worked so hard and planned so little to make Brawl the balanced fighting game it is :/.

004 Strengths and weaknesses
Link players need to use Link’s strong traits against the opponent’s weaker aspects. For example, Math has a great offense and punishment game, Link should play a spacing oriented passive spamming and setups game. Link can’t beat Marth in a strait fight, Marth is too fast. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f0e-Wm4j1A]Link can hop around dodging, dropping bombs and throwing projectiles/Zair while looking to create an opening.[/URL] Even in this Link is at a disadvantage but it’s manageable.


Strengths

Versatile fighter
Long reaching attacks
All standard attacks out prioritize medium to weak range attacks (except ‘piercing’ attacks like space animal lasers etc)
3 projectiles to combine for spamming and setups
Can attack from unusual angles with projectiles and sword attacks
Long lasting hitbubbles on several attacks
Zair, Nair, Fair, and Bair all landing cancel
Heavy with good momentum canceling
Several tools/techniques to aid recoveries
Great gimper/edgehogger vs moderate recoveries
Great airdodge and spotdodge
Several tools to punish dodges
Zair

Weaknesses

Laggy attacks
Bad air movement
Momentum based recovery is short and easy to gimp
Easy to juggle and chain grab (CG)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCYRYjrsuMM&feature=player_detailpage#t=161s]Lag + CG offstage + bad recovery = Extremely bad MU[/URL]
Laggy grab
Bad Out of Shield (OoS) game
Easy to run from and timeout
Every stage CP that’s good for Link has other pocket characters that it’s better for
Bad or even MUs except Ganondorf and Ivysaur
Low tier

2+2=
Link needs to keep moving and throwing out attacks, he must rely on setups, locks and punishing to land http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xTsdMVvSMs&feature=player_detailpage#t=26s]strong hits/start chains[/URL], he can’t outdraw most opponents and has to use his long reach rather than speed. Link can’t be predictable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B9WnekT5Uk">Using platforms, SHs/jumps, fast falling and attacking from uncommon angles helps Link; he’s often weaker in head-on fights.

005 Spacing and Timing
Link is all about spacing! He’s also laggy and shields destroy his hard work spamming and close fighting. He does have good reaching attacks and a great mid-range projectile game.

...
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Is this worth continuing? yes/no
(The links will work on the actual guide. Dumb format transfer.)

 

[Terywj [태리]]

I have been in the
most strange of moods recently
I don't know why though

 

[MegaRobMan]

Is this worth continuing? yes/no
(The links will work on the actual guide. Dumb format transfer.)

Yes3characters. I'd add for a strength both his Dacus and pivot grab.

Seriously, though, I learned a few things here. I've started reading air-dodges when I throw a boomerang/bomb/arrow and turning those reads into a dacus.

I visualize a shorthop-fair assault into retreating pivot grab's and I don't know why I don't do this more often (probably because I always have a bomb in my hand).

 

[Rizen]

I might complete the guide but it's dependent on if it distracts me too much. ...from what I should be writing, lol.
Here's another Link picture:
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I hope your mood improves, Terywj. I'm in a bad mood myself.

 

[Pachinkosam]

am bored man somebody talk to me plz

 

[Rizen]

Are you a ZSS main?

 

[Terywj [태리]]

I hope your mood improves, Terywj. I'm in a bad mood myself.

Haha Arizen
I was typing a haiku
but do feel better

 

[Rizen]

I did not realize
you were trying a haiku
lol, good work

 

[Terywj [태리]]

You are so silly
It's five then seven then five
Syllabes that is

 

[Rizen]

'lol' is three
syllables in my haikus
just like three letters

 

[Terywj [태리]]

You should write them out
Otherwise people will think
you are so silly

 

[Huggles828]

First day of football!
Clemson's offense is awful,
but not their defense

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Huggles is the best
I could post this as haiku
Didn't even know

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

First day of football!
Clemson's offense is awful,
but not their defense

First day of football!
Auburn's defense is awful,
but we still won it