Long post incoming
Tied for 17th in a 76 man tourney with link only.
http://austinsmash4.challonge.com/Arfi4Singles
Back in the social thread i said i was gonna keep you guys up to date with my performances with link. Tbh we played doubles early and I played like ass. We only won one set and we usually do quite well. I was in my head about the nerfs, since i didn't fully adjust to the lack of jab1 ****. I then played friendlies for about 2 hours against some real good players, switching between link and dk and shook it out and started playing way better. Got my mojo and confidence back. Played for about 8 hours today and I honestly feel really better about my link than ever now. I played very well and never switched to a secondary.
A quick(it's actually kind of long) break down if anyone cares
First match vs pikachu. Went battlefield, stopped quick attack with bombs, got two throws, built some damage, punished a misspaced quick attack with ftilt. Same thing, interrupted quick attack with upsmash for the other kill. Took me to smashville, did more of the same, won without losing a single stock
Second match, he played falcon, took me to final d. Got the first stock on me with grab to uair combo. got me to about 30 % when he tried to dash grab, and i jab canceled into f smash. Danced around the other stock, he got me to about 170%, i finished him at 110% when he rolled behind me and i read it with a dsmash. He switched to diddy and took me to smashville. I lost to the old hoohah, only getting his last stock to about 30%. I took him to lylat, got a kill on upsmash when he had to land once, but I ended up losing. I tried to spot dodge the banana throw and beat his grab, but lylat was tilting and instead of going past me, it landed right under my feet, i came out of the dodge, slipped, and got smashed.
He ended up taking 7th
Third match was against shiek twice. Battlefield both times. he was in my face constantly. Shielded and threw him to give myself some room, then relentless aggressive soft bombs arrows and boomerangs didn't let him touch me again. Killed him without going above 20%. We ducked it out for a while, he changed his aggression to be harder to punish, got me to 180% but couldnt land the kill on me. Got him with a utilt on a bad landing. Second set was similar, but he killed me with a bouncing fish when i tried to pull out a bomb around 130%. Took the set When i got aggressive with my aerials out of nowhere..
Fourth match was against yoshi. He couldn't deal with the bomb zoning, and got mad and tried to dash in, got fmsmashed. Got me once each set with a reverse aeriel b into the egg, and upsmashed me as i got out of it. Still took the set 2-0. All my kills were fsmashes or ftilts.2 of em were jab canceled.
5th match was against wario. I picked battlefield. Never played against a good wario before and was real surprised. Chomp is hard to deal with. Not only played defensive but also had to run away. Most of my other games I stood my ground hard. Got hit by the bike too many times and lost. Did you know wario has a kill throw? I didn't. Second match he tried to gimp me early, and I stage spiked him with my up b, made it back. I then got a few early combos in, knocked him off at 50%, chased off stage hard, and stage spiked again with a bair. I don't think he was ready for me to chase like that and missed the tech. He barely couldn't reach the ledge. Third match was SUPER CLOSE, and he bombed him at 68% on the ledge, he landed badly and I could have f-smashed for the win and gotten 13th place minimum, but a tilt came out instead. We danced a little while longer, and he farted on me at 50% and killed me. he tied for 13th.
All in all, here is generally how i played. Once I got into a position I liked, I refused to budge. I spot dodged, shielded, and rolled BACK, and moved back into the position i wanted asap. Kept throwing projectiles to force flawed approaches and punished accordingly. After I do that for a while, I go aggresive early, before they are at kill % to throw them off, go back to defense when they are in kill range to have them over commit and punish.
Got tgc next weekened with is about 200 people, and a smaller local afterward. I'll try to get matches recorded there.
TL:DR
Beat yoshi, pikachu, capt falcon, shiek, and wario. Don't roll and stand ground.
My only losses were to diddy, and wario (where I should have won but I ****ed my input)
I'm feeling good about link still. I think I can represent him well. I think it's ok.
Also how the **** do i deal with warios bite?
