Link's Tether recovery to easy?

[pyro363]

What do you guys think about this. I mean in melee this was really hard to do and now in brawl it is very simple. I never use this technique in brawl but i used it in melee and in my opinion it should be alittle harder to give us link mains out there something to really practice.

 

[HiIH]

Meh, in my opinion it's kind of useless now. The range for it is horrible. It's even worse that it can't grab walls, only ledges. This means that instead of grabbing a wall into an UP+B, you just miss the tether, or get meteor'd/spiked pretty easy if you hit the tether....

I haven't really found to much of a use for it, to be honest, unless I just have a whim to clawshot back.

 

[Legan]

It's useful, just very situational

 

[HiIH]

With the pretty much auto sweetspotting.....

What situation would you use the Clawshot instead of your Up+B to get back?

 

[Mblade98]

It's good for when you need a quicker recovery and it doesn't leave you as open as the sword spin does.

 

[One_With_Sumthing]

Can it still be used after the air-dodge?

 

[mthegreatone]

Can it still be used after the air-dodge?

it's a good thing you brought that up, because i got around to finally trying the game today.
air-dodging seems kinda weird this time around in SSBB. now, doing an air-dodge doesn't give you the freedom of moving a certain direction to gain a little more distance. as far as clawshot after an air-dodge i forgot to test more than likely someone else will bring it up

 

[The Burrito of Time]

Wow... I think it's pretty crappy now. If you're close enough to actually pull it off you can just go with the spin. It's shorter and only grabs the edges instead of being able to grab onto the sides of stages.

 

[Maikeru17]

Link's tether recovery (or recovery in general) more or less sucks in Brawl, especially compared to Melee.
The Clawshot has been pretty nerfed in length, for starters, and you do not have the freedom of being able to "tether" onto the side of walls because it's bound by the auto-sweetspot.

There has rarely been a situation where tethering has been a better choice than Up-Bing for me, since I've started playing the game.

Also, it wouldn't be wise to airdodge-clawshot in a fashion similar to the way you'd do it in Melee (like, towards the bottom of the stage), because you'll just fall to your death. You do not have the freedom of direction when you airdodge in Brawl - it's all based on your momentum.

-Nox`

 

[pyro363]

For real i was just playing to answer my own question sort of and this is what i found out. If someone is edge guarding and your falling you can clawshot to the side to avoid being attacked if you were to swing on.

 

[HiIH]

It's better to just airdodge, and then Up+B/Dj

 

[pyro363]

i didn't know you could do that. I thought after you air dodged you were left helpless until you land if you land.

 

[Link Sharingan]

well i never used Tether recovery in melee and i used link since melee was released

 

[JonBeBonanza]

WTF hard to do in melee? yuo my friend are teh nub lol but in all seriousness compared to melee it SUX!!!!!!

its autoswettspotted, and it has no range... in melee you could just cling anywhere on the stage and yea... so me persoannlyi use it but to catch my friends off guard, but if youre in a sticky situation where the tether doesn't reach most likely his up B wont reach either.. he has no hops in this game T-T

 

[The_Woebegone_Jackal]

I'm vastly disappointed in Link's tether range... hes my secondary main to my Samus and as such I've gotten used to her tethers good reach and its applications. But Link's... it has maybe half (not sure exactly) the range Samus' does and not near the applications. Its no good as a recovery and as a zair its near worthless. Why they made its range so horrible is beyond me but I think it was a bit shortsighted.