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According to my analyzation the best way to play against Lucas is to stay in his face and do not let him space you with projectiles running up and throwing up a upsmash proved the most effective I next tested this on Battlefield and Omega stages Battlefield made it a little bit easier to stay in his face because of all the platforms and if Lucas does end up in the air stay on the ground and avoid what he throws at you something a bit more psychologically stationed is if he is under a platform hang on there for a second and then hop off chances are he will up smash a move with insane startup lag so go to the edge of the platform go down through it and punish accordingly probably with up smash also a really good combo that's not very talked about probably because the lack of Little Mac mains a guaranteed combo is down thrown to up B on an Omega stage it kills at 111% in a Battlefield stage the lowest platforms it kills at 96%, these numbers might sound underwhelming but here's the Whopper on the tallest platform it kills at 69% and it's guaranteed it's pretty ridiculous tbh its a pretty good tool to keep him from trying to fight you on a top Platform
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I'm going to be 100% honest with you, I'm using this to beat my brother (plays Lil. Mac), and now I (Lucas main) know what to do against him, thanks for the help!
So you told him my advice and you're deliberately countering it or are you taking a shot at me?
oh yeah, I would have to tell him that to counter it...
Lol ok
Yes I was taking my time and definitely not slacking off
)Hm weird i have never actually played in a organized tourney but when i have a extended amount of time i wll put together a in depth analysis of little mac so be looking for it!!!Thank you so much Badrat, this really did help a lot! I would like to know more about this techy side of Mac, as this is the first I'm really hearing that so I'd like to know what more I could do. Are you talking about stuff like Straight Lunge Canceling to get to the ground or absorb damage with the heavy armor? Because that's really the only tech I can recall using with my boy L Mac... And from what I can tell Gazelle Punch doesn't work on stages universally so that's out of the picture imo. I look forward to your response!
(P.S. You've played in tournaments -- I remember seeing your name -- but can you direct me to some of your smultimate gameplay??? I don't get useful results when I Google "Badrat Smash Ultimate"
If your referring to his linear recovery unfortunately not really but they severely nerf his ability to do that usually to avoid it you go over it but Little mac can't do that and he can't stall his recovery to wait it out but I think a correctly placed air dodge can maybe get away from it while snapping the ledge but Side b unless precisely paralleled with the ledge will always get swallowed up.
Actually not quite his recovery (although thats a problem too.) More like a K.Rool can just hang out by the ledge, even if you are center stage and hold his neutral b and suck away nonstop. There seems to be no way to deal with this and the King Rool player can just keep this up and run the clock.
That's what I'm saying his recovery is what let's that happen
1. The down-tilted FSmash does quite a bit more damage than non-tilted or up-tilted but does very little knockback. The non-tilted FSmash does an average amount of knockback and damage and that knockback is more to the side than anywhere else. And the up-tilted FSmash does the same damage as the non-tilted variation, it just does quite a bit of knockback and that knockback is directed nearly straight up. Plus you might decide to do different variations because of their different hitboxes; for example, they're above you and although you'd rather send them to the side with a non-tilted FSmash, the hitbox won't hit them unless you tilt the FSmash upward.
