I've been playing competitively for about a year and a half, and just started actually taking tourney sets recently. I've mained Marth the whole time, and I've gotten pretty comfortable with every matchup except falcon. I feel like I lose to falcon players with significantly lower skill level than me. And it's not a lack of experience in the matchup, I've played a LOT of falcons. Today I was at a smashfest and I was consistently losing to this falcon main. Then on a whim I switched to falco and I beat him twice in a row. My falco is absolutely terrible, I can't consistently do his bread and butter tech, I've never practiced falco or studied any pro falco videos, and yet I did better against falcon with falco than my marth. I'm pretty sure my marth would 4 stock my falco.
So I'm on the fence about picking up a falco secondary as a falcon counter. I've always been a proponent of sticking to your main, but I'm starting to feel like marth really doesn't cut it for me against falcon. If my completely untrained falco can already do better in the matchup, it seems that with practice the secondary could make a huge difference. On the other hand, I'd be splitting my practice time between two characters just to cover one matchup. Also I suspect the falcon matchup may get better for me as my reactions and punish game get better. Also I may be doing worse than I should against falcon because I hate the matchup that I just get frustrated and it's hard to concentrate.
What are your thoughts on the matchup? On having secondaries or going all marth?
So I'm on the fence about picking up a falco secondary as a falcon counter. I've always been a proponent of sticking to your main, but I'm starting to feel like marth really doesn't cut it for me against falcon. If my completely untrained falco can already do better in the matchup, it seems that with practice the secondary could make a huge difference. On the other hand, I'd be splitting my practice time between two characters just to cover one matchup. Also I suspect the falcon matchup may get better for me as my reactions and punish game get better. Also I may be doing worse than I should against falcon because I hate the matchup that I just get frustrated and it's hard to concentrate.
What are your thoughts on the matchup? On having secondaries or going all marth?
