Marth's Down Smash

[thejuica]

Ok, so I've been practicing my Marth slowly but surely over the past month. I'm getting better and better, incorporating wave-dash edge-hogging, shffl's, dash cancels, chain grabbing, and trying to get juggling down. However, I still have too many issues with using Marth's down smash over the edge of maps on people.

From all the videos I see, Marth smashes his opponent down, faster than they are able to recover. It seems that no matter where I hit an opponent, they never spike down as I see it happen in the videos; sometimes it hits them back on stage. Also, I miss it a lot, and sometimes it kills me because the lag from it is crazy high.

Any tips on executing this finisher properly?

 

[thebluedeath1000]

Stop being stupid with trying to pull off odd things rather than do simple effective things like f-smashing or d-tilting them when they try to sweetspot or hopping out and bair-ing them.


Correction: Actually know what you're talking about before you post here, You are D-airing, which has to be tipped in order to spike.

 

[Crooked Crow]

I think you mean Down Air and the spike is around the outer part of his sword,
you're probably using it when you're too close to them to spike

 

[Professer-MMP]

yea im pretty sure that his dsmash cant spike... though i cant be sure
his dair can and if you're not then they are to close or you whiffed

 

[Cookiez]

The problem is your not tipping the Dair. Try gettign a little more height above them before you use this move, if you hit them with the centre or hilt they'll just fly upwards instead. Also, it's a bad idea to drop below the stage when you do a Dair (unless your ledgehopping back up) as the lag time may be too great to let you recover.