Zone
Smash Champion
SLow Learner
When the game first came out. Just like everyone else I thought I was the hawtess player around. I played Samus, and crounch canceled into down smash everything and it was broken vs all my friends. Not that I knew it was called crouch cancelling. I eventually met a friend named Paul who said he was really good at the game. I thought "ok bring it!" We play, and he wins the first match. After a while I started winning a little more thinking ok I'm still real good. After a few friendlies about a month later, Paul comes to my house and tells me about these guys called "The Punch Crew" We watch and I laugh because their commentary is ridiculously funny. And while watching these Paul learns of smash boards.
At first paul learned of shield grabbing and wave dashing ect. He explained wavedashing to me. And at first it looked like the most useless tool I had ever seen. Boy how wrong was I. He didnt tell me about shield grabbing because he wanted the upper edge on me. Then boom. I finally visit smashboards for myself and Learned of way more possible things. I eventually dropped Samus and picked up Shiek cuz I won alot. Then I changed to Marth, after watching Ken. I then started picking up fox. Because I wanted to be able to do all that hard stuff I saw zelgadis do. Then finally I enter my first tournament. Thinking with my l-cancel knowledge ect I would do pretty good. Well, I didn't even make it out of pools. I then practiced more. Went to another tournament this time making it out of pools. And this tournament taught me everything. I learned that "Don't get hit" advice was more merit to anything that I ever heard. I began trying more baiting, and jumping in between attacks. Learning how to edgeguard. I picked up Zelda as a fun character adn advanced her metagame a small bit. Maybe not for the community but I felt like I created my own Zelda meta game learning very little from other people.
Anyways imagine if My friend never stumbled accross the punch crew. He may not have even found smash boards.
When the game first came out. Just like everyone else I thought I was the hawtess player around. I played Samus, and crounch canceled into down smash everything and it was broken vs all my friends. Not that I knew it was called crouch cancelling. I eventually met a friend named Paul who said he was really good at the game. I thought "ok bring it!" We play, and he wins the first match. After a while I started winning a little more thinking ok I'm still real good. After a few friendlies about a month later, Paul comes to my house and tells me about these guys called "The Punch Crew" We watch and I laugh because their commentary is ridiculously funny. And while watching these Paul learns of smash boards.
At first paul learned of shield grabbing and wave dashing ect. He explained wavedashing to me. And at first it looked like the most useless tool I had ever seen. Boy how wrong was I. He didnt tell me about shield grabbing because he wanted the upper edge on me. Then boom. I finally visit smashboards for myself and Learned of way more possible things. I eventually dropped Samus and picked up Shiek cuz I won alot. Then I changed to Marth, after watching Ken. I then started picking up fox. Because I wanted to be able to do all that hard stuff I saw zelgadis do. Then finally I enter my first tournament. Thinking with my l-cancel knowledge ect I would do pretty good. Well, I didn't even make it out of pools. I then practiced more. Went to another tournament this time making it out of pools. And this tournament taught me everything. I learned that "Don't get hit" advice was more merit to anything that I ever heard. I began trying more baiting, and jumping in between attacks. Learning how to edgeguard. I picked up Zelda as a fun character adn advanced her metagame a small bit. Maybe not for the community but I felt like I created my own Zelda meta game learning very little from other people.
Anyways imagine if My friend never stumbled accross the punch crew. He may not have even found smash boards.