Melee Shield Drop Tutorial

[Smashboards]

Can't get a hang of that pesky Shield Drop in Super Smash Brothers Melee? It isn't entirely technical, but is super precise and is a technique that developed much later than most. Kira with SSBMtutorials has put together a short 2 minute video that runs down the technique and gives a tip to make the process much easier. Check it out!

 

[FEFIZ]

Amazing man! \o/

 

[BanterBros]

Inb4 90007000 posts something completely irrelevant ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[Kirbyfan391]

Kept on replaying the video...
Because of that cute Pichu voice in the beginning ^_^

 

[thenaturalRoland]

Now this is useful! Thank you, Kira!

 

[Pachinkosam]

I love melee!! :D

 

[ELStalky]

Whether this is the best method is debatable, especially since it relies so heavily on the manufacturing of the controller with those notches.

 

[FE_Hector]

Or you can do what I do to shield drop and lower the control stick to the proper angle. Honestly, I can just push all the way down on my control stick at a set speed and I shield drop that way. No need for Shield DI or any other stuff like that. Practice makes perfect

 

[Spak]

Also, I'll just put this here in case anyone wants to see Axe's shield dropping explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAlxODHc48

 

[ZetaWolf]

Time to sit down and figure this out. Glad I have the Wii U controller.

 

[90007000]

Inb4 90007000 posts something completely irrelevant ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Haha I get it...

 

[Spak]

Posted my Smashboards? That's odd because the Smashboards account hasn't been online since last year.

I believe we have either an impostor or admins can change their last seen date.

 

[boyd109]

You already know

 

[Dylan_Tnga]

I really need to sit down and learn this skill. Learning is one thing but applying it is so different... Same thing with the shine-grab. I can do it consistently in training mode, when it comes time to use it in a real match... nope.

Practice makes perfect I guess, and melee demands perfection!

 

[N.T.A.O ChangeOfHeart 死の剣]

Brawl has this trick as well. Also this trick was overused by many Brawl players.

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

The amusing thing is that there is a post by someone who claims to debuff the controller idea making anything easier or harder.

Kadano’s perfect Marth class—advanced frame data application

Its far from conclusive over all controllers, but the point is that I think no one has sufficiently proven a controller makes a difference other than the perception that it does so rather than hard facts.

 

[Dylan_Tnga]

Brawl has this trick as well. Also this trick was overused by many Brawl players.

Define "overused" were they getting punished for it?

 

[PootisKonga]

As informative as this is, I still personally think putting shield drop on special in shield for PM would be best. Even with this easier version it's honestly a kinda arbitrary to move the stick down and in a direction to fall through a platform

 

[Probalo]

Good guide

 

[90007000]

I'm late, better make a joke...































NO #%^* YOU

 

[Kotastic]

I'm late, better make a joke...

NO #%^* YOU

No.

 

[ShadyWolfe]

Define "overused" were they getting punished for it?

They did use it a lot and it really depends on the player, match up, and stage for how well punishing shield drops goes. The top players use it in Melee and Smash 4 all the time too.

 

[N.T.A.O ChangeOfHeart 死の剣]

Define "overused" were they getting punished for it?

No the players controlling the characters did not get punished towards Shield Dropping with an attack (especially Meta-knight) Brawl isn't that "slow" where "anything can be punished and reacted upon". Do you still need the reference definition of the compound word "overused," or not? Thanks.

 

[Dylan_Tnga]

No the players controlling the characters did not get punished towards Shield Dropping with an attack (especially Meta-knight) Brawl isn't that "slow" where "anything can be punished and reacted upon". Do you still need the reference definition of the compound word "overused," or not? Thanks.

I dunno. Can't be overusing something if you're not being punished for it. That's the way I look at fighting games anyway. If it keeps working, don't stop doing it

I never played Brawl more than once or twice, so I know nothing about the game aside from that I hate how slow and boring it is compared to smash 64 or melee.

Did not know shield dropping was in Brawl. It wasn't being used that much in competitive melee when Brawl came out so that's why. If the developers saw that it was being used as an advantage it would have been removed to make the game fun and fair for everyone... (lol)

Is shield dropping in smash 4? I haven't played smash 4 yet so I'm curious to know.

 

[Phan7om]

You can shield drop in all smash games.

And for the record, top smash 4 players dont shield drop "all the time", I rarely ever see anyone do it. Most of what I see them do on the platforms is drop shield and buffer platform drop which isnt the same and is way easier.

But this is a Melee tutorial, we dont need to be talking about this ish.

 

[N.T.A.O ChangeOfHeart 死の剣]

I dunno. Can't be overusing something if you're not being punished for it. That's the way I look at fighting games anyway. If it keeps working, don't stop doing it

I never played Brawl more than once or twice, so I know nothing about the game aside from that I hate how slow and boring it is compared to smash 64 or melee.

Did not know shield dropping was in Brawl. It wasn't being used that much in competitive melee when Brawl came out so that's why. If the developers saw that it was being used as an advantage it would have been removed to make the game fun and fair for everyone... (lol)

Is shield dropping in smash 4? I haven't played smash 4 yet so I'm curious to know.

I can personalty write that I Shield Drop pretty much all the time. Smash-4? I don't know nor do I care. I'm assuming the game does, hopefully the game allows some tricks to be displayed in that game (patches and 'fairness"). I honestly do not ever get punished (players don't have a TAS reaction to know how to Sdi in and punish).

But here's some useless information? Melee is the same, how? If a player has TAS reactions (as in Sdi-ing in the position of the player then the player with TAS reaction then quickly throwing out an attack of their own; then the player that Shield Dropped with an attack can indeed become punished. Thanks.