ugh, I had a terrible time playing Palutena today. My friends Diddy Kong is really good (when he doesn't kill himself with the rocket barrels) and normally I can hold up pretty solid for the first stock but the moment it comes to taking a stock it's impossible to do it safe. I kept rushing headlong into dangerous situation trying to go for an usmash, dthrow uair or any KO move, was way too aggressive and it just hurt me in the long run.
I said a lot about the Diddy Kong match up before but I gotta change some facts, Palu's fair can not beat Diddy's fair, they trade at best and at worst ours is slower than Diddy's fair so it's dangerous to go for it when you're both airborne. I really have trouble approaching Diddy in any way besides reflecting through peanuts and trying to reflect the banana, if I can get a solid dash attack in then I start having some luck but getting that KO hit in is the hardest part, most matches my opponent is well above 150% damage before I get a KO and with Diddy it's so hard to get a good chance for a smash attack.
I'm being a bit irrational with all of this, a bit frustrated with all the losses I had against my friend but I gotta say Diddy is an extremely hard match up. If anyone knows moves Diddy has that are unsafe and punishable I'd love to know, I just can't seem to win in footsies against him.
ugh I feel bad for ranting about Diddy, feels like I forgot how to play Palutena today as well. I'm gonna upload some videos shortly since we got to use a capture card today, hopefully get some help and see where I'm going wrong besides all the smash attacks that I accidentally did.