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Match #1
00:12 - As soon as I saw the early forward air, I figured you'd wanted to sneak a launcher in. Up air was a good choice (I would have done neutral, only because I like the wider range horizontally), but I think DJCing it slowed you down a bit and kept you just a few spaces upwards of where you might have wanted to hit. It might have hit without DJCing it and you wouldn't have risked getting crouched into shine into death without your jump to save ya.
00:20 - Flawless.
00:43 - Dude, I wanted to see death here, but I realized as soon as you started the grab that it was Falco and not Fox. Since Falco is heavier and falls a lil faster, perhaps instead of going for a second DJC up air under 50%, you could try and down angled forward tilt or maybe even a really really quick DJC neutral? While missing wasn't really punishable, especially since Shaz didn't tech, you might have been able to do at least a little more damage, which is always a good thing against Falco.
00:46 - <3
00:58 - Grrr @ this. Falco is like Marth and Sheik in the sense that once they get you in shield while you're on a platform above them, they can really pile the mental pressure on. They'll wait for the roll, but the decision you made here wasn't terrible, I don't think. Had you rolled forward, he could have neutral'd/forward aerial'd into DJ spike and then edgeguarded with shine or more down aerials. Rolling back at this percentage wasn't a bad idea, but perhaps try to wait them out with lightshielding (especially since its hard for the opponent to tell whether or not you're doing it) or even releasing your shield and interrupting the breakout animation with a spotdodge or a supershield attempt, should they immediately try to attack you. Falco isn't like Marth; he has to jump to hit you here, so even though he's quick, you have a tiny bit of time to do some guesswork.
01:03 - Holy ****ing mother of pearl, that was a good parry. Clutch downsmash, mang.
01:24 - Duuuuuuude, you landed behind him with the back aerial, but he down air'd you out of shield. Try jabbing next time. Jabs come out just as fast as the dodge and will at least trade with Falco's down air from behind. The chance is there of beating his down air if you land quickly enough from the aerial, but it's slim. Even still, I think maybe jabs here would have helped.
01:44 - Forward tilts are go. Unfortunately, it looks like you sometimes have the same problem I do of trying to DJC so quickly that you end up DJ landing. It stinks...I'm still trying to work a way around it or to at least get myself in the habit of slowing down my DJ attempts. If you figure out a way to stop this, let me know, son!
01:54 - Shaz was baiting this forward smash all match up to this point, it seems. Everytime you DJ'd from the ledge, you resisted wavelanding back on and he tried to forward smash you everytime (I probably would have fallen for it the first time, depending on my percentage), thinking you would (at least this is what I can gather). It looked like a pretty solid habit he had, so second guessing yourself on something like this may be a bad thing. I don't think there's anything you could have done out of a waveland even if you had seen the forward smash coming (which I'll assume you did) that would have hit him in time to stop or trade with the attack.
02:06 - Wow. You seemed a little angry here. Was I right, or was it you just trying to get the KO quickly? It's all good, though. Falco deserves to die a painful death. One thing I would recommend, though, is that the smash spam you started at the beginning of this stock would be best put to use with wavedashes and empty short hop lead-ins. If Falco gets a jump over your smash and drillshines to start a combo and you don't crouch, it's at least a free 20%, and that's 19% too much against Falco. All things considered, though, you had a comfortable stock lead and didn't take too much damage after the downsmash, so it worked out.
03:05 - You have a very interesting approach to the laser spam here, but it makes me wonder how well it would have worked if Shaz had whored shielding more in between your appraoches. Regardless, you did well here by showing lots of patience and thought. If you can, though, practice crouch powershielding lasers with Yoshi. It helps out, even if just a little, and crouching while wavedashing out of the powershield can lead to some fun times.
Awesome match overall. I liked the patience you showed and you really handled Falco's pressure game well by using platforms and not being afraid to go in the air. I'll get on match two in a bit. Time for bed.
