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Need help "pubstomping"

CapacityCassowary

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I mostly play PM, but my university is having a Brawl tournament. If it's 4p FFA, I'll just **** around, but if it's 1v1 or teams I'd like to put up a good fight. I main Diddy and Marth when I'm playing Brawl. Assuming that my opponents will largely not DI, ledgehog, or other relatively unintuitive things, what are some cheap tricks I can pull?

Edit: I've noticed that Diddy's bthrow-dair kills Nana, does that work with anyone who doesn't DI it?
 
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PKBeam

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Marth makes it pretty nasty for predictable people with Counter. And assuming your opponents can't space well, you can Up-B pretty much anything that touches your shield. If they run out of invincibility frames and you're onstage, a Dsmash or Dtilt knocks them off. Charging a Shield Breaker or a smash puts pressure on people: Do I shield and risk getting poked/broken or Do I dodge and risk getting hit out of it?

Diddy can **** with bananas if you just chuck em around. If your opponent can't even DI then they don't stand a chance against Diddy's banana shenanigans, let alone the infinite lock he has with them. Speaking of no DI, Dsmash kills stupid early without DI and it puts them in a horrible position if they survive.

You might like to grab release them, Marth's pummel is fast enough to force a ground break and if they're not reacting as fast as they should, a quick Dsmash should remind them (Same with Diddy except maybe a banana toss)

If they like to spam ledge getup attacks then Up-B OoS with Marth will send them back off again, so will a banana with Diddy.
If they edgehog wrong and wear out their invincibility I think both Marth and Diddy can stagespike them with their Up-B's.

With bad players, you can usually get away with using some certain damage racking moves too much, or trying a bit too hard for the kill . Both Marth and Diddy aren't great at killing so this should help you out a lot.

Don't worry about DI, Nana's AI doesn't do that. If you can pull off Bthrow->Dair then Nana is pretty much gone.
 
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