Okay, 1-3 vs KirbyKaze(KK)'s fox
0:20 was suppose to be a nair I hope, and I know you know this, but yeah, nair > fair if you're gonna fj and a fox is shielding below you (told you I was going to say EVERYTHING, this is going to take a while -.-)
0:24 was interesting, I would have fast fallen a dair ontop of fox (but I don't think about punishing very well, I think to hit with a strong move, rather then a combo),
but instead you pulled a bomb, which was a good defensive measure for later, but you had a fox below you who wiffed a nair. (Btw I don't play foxes to the calibur of KK haha)
0:28 was choice *steals*
0:34/5 I think you could have just utilted and hit fox out of his nair and then ****ed his ****, I need to start doing this too, and you were WAY to close for the boomerang
the wd back > fair right afterwards was good, then jabs to keep him at bay. I learned something playing against a fox the other day, moving forwards when you're both neutral (as in you're both standing, facing eachother) is never that good of an idea, neither is getting cornered though. Er, if they're camping you don't have a choice. I just noticed that you did wd > fair >jabs (to keep him at bay) then you got hit when you wd'd forward, you could have wd back again or jabbed, or shielded.
on your recovery at 0:38-0:40, it looked like KK was waiting for you to hook shot, try to hookshot with that second jump of yours. I don't know if you were baiting with it but you were high enough to through one out and *hopefully* tap that z button before he went "lolBLINK" on your head.
0:53 lol just upthrow that bomb > waveland > ****, don't throw bombs at held shines boyo
1:08 don't dash attack at those percents
*Note to the community* I can't think of a way, but lets brainstorm ways to beat out laser camping foxes (when fox comes up in matchup thread), I would say more bombs but what do I know?
start of your third stock is what you should have during your second stock (bomb to combo)\
1:27 *shakes head* I guess a nair to put him off the stage would have worked, but utilt/uair to dair would have worked, like you could have done another after that falling uair
*blinks....* wtf arrow? haha, alright alright
1:53, you got stuck in your shield, probably waiting to get pushed off onto the ledge (seemed like a good idea) then you did nothing with it. I'm probably being over criticle but come on. Ledge hop for invicibility then do something. Get up attack? lol that was a mistake I'm hoping.
2:10 space that fair a little better, you were right on top of him and it has to much range for you to do that, I know you wanted to take advantage of that bomb, and you missed your window to do so, had you spaced you would have been able to get away
2:20 ftilt (mistake though, now way you'd do that on purpose haha), just pointing it out
is there any reason you're usmashing so much? nice cc after the one around 2:24
you started jabbing around 2:25, good, jabs are good, this match needed more jabs, you're jabbing in case he trys to counter attack, needs more jabs to keep him at bay imo
KK, I assume you'll read this, that last combo on the first game, not gonna lie, made me happy some where south
*sighs* game 2, here we go!
alright, already ****ed up by 2:49 by staying Link. (<3)
watch your close projectiles, you got him this time but he punished you for it
nairs > jabs to stop that counter attack, good, missed the grab at 3:13 but good effort
but then 3:16 you pull a rang, toooooo close
Grab at 3:23 and get up attack at 3:25 makes me confused, mistakes?
nice bait for his stock
at 3:38 when you get those jabs in, you could have either gone first jab > second jab > repeat or just jab jab jab jab (no second jab) or multi stab, I don't know at KK but that's usually profitable cause people don't think to hold away or shield, just to take it. I do that when people are that close.
3:45- 3:49 You should probably have wave landed or air dodged those fairs (looking back on it at least) for how he punished you, the first one you tried to wave dash away from him, should spot dodge the grab next time, at least now we know you can't wave dash out like that haha, fox's too fast
3:51ish NICE SPACING, good, now do that more haha
good grab
good combo
EDGE GUAAAARD
run off nair next time plz, it would have cut his second jump and worst comes to worst, if he saw it and recovered accordingly, an up b (facing him) can catch him, or hit him with final hit.
Again with the falling fair (4:01/2), good for spacing but it looks like KK is waiting for it to hit you AFTER you land/DURING your wd back
time between 4:00 and 4:30 I think you could uair him out of his full jump nairs on your shield, tsk tsk KK on no usmash at 4:18 lul, Stos, rang was to close at 4:23 and that's why you got usmashed, nair or air dodge or wave land might have worked
4:36 TO CLOSE WITH THAT RANG!
4:38 is interesting, I assume you jabb'd to stop him for going for the ledge, which is legit but fire fox starts up to long, then you went for the uair, I was sad it missed.
5:04, you hit with the bomb (good) approached (good good) and he shielded, I'm not sure if this is the first time this has happened, but if it keeps happening you could try for a grab cause he's blocking your follow up with that shield. OR, and this might be smarter at 10% on fox, run away and pull another projectile. No sense closing the gap between you and him if you have the choice.
5:18 you come down with a dair and are punished, i would just jump away and pull a projectile, or DI away if you want to save the dj
5:35 YEAAAAH THE SPIFE *stealing name from who ever didn't name it cause that's what I do* but you forgot to taunt,
nice beggining to his last stock, I wish wish wish you had waited to see if he got back on the ledge or not, then up-b spiked him for a clean 2 stock, oh well, I know I wouldn't have done that haha
I know it's just a friendly but there has GOT to be a better way to edge guard him then that, nice game though.
Gonna finish up the fox then I'll do Shiek later.
Match 4 (match 3 went where?)
Good start, I really think Link should play against fox like this if you have the room (read: make the room), just space nairs and fairs (so you come out doing the damage and unpunished) and pulling projectiles when you're not doing those things
1:08 I can't say I've seen anything glaringly wrong so far, that or I'm just tired from paying close attention to the other matches (took me way to long to get through them)
good good, you're just avoiding direct conflict via spacing and projectiles,
1:44 I would just hook shot the stage mang, no sense in double jump > air dodge every time when you could just hook shot and give them less time to react
I don't think I've seen enough utilts out of you, maybe you're usmashing instead but utilt is too beast
bomb jump for your third stock might have helped, worth a try anyway
(last stock) Okay, Fox's full jump nair was to much, just sh/fh uair when he's above you, don't challenge him cause even if you don't trade hits and he takes all the damage, he's still fox and you're still Link. Uair would have at least given you chance to put some space between you guys.
good idea for those last seconds, bad idea for that uair haha
Closing thoughts: the last match was played the best. More or less because (I think at least) you replaced all your close projectiles with nairs or fairs (spaced in a way that even if you wiffed you kept him at bay). Then, when you were away from him, you gave him a projectile to chew on. I think when and how you approach could have been better but well, yeah.
I don't know the match up well, but more jabs, jabs are a good way to stop that furry from getting in on you. I would keep up the nair/fair spacing, projectiles from a far, I know he ends up laser camping you, but you know. Also, uair that fj nair, no point in doing battle with it head to head so stab that ***** in the balls.
Also, I pointed out everything negative I could, and some positives that got me cheering for you Stos. I'm not saying those were the only things you did right, just the stuff that got me really into it haha. I also don't mean to come off condescending, I'm just typing what I see.
Do you want me to go on and do the shieks? I want to watch them but I don't have the time right now.
