New to Melee wanting to main Falco

[Penguis]

I'm hopefully going to be able to join the melee scene in about a month or two and after seeing Falco play I decided that I wanted to main him. Asking for help about to to train upon that. I live in the central Texas area and there isn't that much of a scene here. Hoping I may be able to go to Austin for a tournament or so. I would like a few pointers on how to practice as Falc. I know most of the lingo like DI and Teching etc. If you could help that would be great. Thanks

 

[Mikkelmann]

I'm hopefully going to be able to join the melee scene in about a month or two and after seeing Falco play I decided that I wanted to main him. Asking for help about to to train upon that. I live in the central Texas area and there isn't that much of a scene here. Hoping I may be able to go to Austin for a tournament or so. I would like a few pointers on how to practice as Falc. I know most of the lingo like DI and Teching etc. If you could help that would be great. Thanks

If you need to pratice tech skill such as shineing after a air attack, short hop lasering etc pratice on those but from what you told us you already have that down. Pillering (Shine, Dair) is a very good move/combo with falco and the way that i pratice it is that go to training and set the cpu to evade and piller it. But if you have a friend it would be a lot better to pratice on him if he knows about DI. This is all I got so far but I'll post more later.

A good way to pratice lasering and keeping pressure is to get a kirby or a jiggly puff or a pichu and try to laser them to keep them at bay. If you can do that you can laser just about anybody.

And if you're going to pratice on cpus pratice on level 7 cpus. They have mixed di so you won't combo them up all the time cause level 9 cpus DI up all the time when getting comboed.

 

[Oskurito]

My tutorials are a good start, chek them out.

 

[AirFair]

Start with tech. Learn how to do the most basic tech, and then you can move on to more advanced stuff through tutorials like the Falco Trials (look it up) or above.

 

[Solarquatic]

I have a thread very similar to this, where I outlined how I started practicing and a bunch of very nice people contributed things to begin working on that really payed off when I went to my first tournament. I've started training a bunch of my friends the same way I did (albeit I was learning things on my own), by first going into training and just straight up repeating things over and over before going to CPUs and trying to practice them against moving targets. (A friend always beats CPUs for training though)

Don't take this as super duper awesome advice though, I'm pretty new myself lol.

 

[Pretzl]

Don't just practice tech skill, but learn how it is applicable as well. Most new players can be beaten by running toward them to draw their attack and then wavedashing back to dodge and then punishing.