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Official "Ask Cort Stuff... about Stuff" Thread

Cort

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I holding jump while wiggling out in order to insta float as soon as I stop flailing. But I'm not sure exactly because I kind of do it without thinking.

I did okay at VLS, I didn't play very well all tournament, but it was a very memorable event. 9th in singles, 4th in teams...
 

Samochan

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Well I think that also you can hold down and press jump, then you'll autofloat and don't use your second jump. Like you can drop below stage and autofloat, but still retain jump. If you don't want to float right away from wiggling.
 

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I holding jump while wiggling out in order to insta float as soon as I stop flailing. But I'm not sure exactly because I kind of do it without thinking.
i kno what u mean. a lot of times i can DI into the stage, tech off the floor and as i'm flying completely parallel to the stage I instant float. its wierd and i dont kno how i'm doing it.

i did it a few times during that match vs brookman/kiwii if u were watching
 

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Well I think that you smash the direction fox is facing. If I understand that topic correctly, and I'm not sure I do, in the case of foxes Usmash you want to cstick down and control stick the direction he's facing...?
 

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No. The c-stick and control stick do not work with each other like that. If you hold a direction with the c-stick, it will take priority over the control stick. Just press the direction Fox is facing to DI his usmash correctly.
 

JTHMbyJV

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What do you think of Armada? His style is a lot different then yours and other American smashers. Crazy Europeans.
 

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Let's say you're edgeguarding your opponent. Why is it when you nair, half the time it flies the opponents away to the stage, and other times the nair flies the enemy TO the stage?
 

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You said earlier that you like to recover high alot. Was that against most characters, or only certain ones. (I figure it wouldnt be a good idea against characters that'll easily aerial K'O me.)
 

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I'm still having a bit of trouble chaingrabing using Peach. It seemed alot easier with Marth... Fox seems to get away from it too early somehow. I'm sure there's nothing really for you to tell me though.

It's probably try to chaingrab him in a predictable pattern. I would Upthrow, A, A, up throw, A, Up throw, up throw, and then finish it off with a nair. You gotta mix it up or it'd be hard to chain grab.
 

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Let's say you're edgeguarding your opponent. Why is it when you nair, half the time it flies the opponents away to the stage, and other times the nair flies the enemy TO the stage?

Think of peach's Nair as a sort of a flipper. What part of her body you hit them with decides what direction you send them. If you want to send them away you need to hit them with the front part of her body. That is, whichever part of her body is facing away from the center of the stage.
 

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What do you think of Armada? His style is a lot different then yours and other American smashers. Crazy Europeans.
I don't know. I haven't seen him play really and he loses to PAL Sheiks. >.> PAL Peaches have it so much easier...
You said earlier that you like to recover high alot. Was that against most characters, or only certain ones. (I figure it wouldnt be a good idea against characters that'll easily aerial K'O me.)
Pretty much all of them. It just depends how you're sent out, if you DI into the very top right then recover as high as you can so they can't reach you, otherwise just react recover however you like but don't be too ridiculously predictable about it.
 

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Cort 2 Questions. if the first one is a no, dont bother with the second, I'll search for it to save you the trouble of explaining.:)

#1 -Did you go through some tips against Marth?

#2- can you explain it. Seems I can feel comfortable against a Marth. I flinch to easy and get comboed cause I dont know what to do in some cases. I can beat Marth, it goes back and fourth. I'll admit. Marth can scare me easy in a fight. so it makes it hard to camp him or land a good hit on him, as well as return safe on the stage.

Pretty much I'm ok in the fight. but you like to get better or master the match up, even if I win or lose, long as I know what the hell i'm doing cause at times I dont in the fight.
 

Mr P

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I don't know. I haven't seen him play really and he loses to PAL Sheiks. >.> PAL Peaches have it so much easier...
Amsah is not just any PAL sheik though is he ? Armada beats just about any other sheik in Europe, and if anything sheik still has the edge in PAL.
 

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Amsah is not just any PAL sheik though is he ? Armada beats just about any other sheik in Europe, and if anything sheik still has the edge in PAL.
Ya and not like amsah doesn't get any KO's or tons of % from single grabs always... lol. But armada is pretty tough to grab when he spaces himself outside grab ranges anyways. Amsah is the best player in europe currently and armada gave even him a hard time when amsah usually demolishes peaches (I've experienced it as well). And Armada can pretty much hold his own against everyone else in europe and is especially good vs sheiks due to his practice against his brother Aniolas a lot. ^^ (I think..?) If someone were to lose to m2k's marth would that mean that player loses to Marths in general? >.>
 

Creamy

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Hey Cort,

Is there any right/good way to DI fox's up throw > uair? Or is it basically auto combo status? Thanks in advance!
 

Cort

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Cort 2 Questions. if the first one is a no, dont bother with the second, I'll search for it to save you the trouble of explaining.:)

#1 -Did you go through some tips against Marth?

You mean if the first one is a yes?

Also, yes.
Amsah is not just any PAL sheik though is he ? Armada beats just about any other sheik in Europe, and if anything sheik still has the edge in PAL.
Uhhh... *shrug* @ Europe. If you guys actually came over to the states and proved yourselves, I'd probably have a better opinion in general. I mean, I don't have a low opinion, it's just very indifferent since there's nothing to base anything off of.
Hey Cort,

Is there any right/good way to DI fox's up throw > uair? Or is it basically auto combo status? Thanks in advance!
Smash DI the first hit left or right. I went over it in the topic already. Read the topic. There's plenty of other things to learn as well.

I'm going to put all the good question/responses into the first post eventually. Perhaps tonight.
 

Mr P

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Uhhh... *shrug* @ Europe. If you guys actually came over to the states and proved yourselves, I'd probably have a better opinion in general. I mean, I don't have a low opinion, it's just very indifferent since there's nothing to base anything off of.
I dont think the problem is about Europe proving itself but more along the lines of uhhh... your ego ? Amsah has proven himself by beating Captain Jack and im pretty sure amsah is more than capable of beating you aswell. Armada lost 3-2 to Amsah so im prety sure that says that he is pretty good, no ? If you dont see the logic in that then i dont know what to say.
 

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I dont think the problem is about Europe proving itself but more along the lines of uhhh... your ego ? Amsah has proven himself by beating Captain Jack and im pretty sure amsah is more than capable of beating you aswell. Armada lost 3-2 to Amsah so im prety sure that says that he is pretty good, no ? If you dont see the logic in that then i dont know what to say.
Money match?
Amsah is godlike.

PAL Sheik is crap but he managed to make her #1 in the PAL tier list... o_0

NTSC Sheik is much more better and isn't even considered #1 here... (o_0) X2
Failed.
 

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Yesterday I noticed when I was getting combo'd ( >_> ) that I would more often than not try to wiggle out and Nair to interrupt the combo. I also noticed that this doesn't work so well a lot of the time. Should I concentrate more on DI? Or both?

And do you have any thoughts on my Peach? you only played it like twice I think. You can say no. ha.
 

Cort

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Uh, well you've completely missed my point anyway. My ego in this thread is pretty much sarcastic, but there's a lot of truth considering we're practically playing different games and trying to compare PAL Sheik/Peach to NTSC? Just don't bother. Also considering I do very well against every single Sheik I've ever played in the States, particularly the East Coast, I'm not afraid of Amsah, and we'd have a damn good set.

My post about Armada losing to PAL Sheik was simply implying [sarcastically] that Peach has a much easier time against Sheik in PAL than she does in NTSC.

Also yeah let's money match. Or Euro match or whatever it is you guys use. =P
 

Mr P

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Uh, well you've completely missed my point anyway. My ego in this thread is pretty much sarcastic, but there's a lot of truth considering we're practically playing different games and trying to compare PAL Sheik/Peach to NTSC? Just don't bother. Also considering I do very well against every single Sheik I've ever played in the States, particularly the East Coast, I'm not afraid of Amsah, and we'd have a damn good set.

My post about Armada losing to PAL Sheik was simply implying [sarcastically] that Peach has a much easier time against Sheik in PAL than she does in NTSC.

Also yeah let's money match. Or Euro match or whatever it is you guys use. =P
alright ok, sarcasm doesn't always come across too well online.

I really want to come over to POUND since ive never been to the states to play smash but it's all going to depend on money, we'll see what happens. We can play in Pounds and Dollars.
 

Samochan

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How is this failure? This is powerful logic IMO lol.

Just like you're implying that PAL Peach has an easier time on PAL Sheik...
We could say that Amsah is better because because he does very well wit PAL Sheik...;)
Lulz are you a mind reader or something? Cause I said almost the same thing to cort on aim. O_o;

But enough of this debate, we'll never know for sure who can handle whom and what player beats what player without them actually versing against each other. So it's kinda pointless to compare, especially with version differences. Saying that ntsc players are better simply due to gayer/cheaper version of the same game doesn't take away any skill from pal version players.
 

IcedShadow

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I tried to go through the thread and find all the information that's been posted. It seemed more logical to link to the posts than to actually post content (there's quite a bit). It's organized into by character (with categories for general matchups, edgeguarding, stage picks, and DI'ing) and at the end there is some really general Peach stuff. So yeah, if you find this helpful feel free to use it; I thought this would be a good use of my first post after 1.5 years of being a member.

General Character Matchup:

Fox
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3048046&postcount=12
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3218869&postcount=600

Falco
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3048046&postcount=12
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3049493&postcount=17
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3076536&postcount=160
(XIF) http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3077713&postcount=177


Sheik
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3109297&postcount=319

Marth
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3050681&postcount=40
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3116959&postcount=337

Peach
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3047987&postcount=9

Ice Climbers
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3079717&postcount=217

Samus
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3168010&postcount=511
(Dark.Pch)http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3212221&postcount=583

Link
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3053934&postcount=77

Luigi
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3135279&postcount=410


Edgeguarding:

Fox
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3048046&postcount=12

Falco
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3269723&postcount=823

Sheik
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3122961&postcount=366

Marth
(XIF)http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3099031&postcount=298

Peach
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3047987&postcount=9

Captain Falcon
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3049840&postcount=21

Ice Climbers
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3049920&postcount=23

Doctor Mario
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3047987&postcount=9
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3048046&postcount=12
(exarch) http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3049726&postcount=18

Link/Young Link
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3047888&postcount=7

Donkey Kong
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3089376&postcount=250


Stages:

General
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3048046&postcount=12
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3209683&postcount=578

Fox
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3048046&postcount=12
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3056045&postcount=95
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3116695&postcount=335

Falco
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3048046&postcount=12

Sheik
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3048046&postcount=12
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3267870&postcount=818

Marth
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3048046&postcount=12


DI:

General:
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3053448&postcount=71

Fox
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3050681&postcount=40
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3161525&postcount=496

Falco
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3161108&postcount=486

Marth
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3050681&postcount=40

Captain Falcon
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3096359&postcount=292


General Peach Strategies:

Tilts
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3049322&postcount=15

B Moves
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3050897&postcount=43
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3071751&postcount=124

Turnips
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3051668&postcount=60
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3089863&postcount=260 (z-dropping)

Smashes
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3050897&postcount=43
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3054164&postcount=84

Aerials
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3050897&postcount=43
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3119635&postcount=358
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3274154&postcount=851

Tech Chasing
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3049840&postcount=21

DJC
http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3076536&postcount=160
(XIF) http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3208888&postcount=567

Approaching
(Dark.Pch) http://smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=3124314&postcount=376

Wavedashing
Short discussion, Page 35
 

wWw Dazwa

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Good **** Icedshadow. Really good ****.

Seriously. That's a quality 1st post right there. New members could learn something from you.
 

chesterr01

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I dont think the problem is about Europe proving itself but more along the lines of uhhh... your ego ? Amsah has proven himself by beating Captain Jack and im pretty sure amsah is more than capable of beating you aswell. Armada lost 3-2 to Amsah so im prety sure that says that he is pretty good, no ? If you dont see the logic in that then i dont know what to say.
I don't think that beating CJ means that you're auto win. Sure you're good, but does that mean that you're automatically one of the best in the world? Doubt it.

W0w Icedshadow, if your own posts can be that insightful, then welcome on these boards, we need people like you.

Cort, have my babies. I'll send you bottles of mansaus through the mail.
 

Mr P

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I don't think that beating CJ means that you're auto win. Sure you're good, but does that mean that you're automatically one of the best in the world? Doubt it.
What exactly do you mean by "autowin" ? I dont know about you but i would class captain jack as being one of the best in the world and with amsah being more than capable of beating him wouldn't that put him in that kind of calibur no, Or was it just a fluke ?
 

Samochan

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What exactly do you mean by "autowin" ? I dont know about you but i would class captain jack as being one of the best in the world and with amsah being more than capable of beating him wouldn't that put him in that kind of calibur no, Or was it just a fluke ?
Well... Mew2king (example player here) is considered also to be one of the best in the world, but he also loses on tournaments no? <_> So one can't possibly say due to one win that some person is better than the other, only when that person gets beat consistently by the same person then it could be said or if the other person loses horribly or just gets dominated. And in this case it was a close set, neither one dominated. Sure amsah is very godly indeed, but it's pointess to debate whether he'd win or lose against US players or any other player cause he might've beaten one of the better players once in tourney, even when cj has been on US and beaten many good players as well. But the fact remains amsah's the best player in europe and that makes him good enough in my book considering how good many other players in europe are as well. :3
 

Cort

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I'm not sure. I dash grab for CGs, but I don't really think about whether or not to JC or dash grab in other situations. >_< Probably a little of both.
 
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