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Marth’s forward smash or Falco’s down smash. Once you got the hang of that, also practice Marth’s counter as that has different timing (you need to do the SDI input later because of the pseudo-hitlag).
You need to grind out techskill until it's all instinctive and pure muscle memory. The sooner you can put all of your focus on trying to read the opponent, mixing up recoveries, pressuring, and the dozens of other things going on instead of tech skill, the better off you'll be.
I am trying to grind out techs and ****. I forget to do them in match or I just don't time them right and I look like a ****ing CPU.
I know it's difficult, but if you practice implementing your tech in friendlies, you'll get much better using it in-bracket. I had the hardest time knowing when to WD or DD at the right time, but over time, I learned when to use a certain tech and when not to use a certain tech. Staying after you get eliminated from the bracket or coming before the bracket starts is as important (if not more important) than actually entering bracket. Tech skill doesn't do much good if you don't figure out how to use it, and that's just forcing yourself to look for opportunities where it could work to your advantage and exploiting them (preferably outside of bracket so that you don't mess yourself up in tournament.)
Melee is really hard, it's like a sport like basketball or something. It takes blood/sweat/tears to get good.
That's the thing. I know my mistakes. I'm too slow, I barely use shines or whatever else, I don't use any techs. I don't know how to improve on these things.
Hmmm... I don't know what to recommend. I've only played >10 hours of Sm4sh and started out with Melee, so I can't really recommend a good way of changing between games seamlessly. I do know that while WD takes knowledge of when to apply it, L-Cancelling doesn't (you would just need to do it within 6 frames of landing) and it comes as muscle memory if you do it frequently enough. If you are practicing Melee independently of the weeklies and practicing your tech skill (WD movement, WL on platforms, L-Cancelling, DD, etc.) and have been for a decently long time (frequently practicing for at least a couple months), you should be able to do it.
As far as I know, it is. Doing shield+a inputs a grab the same as Z, I think. There may be some obscure differences, but I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that you can boost grab with shield+a.
Sakurai agrees that it is his opus. It took so much out of him that he can't replicate it. The sequels are mostly for the money. There's some nice discussion about this embedded in kadano's perfect marth class. There was also a nice article that I'll try to find for you about how melee was not an accidental success.
Thanks for the answer
Things such as Wavedashing (a physics exploit allowing you to slide a short distance on the stage), L-Cancelling (pressing either shoulder button within 6 frames of landing while still in an areal animation cuts the landing lag in half), SHL (Short Hop Lasering is preformed by lasering with Falco, fastfalling, and land-cancelling endlag; faster than normal lasering), Multishining, Moonwalking, and SHFFLing (Short Hop, Fastfall, L-Cancelling moves is a fast, effective way to quickly use aerials) just to name a few lend to faster, deeper, and more competitive play. This is just one example of how complex it gets; I've seen a couple more input-intensive moments than even this. Just to give a more in-depth answer in case you were interested
I can't help you make the choice, but I'll let you know that if you want to be the very best, you'll have to someday accept the cheese coz this game doesn't get patched. To get results, you just need to pick a character and stick with it, like drastic improvement says. I didn't believe it at first and wanted to be a triple main, but I chose to play sheik even though she's "gay", and the only reason I chose her is coz she's my favorite Zelda character. Maybe someday I'll change mains, but that just makes the game deeper.
It's only bad if you're not willing to commit a ton of time and focus to the game.
I found a thread once written by a hand doctor or something, I'll try to find it for you.
As far as wavedashing goes, Fox's jumpsquat is 4 frames (which means he's airborne on the 4th frame; 3 grounded frames), while Falco's is 6 frames (meaning he's airborne on the 6th frame; 5 grounded frames). You have to wait until you're airborne before you can airdodge into the ground for a wavedash (you can input the airdodge on the frame before you get airborne b/c actions happen the frame after you input them). Sheik's jumpsquat is the same as Fox's. Fast jumpsquat is also what causes short hopping to be hard with those two, coz you have to let go of jump before jumpsquat ends in order to short hop. Peach and Puff have the same jumpsquat as Falco, but they all have it the same as DK, they're all supa slow.
The issue for me is more mental. In my head I'm treating them as the same character because they have similar moves.I'm trying to figure out how to get out of the mindset that their inputs are the same
Their fundamentals do have some similarities, but there are still some major differences (like neutral is so different for them; I suggest watching some of mango's match analyses of the Fox-Falco MU), so I guess you've just gotta play a lot. Sorry, I'm not a spacie main (just a frame junkie) so I can't help you there.
Can you remember what it was called/what site it was on/who posted it?
You should be asking yourself "why didn't I request a neutral start?"What are some principles to keep in mind in the very first moment of a match?
The very beginning of a match is a pretty important part of how a battle goes, so I want to be as prepared for it as possible. What should be going through our minds at this exact point of the game?
Was it this?
First off, this game is hard. That pretty much answers your question.
