Let me justify the purpose for these videos. I played a very fast aggresive Link for years, and that's what I was known for. I'm known for taking a taditionally slow character and making him fast and flashy as hell. For a couple of years I figured, If I just keep getting faster, I'll get better, which was what I thought but found out was completely wrong. I decided to experiment with my Link and go for more of a defensive route to see how it would work out. I watched some videos of HugS's Samus, Aniki, Azen, and other players who play reletively defensive and try mimic some of their techniques and incorporate a lot of my own. While doing this, I had to "dumb down" my gameplay so to speak. This means almost playing completely opposite to how I used to: not just throwing out random moves in hopes that they will hit, spamming A LOT more, no wavedashing for no reason, not always being the first to attack, less damage racking combos and more quick kill combos, playing more out of my shield, getting myself into non-punishable situations, and focus more on what my opponent is about to do and not so much on what move I will do next. Kaiser put it best, he said something like this to Lovo in his vid thread, "You are already playing a difficult character, trying to make him look flashy will only hurt you, you have to dumb down your gameplay in order to use him more effectively", which is what I've been experimenting with for a while now. Like I said, I'm known for playing the aggresive Link, up close battles and long combos, which is what I perfected and trained for all these years. And I figure, If/when I nearly perfect the defensive/spamming/smart Link, I'll be able to **** mercilessly from a distance as well as upclose and be twice as dangerous. With all this change of course, I'm going to look a lot slower and noobish in my videos(which I'm actually through giving a sh** about) but am actually playing a lot more efficient. This is why only players who've been in this community a long time and have a complete understanding of this game can see how I improved and noobs who are simply trying to look as flashy as possible think I've gotten worse and slower. Basically, depending on how good the player is and how hard his character can punish me for my mistakes, determines how "slow"/"fast" and cautious/aggresive I'll play. If I played some scrubby a** Ganon, I'll still be safe and not get hit but there is no doubt that you'd see the fastest fu**ing Link you've ever seen in your life. But If I played SS with the same Link I've been playing for years, he'd **** the living sh** out of me and punish me for every single mistake I made, same with Zel, I know because they've both done it before. With these videos I'm hoping to simply shed some light on some safer routes Link can take against faster and higher tier characters so he doesn't get punished and comboed to sh** every 5 seconds.
, Your Link is really quick, and thats one of the most important things for Links to have. so theres not much to say besides that first match was awsome! and that Your Link is heading the right way, but, watch the vids and pick out all the flaws and work on em. That way you'll be able to fill them in and they wont be a problem anymore. Good link though!
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